Hi all,
I was tidying up my workshop and realised I had nowhere to store slides. Clearly designing a slide holder was a good way to procrastinate on tidying.
Here is the first prototype, prints in one go, already hinged, no assembly.
Was having a bit of an extrusion issue in the first layer, so it isn’t beautiful. I was wondering if I use the smooth bed if I can paint fill the letters like you would for a brass plaque.
STL:
slide_box.stl (466.9 KB)
Code:
I have printed this, on a Bambu P1S, with basic white PLA on a smooth PEI plate, and it came out nicely.
15% gyroid infill, Ironing on top surfaces, and Arachne wall generator
Thank you @ebob. This is one of the things that I love so much about this place. I design something, and then hours later it appears somewhere else 
Hold slides very well, hinge and clasp mechanism works well. Top and bottom looks squishy probably due to textured bed. Thanks for the design 
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Awesome!
The text is a bit funky with a textured bed (or on mine with a flat bed). Perhaps I should remove it?
I think that the clasp is much easier to operate the correct way up so we probably don’t need to worry too much about the text. Perhaps we need to just make it easier to buy OpenFlexure stickers. Then we can put a sticker on the top!
I agree the text is probably not needed (and is English, so not localised for a global audience etc etc).
I’m wondering what nozzle size @zealkarel used, as the filament paths seem more prominent than the one I did (on a 0.4 nozzle, with ironing turned on)
Hi @ebob,
I also printed with 0.4 mm nozzle, without ironing.
For the text, I think bottom warning is a nice touch. I can’t remember how many times I opened a slide holder wrong and created a mess (100 slides everywhere 
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ooooof, 15 slides. Consider making it 16 slides to hold multiples of 8, the number of lab groups in most science classrooms.
Openscad is parametric, so within sanity bounds this should be (user?) configurable.
As @ebob says, it is parametric. Much smaller than 15 it may have problems catching on the front slide and the clearance parameter may need increasing.
Otherwise it should be type in a number and go.
Here is 16 and 24. I’ve not tested them but they should work 
slide_box-16.stl (468.4 KB)
slide_box-24.stl (480.9 KB)
Here’s the 24 slide version, printed in Sunlu’s Transparent PLA.
The reality of 3D printing means it’s more ‘translucent’ than transparent, even when printed with a smooth plate, ironing on, and 100% infill. However, you can still see through the wall that there are a couple of slides in it, which is fun.
Thanks! going to print one and add a foam sheet to the inside and see how that fits.
