3D Printed Dragon Lamp

In this Instructable I'm going to show you how to 3D print and assemble your own Dragon Lamp (girls dig that).

Step 1: What Do You Need

You're gonna need

• 3D printer obivously!
• PLA filamentor any other material you're used to print with
• 3D model
• Simplify3Dany other slicing software you're comfy with
• Light, you can use any light source that will fit your print
• Drop of glue
• Banana
• Pliers

Step 2: Slicing

You can scale it as you wish as it's high resolution model. Same goes for the settings.

These are our settings that works for MK2 at 100% scale.

The bigger the better!

DRAGON

• Extrusion width - 0,25 mm
• Layer height - 0,15 mm
• Perimeter shells - 2
• Infill - 20%
• Supports - YES
• Brim - 15
• Speed - 1600 mm/min (26 mm/s)
• There is also a screen with angles that fits MK2

FLAME TOP PART

• Extrusion Width - 0,4 mm
• Layer height - 0,2 mm
• Perimeter shells - 2
• Infill - 0%
• Supports - NO
• Brim - 15
• Speed - 3200 mm/min (52 mm/s)
• Make sure you put the starting point on least visible place (above the hole).

FLAME BOTTOM PART

• Extrusion width - 0,4 mm
• Layer height - 0,2 mm
• Perimeter shells - 2
• infill - 20%
• Supports - NO
• Brim - NO
• Speed - 3200 mm/min (52 mm/s)

Step 3: Printing - Timelapse

This is how dragons are born. Your process should be quite similar.

Step 4: Cleaning Your Print

FLAME TOP - ready to use

FLAME BOTTOM - take off the brim - should be pretty easy

DRAGON - Eat the banana NOW! Clean your drake off supports slowly and patiently

Simply put - treat them with love!

Step 5: Assembling

Just put the light on the bottom platform (or glue it there), close it with your top part of the flame and feed the dragon with it.

- You can put the glue between the flame parts or in his mouth so the flame sticks better. I like to change the colors, so no glue for me and it holds just fine... without cats or kids around.

Now turn the light on and enjoy your dragon's lair!

Step 6: TIPS

• You can print the flame from crystal clear color. Then print second TOP part of the flame at 70% scale using the vase mode in another color. Play with colors and make sure you share your results with us here! (FB group) Its also a cheap way to have multicolor lamp with simple white light as the smaller flame need just few grams of material.
• If you happen to break the flame at the top, dont worry dragon still holds fine ( experience).
• For the first dragon, I've heated the needle and just put it through the flame and then heated the other end of the needle and stick it through dragons throat to be sure he doesn't fall. They call me dragonslayer since then. All the other dragons are just fine hanging there.
• 2 bananas are more than one
• You can visit our website, Facebook or Instagram to see more of our work.

Step 7: YouTube: How To

Comments

[msav]

I am printing the dragon whole. I noticed that mine is printing with a pretty solid suppot base and is taking forever. I sliced using Cura, and followed the settings on instructibles, However I think there may be some supports that you removed that I left in. The printout says it is going to take 4 days, so I think most of that time is the supports. Can you elaborate on what the support settings that you used were. I am using a CR-10 Smart pro printer.

[3Demon-3Dprint]

I used about 40° fot the supports, If your slicer offers too much support material, look for an option where you can manually remove some.

[msav]

I went ahead and just let it print. It took 3 days but the end result was perfect. I accidentally broke a leg. but that was not because of the supports. I managed to get the dragon to pop off the supports using a plastic pry tool and all of the dragon detail was there. I was afraid that the supports would leave spots without detail, But this support worked perfectly and I will do the same again if I print another one. The supports covered the entire tail but once popped off the tail was perfect.
Thanks again for the assistance. If I print another one I will post pictures of the supports.

[cdavenport]

Hey, designer! Lots of fantastic work! I am printing the dragon right now. But, there are over one dozen different parts. Can you tell me how to group those parts so that I know what to print and at what size? It looks as if I can print the dragon in several parts so that I can make a BIG dragon. But which flame goes with the Big Guy! Thanks for a stunning concept and design.

[redmarien]

Love the design. I bought the model. There are a few different parts to it now, a lot more than described on the instructable. My biggest thought is, how do I print the head? Bottom up? Nose down?....

[HGC]

So this is basically an ad, instead of sharing the files like most instructables. Beautiful work though.

[alcurb]

Maybe the author forgot to post the link to the stl file as it would be too unkind to not share it. I'd give this individual the benefit of the doubt.

[NiggyB]

Hmmm. Really great design, although sharing is caring, or so I was told.

[3Demon-3Dprint]

We have a thingiverse page where we share a lot of our models for free, but if we shared all of them for free, then we couldn't keep making them. https://www.thingiverse.com/3D-mon/designs

[HGC]

I understand and would do the same, it just that like thingiverse, instructables is typically free to help others make a project.

[Dacoco]

I bought the design. Nice One! Sadly U provide an flame stl wich is hollow and has a certain wall thickness. This limits the possibilities to print in vase mode.
Can you provide a solid one?

[3Demon-3Dprint]

for "Vase Mode" use full (uncut) flames

[purehektik]

"full" flames do not fit the stand and have a different size :/ Additional, I find it difficult to differentiate between the different flame-models you provide. Some are same size, some differ in size a bit, some clearly match the 500mm or 250mm version. Some do have the pin to put it into the mouth, some not. Very confusing :/ (Example: "flames_straight_cut_angle" are way smaller than "flames_straight_7-with-pin", despite being the "same" thing)
Also, the file-names you mention here dont match with the filenames of your offered model.
I printed the dragon itself just fine (great model!), but I came for the lamp-edition which is now somewhat weird to do. Best solution would be to add a corresponding model of the lamp-part so that every future customer is happy right from the start :)
Anyways, big thanks for the detailed dragon model, I will have huge fun to paint this. And please deliver some updated models for the flame :) :)

[3Demon-3Dprint]

If you stick to the "recommended for printing" folder then the files should be the right size to fit the dragon in the scale provided from the beginning. I added all the other flames that are kind of work in progress versions just so that if you wanted you could try them. It might have been better to just leave them out of it. I might delete them just so they don't confuse people. Let me know if you still need help with it. I just wanted to provide as many options as possible and give a simple version that I can recommend everyone for easy printing.

[matheusmbar]

How long did it take to print?

[3Demon-3Dprint]

about 26 hours

[seamster]

Very cool idea! I especially love the third photo in your intro - that is a perfect shot to showcase how cool this is! : )

[3Demon-3Dprint]

Thank you. I also

[MnMakerMan]

This looks awesome!

[3Demon-3Dprint]

Thank you.