Ball in a Box

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I designed this **Ball in a Box** when I started experimenting with different filaments. I wanted something to try with PVA supports. I printed this a few different ways including single extrusion, dual extrusion, PLA with PVA supports, and TPU with PVA supports (not pictured). Pictured: PLA Blue/Red PLA Orange PLA Pink / PVA Supports It is a fun little model to play with. The ball could be squeezed out in the TPU version, but a day of play broke the box on that one. I haven't yet tried TPU ball and PLA box. Supports are needed for the ball. When setting up the print, I also raised the models up slightly so the bottoms of the box sphere corners would be nestled in supports rather than sticking to the print bed directly since I was having trouble with that. For the PVA print, I included a raft since the PVA was not sticking to the bed. I also used this to do a little experimenting with bridging and supports. The best prints for the box were when I included supports, but the drooping wasn't too bad without supports since I could pick off the worst couple strands. See photos. Just wish I had a third extruder so I could print with two colors and PVA supports! My husband thinks it would be a good cat toy, but we don't have a cat to test it out. More of my models on Cults: https://cults3d.com/en/users/abbymath