customisable ice cube mold

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Easily create personalised ice cubes No CAD skills required Simple print. No supports. Also useful as molds for kinetic sand or play-doh Included examples (.stl): ICE GIN RUM IMPORTANT: Ice molds require flexible filament The safety of 3d printed materials for food preparation is highly debated I personally use filament that is certified as food-safe (Eolas Prints TPU, Spain) I also use a non-toxic hardened steel nozzle, rather than a standard brass nozzle If you've never printed with flexible filaments before: it's definitely worth a try! start with a semi-flexible filament (e.g. 95A TPU) start with this design (Seriously. It's dead easy.)   To release the ice, run hot water on the back of the mold, and then extract with a blunt knife.The more flexible the filament, the easier the extraction. How to customise: Install the free software OpenSCAD Do a 30 min online tutorial to learn the basics (use the editor, preview, render, and save as .stl) Download the sledge typeface Install the typeface so it's accessible to OpenSCAD (see forum Move ginicemolddemo.scad and icemold.scad to the same directory and open ginicemolddemo.scad in OpenSCAD. Modify the text. Modify moldlengthx to change the length of the ice cube. preview (F5), render (F6), and save as .stl Note: if you don't want any wall text, just change the variables to empty strings (e.g. walltextlhs_top = "";). Further info:Many thanks to the support of my work colleagues at Munich-based TNG Technology Consulting GmbH. The initial concept came from a hobby project during a TNG Techday (similar to Google's "20% time"). The design is also on GitHub. The OpenSCAD code is released under a permissive licence that allows commercial use.

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alphahelix

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