3D Print a Lithophane Light Box

would you look at that a little faint light box Iron Man Thor Iron Man Thanos a composite image of the whole gang ain't she a beauty oh hey you look like you want to learn how to design a little thin light box well the way that I would do that is I've got a little fan maker.com and I'll click on the picture of the lightbox okay once you're there you need to upload your images you do top front left right as stated and here we go now there are a lot of settings that you can change to get the light box that you want with the dimensions that you want but I like all of the settings as they are except I'm going to change the little fan resolution to get the prettiest lift of Fame box that my computer can process I'm going to reduce the lift the fan resolution to 0.2 millimeters per pixel so now the distance between pixels on your final lift of fane lightbox will be point two millimeters as opposed to 0.25 which was the default this will make it so that your lightbox has a finer resolution but it also makes it so that your STL file is a little bit larger so you know there's a little bit of a give and take but I'm gonna just go for the prettiest one I can right now and then I need to crop my images so I'm going to Center this one on iron man's laser arm because duh and then I'm going to get a little bit more of that bling in there up one into five so that looks good and now you just create the STL and it takes you here to remind you that it would be great if you could link to lithified maker comm whenever you share pictures and videos of lifting of Litha fades made using the tool on social media or wherever you share these pictures or videos and then on top of that I've got a YouTube I've got a Thingiverse Facebook Twitter Instagram and just like them all subscribe to them all keep it easy and then I'm thinking first you know I've got many designs if you could like all of those it would increase the visibility of with fan maker.com so that other people find it and use it as well so now you just save what was created for you and now I'm extracting the zip file that you just saved and here's what's in it you have to STL files you have the Box STL file and the top lifts off a an STL file and then you also have a settings file which is a text file that just tells you what settings used when you designed the lightbox Atlas fan maker comm so now we going to cure it to slice it and before you even bring the STL file in I recommend that you turn off slice automatically because I had just kind of alluded to these files can become very large hundreds of megabytes I think the estimate for mine was just 280 megabytes so that's up big honkin file and if you have to slice that repeatedly it could really bog down your computer so if you just take slice automatically off you'll reduce the number of times that it's sliced okay now I just pull the STL file in here okay so here it is and there are three main settings that you want to be concerned but they are the layer height the speed and you want to make sure that your little fan walls are full okay no gaps no infill on the fan balls so here's the layer hat I use I use point 1/2 smaller is better for quality typically but it also takes more time so that's the trade-off the way that I make sure that my width of Fame image walls are are full with no infill is I use mini mini wall lines so my wall eye encounters 5 which is there are two walls it makes it so that my my my thickness of the wall is four millimeters for both the walls together which is larger than the maximum thickness that I selected at levain maker.com so it'll be a solid wall some people also use 100% infill and I've used them both and I could not tell any difference whatsoever but you know to each his own obviously because this lightbox has this wall on the back and you know it has a frame around it you can save a little bit of plastic and a little bit of time if you just use a large wall linecount but not like infinity just large enough to ensure that it's always gonna have enough wall therefore even the maximum thickness of your little vein okay so now to the third main setting that would be speed so here you can see my speed is 40 and most of this print will be walls so you can see the wall speed is 20 and the inner wall speed is 30 pretty slow so now of course you know here here the rest of my settings you can look at them just run through that okay now obviously I think you all know what to do now you just hit prepare and then use print it [Music] now you should have everything you need to assemble your lift the fanlight box you need a top of the box slip defame the light box itself a light bulb and a light socket now you set it all down on the table you take a step back you grab your right ear with your right hand and your left ankle with your left hand you hop around serves three times it's very important and voila just like that you have it working with a faint light box congratulations if you liked this video please consider liking or subscribing to my youtube channel Facebook page Instagram account Twitter account and Thingiverse account and like I said before just keep it simple and like them all have a good one you

Channel: Lithophane Maker

Views: 223,227

Keywords: lithophane, 3d printing, 3d printed, 3d print, light box, lamp, tutorial, how to, image to lithophane, photo to lithophane, litophane, lithopane

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 13 2019