Nautilus Gears Acrylic laser cut + 3d print

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My take on the Nautilus Gears... I felt like it needed a bit of colour. Decided to use acrylic, since I have access to a laser cutter. I recommend using fine grain sand paper on any of the acrylics sharp edges. How I Designed This I opened the original Nautilus_Gear.STL in PyCam and it reported several invalid triangles. I imported the file into blender and used the decimate modifier to optimize the design. This reduced the file size from 1.7 MB to 173.8 kB, geometry still intact. The less complexity you give the 3d printer / laser cutter / tool of choice, the better. Result was Nautilus_Gear_decimatedHALF.STL The acrylic parts where made on a laser cutter with the Nautilus_Gear.svg, which was generated from the original Nautilus_Gear.STL using slic3r and its Slice to SVG function. It's often quicker to cut 2D parts on a laser printer, than it is to use a 3d printer.