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Balance Spaceship
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SummaryI was watching this YouTube video about a Balance Bird, and I was like, "Hey, I can make something like that... kinda." Not the bird itself, but the idea of having an object that's perfectly balanced in a seemingly impossible way.So, I came up with this "spaceship" design, sort of like a sketch of one. It's pretty rough, but the cool part is the balancing act!Now, fair warning, it does require a special printing setup. I've included two 3mf files - one for Prusa Slicer and another for Bambu Studio (sorry Cura users...). In the 3mf, you'll see the spaceship and a modifier volume. The way I balanced the ship in the middle was by shifting the weight to the front with two different infill values - 10% in the back and 64.6% in the front.Print Settings:Material: PLALayer Height: 0.2Infill: Variable (check 3mf)Walls: 2 or 3Supports: NoBrim: NoRaft: NoSpecial: Modifier Volume (check 3mf)Oh, and in the process, I discovered a small bug where the slicer forgets to show the decimals of the
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