Modular Customizable Keychain With Attachments/Accessories

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This is a little project I was inspired to work on after finding it frustrating how there were no real intuitive options for wanting to create and customize your own keychain to your liking and being able to swap out the different components. This is my first upload! If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the design or things I should add let me know. If you have a very long name or phrase in mind, I would recommend scaling it down accordingly so the keychain itself isn't too long and cumbersome. The connectors are very sturdy and sit slightly loose to create some flex. I reccomend using standard pla. I tried printing with glow-in-the-dark filament and although it looked really cool, it was challenging to separate the pieces on the first insertion without doing some wiggling, it got easier the second time around though. The connectors took several days to design and I plan to make some tweaks to them in the future. I found that a triangle shape was very effective because it could be printed in midair and provided the necessary structural elements. But I will continue to experiment with it. The two connector pieces that sit towards the left and right expand and contract and so can be easily inserted and removed. I plan to keep adding to this so any suggestions are appreciated! Happy printing, Settings I used Layer height - 0.2 Nozzle - 0.4