I have made this to scale and is a large print at 200mm Diameter, the Millenium Dome was created as an exhibition centre for the year 2000, since then it has been taken over by O2 and is now 1 very successful venue for concerts and shows.
The Dome has been designed with very specific dimensions to celebrate the new year.
The Dome itself is 365 meters in diameter to represent the days of the year.
The Dome is 52 meters high (Excluding the spikes) to represent the weeks of the year.
The Dome is split into 12 segments with 12 spikes representing the months of the year.
Printer:
Anycubic i3 Mega
Rafts:
Doesn't Matter
Supports:
Yes
Resolution:
0.15
Infill:
100
Notes:
This was a challenge to print due to the shallow dome, I used supports for all areas that had a direct route to the print bed. This caused the texture on the lower dome as it was printing without supports until it reaches the spikes.
Be prepared to have to spend some time removing the internal supports as can be seen on the pictures this bonded with the dome and was a huge challenge,
I would love to try printing this with a dual extrusion printer with soluble supports and if anyone does try this I would love to see the results.
I have made a small modification to the STL file for the battery pack to provide more flexibility for inserting a CR2032 battery.
I cut the pins on the LEDs down as I found this easier than bending them, there is limited internal height that made this necessary.
Studying
I hve tried to make the Dome as accurate as possible, I made sure I researched the dimensions as far as I could, the spikes are at 17 degrees as with the actual building
