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Are you printing these yourself?
I’m working with a guy basically telling him exactly what I want as far as shape, size, color, holes, LxDxH, etc. He builds it in CAD and then it renders the picture. We tweak it from there. The first design we basically didn’t have enough infill for the shear size of this thing. It was bowing, but not bad though. 45 degrees was just too much. We’re just both anal and I also changed my mind and wanted to design something a little more low profile, but w/o affecting spread.
 

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I’m working with a guy basically telling him exactly what I want as far as shape, size, color, holes, LxDxH, etc. He builds it in CAD and then it renders the picture. We tweak it from there. The first design we basically didn’t have enough infill for the shear size of this thing. It was bowing, but not bad though. 45 degrees was just too much. We’re just both anal and I also changed my mind and wanted to design something a little more low profile, but w/o affecting spread.
So each round he’s tweaking the design, printing it, and you’re trying it out?
 
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So each round he’s tweaking the design, printing it, and you’re trying it out?
No, each round I’m tweaking the design, he’s rendering the CAD picture off the numbers I’m giving him, and we’re discussing what is better as far as infill, degrees, density, LxDxH, etc. 45 degrees is doable, but it takes a lot of infill which costs $$$$ for filament to make it rigid enough so that it won’t bow. Plus when you get that large it takes 18 hrs to print even with his massive printer.

This new model is called the wife saver. She hates the light in her eyes and to be quit honest the UV on these Radions makes my eyes hurt.
 

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No, each round I’m tweaking the design, he’s rendering the CAD picture off the numbers I’m giving him, and we’re discussing what is better as far as infill, degrees, density, LxDxH, etc. 45 degrees is doable, but it takes a lot of infill which costs $$$$ for filament to make it rigid enough so that it won’t bow. Plus when you get that large it takes 18 hrs to print even with his massive printer.

This new model is called the wife saver. She hates the light in her eyes and to be quit honest the UV on these Radions makes my eyes hurt.
I wonder if the heat from the light will be an issue.
 
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What printer are you using? I've been having issues with my extractor.
He’s using a Creality CR 10 Max

 
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