Printing Spyderco Mule handles

• First crack at 3d printed Mule Scales

• Files on Thingaverse

These were designed by Gtscotty and he prints them on his Prusa printer and uses Prusaslicer.

He notes the following:

The scales have cavities for embedded nuts, so use a slicer like PrusaSlicer to find the first layer that covers the cavities and insert a pause in the G-code before that layer. When the print pauses, you can drop the four nuts into the cavities and the next layer should cover them.

Hardware Required:

4 each - M4 hex nuts
4 each - M4x12mm button head socket cap screws

My attempts to print and use these

I load an STL file into Cura and see pretty much nothing in the print area, and when I tell it to slice, I get a zero print time. Something is clearly wrong. This is not going to be quick and easy.

Back to this someday ....