Snapple Tea Caps Paint Palette

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Over the quarantine, I've been learning how to paint various TTRPG minis I printed last year on r/PAN. I don't have much of a budget, so I'm using Snapple Tea caps as paint holders since they're inexpensive and easy to clean up. To avoid losing loose caps in my workspace, I created this shell in Fusion 360 to hold 13 of them. Yes, better design would limit me to 12 - 2 cases of Tea per palette, but I've saved enough caps to make ~7 more. Since the design is perfectly symmetrical, you could print two palettes and use one as a lid for transportation. This version was printed on a Creality Ender 3 at .15mm layer height in PLA. A note for those interested in modifying or remixing the included Fusion file: I made a mistake with the Leading Dimension's scale, and when I tried to fix it, Fusion continually crashed. To rectify the situation, I did the math externally and applied an applicable X-Y scaling. This is not the perfect fix for the file, but it worked when I printed it. A note for those printing the file: I listed that I printed this using a Raft because my printer has a slightly uneven non-glass build plate, and the raft will level the bottom of my print. Using Cura's standard settings for rafts, this piece won't fit on a Creality Ender 3, so I modified the Raft's "Extra Margin" from 15mm to 2.5mm. With this fix, the file fit well on my build plate and suffered no adhesion issues. Another note for those printing this file: The Fusion 360 file uses zero-thickness areas where the circles butt up against each other. While this makes sense in a simulation and design software, it doesn't translate to slicing and printing. These zero-thickness areas are left as gaps (likely determined by print resolution), allowing easy removal of caps for cleaning or disposal.