Pet water dish stand

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I wanted to elevate the pets' water dish so I designed this thing. I got a little ambitious with the size of the top plate which required me to split it into two pieces and print them separately. I customized the supports for the top plate so that the tabs that connect the two pieces were supported but there was no support in the holes where the legs connect. When I printed the legs I put the flat side of the leg on the bed and used support for the pegs sticking off the tops of the legs. I also used a thin support structure inside the slot where the brace goes for legs a & c. I think that with the right calibration you wouldn't need much post processing and no glue to hold the whole thing together. Unfortunately I didn't level my bed before I began and there was a bit of an elephant foot problem going on which made things not fit together as nicely as I would have liked. Fortunately it was nothing a bit of trimming and sanding couldn't fix. I did get a bit over zealous with my sanding on one of the smaller legs and ended up gluing it to the top to keep it in place.