Construx Repository

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I've been gathering all the Construx models I can find and am slowly making the ones I can't find. I'm placing parts in the orientation I print them. I often use spacers in lieu of supports. These spacers are designed with an air-gap between them and the part so they should pop off the same way your part pops off of the raft. Beams look way better printing opening-down. I just rail my fan to 100% and my ender 3 pro has no issue with the bridge at all. Plates look better and are way stronger printed vertically, but they can sway a bit and can get wavy as a result. I'll be solving that issue soon. Parts on here are evolving constantly, and new parts will continue to show up. Part Changelog: - Angled Beam: Original design based on the merging of 3 medium beams (by gabeknuth). - 6-post knot: Gabeknuth's design, but added pop-off spacers to allow printing without supports. Compressed the bottoms of the posts to account for droop toward the spacers. - 5-post knot: used the 6-post knot above and simply removed 1 post, replacing it with a small enough hole to pass a string through, but not a knot. Hole size may not match OEM. - Diagonal Hook: An original design, matched to an OEM part. There is a 0.2 mm shorter version since the OEM one is a little long and parallelograms a structure of OEM parts. - 5-post spinning knot: a fusion of the 6-post and medium beams by gabeknuth, Lots of modification done in tinkercad to give a spline for an axle, facilitate free-spinning, etc. - Axles: All are 100% original designs. 4-grooves had no bottom-layer in the slicer, so they got no raft and printed in free space making spaghetti instead of a part, so the quad groove axles are on a spacer to solve that problem. Single groove ones don't need it. - Panels: All are based on cowking's 48 mm panel. It was not quite left/right symmetric, so I've refined it a bit. All other sizes are made by slicing, dicing, copying and pasting from the refined 48 mm panel. - beams: I've used the ones that are referenced, but I've replaced the ends and resized the short one slightly. I used the end from joshbunker's long beam and tightened up the clearance around the sides of the knot post by a fraction of a millimeter to reduce rotational play and shaved a fraction off the top clearance of the post to get the beams to drop down just a hair past flush so they wont interfere with a spinning knot. WIP: - hinge knot EZ print is done, but takes a bit too much prying to pop off the spacer the plates under the curved region. Once the gap is refined I'll post it. Future work: - other panel sizes. - an intermediate beam, the height of three small beams connected together. - copckpit covers (the parts that fit in the holes on the angled beams) - a hard-version of a wheel/tire that can be printed with standard filaments. - propeller blades - 45-degree knots - pulleys .