Clip-on coasters with easy & fast silicone feet

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<p>We made some clip-on glass distinguishers. Three designs in total:</p><ul><li>One with additional clip-on carpet feet</li><li>One vase mode print</li><li>One without the most important feature: silicon feet</li></ul><p>The silicone feet are made from silicon rope that comes in various sizes. You can check out this video where we also feature the prints and the technique (@2:20):</p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sl1uU8ZZis&amp;t=140s"></oembed></figure><p>How to implement them in your own design (example for 6mm rope):</p><ul><li>Generate a plane 1mm above the bottom of the print</li><li>Project the bottom surface onto a sketch on the plane</li><li>Offset inwards by 5mm</li><li>Create a 6mm pipe along the path</li><li>Cut it out of your design</li></ul><p>If you would like to make them look more professional you can bend the ends of the channel upwards so the ends of the rope will be hidden.&nbsp;</p><p>The rope comes in sizes ranging from 2 to 12 mm (and probably even more) and different colors, so you should be able to find something suitable for however big your print is. You can also use silicone O-rings. For the thin rope like in the clips a simple slot is sufficient, but the bigger rope looks way nicer with a circular channel. Just like in the described example the rope should be inside the print approximately ⅔ so it holds properly.</p><p>Pulling the rope helps during the insertion. I usually cut them after pressing in most of it, but if you pulled it before massage the silicone around because it might shrink again and turn out too short.</p><p>One more thing to note about the flower clip: It is printed in vase mode, but the features that hold the rope need some conventional printing. I “hacked” the slicer to switch to vase mode after the bottom part by increasing the amount of bottom layers so the entire structure was only bottom layers of the vase.</p><p>Filament: Verbatim PET-G</p><p>0.6mm nozzle</p><p>@0.3mm height for colored prints</p><p>@1mm width &amp; 0.3mm height for translucent print</p><p>Print-quality was worse than usual because the fan shroud was missing (but that's a story for another post…)</p><p>Glasses: Riedel Big O 0414/67</p>