My computer rendered Christmas card that I sent to friends and family this year had 3D printing as a theme. You can read all about it here.
Because many friends and family have never seen a 3D printer for the objects it creates, I decided to make a little Christmas to stuff in their Christmas cards. It’s a little piece of Christmas holly customized with their name on it. This video shows how I designed and 3D printing these little trinkets from my friends and family.
One of the fun things I like to do with my 3D printer is create Christmas ornaments. My radiused is this 20 pointed star shown here on my living room Christmas tree.
The basic shape begins with a 20 sided shape where each shape is an isosceles triangle. In order for it to print properly I had to cut that shape into two pieces. Then I separately printed the 20 spike shaped pieces to connect to each of the 20 triangles. One of the spikes includes a little loop so that you can hang the ornament.
We used super glue to put the pieces together. After gluing of the spikes onto the two halves of the central core it looks like this.
Then we finally glue the two sections together.
The files so you can print your own ornament are available on https://www.thingiverse.com/ by clicking here.