This is a 113 cm long staff i designed for FACTS (Belgium Comic-Con). I thought i'd share it with you.
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Do you have any advice for printing the Base. Every time I try it starts wobbling, even at 50% speed and scaled down to 50% size. I'm only 1 week into 3d printing so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

@RonnieBouley_1965019 My staff was also wobbly. I just painted over it to make it less noticeable but if you want to fix it I would try adding tree supports.

@JelleAvocado_1037900 I did end up adding a ladder style support. It's working really well.

@RonnieBouley_1965019 Glad to see you've found a solution. Do the sticks slide into the holes? I originally designed and printed in with 0 tolerance (a supposed to be perfect fit).Of course that didn't work, but before uploading it I changed it. however I didn't print it again. Does it fit?

@JelleAvocado_1037900 I haven't found a printed way of getting the sticks to slip fit but I am trying to see if I can just change the part size percentage to go that direction. As of right now I'll likely just drill out the holes with my drill press on the bottom to fit into the bosses on top sides. These prints were done at 95% (base) 96% (middleone) and so on but it feels like if I start at 90% and go up 2% per part above that they should fit together better.

@RonnieBouley_1965019 Yeah, that's probably the best way to do it. I'm not that good at making things fit, but at least I tried.

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