Object Design Shenanigans and Occurrences

Well I cleaned up the mesh for the candelabrum and tried again at the intended scale, thinking that everything would go smoothly this time, but unfortunately, it went very poorly.  The printer didn't even finish the final part, instead spitting out a bunch filament all over the place, so far that's a problem but not unresolvable, a single element not printing properly isn't a big deal right? oops no all the problems I had thought that I'd resolved just recurred at a large scale. I suspect this must be an issue with the actual construction of the object on my part, because I've printed it on two different printers, and the previous ones were printed alongside the claws which were perfectly sturdy and functional. I'd like to print another one if I was sure how to resolve this but it's been a week already, and quite honestly I've got not good response to this problem, so unfortunately I'm going to call it. I suspect the meshes of the object are...

This blog has been sorely neglected over the past few weeks, so it's time to update. Firstly, the candelabrum. In my hubris I thought that the definition was already good enough and so printed some scale models to show off tragically I was sorely mistaken, certain parts didn't print at all, and others did not attach. It's fortunate I printed this baby scale ones first, as the birthday candle scale one would have been a disaster. sadly that is all I have for now, as I've been pretty consumed by the more urgent (and more successful) group project. the basic idea was a product improved gripper claw, we tossed around a billion ideas which I won't cover in detail here eventually I hit on the idea of using tensioned fabric to improve the surface area of the grabber claw as clearly illustrated by this comically illegible drawing mock ups were hideous but seemed to prove the idea worked. From there I made a basic illustrative model in Rhino, initially it was go...