Parametric Measuring Spoon

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## Moved over from Takerbot's Thingiverse... The volume of this spoon can be customized in milliliters. Image shows a 2ml version (and some too cheap, green tees). The provided 5ml example is equivalent to one teaspoon, but I highly recommend creating your own with the included OpenSCAD source file. ---Fire up OpenSCAD and load the source file. Only six parameters need to be considered: volume = 5.0; // volume of the spoon in milliliters thickness = 1.4; // thickness of wall in millimeters gripDia = 7.0; // diameter of the grip gripLen = 80.0; // length of the grip gripAngle = 30.0; // angle of the bowl-grip joint sink = 0.4; // cut off the bottom a bit Most of these parameters should be self-explanatory. Pick a volume, a wall thickness and make the grip "look good" afterwards... The "sink" parameter cuts off a bit of the spoon's bottom making it flat. This results in better adhesion to the printing bed. Small spoons (e.g. <5ml) may still require a raft. For goods that need to be measured by weight and not volume, it might be helpful to print a quick size test. If you set the following variable to "1" MINITESTGRIP = 0; // print test grip? 0/1 (off/on) the grip will be cut off and the resulting rest can be printed much quicker.