SLR Camera Lens Cap Single Print Experiment

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This is the SLR Camera Lens Cap by simonx tweaked to print fully assembled. The spring part was resized in one dimension only and a half-millimeter of the springy part was sliced off, so that it was at least half a millimeter away from the cap portion. The overhang of the cap part that traps the springy part was cut away, leaving at least a half-millimeter of empty space between them when sliced by Cura. This was printed as a test on the LulzBot Mini in ABS with a quarter-millimeter layer height. After supports were removed from the bottom, only a little persuasion with a screw clamp was required to get it moving. After it started working, repeatedly squeezing it for several minutes made it operate smoothly. Unfortunately, this is the wrong size for any of my lenses. I had been expecting, since the original said fifty-one millimeters, to be able to enlarge by one point three one times and print a lens cap for my camera that takes a sixty-seven-millimeter lens cap, but I forgot to actually measure the lens, and it turned out the right size for a sixty-seven-millimeter lens cap is sixty-five-point eight zero millimeters. I remade the lens cap model from scratch in Autodesk 123D Design at the correct size for sixty-seven millimeters and uploaded it as sixty-seven-mm-lens-cap-assembled.stl to fix an issue with too few polygon edges making up the circles. This thing was made with Tinkercad. You can edit it online at https://www.tinkercad.com/things/f7j2h4dqmSX The sixty-seven-millimeter version was made in Autodesk 123D Design: http://www.123dapp.com/123D_Design/slr-camera-lens-cap-single-print-experiment/4934390 Print Settings Printer Brand LulzBot Printer Mini Rafts No Supports Yes Resolution 0.25mm Infill 20%