MK3S Filament Sensor Cover for Mosaic Palette/Palette+ Extruder Clip

Filament Sensor cover for the Prusa i3 MK3S
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Filament Sensor cover for the Prusa i3 MK3S, with a grip-portion for the "Prusa i3 MK3 Extruder Clip": https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3189590

Makes it easy to have a non-permanent adapter for the Palette and Palette+. Do a search for other designs if using the Palette 2/Palette 2 Pro.

Remember to print in black. I used the black PETG (Prusa support told me it's Prusament PETG Jet Black) that came with my MK3 to MK3S upgrade kit.

UPDATE Aug 6, 2019:

I got a lot more experience with Fusion 360 and figured out how to get everything to scale properly. Might sound easy (Modify->Scale) but for some reason it wasn't working when I first made this.

Additional thing I noticed: I purchased a few PTFE tubes and noticed they fit perfectly into the grip-tube (or whatever you want to call it). So it keeps the PTFE in place while printing. Nice bonus (at least for me as I didn't plan that when I created this)

Notes:

Same settings as recommended by Prusa for printing their parts: https://www.printables.com/model/88272-i3-mk3s-printable-parts

How I Designed This

I've wanted to try and develop some parts for various projects and people's requests. Previously, I did this with Autodesk Maya (yes, really). I tried to learn a few different programs and stuff like SCAD (I'm a programmer)... but realized that I needed something a little more visual, so I went with Fusion 360.

I tried a few tutorials... the only one that was useful was one from Autodesk about how to navigate around the program, and a few from Makers Muse and 3D Printing Nerd where, they were less tutorials and more "oh, look they did that. What buttons did they press" and then proceeded to press buttons and see what happens.

In this case, I imported the fs-cover.stl from Prusa model and the Extruder Clip model (see link above), then recreated the cover which was a lot easier then expected.

I then learned that everything was the wrong scale. But fixed the scale in recent model.

I also realized that Fusion 360, even though nearly every tutorial seems to have things setup in parametric design, mine was not... so edits are difficult (along with my other learning tasks: hour-glass shapes and chamfers are non-45 degree angles).

But it was a good learning experience. If anyone has tips, non-speaking-about-my-personal-experience tutorial videos, or needs something changed: let me know so I can "try".

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