Captured magnet

This is a revisit of my old solidoodle magnet capture gadgets, only no glue required this time, embedding the magnet in the print during printing by inserting a pause in the gcode (see the Modeling magnets page for details). I had a few problems getting it to work, documented in Gotchas, but once it did work, it came out great. Here the print has reached the pause command and moved the print head out of the way so I can drop the magnet into the magnet shaped hole:

After hitting the resume button in the Repetier Server web page, it started back up printing again, spinning a cocoon over the top of the magnet:

The more it prints, the deeper the magnet is embedded (it never yelled "For God's sake, Montresor!" though):

After finishing, the only artifact is this little loop of filament drool stuck on the side from moving the head back into place:

And here's the face of the magnet peeking out the bottom:

I tried inserting the towel hook I've had on my refrigerator from the solidoodle days into this new part, and it fit perfectly, so apparently the calibration of part dimensions is compatible between old and new printers. It also clamps on to the refrigerator door as well as the old magnet:

I had a previous model for one other magnet, and I've successfully embedded it in plastic (on the first try after learning from previous tries), and I'm now printing (shorter) hooks for both:

I've got a bunch more magnets, some with funny raised bumps on them. I guess I can print a top layer for them to cover the bumps, then embed the magnet along with the top layer inside a print.

I've also got other magnets where the metal frame is bent into funny shapes and they probably won't work without lots of extra work (but I doubt I'll need that many refrigerator magnets).

I've now captured a new magnet with bumps and such on the top surface, which I leveled out by printing a cover:

The cover goes on top like so:

When the print pauses:

I pop in both the magnet and the cover:

And it successfully embeds both when I resume the print: