While taking a small break from trucks, I turned to a project I wanted to make for a long time, a parabolic satellite dish.

After 2 evenings I made a model and separated it into printable parts.

Printability is not perfect here, as I didn’t want to make a lot of separate objects. As a result, the dish with most of the struts only is made from 2 half-dome parts. This comes at the cost of the struts and framework not having optimal printing orientation with huge amount of overhangs. The model printed without failures though.

Hopefully quality issues will not be much visible, otherwise the model would need to be split into hundred parts.

The dish framework was rather complicated to model as no part is parallel to other part, so there a lot of Sketches at arbitrary angles. "Plane through 3 points" command is used extensively throughout the design.

Main project page here.