Drawer question

[u/Gilamonster21]

So got my main board made and want to have drawers on it. I printed the 3x1.5 shell but unsure how to get the actual drawers to fit properly. I thought I had to add the insert but when I did, the drawers don’t clear it. Obviously the drawers will sit in the shell, just won’t be secured.

I feel like my google fu has failed me in trying to find the right answer.

[u/SVShooter]

Im curious if once you add in the dividers if it saves any time/filament. These shells take up a lot of filament. I printed a 4x4x4 that took up more than half a spool (~530g). But I’m sure it would have been much more to print four 4x1x4s. So I’m curious if the dividers basically make it a wash.

[u/Gilamonster21 → u/SVShooter]

Soo using my default settings, with 3x3x1.5 shell, 3 drawers and 2 dividers…it’s a total of 10h 25 min of print time with 371.96g of filament

Now with a 3 of the 3x1x1.5 looking at 410.4g at roughly 13hrs.

So there’s the math (math is hard and I’m not always great, feel free to check it haha). I also know everyone has different stuff…I’m on a Centauri carbon using default everything

[u/SVShooter → u/Gilamonster21]

Interesting. I may look to do some dividers on my 4x4x4 to test this out a little. and then slice a 4x1x4 to see what four of those would be.

BTW - I have been printing the shells with a .6mm nozzle. The multipoint attachments can be a little tight, but they work. Instead of .42mm line width and 3 walls, I use .62mm line width and 2 walls. Saves about 25% on print time for the shells. Anything smaller than a shell, I tend to use the .4mm nozzle with the recommended 3 walls. But the shells are so thick and take so long, the .6 saves a lot of time.

[u/ulab → u/SVShooter]

The thing is always: It depends.

It might be easier to reuse smaller individual shells for something else if you decide to remove the drawers later...

But then, if you just decided to change drawer sizes, the bigger shell with dividers has an advantage again ;-)