It isn't something to write home about, but it proved to be more of a challenge than I thought it would. I found this model of a pallet on Thingiverse. When my wife saw it she said, "Oh, that would be cute to use as a coaster on the deck. So, of course, it became my mission to print some.
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The package on Thingiverse contains 3 STLs: one for the deckboards, one for the runners, and one of the complete assembly. Unfortunately, the distance between the runners is kind of far for good bridging by the deckboards. Whether it's printed top side up or bottom side up there are quite of few of these gaps to bridge. The creator didn't include an STL with the 3 runners and top side deckboards all assembled as a unit, which is the only way it made sense to me.
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So, I used this as an opportunity to learn more about Blender. It didn't take too long, and it came out OK. Now that I know how to do arrays in Blender I will redo the design so the runners are spaced exactly equally apart.
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In any case, I printed the assembly I made, plus 5 individual deckboards, which I Crazy Glued to the bottom of the unit. Here's a couple of photos:


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The package on Thingiverse contains 3 STLs: one for the deckboards, one for the runners, and one of the complete assembly. Unfortunately, the distance between the runners is kind of far for good bridging by the deckboards. Whether it's printed top side up or bottom side up there are quite of few of these gaps to bridge. The creator didn't include an STL with the 3 runners and top side deckboards all assembled as a unit, which is the only way it made sense to me.
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So, I used this as an opportunity to learn more about Blender. It didn't take too long, and it came out OK. Now that I know how to do arrays in Blender I will redo the design so the runners are spaced exactly equally apart.
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In any case, I printed the assembly I made, plus 5 individual deckboards, which I Crazy Glued to the bottom of the unit. Here's a couple of photos:
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