Animal Crossing Turkey Day Garden Stand

Animal Crossing Turkey Day Garden Stand

This is a replica of the Garden Stand from the Turkey Day event in Animal Crossing New Horizons. Feel free to scale this print up and down as you like.But don't forget to scale all the parts you print!

Before You Print

This model comes in 3 pieces to reduce print time and and to avoid supports. Each piece keys into each other with a 0.3mm clearance, so no need to worry if you haven't calibrated your dimensional accuracy yet.

The parts will fit loosely, as the design intent is to apply glue to the stems which key the pieces together. But if you don't wish to use glue, the stems alone are sufficient for a stable model even when an object is placed on top.

IMPORTANT - Adaptive Layer Heights

The "Top" and "Bottom" pieces in this design are intended to be printed with adaptive layer heights to avoid supports. The "Base" can be printed at a single layer height, I did mine with 0.24mm layer heights.

The lower the layer height the higher the achievable overhang angle for a 3d printer. If you would like to know more about this, you can check out this great article by Benoit Valin

By using adaptive layer heights, you are able to reproduce very shallow contours whilst maintaining reasonable print times by printing less detailed or contoured sections at a larger layer height.

For those that use Prusa Slicer, you'd want to use the Variable Layer Height tool on the top bar in the 3d Editor Mode.

*For Cura Users* (3.2.0 and greater, 4.8.0 recommended):

1. In the top ribbon, select the "Settings" menu.
2. Press "Configure Setting Visibility"
3. In the Filter box, search for "Use Adaptive Layers" and tick the checkbox to enable the setting.
   • Please note that this is an experimental feature of Cura as of 4.8.0. I had no issues on my CR10S Pro V2 printer but use this feature at your own risk.
4. After closing the Preferences window navigate to the experimental section in your Cura print settings or search for "Adaptive".
5. Check "Use Adaptive Layers", I used the following settings:
   • Layer Height: 0.1mm
   • Adaptive Layers Maximum Variation: 0.2mm
   • Adaptive Layer Variation Step Size: 0.08mm
   • Adaptive Layers Topography Size: 0.2mm

Feel free to experiment with these settings, but I found this gave me the best results in the slicer.

*For Simplify 3D Users*:

Refer to this fantastic tutorial from Maker's Muse (applicable part is timestamped at 2:53)

Using processes in Simplify 3D you can manually change the layer heights of different sections according to the "Cura Slicer Previews" section down below.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Creality

Printer:

CR10S PRO

Rafts:

No

Supports:

No

Resolution:

0.06-0.30mm (Adaptive for Top and Bottom), 0.24mm for Base

Infill:

20%

Filament: eSun PLA

Marble

Notes:

Refer to the Adaptive Layer Heights explanation above

Cura Slicer Previews

The layer colour scheme legend can be seen in the top left

Category: 3D Printing