LEGO gale crater

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Description It's a set of LEGO compatible baseplates, with two plate dimensions: 10x10 pins (80x80 mm) and 20x20 pins (160x160 mm) They are designed to fit with regular LEGO bricks in order to create a martian terrain scenery. Designing I have downloaded the STL scan of the Gale Crater from https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/gale-crater and created all around with Blender, adding the base and the LEGO pins, the 20x20 pins version has 4 auxiliary pins for put a a flag on the crater. The decimate modifier is used in order to reduce the numbers of the polygons from the NASA gale crater scan. Sources in Blender format are available for download. Printing advice I have printed the models with: 0.4 mm nozzle 0.2 mm layer height 30% infill 6 perimeters (2.4 wall thickness) I advice to use a 30% infill setting for better finishing of the crater surface. Weight of the finished objects with 30% infill: 20 g (10x10) and 80 g (20x20). License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) NASA credits Stl scan of the gale crater downloaded from https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/gale-crater Special thanks To Gianluca Faletti (aka Kino) for Blender tips and tricks Resources Thing on thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2065782 GitHub: https://github.com/alessiocavalieri/lego_gale_crater Wiki: http://itink.it/wiki/doku.php?id=en:tinkering:3dprinting:myowncreatedobjects:legogalecrater Google plus photo album: https://goo.gl/photos/Mdvz5QRDDY53t3bM7 Print Settings Printer: Plughi RepRap Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: 0.2 Infill: 30%