Rosary ring with moving print in place beads

This is a finger rosary ring reimagined from ThomF design. ThomF's design didn't print for me well enough and failure rate was super high. It also more often than not fused together. I made a new ring from scratch with 3 different z heights of beads. The lower the z height of the bead the closer it is to the bottom of the model and the more space is above it. This helped with reliability of the print and ease of separating the beads to make them move.

After printing just use something flat and rigid to push the beads up. This should make them loose and spinning freely.

3 models with different z heights are available (0.3mm is indicating the distance from the bead wall to the ring socket wall) . The one I like the best is -0.25mm z one because the beads printed perfectly without bottom layers sagging and were still easy to separate.

The ring is not intended to be worn, and the model I made is not easily editable to scale only the ring, but it's not hard to make a custom ring. I can explain my process if someone wants to make their own custom one.

The model doesn't really need supports, unless you want the cross to look crisp, then I recommend to use tree supports only on the cross part.