Flexi Transforming Dog

Print-in-place model of a Flexi Dog
Version 01 X 2025

It transform from a solid, standing model to a flexi model
(except ears and a tail wich are always moving)
To lock the legs set them streight down and push up. You will hear a click
The force and tolerances are set like for kids - but it will depend on the filament used

Ears can rotate all around
A tail can swing to sides

Model can be printed in one color and with few colors on multicolor printer

A design is with 'open price' starting with 0.0€
You can pay me as much as you want - it will help me in making more models
If you don't want to pay it's fine - you can still have the models for free :)

If you want to sell prints of this model you can buy a commercial license here
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/flexi-transforming-dog-commercial-license

Video
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFpu6gvtJcO/

More Flexi models in my collection:
https://cults3d.com/en/design-collections/c47/flexi

UPDATE 01 X 2025
Changed connectors to a new version
Now it will be much harder to take the dog completely apart

Printed with PLA with:
0.1mm and 0.2mm layer height
10% grid infill
2 walls

FlexiTransformingDog_Brim - will work as a brim for ears and a tail. This will help with bed adhesion
Set it to the same place as a base model and merge them together

Connectors (on legs and body parts) will be printed 'half-in air'
There is a 0.2mm gap between connectors and other parts on Z axis - this works like a self support
It is not recommended to resize model up - apart of connectors looking little worse there should be no problems with the print itself but you may need too much force to transform from solid to flexi and the opposite. You are free to test it tho

Print one single color Dog first before going to print MULTICOLOR
See if everything will work fine

Multicolor print:
Select FlexiTransformingDog, MULTICOLOR_dark, MULTICOLOR_light and MULTICOLOR_red in your file explorer and move them to the slicer
Click 'yes' when asked if you want to add is as a one model - it will merge all the files to one. If there will be no such notification merge them by yourself (select all, right click and merge)
Then choose a color for each model
'Dark' is a nose, center of eyes and paw pads
'Light' is outer part of eye
'Red' is a mouth

If models are merge you can then duplicate them to fill the bed plate

I printed 8 models with 0.2mm layer height (to lower number of filament changes)

After a print you will need to break small connections between parts
Move a tail left-right and ears front-back. For the rest use up or down movement