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Nope. Support adhesion failed near end of print. I think I need a raft for this. And/or design in my own supports. The two pillars at horn tips got ripped up. Wonder why? Up-tension from horn curve?
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Recently remembered one of my earliest introductions to engineering thinking: my dad (a mechanical engineer) posing a classic CAD brainteaser to me when I was a teenager: what object looks like a circle in the top view, a triangle in the front view, and a square in the side view?
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Later in freshman engineering school, our engineering drawing instructor posed the same brainteaser, before proceeding to demonstrate the answer by shaping a piece of chalk into the answer (whittling a piece of chalk by rubbing it on a board is legit machining btw)
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The answer, which I just made in OnShape using the loft feature, is a thing which may have a name, I don't know, but is kinda like an oddly shaped cone frustum. Here is the drawing:
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I was a little surprised by how unfulfilling I find this. The answer is “this weird shape I made up.” Feels like cheating, like this alternative solution to the sphinx’s riddle. (I miiiight not be an engineer. 😂)
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