Taller Shave Brush Stand

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One of the first things I printed after calibrating was the shave brush by Luis Glez. It didn't print well because my bed shifted mid-print so I never posted it as a make, but it still was perfectly capable of holding up a brush. In fact, to this day I still am using my sad layer-shifted brush stand. It was perfect at holding my brush handle, the problem is that it held it too close to the base, smooshing the brush bristles down. To avoid this, I hang it at the end of the brush where the bristles come out, giving it an extra bit of space. This is that model but lengthened in the back, and with a few other tweaks. The original model has some strange shifting of parts so I did some trimming and filling to try to make it a little smoother. It wasn't a problem before, and the defects didn't really print, but now they are even less likely to do so. I also added a support to the one internal overhang so if you can print the curves with or without supports from the build plate the rest of it should print correctly. Print Settings: Printer: Folger Tech Kossel Rev B Rafts: Doesn't Matter Supports: Doesn't Matter Resolution: 0.3mm Infill: Any Notes: If your printer does overhangs well, you should be able to print this without any supports. If it's not so great with overhangs, you may want to use some supports from the build plate. The rest of it should print without supports on the model unless your printer is catastrophically bad at overhangs. Higher resolution is prettier in the curves but there isn't anything so delicate that you can't print it at a much larger layer height. Any infill should be sufficient, so long as your printer can create the top layers cleanly enough afterward. I'll probably do 30% but it's also only going to be a couple of layers of infill anyway. I would print this on the back with the base and the top jutting into the sky for easy printing. For stronger printing, you should print it on one of the sides with the top side and bottom on the plate, but then you will probably need supports and be very confident of your printer's ability to print overhangs. Or even more strongly printed on its side with just the edge of the bottom on the bed and the rest of the base back, and top resting on supports. If you need the stand to be that strong, maybe you need a lighter shaving brush rather than going through all that effort. How I Designed This: Windows 10 3D Builder I used the 3D Builder program that comes with Windows 10 to modify this model. I sliced the bottom and the top from the back moved the top away from the bottom enough to suit my needs, then stretched the back so that it was long enough to connect to the top without maintaining aspect ratio. Then merged them all back together. After that I used cubes to patch up some of the faces to make them a little less erratic; in some cases filling in a gap in others trimming it down not anything more than 0.1mm or so and really nothing I needed to worry about except I wanted to see what I could do with the software. Finally, I added a pyramid squished it almost flat clipped off the tip so it didn't poke through the back then merged it in to create a small strip of support that will not look bad left on the final model in my humble opinion.