Airless ball voronoi pattern (strong) 120mm

An airless ball designed for smaller prints because scaling down the airless basketballs makes them a little too weak
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updated December 21, 2024

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Printing the airless basketballs at full size works just fine but scaling them down to half size makes them a little bit too weak and difficult to print with a 0,6mm nozzle so I designed my own 120mm ball 

It has a lot thicker design with bigger holes giving it the following properties

  • Very strong due to very thick structure though not too heavy (100g ball at 120mm and only 20 grams of support)
  • Fast printing with less retractions
  • Support easy to remove
  • Very uniform bounce despite the random voronoi pattern (mostly because there are no thick embossed lines along the surface as with the airless basketballs)
  • The overhangs at the top of the print can be a little bit messy but still quite easy to clean up
  • There are unavoidedly overhangs in this model which are not supported and are almost impossible to print without so be warned, but the PLA-HR from Biqu really handles it well as you can see in the pictures

 

My settings (not necessarily the best but I only printed this once): 

  • 0,6mm nozzle
  • 0,18mm layer lines
  • max. 40mm speed but slowing down to 15mm/s for overhangs
  • 100% cooling on ALL fans (you need all the cooling you can get for the top part)
  • 2 walls
  • 100% concentric infill
  • random seam position
  • Print time was 9 hours
  • Normal support with 30% treshold (orcaslicer)
    • 10mm first layer expansion to prevent lifting from the bed (it's about 10°C in my shed so my prints tend to warp a lot)
    • Support blocker from layer 100 and up
    • 2 interface layers
    • top z distance 0,18mm
    • don't support bridges
    • support on build plate only

I printed this in Biqu PLA-HR which is known for printing very good airless basketballs so it works perfectly for this. Originally I made this to be printed in Fiberlogy's Fiberflex 40D but I haven't gotten around to it because I'm afraid it won't handle the overhangs at the top

 

Bigger version is coming soon but I have to redesign because it would be too heavy now at 240mm

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