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Print next to the original

new cover in the light

My first self-designed functional 3D print is a replacement battery cover for a LED fake-candle that my daughter uses as a night-light.

I measured the original cover (we have three of the candles) using a newly-purchased micrometer and tried to re-create it in OpenSCAD. I skipped the screw-hole that is for securing the cover as we don't use that.

I sliced it using Cura and printed it using PETG on our office 3D printer, a Ender 3. Print time was about an hour.

To my amazement, my first take fits snugly!

I've uploaded the OpenSCAD source here: batterycover.scad. It's covered under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).