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Project 3; Progress Post 3

Printing went surprisingly well!
While modeling, I purposely made every part of the structure into individual pieces. I figured this would be best in order to show off the model at the end, and reprint only as needed. Turns out, nothing needed to reprinted and even the words turned out pretty clearly!
I won't say it was perfect. The walls didn't fit into the base slots I created, one of the inner walls I forgot to cut into two pieces, and it took a lot of wiggling and chipping to get the door frames into their places. It could be my fault for making everything exact fits, something with deforming as the plastic cooled, a scaling issue, or multiple of the above. I don't really know but I figured which ever it was wasn't worth trying to reprint. It turned out 99% correct, I'll accept the 1% error. 
I'm seriously just happy that nothing broke. The walls are really thin, yet they survived. I don't think I could've asked for a better outcome in only one print attempt.

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