{"id":413,"date":"2017-05-22T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=413"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:29:27","slug":"3d-printing-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2017\/05\/22\/3d-printing-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today is another fun filled day with new found 3D printing experience. I printed more 3D things from www.thingiverse.com<\/a>. The AA battery holder is a pretty good one. This print was actually in two parts and after printing, there was some assembly required. The two parts fitted perfectly, and now I have a AA battery dispenser. The picture shows the resulted print. It is a bit rough because I used the fast mode.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, the stars and planets came together and an end cap with one of our dining chairs cracked. It went from this:<\/p>\n

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to this:<\/p>\n

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This gave me an excellent opportunity to create my first 3D model for the very first time. No longer do I need to print someone else’s work. I spent the morning learning SketchUp, triple take the required measurements, and designed my custom end cap.<\/p>\n

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The one on the left is mine, and the one on the right is from Home Depot. I even added a little round ridge so that it is a better fit. Here is the result:<\/p>\n

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It worked really well! I even surprised myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is another fun filled day with new found 3D printing experience. I printed more 3D things from www.thingiverse.com. The AA battery holder is a pretty good one. This print was actually in two parts and after printing, there was some assembly required. The two parts fitted perfectly, and now I have a AA battery … Continue reading “3D Printing to the Rescue!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-6F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}