To finish off the Octoprint server I needed a case. I found a great looking case on Thingiverse here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1496946

The first try I used a 1cm wide raft and centre aligned the print on the x axis direction. Unfortunately my heated aluminium bed seems to be warping slightly. When I printed one of the enclosure halves it curled up on one corner. The next day I tried again but this time made the raft 2cm wide. This helped the print stick perfectly. The print was at 0.2mm resolution and took just under 6 hours to print.

If I was to nit-pick about the print result I would only criticise one corner which had a very slight lift. The print came off the raft quite easily. The sound it makes when you separate the two is similar to pulling apart velcro.

Shortly after showing it off at work I managed to break one of the screw pillars. I used a bit of superglue to rescue this model. Here’s the model and the raft that was used to get a near perfect flat print. With the size and amount of plastic used in the raft I felt it deserved to be included in the final photo.

After I printed the bottom half I stuck a bit of clear cut off acrylic under the pine64 logo. I used 4 computer screws that were slightly longer than the usual length and here’s the finished product.