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Mini picture frame from the 3D printer

Idea

For smaller pictures, photos, etc. you often need a matching picture frame to the photo, the drawing etc. As a 3D printer owner, it should make sense to use CAD software to design your own picture frame and then print it out on your 3D printer.
Furthermore, the CAD design process can be a good exercise for improving your CAD-Software-Skills.  In our example, an already existing picture frame made of wood in the small rectangular  format approx. 140 x 140mm is used as a template:

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Spice jar for grenade-sharp things

Since more and more bags and packaging of various spices occured on our spice rack , I was looking for some beautiful and practical spice jars.

Requirements

3D- printable should be the most important feature of the object, so my first stop in Internet research was  thingiverse.com once again. There I noticed an admittedly unusual design of a spice jar in the form of a hand grenade.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone cases for flexible filament

For my smartphone Galaxy Note 4 i’ve already tried many cases to print and use. Pretty much everything that’s offered on thingiverse at designs, I’ve tried. So far, unfortunately, there was none created/designed especially for flexible filament like TPU or similar.
That’s why I created this design with the Fusion360 software. Since I am not yet a Fusion360 professional, it was also a very good training to familiarize myself with this very complex CAD tool.

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Phoneholder for car vents

For a long time was looking for a suitable and easy to print smartphone holder for the car. The design should be as flexible as possible adaptable to different smartphone dimensions, be stable and easily removable. For the latter requirement, I finally arrived at the attachment to the ventilation slot, in which case, in particular, the stable design and solid print of the attachment is important.

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Customizable spool drawers to recycle empty filament spools

3D printing has become increasingly popular in recent years, and as more people dive into the world of 3D printing, they are facing the problem of what to do with the empty filament spools that are generated after printing. These spools are not biodegradable and simply throwing them away is not environmentally friendly. But, the good news is that there are creative ways to repurpose these empty spools and turn them into useful objects.

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3D printing of ceramic material – Exciting developments in the 3D printing sector

The Internet portal All3DP writes in an interesting article about a Kickstarter campaign to finance a low-cost 3D ceramic printer: “As anyone who has sat…

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