Shaving Brush Razor and Soap Holder

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**UPDATE:** I realized the small spikes I intended to grip the soap in the bottom of the soapdish were buried when I increased the bottom thickness. The new .scad, .stl, and .gcode files reflect a change to bring them back. This is a shaving stand I designed to keep my gear contained instead of strewn all over the counter. It has a stand that can hold an Escali brush and a Preserve razor, and a soapdish that will hold a puck of shaving soap. To make it a little more compact, I made it so the stand will nestle into the top of the soapdish. There's also an option to print the brush / razor holder as a wall bracket. The trick to making the stand work correctly is in getting the center of gravity as low as possible, so the whole thing doesn't move around when you pull the brush out. To accomplish this, I used the Support Blocker feature in Cura to block off the stand base and bottom of the neck. Then, I set the per-block infill for this to 100%, while leaving the rest of the stand at 20% infill. The result is a nicely bottom-heavy stand when using PLA. Likewise, to make the nestling of stand and soapdish stable, I used 100% infill to print a nice, heavy soapdish and keep the center of gravity for the set pretty low. I also sliced the soapdish with Cura's "fuzzy skin" feature, to make it easier to grip with wet hands. I've included gcode that captures these print settings, and uses a layer height of 0.28mm (following the "magic number" of 0.4mm increments for my printer's axis steppers). It's laid out for a Creality Ender 3, which has a slightly larger print bed than an older Prusa clone, so YMMV.