'Embroidered' Dragon - HueForge Print

The Lunar New Year is almost upon us, and with it being the year of the dragon, I felt this was appropriate! It's entirely 3D printed, but the end result looks like it's an embroidered patch! If you need to resize this model, please only resize the X and Y dimensions and NOT the Z dimension!

The print model included (both the 3MF and the STL) are printed at 0.08mm layer height, however I also printed this at 0.04mm and the difference in quality was negligible. the 0.04mm version took approx 10 hours, so I have decided to provide the profile for the 0.08mm layer height which will only take about 5 hours or so on a Bambu Printer.

If you need to resize this model, please only resize the X and Y dimensions and NOT the Z dimension!

The 3MF has the layer swaps already coded in for Bambu Studio/Bambu printers, and uses 5 colours. You can get away with 4 and drop the orange layer, I reckon! If you're not using a Bambu printer, download the STL and use the following instructions:

Printing Instructions: Print at 100% infill with a layer height of 0.08mm with a base layer of 0.2mm

Filaments Used:

• PLA BambuLab Matte Charcoal Transmission Distance: 0.6
• PLA BambuLab Basic Red Transmission Distance: 5
• PLA CC3D Orange Transmission Distance: 8
• PLA CC3D Lemon Yellow Transmission Distance: 8
• PLA Kingroon White Transmission Distance: 8

Swap Instructions:

• Start with Charcoal
• At layer #7 (0.68mm) swap to Red
• At layer #11 (1mm) swap to Orange
• At layer #13 (1.16mm) swap to Lemon Yellow
• At layer #19 (1.64mm) swap to White for the rest.

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