Rough Wood-effect Chest

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There's always room on Thingiverse for another 3D printed box! This was an experiment in achieving a real wood effect using ColorFabb Woodfill filament. ColorFabb filament is great stuff, but it didn't give me the real wood surface finish I was looking for. So I designed and modelled this simple little chest, spending a lot of time creating the wood grain texture onto all surfaces and faux Dovetail joints. And to complete, I just had to add some hinges and a latch. Printed in ColourFabb Woodfill http://colorfabb.com/woodfill-fine and Faberdashery Robot Silver PLA http://www.faberdashery.co.uk/products-page/print-materials/robot-silver/. The file sizes are quite large - sorry about that, but the wood texture surface effect needed a high model poly-count to achieve the detail. I may see if I can optimise those. Enjoy! UPDATE: 210416 http://www.thingiverse.com/pitcherj/about reported some errors in a couple of the files - thanks for the heads up! Hopefully fixed now. ChestBaseFrame_v2.stl ChestLidFrame_v2.stl Print Settings Printer Brand Ultimaker Printer Ultimaker 2 Rafts Yes Supports No Resolution Low for the chest High for the hinges and latch Infill 35% Notes I printed all parts of the Chest with a 0.8mm nozzle @ 0.4mm layer height I printed the hinges and latch with a 0.25 nozzle @ 0.1mm layer height The ChestLid file prints on its end, so I added a '10 walled Brim' to give it support whilst printing. All other parts printed without support or raft. Post-Printing Use a good plastic/wood glue to fix all parts together How I Designed This The file sizes are quite large - sorry about that, but the wood texture surface effect needed a high model poly-count to achieve the detail. I may see if I can optimise those. All files sliced and printed without issue.