George Nelson inspired Wall Clock by John Hoke

John Hoke

Household>Decor

Print Profile(1)

All

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

8.5 h

4 plates

5.0(2)

Boost

Released

Description

I wanted to create a wall clock in the design form of George Nelson - and to better learn CAD tools. I created this design in a day or so and printed it on a Bambu X1C.

The clock face is 200mm in diameter, the spheres are 30mm and 20mm in Copper and Navy Blue respectively. I love the way the copper silk and navy blue PLA work together.

The clock face is configured to paint in your slicer (I used Orcaslicer) and I have included “rods” if you want to print them.

I used Bambu Labs White and Copper Silk PLA, and IIIDMax navy blue PLA for the hour dots and spheres and a clock mechanism and hands from Amazon. Make sure to get the 20mm version as the clock face is 15mm thick, not including the hour marks which are 3mm. The set comes with a number of hands and I used the red. In the future I will add printed hour and minute hands to use.

When printing the balls, to avoid the need for supports, I dragged them about 4-5mm below the plane, providing them a flat surface, alternatively, print with supports.

This is my first from scratch model, if you print it please like and post a make - I would love to see other's takes on this classic – if there are issues, please let me know and I will try and fix

(imported from printables)

Comment & Rating (4)

@olavamjelde

I made a profile for A1. Should be usable by X1c/P1s by changing nozzle type to X1c/P1s. Changes made: * Rotated the balls 180 deg on x-axis so the part with hole faces build plate. This means it should look better from side. * Moved the balls up so they dont go below the build plate (negative), this made the largest balls fall out. * Flat support added by slicer * Changed to 10% gyriod infill in balls * Smoothed out the balls with variable line height, also did outer to inner radius to get less of a visible seam. I like the result, but I think some this is a further improvement that could be done: *) If the round circles where not print in place, the front face could be down, so you got a better surface, so maybe they should be loose and pop in like the other parts. While the model can be improved, it does look cool. I printed the gold in PETG gold and the white in matt white PTE, the green is PTE metal from Bambu Labs. So while PETG and PTE cant be adhered together, these parts are pop in place, so it works with the sticks in gold and the larger balls.

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