3D-Printed Turtle House

[kameya]

I have recently acquired a decent 3D printer for my personal DIY hobby interest, and I thought it might be neat to print some small turtle/tortoise shelters for my baby turtles.

Here is the first turtle house I printed for a little boxie. The size is about 5" wide x 4" deep x 3" high.


The turtle shelter is placed inside a shoebox-sized plastic container. I try to keep the habitat as simple as possible for the little. The only thing I am doing is adding food on the daily basis and change the water in the container every couple days.


You can find out more about the my shoebox habitat design in the following link...
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/eastern-painted-turtle-simple-habitat-setup.59629/

 

[johnandjade]

great idea! have you thought about custom orders?

 

[kameya]

great idea! have you thought about custom orders?

Due to the size of the object, the cost of shipping would probably be the same or even more (locationwise) than the cost of the product... but we can work out on the details if you are interested.

 

[wellington]

Those are pretty cool printers. Bet you have lots of fun with it. Pretty cool you can make your own turtle hides

 

[johnandjade]

Due to the size of the object, the cost of shipping would probably be the same or even more (locationwise) than the cost of the product... but we can work out on the details if you are interested.

im in Scotland, a hobbit hole is jades goal . might be an idea to patent the idea for a'print off business plan?

 

[Anyfoot]

I have recently acquired a decent 3D printer for my personal DIY hobby interest, and I thought it might be neat to print some small turtle/tortoise shelters for my baby turtles.

Here is the first turtle house I printed for a little boxie. The size is about 5" wide x 4" deep x 3" high.


The turtle shelter is placed inside a shoebox-sized plastic container. I try to keep the habitat as simple as possible for the little. The only thing I am doing is adding food on the daily basis and change the water in the container every couple days.


You can find out more about the my shoebox habitat design in the following link...
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/eastern-painted-turtle-simple-habitat-setup.59629/

Nice, I have got to get myself one of those printers. Looks fun.

 

[kameya]

Great...if you do get one then you can go to this 3D printer community site to download the file I created and print one for yourself... ^_^

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1092667

 

[Anyfoot]

Great...if you do get one then you can go to this 3D printer community site to download the file I created and print one for yourself... ^_^

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1092667

So basically, you load a cad drawing file into the 3d printer, and walla, it does it for you.

 

[kameya]

In a nutshell...YES...but it depends on the type of printers you got. You may have to go through some learning pains with your printer before it becomes your best robot friend...but it's worth it... ^_^

 

[Anyfoot]

In a nutshell...YES...but it depends on the type of printers you got. You may have to go through some learning pains with your printer before it becomes your best robot friend...but it's worth it... ^_^

So what type of cad drw files does yours accept. I got to get one of these. Do you think Santa will fit it down our chimney.

 

[kameya]

I believe most of CAD programs can save export file as the .STL format, and that's file format most of the 3D printers will accept. You might want to ask the Santa to deliver it to you via front door...as it's a fragile piece of equipment... ^_^

 

[Anyfoot]

I believe most of CAD programs can save export file as the .STL format, and that's file format most of the 3D printers will accept. You might want to ask the Santa to deliver it to you via front door...as it's a fragile piece of equipment... ^_^

He has a skeleton key for our house.
Ho ho ho.

 

[Anyfoot]

I believe most of CAD programs can save export file as the .STL format, and that's file format most of the 3D printers will accept. You might want to ask the Santa to deliver it to you via front door...as it's a fragile piece of equipment... ^_^

What model printer have you got? Just had a look, some are very expensive. Are the cheaper ones any good?

 

[kameya]

ROBO3D R1 PLUS...JUST A TAP UNDER 1K...

 

[kameya]

Here is the second turtle house I made using the 3D printer. This size is about 8" wide x 8" deep x 8" high, it should be a good size for little tortoises. Vinyl door panels are attached to the front entrance to create a little micro-climate environment inside the habitat.


The reason I created this one is to replace my favorite cinder block shelter. The cinder block is great for outdoor habitat, however, it became too bulky and heavy in my limited-space indoor habitat. This tortoise house I created is basically the same size as the typical cinder block, but the wall is much thinner and smoother, which gives the tortoises more space inside the shelter and I can keep their shell nice and shiny with the smooth plastic interior.

 

[Anyfoot]

Here is the second turtle house I made using the 3D printer. This size is about 8" wide x 8" deep x 8" high, it should be a good size for little tortoises. Vinyl door panels are attached to the front entrance to create a little micro-climate environment inside the habitat.


The reason I created this one is to replace my favorite cinder block shelter. The cinder block is great for outdoor habitat, however, it became too bulky and heavy in my limited-space indoor habitat. This tortoise house I created is basically the same size as the typical cinder block, but the wall is much thinner and smoother, which gives the tortoises more space inside the shelter and I can keep their shell nice and shiny with the smooth plastic interior.

Nice. Look very interesting. How long does it take the printer to produce that hide?

 

[kameya]

This one took about 16 hours to print...the blue one is about 8 hours...it all depends on the sizes and the complexity of the models....

 

[Foursteels]

It would be really cool to see a video of how the 3D printer works to make the tortoise hides. They really add an artistic touch to the enclosure.

 

[kameya]

I am in the process of making another turtle hideout, and thanks to @Foursteels advice, I took a one-minute-long clip that shows the 3D printing process...it's like a brick wall building process, building one layer on top of another layer, just in much smaller scale. This design will take about 10 hours to print. I will share the final build once it gets done... ^_^

 

[Foursteels]

I am in the process of making another turtle hideout, and thanks to @Foursteels advice, I took a one-minute-long clip that shows the 3D printing process...it's like a brick wall building process, building one layer on top of another layer, just in much smaller scale. This design will take about 10 hours to print. I will share the final build once it gets done... ^_^

That looks really interesting. Did you start off with that piece of molding in the device and then it shaves it away to make your form?