Basilisk Fang

Basilisk Fang.

STLs are provided to print mirrored halves or the whole fang in one piece.  I decided to print in two halves and then superglue.  I printed at 0.28 layer height and 15% cubic infill with 4 walls from eSun Cool White PLA+.  I aligned the base on a scrap piece of paper while gluing and everything lined up nicely.  It is stable enough on end to stand upright without issue.

I modelled the curvature of the fang in OpenSCAD and then used blender on the result to make it look more realistic.

Below is the OpenSCAD code I wrote and then experimented with to make the fang look he best to my eye for anyone interested.  The code isn't pretty and does takes a little while to render but seems to accomplish more or less what I wanted…  If I recall correctly, I scaled the OpenSCAD stl down by half before “sculpting” the bottom in Blender.

//basilisk fang

$fn=100;

thickness=28;
layers=290;
width1=1;
shift=.64;

for(i=[-50:layers]){
   translate([0,i*shift-2*i*.001*i,i*width1]){
       cylinder(h=width1,r=thickness-i*.089);
   }
}

I smoothed the OpenSCAD stl in blender and then sculped the wide end by eye to what I think looks half decent and then I cut it in half and mirrored the better looking half for symmetry.

Enjoy!