Models by subject
Need some inspiration? Look at models below and select a few to download, slice in Cura, and print on your Ultimaker.
To ensure that you will be able to print each successfully, we tested all the model listed below on an Ultimaker 2+ and included detailed settings information for Cura.
If you know of a model you think should be in this collection, let us know by filling out the model by subject submission form.
openSCAD database of all convex polyhedra with regular faces except for prisms and anti-prisms. This includes the Platonic, Archimedean, and Johnson polyhedra (over 100 total!).
Pictured are all the Platonic solids and a few Archimedean solids created with the customizer.
Geometry
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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The hinges are built to print together, fully assembled, using the "low" setting on a Replicator 2. What I'd really like is to have modular faces that you clip together after printing, since then I could make much larger polyhedra. Maybe another day...
Geometry
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt, 75% scale
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This Math manipulative is designed to appear playful from the first look. It lies flat on desk top, so it will also work well with overhead projection systems.
Behind the mechanical fun there are several simple ratio exercises. The eight tooth "Idler" gear is supplied to add reverse rotation without affecting the ratios. Each interchangeable gear has built-in graphics to indicate the number of teeth as well as rotation position. Some gear ratio formulas can be found here: Wikipedia.
Rubber bands provide tension to keep the wheels engaged no matter what the combination.
Ratios
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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This fraction teaching tool I have designed is called the Fractionator. Simply rotate the discs, and read off both the smaller, and the remaining fraction. Good visual guide to teach fractions. You could also use this as a starting point for teaching equivalent fractions.
Fractions
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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My 4 old kids start to learn about math operation so I search something to make math more fun. Found "Math Spinner" from Math Spinner Enhanced (fast print, no support) is very interesting.
So I made my own "Math Spinner" with angle step lock so It doesn't freely rotate.
But with the center to print so everything made in 3D!
Arithmetic
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 20% infill, skirt
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Rubik's Cube. 3 plates easy to 3D Print. I used orbital gears instead of circular(sphere not rings). I believe that the movement will be more soft and flow. Very strong pieces. You can help me to do more things like this. Buy my designs at pinshape. The OpenSCAD file is there, you can change all.
Sequences
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, enable Alternate Extra Wall, 25% infill, skirt
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Golden Ratio Seahorse Gears. Animated GIF: Inspired by Nautilus Gears by MishaT: I added a new smooth running seahorse gear version (v3). The new version does not latch into a closed position and is suitable to drive with a motor, etc.
Ratios
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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Want to impress you friends? Print out these weird looking gears for them! they will love it. Scale all 3 parts down by 50% Print them solid at 0.1 - 0.2mm layer height Lock the gears in place and spin the wheel! Have fun printing!
Ratios
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt, 50% scale. If you break the pins, enlarge the holes and use 2 M3x12 screws with nuts.
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ALFRED CLEBSCH Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19 January 1833—7 November 1872) was a German mathematician who worked with algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He collaborated with Paul Gordan on Clebsch—Gordan coefficients for spherical harmonics, which are now widely used in quantum mechanics.The Clebsch diagonal cubic surface, or Klein's icosahedral cubic surface is a cubic surface is a well known form, all of whose 27 exceptional lines can be defined over the real numbers. This is a a representation of Clebsch's diagonal surface.
Geometry
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt
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This launcher is designed for both of propellers and spinning tops. You can fly the propellers and also spin the tops by using one launcher. It is a new design, but it was inspired by Davidcolsson's propeller launcher. To fly the propellers and turn the tops, I also adopted the Davidcolsson's method of pulling a dragger.
Engineering
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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The pantograph is the original scaling tool! It was first developed in 1603 so that Christopher Scheiner, it's inventor, could copy and scale diagrams with great precision. Something we now do in seconds with copy machines and computers was done entirely by hand back in the days of old.
Engineering
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, 90% scale, skirt
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An anatomical model of a human heart, painstakingly assembled from obj files taken from BodyParts3D's database. They claim that I have to say this: "BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan" There are a couple errors in the STL mesh that I couldn't seem to get rid of, but it printed just fine.
Biology
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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Model of Animal Cell for teachers, students and educators.
Biology
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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This podiatric model can be used to study the skeletal compostion of the anatomy. The model is made in two parts, the left foot can be removed from the base and inspected seperately, while the base can be used as a mould to cast the impression of the foot.
Anatomy
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt
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Named Homo Naledi, this new species of an extinct early human ancestor discovered by the Rising Star expedition team near Johannesburg, South Africa has stunned the paleoanthropology and archaeology world, and in true scientific fashion, they have published scanned specimens of their find and published on morphosource.org for all to enjoy and participate in this extraordinary discovery.
Anthropology
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt
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This is a skull with a story, and you can listen to it at www.radiolab.org/story/taung-child.
Anthropology
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt
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Right hemisphere of the brain of Rajat Jain (25) obtained with an MRI scan and used in UCSF's and UCSD's glassbrain project.
Anatomy
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt. Consider opening the file in MeshLab and applying Filters:Remeshing, Simplification, Reconstruction:Quadric Edge Collapse Decimation, and set the faces to 40K.
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This is a model of Gale Crater, where the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is roving around and blasting holes in the landscape. It's 1:1925000 scale. The Curiosity Rover would be about two microns long, or about the length of one E. coli cell.
Geology
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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This thing is a bump mapped sphere that uses the planetary map data/images from Johnston Archive. Specifically, I used this one: I essentially used the same bump mapping technique I used on this bowl. That is, use the picture as a height map.
Astronomy
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, skirt
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As a single coil 3d printed pulse motor, it has very little torque, and is basically useless except for science fair projects and bragging rights, but it is fun to assemble, fine tune, and test. Video of prototype.
Physics
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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The model features a nice wind wheel that can easily be printed on FFF printers even without support and fits on a 4mm machine screw (or similar) as a shaft.
Physics
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, a Greedy Cup or a Tantalus cup) is a form of drinking cup that forces its user to imbibe only in moderation. Credited to Pythagoras of Samos, it allows the user to fill the cup with wine up to a certain level.
Physics
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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These are really fun to design and print. Each print job is fun since there's a slight element of randomness. The randomness is because we are deliberately "printing in the air" to create the "drooloops" (droop+loop) that make these flowers look so amazing. I have uploaded both openscad design file AND the gcode files for ten different flower shapes that you can download and print right away. See Breaking Barriers in Education with 3D Printing.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 0.6mm solid_layer_thickness, 0% infill, set solid_top to False, set solid_bottom to True. Read through the instructions and explore Peetersm's G-code.
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I bring you the 3D printed, 8bit character, rubber stamps! With included 3D printed handle. These stamps are quite big at 55.7mmx55.7mm (2.2inx2.2in). We have designed the stamps in such a way that you can have one stamp handle and change the rubber stamp design to the one you like.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: For stamp part use flexible filament. 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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This design turns your bike wheel into a zoetrope!* It was designed for 18 spokes (on one side of the wheel. There should be 36 spokes altogether), with two cycles of the full animation. The files included are robotbody 1-9, and two sets of clips to attach them to the spokes; one for 3.5mm wide spokes, and one for 2mm wide spokes.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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The inspiration here is threefold: After seeing the awesome sculptural work being done on the pet monster contest, I knew I wanted to try my hand at organic modeling and I wanted a way a cool way to incorporate it into a 3D print.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 15% infill, enable Infill Before Walls, 89.55% scale, skirt
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Dan Steele writes about generating 3D printable two-part molds with OpenSCAD.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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Work in progress As part of my residency at The Art Institute, and in preparation for my next 3D printed book, i'm publishing a series of moulds i have been printing derived from 123D Catch scans of sculptures and bas reliefs at AIC.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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Marble head of Herakles The Metropolitan Museum of Art Period: Imperial Date: 1st century A.D. Culture: Roman Medium: Marble, Parian ? Dimensions: H. 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927 Accession Number: 27.122.18 This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 162 Scanned with 123DCatch on iPhone 5S.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, 200% scale, skirt
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Marsyas Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, nearr Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651¬€œ1732 Dresden) Date: ca. 1680‚¬85 Culture: German, executed in Rome or Florence Medium: Marble; black marble socle inlaid with light marble Dimensions: Overall with socle (confirmed): 27 x 17 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. (68.6 x 44.1 x 28.3 cm) Height of socle (confirmed): 6 1/4 in.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, enable support, 60% scale, skirt
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Nefertiti - Real 3D SCAN (By Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles)
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 10% infill, 10% scale, skirt. Consider opening the file in MeshLab and applying Filters:Remeshing, Simplification, Reconstruction:Quadric Edge Collapse Decimation, and set the faces to 40K.
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Isocrates Artist Pierre Granier (1635-1715) Date 1685-1688 Medium Marble Dimensions Accession # MR 1870 Credit Restored with thanks to sponsorship from Ms Garance and Isild Merieux Isocrates (436-338 BC), an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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The Thin Man is a desktop character figure of 2mm thickness. Please use as a desktop figure. standing : no need for support parts climbing : no needs support parts lying : needs support parts sitting : needs support parts
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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Click "Open in Customizer" to turn the image of your choice into a Lithopane! We used the Mona Lisa, but you could use any photo you want. The Lithopane tool generates a 3D model that looks like a rough terrain map.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 1 wall, 25% infill, skirt
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New Year new intentions...! This year i will upload a new cup every week. This is number one...! Done in Blender, which was quite difficult for me to figure out how to get this pattern on the cup. The trick is displacement mappings and a lot of persistence, but then you can create the most beautiful objects.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 1 wall, 0% infill, 1.2mm Bottom Thickness, 0 Top Layers, skirt
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Weekly Cup 45... Escher again, now recongizable... Thanks to Vladimir for thing 26121. This year i will upload a cup every week...! Download, slice and print. This one was sliced with the newest Cura and 'Spiralize' is back in the settings...!!!
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 1 wall, 0% infill, 1.2mm Bottom Thickness, 0 Top Layers, skirt
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Valentine is coming, make two this time... This year i will upload a new cup every week. This is number six...! Download, slice and print.
Art
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 1 wall, 0% infill, 1.2mm Bottom Thickness, 0 Top Layers, skirt
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Business card that assembles into a Velociraptor.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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This is a Butterfly puzzle. It was originally designed for a laser cutter. I extruded it in Openscad. This puzzle and many others can be found at blechwelt.com. There are two sizes available V1 and V2sm.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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There once was a time when companies produced animal napkin rings using a plastic called Bakelite. Those vintage napkin rings can go for a decent price these days in antique stores. But there's no reason you can't design and 3D print your own versions! :-) More info and pictures here
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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Turn your bathroom sink into a fountain. Easy mouth rinse. Pull on the sides to activate the fountain no need to plug a hole. For those of you who love sticking their fingers in holes, a simple version has been provided. An oring was designed to fit originally in the bottom, but it worked just as well without.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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I use little programs like this when teaching recursion to my students. Fibonacci typical example sucks, really don't show the power of recursive algorithms.
For programmers can be a good starting point to develop recursive algorithms. Code is short and simple. Feel free to reuse, modify or do what you want with code.
Programming
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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Three different diagonal slice models of a level 2 Menger sponge. Read more about how these are made and printed at MakerHome: Day 169 - Starmaker Day 170- Rhomboidal Day 171 - Triangles Day 206 - Coverups For even more Menger madness.
Fractals
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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1 Little Linkling 2 Little Linklings 4 Little Linklings 8 Little Linklings ... They like to cling on each other and build huge towers. They also like to link to build rings and roll around. They furthermore like to make chains and do some modern art. No support required, raft or brim recommended.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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Pixil Bits are a simple construction kit designed for kids and adults. These pieces can be used to create useful toys that do everything from holding your pencils to being a cradle for your mobile phone. Each piece snaps together to form interesting structures.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 20% infill, skirt
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Introducing the first design from Parallel Goods. This Self-Watering Planter is exactly the growing environment your plants need, while giving you flexibility in your watering routine. It's super easy to use: just plant your favorite herb or other water-intensive plant, add water, and you're all set.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 3 walls, 10% infill, skirt
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Get ready for some chirping! This simple bird whistle. It produces a consistent high pitched sound when dry, but with some assistance (water) you can make unique chirping melodies. When you get tired of whistling it also doubles as a nice desktop ornament and conversation starter.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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Love playing card games or know someone that does? This makes a great gift for anyone with dexterity challenges, the elderly, as well as kids. Cardeasy helps hold and organize a hand full of cards and if you print one out for someone that has that problem, they will love you for it.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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This is my second try at a one piece hinged box with latch. This latch is a little easier to operate than my box design I derived it from. For more information about this box, see the box it was derived from. I like this latch design a lot.
Design
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.15mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 15% infill, skirt
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3D print and assemble your own classic Islamic-style artwork by using Girih tiles to build intricate woven strapwork! The tiling pattern in the photo is rotationally symmetric. On the left are the basic colorful tile shapes. Towards the middle we have started to add the overlaid strapwork, which is completely determined by the tiles.
Interdisciplinary
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 5% infill, skirt
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No batteries, no motor, no electronics... It's all just a really super-fancy shadow show. The shape of the sundial has been mathematically designed to only let through the right sunrays at the right time/angle. This allows to display the actual time with sunlit digits inside the sundial's shadow.
The sundial displays time (with actual digits !!) from 10:00 until 16:00, updating every 20 minutes.
You can precisely adjust the displayed time simply by rotating the gnomon (the magic box that displays time). So you can even adjust for Daylight Saving Time.
Interdisciplinary
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: ABS, 0.1mm layer height, 0.35mm line width, 0.7mm wall thickness, 20% infill, skirt
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Wind powered Zoetrope specially designed for 3D printing. Easy to print and assemble, perfect for children who will enjoy themselves with the magic of this pre-film animation device. Wide variety of animations can be found on the web, just look for the one you enjoy the most!
Interdisciplinary
Ultimaker 2+ recommendation: 0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm line width, 0.8mm wall thickness, 10% infill, skirt
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