I've printed so much useless stuff.
I've printed so much useless stuff.
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“RANDOM BULLSHIT PRINT!”
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You miss all of the bullshit you don't print
~ Wayne "Not the one you're thinking of" Gretsky
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I've pretty much settled on just printing flower pots and cute animals for my sister. Last one was this bulbapot
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Nintendos
hitmenlawyers are on their way.-
They're gonna have to get passed
Boogeneric ghost though... -
They'd really love my "bowlbasaur" which is used to hold the bowl of my bong lol.
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I have an Oddish pot I still need to get a plant for...
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You don't know me. Everything I've ever printed was critical.
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Wow, you put real effort in that. Do you need to separate paths for that or can you 3D print any random image?
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It was actually very low effort! There are a number of image to STL converters. I used this one: https://imagetostl.com/
Like you can see it'll flub some stuff. I would have been better off filling in the areas of text and doing the emboss manually myself, but I just wanted to hit print. 2% infill, I think it was like 2.5g of filament and 20mins.
It's fun to screw around with that process. I'm tweaking one of my friends cabin to use to make a mold. My goal is cast concrete or something similar so I can pound some thin copper around it, and be left with a cool wall decoration.
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Yeah, well, learn using CAD and apply to house and job problems.
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Literally why I got mine. If you're losing motivation use 3d builder. Use blenders clay tug and pull function to make something hideous.
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I can recommend MatterControl instead of blender.
Blender has too many functions you don't need, so it has a steep learning curve.
Mattercontrol is literally drag and dropping shapes and cutting them out of each other. You can use prexisting stl files to do so.
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Same. Started printing a few weeks ago (well, I initially did 13 years ago, but that's another story), and I'm currently working down a long list of issues that I solve with a printer.
After a while I can slowly refocus my printing towards a pet project that has been in the planning stage for 20 years.
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Instructions unclear, health department was not impressed with 3D printed sandwiches
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Me 5 years after buying a 3D printer: been working on CAD'ing that one project for well over a year with probably about as much time left before it's ready for its first prototype.
(And that doesn't include all the time I was distracted with other projects, many of which were not 3D-printing related at all.)
I'll dust my printer off when it's time for that first prototype.
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Cover the printer up. Dust kills it.
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Not cleaning them will do that.
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Almost all my prints these days are ones I've created or modified in freecad.
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Massive respect, freecad is the dark souls of 3d design
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It just has a steep learning curve. Since the 1.0 release though I've had few problems with it. Nice addons and only freezes up for long periods when you are importing a massive mesh so far. I've gotten pretty good at taking one color stl files and converting them to multi color/extruder.
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I recently got a photo printer and the experience is surprisingly similar
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it!
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A person doesn't need so many benchies and effiel towers
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Recently just started my 3d printer back up. Had 2 full spools still in the box, opened it and just started breaking. The filament just explodes when it gets old.
Had to buy a brand new spool of filament for a $0.20 part.
And it has no automatic bed leveling, so it took like 6 attempts to get it flat enough.
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have you tried drying it? filament gets wet when exposed to humid air for a while, and one of the noticeable effects is brittleness
if you’re going to store any filament, an air-tight container (cheapest is a vacuum bag) with some desiccant
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Was in a sealed bag with silica gel. Both spools did get heat cycles to over 100f a few times when the AC shit the bed... Multiple times.
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Humidity.
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I generally do functional prints or iterative prototyping. Friends and family like the tchotchkes though so I do print them from time to time.
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That was me in Skyrim hoarding Dwemer artifacts.
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Sounds like someone needs a recycling extruder
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Wait you qre printing stuff 2 weeks after getting a 3d printer?!! You yungsters have it so easy
In my time we had to build, then spend a whole spool just trying until we got something not horrible
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It's basically plug and play core xy printers now. You can grab a machine for under $200 and be printing within an hour of receiving it.
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oh the dream
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That struggle is so real... Although, once you start to learn paremetric modeling, you stop having as much plastic waste around and a whole bunch of slightly different prototypes of a desk organizer or toilet roll holder that result from not measuring properly the first time.
In my case it's a lot of 3d models and no prints
Printing takes forever and I need to get it exactly right on the first go, so I'm just going to noodle on the diagram for another 40 hours.
I measure 3 times and still need to print at least 3 times to get something right.
I'm working on an outdoor hose grommet that's a custom fit to my house. I measured with calipers. I also took paper, traced the fixture and marked the holes before modeling and 3d printing.
I have a desk full of badly fitting prototypes. -or just bad because I forgot to set a print setting in the slicer.
I need to print something to repair my garage door rail. I have no idea how to get started on measuring that.
That's okay, though. I also need to fix my 3d printer before I can get started on the other project.