Marble ball box again

thingiverse

I would have loved to craft a perfect replica of the Marble Ball Box online, accessible through http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:338467, but Slic3r got in the way by converting it into a neat cube. So, I decided to start from scratch and design another one that would more closely match the original sphere size of 1.6 cm, and I achieved this by setting the infill percentage to 1 and letting the print reach 92%. To get the ball to stay put within the printing process, I paused the nozzle and gently inserted the ball at precisely 63% complete. This was no small feat, given that it's an incredibly tiny model with an incredibly thin layer thickness of just 0.3 mm, but I'm thrilled that it turned out to be a working marvel despite not being my finest print.