22. The first thing in Thingiverse

Simplex Designs
1 min readJul 4, 2020

Most of us start with Search, Download, and Print and spent some time in this circle. It's a refreshing start to break that circle and enter Design, Print, Publish.

Once I printed out all the mods for the printer, I got a basic familiarity with the 3D designing using Tinkercad.

One area of concern that I had was the prospectus of a fire hazard even my filament choice was PLA. Keeping a smoke detector is the first step in the correct direction. However, a holder for my Smoke Detector (Kidde) was not available for download. With some tinkering with Tinkercad, I designed a holder.

It turned out to be just fine.

And this is the Thingiverse link where it is published.

There was an interesting concept that I learned in this journey. Which is below:

Hope this helps!

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Simplex Designs

“Curious to know how things work and interested in making things work”.