Painting Cones for an MFT Table

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I made these before I checked Thingiverse and found others already exist! So they're not unique! But since I designed this I thought I'd share it anyway. To hold material off the workbench when painting you traditionally used strips of off-cut wood. Then some clever chap invented painters pyramids or painters cones. These sit on the workbench and only the tip touches the material being painted. This means you can flip the material and paint the other side, with minimal impact to the painted surface. Great for doing undercoat where the little marks won't matter. This design is for those with a Festool-style MFT table with 20mm holes. These cones can be printed quickly and in large numbers. No supports are required. And they stack up neatly when not in use! The lip which sticks out so they don't go through the table is a tapered wedge shape rather than flat. If the weight of the material pushes these into the hole and makes it hard to remove them, then you can easily get a screwdriver under the lip to remove them.