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Single-Perimeter Rocket Plane for Seamless Spiral Printing

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mech-GPublished: October 7, 2014
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Note: If you plan to scale this up 2x or more, make sure you use RocketPlaneFor2xScaleup to avoid certain artifacts present when trying to scale the other files. See large print of Rocket Plane shown at Midwest RepRap Festival: https://twitter.com/FY3TV/status/711537678806872065 (click on photo, then scroll to right for second photo) And an even bigger one: https://hackaday.com/2017/03/28/the-midwest-reprap-festival-spectacular/#jp-carousel-250211 Remixed from Single-Perimeter Rocket. The only difference in print settings between this and the Rocket design is that I printed this example with .4mm layer height instead of .5mm. Don't let the gnarly-looking polygons on the rendering of the fuselage worry you too much - the final print looks way smoother than the rendering does. Use the larger files for a smoother surface. The photos show some prints in clear T-glase and some in silver Solutech PLA. "RocketPlaneSmallSmooth.stl" has fins and wings that are thicker so it