Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis - Stone discs (MOLD)

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This project remains a work in progress. ================== A remix of the work done by lonewolf011 - I don't want to print discs. Instead, I will make them out of plaster or clay. This remix provides respective molds, sized at 70% of the original size, to be printed on a 215x215 printbed (providing space for 5mm brim). The molds are designed so that parts can be removed without destroying the mold - hopefully - (untested design ;). The molds were generated with OpenSCAD - source files in the zip file require almost all STLs from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2820564 if you want to tweak them by yourself. Update 2018-09-26 ================== It was a complete failure (see two photo montages). :) Reuse of the molds does not seem possible except if you slice them in half (better in quarter) and then fix them together before casting. The "inlay" did a good job, but be extremely careful while removing it from the disc - a possible way is to cut it off carefully after the disc has fully cured (which I didn't wait for) and finally burn off the material which could not be removed. For the moment I am done, calling it a failure for me (It was my first try casting something, maybe you have the required skills & knowledge :). I will post updates here when I come back to this "project". Update 2018-09-22 ================== The adaptive layer height feature did not work as expected. The fine details also are a bit fragile. To easily "repair" broken molds, I have split them into two parts each: Shell and Inlay to be printed separately: Print the shell as you want to save printing times (my settings: 50mm/sec, 0.3mm layer height). Print the Inlays as fine as you can (my settings: 20mm/sec for walls, 50mm/sec for infill, 0.1mm layer height). I did not update the scad files yet, since work for the centerpin and base mold is not finished yet. I printed the inlays, next step is testing the worldstone mold with plaster...