Tik Tok Award

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My wife loves posting to Tik Tok, and the other day she managed to hit a milestone in her Tik Toking.. Or what ever it's called. So I made her an award for it. I present the Tik Tok Viral Award. Fully assembled it stands at just over 7"s tall. I designed this in Vectary with a piece I found here on Thingiverse. That component was designed by Nire, I will link it below. I did make one noob mistake when I made the award though. And I caught it before I made it. I designed the Tik Tok logo so it could be printed separately, there were just to many supports otherwise. I accidentally made the pin and the hole in the award where it sits the exact same size. So, the logo... reduce it to 99% it fits perfectly. I sliced this with Cura and Simplify 3d. S3D had no problem slicing the awards, but it's column supports would have been a pain to remove. So I used Cura with it's fancy tree supports. They worked ok... In hindsight I probably should have created the supports in MeshMixer then sent it all to S3D. As for the logo it self, I did that in S3D.... Cura didn't want to slice the logo very well. When it's all done printing be careful removing the supports. I found nipping away pieces to work best. I don't have a dual extrusion printer. So I run a filament change M0 in my script to change out the filament where I need. The lettering is just a gold paint pen from any craft store. Oil based pens seem to do the best on PLA In my short time of printing. I have found having three slicers must be a norm. I use S3D mainly. Cura when I want tree supports or for some reason S3D just won't slice an item. And if both S3D and and Cura are giving me the finger on a project, well Creality's slicer will do it. But no custom supports, pretty much not much of anything in it. This is the award stand that I modified https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:180409