Christmas hat for rubber duckies

Need to prepare your rubber ducky for Christmas? We've got you covered.

We made this Christmas hat that will fit just right. You can print it in under 15 minutes!

The rubber duck we used as a model is one of those shipped with BigThreeTech components, but the size should be pretty standard. You can always scale it up or down if you need to.

In case you are seeing this in a different season, you can also check out our other celebratory designs for rubber duckies 🦆!

3D print settings

We printed this using a 0.4 mm nozzle, at 0.15 mm layer height.

The red color is Prusament PLA, and the white one is Polymaker's Polyterra Cotton White. 

All parts were printed at 205 °C in our Prusa Mini+ (separate print jobs for white and red parts).

The parts named Border and Hat don't need supports, but we do recommend using a brim (we used a 2 mm wide inner brim in PrusaSlicer).

The part named Tip does need supports to be stable.

Also, we recommend using Fuzzy Skin on the outer walls of the Hat  and Tip. The default settings from PrusaSlicer worked great - 0.3 mm fuzzy skin thickness and 0.8 mm point distance.

Assembly

You just need to snap the Hat and Border parts together and they should stay in place. To fix the Tip to the Hat, you can use a drop of Super Glue or a hot soldering iron to join both parts (this is what we did).

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