Ed Sheeran PLAY Album Coaster

🟪 ▶PLAY
 

For all Ed Sheeran fans, I created a set of 3D printable abstractions to represent his discography.

This can be used as a beverage coaster, or just for display. It is square like a CD or vinyl album sleeve.

I changed and simplified the cover so that it has a unified style with the other ones, and to avoid lithophane-ish photography or images, keeping it simple with vector shapes that look great when printed.

Check out the FC Barcelona version here!

--------Print instructions----------
 

Infill at least 15% to hold top layers or text above, but you can play with patterns and higher percentages.
I didn't use brims or rafts, but you can if you experience warping, especially in the square corners. Temporary water-based adhesive is useful too.

Input shaper ok.

• No supports
   
• Pause-and-change-filament at certain heights to have different colors, even with a regular FDM setup. Start with black, then change to light blue.
   
• Scale to whatever size is convenient for you. If the height is too deep you can scale it down in the Z axis.
   
• Feel free to experiment with colors and top fill patterns.
   
• Adaptive layers can help speed up through just square parts, and then have more resolution on text above.

I printed the one you see in my photos intentionally with weak top layers to show the messy lightning infill, to give it some texture resembling the actual album cover instead of a flat plain pink smooth surface.  When it was printing, it looked better after just one top solid layer though, this ended up being 3. 

Check out the FC Barcelona version here!

Model by Mexican designer Dany Sánchez, creator of MiniWorld3D & OpenFigure3D.

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