Love it. It looks like you might have started with the same biology model as me. It’s a very satisfying shape.
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Recessing the seat makes all the sense. I like this allot.
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I just wanted any blood cell hahaha. I would have taken a wood or aluminum instead of plastic…. But I had a lot of fun. In fact a kind soul just sold me an aluminum one a few days ago but I’ve got the bug now and will probably keep refining these after I receive it. Working on prototyping my 40mm mini blood cell for when my super dense filament arrives.
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Ohh no I’m all for it I love stuff like this. I need more time to do printing myself
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Did you print your’s with 100% infill? One other thing I like doing is recessing the FD hub into the yoyo. I think it makes it look really smooth. Here is an example.
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That looks fantastic, like I would stumble upon it as a puzzle in a Zelda game. Yep, printed at 100% infill to try to hit that 48 gram weight.
I’m actually working on a v2 (more like v200) that recesses the stem hub to better give me that smooth worry stone feel. But in order to do that I need to thicken the wall between the hub and the bearing seat recess for a secure fit.
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What a beautiful piece of art! So nice.
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Thank you! Its not my art but I want to start make line art and then transfer it to digital.
I think I need to make a yoyo puzzle box now.
How wide did you make it? I think mine is 1-2 mm narrower than the og and I used 45% infill and 4-5 walls. Im a gram or 2 under but darn close to weight.
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I’ve been working on this for months haha. Trying various versions and failing. Some past versions used Tinkercad or blender from scratch but sucked. This one I took a blood cell model meant for like biology students and l just loaded it into Prusa slicer directly and used their shapes and negative volume feature to carve out various bits from the model and reshape it how I wanted.
White half is printed at 100% infill .1mm layers on a Prusa MK3S, pink half is printed same specs but on a Prusa mini+.
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Do you have your source CAD or STL? I’ve been doing a bit of design work in Fusion 360 and can probably make you an easier to use version (of the file 
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Awesome! Left it on the office laptop, will locate it tomorrow and share it.
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Oh wow thats really impressive. Editing the shapes manually is kinda crazy. I made mine in Onshape and can share the file if you’re interested.
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That would be great too! Thanks
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I wasn’t gonna ask but I’ll gladly take shares of files on these lol
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Once I got mine into a good state I plan to post it up as well, I like mine but it still needs some work before it’s posted to like thingiverse or something. I’ll share the WIP version directly though if you want.
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This was my starting source file.
To start I cut off 3.65 mm from the bottom to reduce overhang issues and cut weight down as my first tries were too heavy and had messy overhangs.
I added a 9.38mm hole straight through for the stem.
Also added a 28.2 mm wide 1.5 mm deep recess for the bearing seat.
Prusa Slicer won’t export the new model with the negative volume spaces so I can’t get a clean STL out, so I’m probably gonna try rebuilding it in a better tool as Well.
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I can work on this tonight.
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You should dm me the files for it when your done so I can try printing it 
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I’d totally try 3D printing, but knowing myself, I’d just use up all of the Filament in a day, and then forget I even have a 3D printer… 
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I have this source STL reverse engineered into a good, scalable model sketch in Fusion. Discussing offline with @AudreySickburn specifically what they are looking for 
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