Articulating Toothless Toy (Repaired)

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This file will work with ONLY Prusaslicer. Articulated Toothless dragon from How To Train Your Dragon. I ended up hacking together a working, articulated toy with NO COLLIDING WALLS, and thick, strong linkages. The caveat is there is a seam - it kind of lines up with where the mouth should be but obviously extends the whole length of the print. Theoretically, the print could be exported as an STL through Prusa, with the seam tidied in your 3D modelling software of choice. However, this comes with a big caveat as Prusaslicer doesn't export boolean objects, meaning that the repair-job to the head to allow it to articulate won't export with it. This is fine, as you could just as easily add those back, however you'll have to locate them because my project file got SUPER messy. You can load this up and print it with your print settings so long as you're under 0.2mm layer height (untested above this) and no wider than a 0.6mm nozzle. SLICE WITH CLASSIC MODE, ARACHNE WILL FAIL! Huge props to the original designer for the STL because I have no 3D design skill at all. However... The original sucked to print... I printed it well over 20 times to finally have a SUCCESSFUL articulating toy. I ended up hacking together 2x thicker pins and a 4x thicker bottom section, as well as bridged the articulation posts more to each body section. The tail doesn't move, but everything else does. As the comments said, there is a collision in the STL binding the head to the piece behind it. The majority of the body parts don't fully enclose the posts/pillars unless you go down to 0.4mm nozzle, and even then some didn't. I can post a PrusaSlicer file with the print assembled, however I'm on the ever-so-uncommon Ender 3 Max Neo so G-Code won't work for most people. I've scaled mine up to 130% to fill the print bed and gain some extra thickness on some of the walls that were collapsing into a single 0.6mm wide extrusion. Printed in E-Sun PLA+ at 220c with no supports, avoid curled overhanging enabled, at 0.12mm layer height on an 0.6mm nozzle.