This may seem somewhat off topic, but does anyone in the robotics community have a three or four color 3D printer? I have a sweet idea for a FIRST keychain that you could attach to a backpack and such, but want each of the shapes to be their respective colors. Please see attached photo for my general idea.
Additionally, to get it to print all together, maybe someone could assist me in positioning the parts in the Inventor assembly to print with the least support and also so they can be easily broken away from the supports to be free floating…
Having designed a similar thing for earrings previously, it is most likely just going to be easiest to have a slight gap/cut in the circle and to just use that to attach the triangle and square elements.
Depending on how flexible your filament is you can probably just do a tiny cut afterwards and then just bend open. A small cut won’t be visible and it won’t fall apart.
BTW, you need to use “direct link” in order to correctly embed the picture
Another way to do this is to print the white ring one first. Then, in the middle of printing the triangle upright, pause the print and stick the ring inside the triangle, then continue the print. Do the same with the square. This takes some effort watching the printer, but the end result is great.
