Want to pay for creating a playdough cutter/stamper
I want to create playdough stampers with different designs, placed on a cube that has 6 sides – so 6 images in total. I already have the specific pictures and want them to make clear, nice impressions in the playdough. Please let me know if someone can create this and how much it would cost. Thank you in advance.
The bottom face is going to be tricky as ordinary support is not going to produce a clean image.
If five working faces would do then it's the sort of starter design you should be able to produce yourself.
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The bottom face is going to be tricky as ordinary support is not going to produce a clean image.
Agree, would be kind of hard to do all 6 sides with a standard printer. I suppose someone with an XL who can print PETG on top of PLA supports (which is something I've been wanted to do for awhile) could get a clean 6th face.
As far as design your own, the essence of it I agree with. But not many people have the time nor the patience to learn a CAD tool to do this.
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RE: Want to pay for creating a playdough cutter/stamper
Not to mention having six sharp sides will be problematic for kids hands. Better to have one side with an obvious handling spot, but still leaves a kid pressing down hard on a side with sharp edges.
But seriously, I'd attack the design using six or seven discrete parts that are then assembled. Solves the "brittle" sharp edges that can't be printed well on vertical surfaces. A printing nightmare if ever there was one.
an XL who can print PETG on top of PLA supports ( ... ) could get a clean 6th face.
Harder than you'd expect; PLA and PETG don't stick that well - which is why they make decent supports when both are based on the print sheet but 'mid air' starts are ... difficult. Better to use some genuinely soluble support/interface.
Loose design briefs like this are fraught with clueless assumptions. This is one that would be quite easy to make to the brief as long as you don't ever let kids near it and only use it once. For eg. playdough is going to squidge into the interlayer texture and stick - hard, so a smoothing coating will be necessary. Like all moulds the images will need draft so elements need spacing and you can bet that the pre-drawn images are in detail too fine to stamp and possibly too fine to print. The tool will have to be washed/sanitised after every day's use so it has to be at least dishwasher safe (no PLA) and tough enough that rough play doesn't detach any ingestible fragments.
...but I'd probably split it in two, print two topsides, key and glue.
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RE: Want to pay for creating a playdough cutter/stamper
@Tim has the right idea, maybe something like individual stamps are better. Can print them in ASA or PETG and then coat them with a layer of epoxy. Last time I interacted with Play-Doh was a billion years ago (subjectively). I looked it up, Play-Doh stamps are made from ABS (same as Legos). I would start with that or even better ASA.
- Bob Marley