3D Printing - Protective visor

Another thing that seems missing for many doctors is a protective visor.

I did fin a nice project and did try, not bad.


The project I found following some post on social media, is from this company : Budmen

The project is easy, available for different nations (because different standards) and so I did try to print out a couple of them.
Just a couple because is not easy to find a decent plastic sheet for the visor.

I used a display pocket from 3M found at WalMart but also available at Amazon.

The display pocket need to be cut around the border, i.e. cut the border in order to separate the two plastic shields.
So from a display pocket is possible to obtain two shields but is quite expensive (almost 4$) so to scale for a production can be quite expensive.
Also on my printer the support requires more than 3 hours to print.

G-code file preparation

Once downloaded the STL files I did opened with the slicer Cura 3.6.0 on LXDE Ubuntu 18.04.

Here the setting I used for the STL file in the project:

• Material : Hatchbox white PLA 
• Printer : Ender 3 Pro   (stock but with yellow springs and glass bead)
• Shell :
• Wall thickness : 1 mm
• Wall Line count : 2
• Infill :
• 10
• Cubic
• Material :
• Printing temperature : 200 C
• Build plate temperature : 60 C
• Initial Printing temperature : 205 C
• Initial plate temperature : 65 C
• Enable retraction
• Speed :
• Initial print speed : 35 mm/s
• Print speed : 60 mm/s
• Build Plate adhesion :
• Skirt

The file was then uploaded to OctoPrint for the print.

Here the result :