Friction Welded Dodecahedron

This is a dodecahedron created by friction welding 12 pentagons together. This is a minor remix to the truncated Icosahedron I previously published. The individual pentagons are printed separately. After printing the pentagons they are welded together using a Dremel rotary tool and a small section of printer filament. The friction welding process works for PLA, ABS, 1.75mm and 3mm filament. More information on the process used for friction welding this thing is available here: http://www.scorchworks.com/Blog/friction-welding-with-a-dremel-rotary-tool/ EDIT: I updated the SCAD file to make it more easily adjustable from a pentagon to other shapes and added comments. This hosted file keeps creator credit and license details.

Print details

  • Difficulty

    beginner

  • Materials

    PLA suggested; confirm scale and supports in your slicer before printing.

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  • pentagon.stl

    SHA-256: c6224307af60068851df19e2bf60bbe344f8a9a19c87b699e125e4b22d3efea3

Attribution

Friction Welded Dodecahedron by scorch (the original source). License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0. Source: the original source