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RifRaf 3D Terraforming Mars Big Box Tiles

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Covers Terraforming Mars: Big Box Expansions this print stores alongside the base game
About 6 g of filament From the designer's print profile
Print Profile (2) MagFieldGen 0.12mm layer, 3 walls, 10% infill 1h 2m 6 g PLA
MagFieldGen 0.12mm layer, 3 walls, 10% infill
1 plate 1h 2m 6 g PLA
P2S, P1S, A1, H2D, X1 Carbon, X1E, H2S, H2D Pro, A1 mini, X1, H2C, P1P, X2D, A2L
colorized by layer
Plate Details (1)
0.4 mm nozzle, all plates
Plate 1
1h 2m 6 g PLA · 6 g
Bigbox tiles multicolor - 0.20mm nozzle
7 plates 168h 17m 702 g PLA
A1 mini, X1E, P1S, P1P, X2D, A2L, X1 Carbon, H2S, X1, H2D, H2D Pro, P2S, H2C, A1
I have made the following adjustments: • Resized slightly in order to fit inside the game's hexagons. • Added a notch on the outside, as I feel it looks better and also makes it easier to store in a box. • Adjustments to the tiles, to try to fix some floating regions. • Raised the Great Dam a little bit - otherwise the river's blue color would bleed to the bottom of the tile and I could not avoid it. None of the prints require supports! Some of the items are regular 4-color prints that can be used with the AMS without special issues. Some of them are 5 color prints to make it look nicer. This depends on replacing one filament in the AMS with another color mid-print, after the first color is finished and before the next color starts. You need to either be mindful of the timing and keep track of the current layer, or set a pause in the slicer so that the printer waits for you to change the filament before continuing. If you want to print with 4 colors instead, I have provided alternatives in the different build plates. To reduce waste with swapping filaments, I could recommend the following: • Next to the Project Filaments, open the Purging Volumes dialog and re-calculate the purging volume for each color combination. On the bottom I use a Multiplier of 0.6-0.7 (60%-70% of the flushed amount of filament) which seems good enough. • Next to each filament, on the three-dots button, edit the Filament Settings and change the Filament prime volume from the default of 45mm3 to something like 15mm3. This reduces the volume of the prime tower as I think the default is excessive. I am posting some instructions on the color changes below. • Deimos Down: • 0,08mm layer: replace orange→yellow at layer 65, then yellow→brown at layer 97, then brown→yellow and grey→orange at layer 179. • Field-Capped City: • 0,08mm layer: replace red→yellow between layers 54 and 76, then yellow→grey-blue between layers 326 and 358. • For this one I did not have a suitable blue color to use - i merged 33% marine blue and 66% ash gray and it turned out pretty good. You can search for models to make your own merged color filaments here on Makerworld. • Magnetic Field Generators: • 0,08mm layer: replace blue→gray at layer 37, replace red→grey-blue between layers 44 and 63, and green→white between layers 57 and 76 I printed those for myself, sharing in case anyone else wants them or gets inspired to do their own tweaks. Good luck and enjoy! Edit: I am using these storage boxes that I have made for the notched tiles: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3123736-terraforming-mars-notched-3d-tiles-storage
Plate Details (7)
0.2 mm nozzle, all plates
Plate 1 · Deimos Down - 7 colors
40h 31m 163 g PLA · 50 g PLA · 17 g PLA · 23 g PLA · 8 g PLA · 32 g PLA · 25 g PLA · 8 g
Plate 2 · Deimos Down - 4 colors
38h 39m 155 g PLA · 45 g PLA · 25 g PLA · 26 g PLA · 59 g
Plate 3 · Field-Capped City - 6 Colors
21h 40m 97 g PLA · 32 g PLA · 14 g PLA · 12 g PLA · 2 g PLA · 35 g PLA · 2 g
Plate 4 · Field Capped City - 4 Colors
19h 33m 85 g PLA · 29 g PLA · 21 g PLA · 33 g PLA · 2 g
Plate 5 · Magnetic Field Generators - 7 colors
23h 40m 99 g PLA · 35 g PLA · 10 g PLA · 2 g PLA · 6 g PLA · 26 g PLA · 4 g PLA · 16 g
Plate 6 · Magnetic Field Generators - 4 Colors
14h 59 g PLA · 23 g PLA · 7 g PLA · 25 g PLA · 4 g
Plate 7 · Great Dam
10h 15m 44 g PLA · 12 g PLA · 20 g PLA · 6 g PLA · 6 g
As sliced by the designer. Your printer, filament, and settings may change these numbers.
Designer's Description

The tiles for the Big Box Expansion

See my post for ALL the other tiles and printing instructions on the base set.

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