Dragon Wand (Retractable) v1.5

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I am here to introduce you, retractable dragon wand! I made this design for Makerworld dragon contest (3/5). I think it will be a great addition Ornaments and toy for kids for new Dragon year. 

 

Best wishes to you all! 新年快乐.

 

This wand takes me a while to design and tests. It takes around 2h33m to print and cost right around 50g filaments.

The retractable part is not super rigid, it's by design, I did not put a lot of parameter in there, consider this will most gives to kids to play. So rather it break than hurt somebody.

 

Update:

v1.5 (1/13/24) - Fix internal parts geometeric issue. (tested) It only applys on P & X Series profile.

Printing profile for P & X Series have found geometric issues on inner parts. Which only occurs when selecting P&X series printers, A1 and A1mini profile doesn't have this issue. Internal parts have been redo. Profile for a1 mini, A1 have remained as v1.4 since it is working correctly.

 

 

Detail display:

 

 

My other wand design: 

Loong Wand:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/143028#profileId-155486

 

Harry Potter Wand:

 https://makerworld.com/en/models/68778#profileId-72937 

 

Instruction:

I put very large size of brim on all my printing profile, with 0mm gap to ensure the printing success rate. Since this model is a bit challenge to print.

You will required to do some post work of removing brim off. It should be very simple. I have increased gap on first layer from design, so it is tight tolerance, but not super tight.

 

 

Materials:

If you are printing with some high shrinkage rate filaments, like some of the silk filament. Due to the sinkage rate different. Your part might slide out or break very easily. So, use some good filaments.

 

Design:

Let's talk about a little bit of design. The retractable mechanism is very simple, the inner piece is interlocking with outter pieces.

Style is more challenging

Adding more details.

Printing suggestions:

This is a tall object with very small contact area on first layer. It is challenge to print. It will print without brims, but it fail very easily that way. If you are slicing the model yourself, make sure you add brims, and set brim gap to 0mm. Also increase the first layer thickness.

Or, just use those profile that I put there. It all have been tested and confirm works.