First prototype
Using a friend's Ultimaker 3, I made an "all up" attempt at printing the entire assembly in one pass.Unfortunately, I got the scaling incorrect (saved the STL in "inches", but Cura expected "mm"). This led to a smaller than expected print— but the job still took over TEN hours to print. There are still globs of PVA (think glue stick) support that I need to soak/scrub away that are visible here, as the support structure is printed using a secondary extruder head.
Second Attempt
In parallel effort, I sent a subset of the design to a friend who has a Monoprice Select Mini 3D:
The idea here was to "automate" the construction of the the layers of the pier end, but still use plastic tubing for the piers. This print exactly matched the CAD dimensions, which is awesome— but this may need "shrinking" to match up to the model I've been building.
