3D Printed Protective Face Shield

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Since the medical community currently (2020-03-20) has a urgent need for protective visors and other PPE for our heroes that spends their days battling COVID-19, myself and my co-workers at 3DVerkstan have spent a lot of time during the past few days designing a printable visor. This in a WORK IN PROGRESS, and might get multiple revisions during the coming days/weeks, but this first released version is the first one on its way to be tried out by a local hospital. The plastic shield can be made out of any semi-stiff plastic sheet between 0.1 and 1mm, including overhead film, cover sheets for binding machines etc, as long as it is available in a suitable format. If you need it to sit tighter on your head or if you are leaning over patients a lot and worry about it falling off, a simple rubber band can be put over the two hooks in the back. You need approx a 210x210mm build area to print two at a time, and about 160x190mm if you are OK with only doing one at a time. Materials and methods A4 sheet of transparent plastic (~0.2mm PET recommended) Hole punch 3D Printer A rigid filament A rubber band (if desired)