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I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

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Re: I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

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yellow_lead wrote: post #5

I like that the creator is giving the STL away for free

It's awesome, lots of kudos to the creator for doing so! Personally I'm more likely to buy things where the authors makes the schematic/3D object/whatever available for free for the DIY people out there, and those who couldn't otherwise get the thing to them for one or another reason.

> I know there are other dogs and owners out there facing similar struggles. That’s why I’m sharing this design for free. While it’s not adjustable by design, it should fit medium-to-large dogs as is. If needed, measurements can be adjusted using the scaling feature in your slicer software, but some slots, like those for the straps, might deform in the process.

Only missing for it to be a parametric design people could easily adjust based on their own measurements, but trivial to change yourself too, so again, lots of thanks to the author for improving the whole world, not just a tiny piece of it.

Re: I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

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gowld wrote: post #10
yellow_lead wrote: post #5

I like that the creator is giving the STL away for free

The shop customizes measurements. Is it easy to modify the STL with custom measurements?

Not trivial, but not impossible either. Usually though the product would be designed in some CAD program, and when the shop customizes measurements they adjust them manually based on copies of the model. The "pro" way would be to have a parametrized version, but it's also trickier to create. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm getting the vibe the author picked up modelling/3D printing as they went along, so the easier route would be hardcoded values changed for each customer.

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Post by OmriHIllel »

ipsum2 wrote: post #8
darth_avocado wrote: post #6

This is so awesome! I actually think, with a few tweaks this can be a really great protection against foxtails. Foxtails are extremely lethal and can lead to thousands of dollars in vet bills. All current protections in the market are effectively a bag over your pet’s face, which as you can imagine, are not that popular with the pets.

https://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde has a story of designing a 3d print for foxtails.

wow that's a nice one

Re: I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

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Post by OmriHIllel »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
gowld wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The shop customizes measurements. Is it easy to modify the STL with custom measurements?

Not trivial, but not impossible either. Usually though the product would be designed in some CAD program, and when the shop customizes measurements they adjust them manually based on copies of the model. The "pro" way would be to have a parametrized version, but it's also trickier to create. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm getting the vibe the author picked up modelling/3D printing as they went along, so the easier route…

Creator here, Thanks for the kind words

It's been a really harsh and long process to CAD this model, it's also really complex to change measurements for it.

As I do wish to have a simpler version for customizing, for now by taking people orders I might either build a new parametric model, or have a growing "bank" of models and measurements to share for free like the main version.

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Post by ge96 »

ipsum2 wrote: post #8
darth_avocado wrote: post #6

This is so awesome! I actually think, with a few tweaks this can be a really great protection against foxtails. Foxtails are extremely lethal and can lead to thousands of dollars in vet bills. All current protections in the market are effectively a bag over your pet’s face, which as you can imagine, are not that popular with the pets.

https://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde has a story of designing a 3d print for foxtails.

dog's ready for WW1 trenches

also have to work on my own CAD skills for complex contours like that, been in parameteric/SketchUp land

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