Integral Mesh Vent Cover

prusaprinters

<p>This is a mesh vent cover that can be used for small invertebrate enclosures. It is intended to be printed with a fine mesh fabric embedded into the ring after the first layer.</p><p>Instructions:<br>After slicing, insert a pause after the first layer. You can do this directly in prusa slicer, or by manually editing the gcode.</p><p>Start the print as per normal. Once the first layer has printed, the printer should pause, and you can cut out a piece of the fine mesh fabric, and drape it over the first layer. You can hold the fabric down and stretch it out via magnets, binder clips, tape.. whatever works.</p><p>After that, resume the print, and then once it has finished printing, use scissors to cut off the extra fabric outside the ring.</p><p>I printed this in PETG, at .2mm layer height. The snaps do have an unsupported overhang, but it's small enough that it seems to print fine even without supports.</p><p>For the mesh material, I just cut up some cheap $5-$6 sheer curtains that I bought from my local big retail store.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Note:</p><p>This is a fusion 360 script that requires the fscad framework to run. See <a href="http://fscad.org/">http://fscad.org</a></p>