Rolling tablecalendar by Benkku83

Benkku83

Household>Office

Print Profile(1)

All

P1S

P1P

X1 Carbon

X1E

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Designer

13.5 h

13 plates

4.0(3)

Boost

Released

Description

Calendar showing month and day. Biggest knob in end turns days (0-10), middle knob turns tens (0-3) and smallest months (Jan to Dec)

Two colour text is made flat, to minimize waste. They inserts to the disks with dowtail- style form. If loose, add a dot of superglue when asemmbling the disks.

Assembly: put the short axel through the endpiece and fix the numberdisk with 2 small skrews (3mmx16) from oyher side.

Second axel and disk as first, axel through the first axel.

Add the small “brakepads” to the middle disk in the housing, this prevents that middle disk spinnin when turning first.

Add longest axel and last disk to the other assembly, and put housing cover on. Add the last endpiece and fix housing endpieses to housing with small screws (3mmx16). Last add a M5 small bolt (up to 40mm long) to lock the axel in othe end.

calendar

date tracker

Comment & Rating (9)

@till.kristoffer

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

The end result is good but the default profile had some issues for me that needed tweaking or post processing to fix. The tolerances for some parts were way too tight and needed to be either sandpapered or be lubricated for them to fit together as expected. This could probably be configured in the print profile, but I already had the parts printed. However I will say that I think it was very smart move to have the date be separate tiles to save filament waste when printing. And I think the look of this design is very clean

The designer has replied

@Benkku83

Hi, yes the 0-9 disk was a bit too tight, but got mine without postprosess. Something with the tolerance is of. Was aming for frictionfit. but used glue for the other disks. Will fix that as soon as I have time. Yes, the flat 2-colour was to minimize use of filament and time. thx for ur input.

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@Jackalolz

Just finished printing this. It was a long but fun journey. Few notes from my time making the calendar. The assembly instructions only made some sense to me, luckily the design was simple enough to know where everything went. Did not find a place for the 'breakpad' so that was printed and never used. Most of the screws were so hard to get into the print I ended up skipping most of them. The screws in the pictures are the only ones I used, I skipped all the internal screws. I had to drill the screw holes which caused half of them to fall out and become dud holes. A final note is the slide-in pieces for the 10 days was the hardest part. I had to use all-purpose lubricant just to slide them in. I think version 2 could include a nicer 0-9 dial and some crew hole adjustments. Overall I'm happy with the print.

The designer has replied

@Benkku83

thanks for the feedback. I experienced the same, the dial for 0-9 was thighter than the others, even thogh they have same toleranses in cad. will adjust the tolerance on that one, maybe 0.05mm/gap more for easyer sliding. my skrews went in smooth, but the screw itself may differ a little. mine was those selftapping kind. wil try to adjust that though, so more skrewtypes can be used. ill try to add more walls where screws are fixed, so drilling a larger hole is possible, if needed.

@till.kristoffer

Hi! Maybe I'm stupid, but how do i insert the rods/axels into each other with the little nobs on them?

(Edited)

The designer has replied

@Benkku83

Hi, the nobs on the tall axels are just for support when printing. You can remove them by twisting/ plyers. They are on the flats of the axel, so doesent affect if a little stubb is left.

@till.kristoffer

Replying to @Benkku83 :

Thanks! That makes sense then. I will give a review once all the parts are finished printing :)