Dryer Door Handle

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01/03/2015... I just realized... you might think the part my hand is holding, in the screenshot of my OpenSCAD creation, is the one I printed... actually, it's the old cracked one! Replacement Dryer Door Handle. To be printed in PLA Totally created from inspection of current dryer door handle Print Settings Printer Brand: SeeMeCNC Printer: ORION Delta 3D Printer Rafts: Yes Supports: Yes Notes: Work in progress (12-24-2015) I'm planning on using a raft for bottom support (there are small triangles beneath to 'catch' the sheet metal edges of the door slot where the handle goes... these help retain the handle in place) so a few small protrusions can be made. Also, I will be using support for the handle opening, where your fingers would go. 12/24/2015 ETA: added a new pic to show the tabs underneath that I still need to place so the unit 'snaps' into place into the dryer door. 01/03/2015 ETA: My first real attempt at rafting and support building.... DANG! That's a lot of filament! hahaha... Loaded 3 pics of the final printing... now it's back to the drawing board! It's a tad too large! Loads of rafting and support to clean up and it wasn't so bad. After clearing the one front tab and not breaking it... I rushed the other front one and snapped off the 'latch' with the raft. That's okay because I realized this wasn't going to fit anyway. This is why I printed on blue PLA (of which I have a couple of large spools sitting around). I'll double check the fit in the door, then if it's as anticipated, resize and reprint a new one. I'm posting the v.2 files now. For those OpenSCAD pros... I'm still working on things like, Modules, Polyhedrons, making 3D instead of 2D so the final rendering will work! This project has made me stride even deeper into OpenSCAD... and I'm grateful... but not dead yet! Also, it appears that when I transitioned some things... the finger well wound up ~10mm too shallow. Meaning... the cube I "difference'd" to create the finger well, did not get repositioned far enough back to open the space as much as I originally wanted, but it will still be plenty deep for a person's fingers to grasp and open the door. Now it will just be even BUFFER bro! lol How I Designed This Pretty much used measuring tools and my eyes to place several cubes in proper position, subtracting ('difference' in OpenSCAD) a couple of cubes in order to create the hand opening in front.