Flower-Of-Lamp

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<h3>This is a <strong>Flower-Of-Life-Ikosaeder-Lampshade</strong>.&nbsp;</h3><p>This Lampshade is made of <strong>20 equilateral triangels</strong> that are put together to form an <strong>Ikosaeder</strong>, one of the five platonic solids. The edges of the triangles have an angle of 20,91° to form an angle of 138,18° between the individual pieces (gotta love geometry). When all pieces are put together the flower-of-lamp is about 40x40x40cm big.</p><h4><i><strong>Instructions:</strong></i></h4><p>The pieces are glued together on the edges. This one is for patient people! Please keep in mind that you got to access the lighbulb somehow. Therefore I recommend to <strong>glue everything</strong> together <strong>except one side piece</strong>, this one you are going to secure with some thin wire or transparent tape on one edge. This way you <strong>create a flap that you can open and close </strong>whenever you need to do something with the lighbulb or the socket. Ideally you use one of the upper side pieces, it is less visible and you are closer to the lighbulb. But <strong>do not use one that is directly secured to the top piece as a flap</strong> since then all the weight of the lamp would be attached to only two sides (which is a 33% stability reduction)&nbsp;</p><p>This Lampshade is <strong>suitable for almost any socket</strong> since you just pull the electric cord through the hole of the “top”-part and secure it to the socket inside the Ikosaeder. Anyways, you <strong>might want to adjust the Top piece to your needs</strong> so I prepared a <strong>PrusaSlicer file</strong> for you that cointains a side-piece and two modifiers: You can simply <strong>adjust the “HOLE” modifier</strong> in the x- and y-dimension to the size you want the hole in your top piece to be. Then adjust the x- and y-dimension of the<strong> “RIM” modifier</strong> to some bigger size than the “HOLE” so you have a nice and stable rim around the hole. Done!</p><p>I recommend printing with 0.3mm layerheight to cut down time, especially since you can only print one piece at a time. On the other hand you will be able to save some filament (~20g) if you print with 0.2mm layerheight. Overall amount of Filament used will be about 130-150g.&nbsp;</p><p>Probably would look cool too if you add something like crepe paper and print the Lampshade in Black or even add one solid bottom layer and print that one white while the rest is printed or some other dark color. Feel free to tinker with the fusion file.&nbsp;</p>