Need help splitting long part so it can attach after

petar_ivanov343

Hi Everyone,
First of all I would want to appologise as I'm a complete beginer and the way might be very simple, but I don't can't figure out how.


I'm trying to make a gift box for my wife in order to fit an Apple watch box in the gift box.
Original project is the following:
animal crossing box | box base (onshape.com)

I think I'm doing everything correctly and I was about to start to print the base, but I realised that it doesn't fit on my 3D printer bed as it's more than 220mm horizontaly .

I can do it vertically, but it looks like I will use a lot of fillament because of support and I wouldn't have an easy way to confirm that this size would actually fit the present, so horisontaly could help me with that.

I'm trying to find a way to split the box in two and maybe have some simple mechanism to snap them both after printing so I can print them horisontaly.
I can split it in half fairly easily, but what I struggle with  is connecting them after.

Can anyone give  me any suggestion?

My project is the following : 
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/bca3504e948fed1a05ec14f6/w/ccd9ae8d900f8d3adcc70a3b/e/f8fedf867232f9941c9aebbb?renderMode=0&uiState=659fbe3c1c67c148e68ef9f1

Any help would be highly appreciated

Matt_Shields

I think you could split the box in half and then use those lateral ribbon parts as fasteners.  

petar_ivanov343

Matt_Shields said:

I think you could split the box in half and then use those lateral ribbon parts as fasteners.  

That's a great idea actually. Thanks Matt. I will give it a try.

eldon_brown

Some slicers have that "split with tabs" as a normal builtin function, as in PursaSlicer, thou I am not sure it is a sophisticated as desired.