OK, after several requests for my back covers, and me stalling because I had not made a parametric version, I realized you could simply scale the print height in your slicer to get the right width (since they print standing up), and it should hopefully work OK. So, here’s a link to them:
Please let me know if you spot any problems or have any issues.
After I get back home from our road trip (Lord willing, safely — we’re currently coming over a mountain pass, on icy roads with blowing snow, with wrecked cars off to the side), I will aim to produce multiple sets of this with incremental length differences, such as maybe 165 mm, 170 mm, 175 mm, etc. etc. so that someone could just pick the one that’s closest to their actual length and not have to scale it by so much.
They break away effortlessly. Or at least they do for me. I put them just close enough to help and just far enough away that it should break away without leaving a mark.
The ease of scaling is a key to why this works. The idea for providing a variety of starting points is to keep from having to scale by a huge amount, because it will skew the screw holes by more than is perhaps desirable.
This is great. The owners of CoreXY machines will have better chances than those with bed slingers. Bed slingers would definitely want the break-away support fins.
I watched a YouTube video recently in which it was pointed out that several nations independently achieved invention of radar about the same time. It was an idea that occurred to various people. Same with this decorative thing. Several people have had the same basic idea, with minor differences in how it is implemented.
Yep. I had them on my beta, my RC1, and redid them again on my RC3. I have not yet done them on full size final LR4 which is now complete. I may do them on the full size too, but if so, this time I got the horse before the cart.