Creality K1/K1C door handle with hexgonal shapes

prusaprinters

Yet another custom Creality K1/K1C door handle. I felt like the original stock handle is ugly, but most of the designs floating around are either not really that different from the original, or sacrificing too much usability for aesthetics or style, such as covering too much of the view though the glass door, or loses the ability to grasp and open the door from any direction with either hand. So I decided to make my own design, with hexagons because obviously hexagons are the bestagons! :PThis design is made with specific intention for minimize the use of support and minimize the amount of post processing required, so that it may be suitable for printing with a CF/GF added filament, as such filaments are either more expensive or posses the risk of releasing CF/GF particulates during sanding, which would be a considerable respiratory hazard that unfortunately seems to be often overlooked. This is why the design is separated into two separate parts. The support plate is required as without it the handle bars might exert too much pressure onto the glass, as the bars themselves have smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the stock handle.As such, no support is needed. I would recommend having wall count being sufficiently high so that the vertical bars would not have any infill, for maximal strength on the weakest part. I printed with PETG-CF, using 7 wall/top surface/bottom surface. But this is a fairly small part so most filament should be more than suitable with any reasonable amount of wall/top/bottom count.The fitting of the two parts is designed with 0.13mm tolerance, which worked out perfectly with PETG-CF on my K1C. My K1C achieved a tolerance of 0.05-0.10mm with PLA, so the same tolerance should work with most filament on a K1C, and probably also a K1. Arachne wall generation strongly recommended.STEP files included, feel free to customize it even further!