For those of you with 3D printers.

All printed great. Can we have the scad version for the olive one please?

Neil Tonks

Now that's handy. That would have saved a lot of time and head scratching.

Big Clive

I just use any I find on eBay.

Big Clive

There's a type of light here called firefly that has alternate fixed and candle LEDs in the same very warm white. They look good.

Big Clive

Strangely enough I found an image of some soviet lights just last night, that resembled my cabochon form.

Big Clive

Hi Clive Which brand of clear PLA do you use? I'm scared to use any brand apart from Creality (I have an ender 3 pro)

SmithyScotland

Quite an interesting shape. Took quite awhile to generate on my laptop. Will certainly print that off soon. Cheers

Neil Tonks

He just forgot to comment-out the "X-ray cube" at the end.

Hey Clive. I think this SCAD snippet could make your life easier: hull() { translate([0,0,50]) sphere(r=5); sphere(r=20); }

You're inspiring me to throw some shapes. This may take some time to render: $fn=42; module spikey() { render(convexity = 2) difference() { cylinder(r = 30, h = 30, center = true); for (r = [0 : 45 : 359]) rotate([0, 0, r]) { translate([26, 0, 8]) sphere(d = 30); translate([26, 0, -8]) sphere(d = 30); } } } difference() { spikey(); scale([0.85, 0.85, 1.001]) spikey(); } Printing in glow-in-the-dark PLA may be appropriate, given the gin and general UV rays you have flying around.

Thanks Clive, I’ve got a hundred warm white ‘candle flicker’ LEDs to make a string of flickering Christmas lights for the tree. I’ll experiment with some of your designs, you’re right about vase mode, too thin, I experimented during the live Sat night show a week ago.

Rob Googe

A few years ago when I was CADing some led covers, I found that there was quite a lot of creative and varried designs for Xmas lights in the Soviet Block. With the correct crylic search strings in Google, I ended up on like the eastern European version of Pinterest. With November almost here, I should really start printing batches of various covers for friends and family. And more puzzle boxes, people seem to really enjoy those.

Kadah

thanks for sharing

Peter Stimpel

Did you do the sphere in half for ease of printing???

Definitely give these a try.

I'm going to try printing some in light coloured PLA to see how well it emulates the vintage lamps. The white PLA looks great on diffused LEDs.

Big Clive

More Clive magic brought to a weary world. Thanks man

Michael Thompson

Nice one sir. A great addition to the BigClive collection.

Neil Tonks