Completed LED Lid for the U1
This was quite the adventure. Took a few days of printing on a couple of machines to complete it, a couple of orders from various suppliers for magnets, glue and the clear plastic windows. I already had the LED, power supply and the connectors to make the lights work.
Overall it was a good design, though the designer was a bit optimistic about some of the print settings. It came with everything already setup on plates and pre-supported with manual tree supports.
Had a couple of issues:
I am not a fan of putting 4 relatively tall items on a single plate . Risk of one falling over and destroying all of them is too high(It happened to me. Lost a few hours when a tall item fell over), so I spread out the stls to a few different plates. May have added some time, but worth it to prevent a big catastrophe on a single plate.
The supports were mostly ok, but for some reason the designer supported a 1.5 mm bridge that was only 10 layers above the build plate. The tree supports were nearly impossible to remove. Even a bad printer can bridge a couple of millimeters and after removing those supports it printed cleanly.
Final item is the dxf for the acrylic. I had them cut and the original DXF in the file had identifiers on the sheets, so my vendor cut the letter designation into the windows. Not a big deal and it has already been fixed with the new DXF file having the letters removed.
Final item is the doors fit quite tightly. Too tight, actually, I will need to shave them a bit to account for this slight errors (likely caused by me) during assembly so that it ended up not quite square.
Overall I am very happy with it and the lights make working much easier on the print bed. total price, including filament, magnets, led, power supply, self-tapping screws and $85 in acrylic cutting was about $140.
If you are interested, this is where I got the STLs for this project. FYI, no affiliate link on this. I paid full price for it.
https://www.cc3dprojects.com/snapmakeru1-pod-topcover
Printed on an H2D, Snapmaker U1, X1C