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biracial bear for uncut posted:As someone that recently started this: Don't. I started out wanting to print mins, and this would have been the way to get what I was looking for then and this is exactly the experience I imagined myself having. That or being told I have cancer from the resin.
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As someone that got my resin 3D printer setup going recently, I love the results I get from it. There is definitely a way steeper curve to getting in to it though with making sure you have a proper work area and having proper workflow, and then resolving issues that come up. That was the part that took me the longest to get situated before I could really start printing. I have an Elegoo Saturn 2 and haven't encountered anything frustrating enough that it makes me want to give up. My biggest hurdle was just dealing with a cold environment (my setup is in the garage where it gets very cold, especially when the door is cracked for ventilation) which was causing some print failures, but that was resolved by seeing what other people were doing, which in this case, was just getting a heating belt made for brew fermentation and wrapping it around the resin vat, and FDM printing a riser for the lid that would allow the power cord and a thermostat probe to pass through, and now everything is good. Asides from that though, with the things I want to print, the detail I get from it I couldn't dream of getting from my Ender.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:00
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I will be getting a resin printer when I have a good place in my house to run one. At the moment there's really no good place for me to set one up, but the resolution is no comparison to even the best consumer grade FDM printers out there. If you put a lot of time in fussing with settings, you can get marginally passable results on FDM for some specific minis, but in general the results are pretty bad at best.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:03
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mrbass21 posted:That or being told I have cancer from the resin. I'm a little less worried about that but my personal history is different (I had cancer in 2011 and the chemotherapy I went through to survive that basically guarantees I'll have even worse cancers and/or leukemia sometime after I hit 60, if I make it that long, and I'm 42 now). My use cases just don't demand the promised level of detail and to me it isn't worth the hassle over good FDM results. HamburgerTownUSA posted:Asides from that though, with the things I want to print, the detail I get from it I couldn't dream of getting from my Ender. I need to take some pics of things I made on my printers and post them.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:07
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This was one of the first things I printed once I got my printer set up and a few tests run to make sure everything worked, and it's what convinced me that the hassle in getting it set up was worth it once I had the print in hand: https://www.printables.com/model/305302-kyosho-mini-z-awd-rim-mercedes-prototype-version
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Jan 11, 2024 02:21
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Tiny Timbs posted:The whole thing is just pressed together with no non-printed pieces? Madness First piece is done and looks so good. Can't wait.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:23
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The Eyes Have It posted:Yeah that doesn't look like Bambu is aiming for an ability to load a different firmware in general going forward. This is a one off, looks like. That was my interpretation too. A lot of pretty words to hide an otherwise mostly hostile reaction. Honestly going closed source for 3D printing is a huge trap. It's very easy for a closed source system to screw you over, and you only have to look at 2D printers for an example of what it will look like - you'll have to use their filaments which will let them price gauge you hard. They won't do it until they've got most of the market share, but they will do it. The open source stuff is already great and better than most other fields/hobbies with open source stuff. Don't let them take it from us!
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Jan 11, 2024 02:31
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I'm a little less worried about that but my personal history is different (I had cancer in 2011 and the chemotherapy I went through to survive that basically guarantees I'll have even worse cancers and/or leukemia sometime after I hit 60, if I make it that long, and I'm 42 now).  I’m glad you’re still around. I’m rooting for you, goon buddy.The approach I’m taking now is scaling up the minis to be large and splitting them in half for printing to see if I can make larger, paintable good quality models.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:45
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Got a second X1C in December, did a quick 30 minute print to make sure it worked after setup, went on vacation. Started my first long print on it (~5 hours) and got a clog about 3 hours in. Cleared the clog, did a bunch of cold pulls, now it clogs much earlier, like 45 minutes into printing. I'm printing with the door open and the cover off. When I unload the filament, there's a bite out of the filament where the extruder chewed through it. This sounds like heat creep to me (I'm printing with Polyterra PLA using the stock settings in Orca Slicer, onto the textured PEI plate), but if there could be other culprits, I'm all ears. 1) What settings should I be playing with first to troubleshoot this? 2) Should I bother replacing the nozzle before I do anything else, in case there's still junk in there I couldn't remove with the wire tool and the cold pulls?
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Jan 11, 2024 02:47
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If something fails and sticks to the plate just run the full plate exposure and peel the thing off, literally takes 15 seconds. I haven't changed a fep on my 8 resin printers in like 1.5 months lol
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Jan 11, 2024 03:04
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Oof, I just went to start a large job on my printers.. I normally load em up with grey eSun PLA+ when the colour doesn't matter, and keep a bunch on hand. Turns out most of my last order was sent to me on cardboard spools instead of the normal plastic ones, making them unsuitable for the AMS 
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Jan 11, 2024 03:12
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Wrap em in election (electrical) tape
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Jan 11, 2024 03:17
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hark posted:I still really love this printer. Slow(er) speed and air. lots of air. Basically you can tell it to throw 100% fan on all layers, there really is no reason pla should not be cooled the second its laid on the next layer. And crank that aux fan up. it will be loud AF, but you need the cooling. Orientation will matter too, you want the fan hitting the curve properly. This is how i saw the P1S can basically print over straight air and make 2 90 degree turns for the bottom surface of a handle that i forgot to support. And that being said long unsupported bridges are possible, but are SLOW (10mm/s) and can't hold much if you pile on plastic over no supports. Being realistic, I would rather tune proper clean breaking supports, or better yet, doing the PETG support for PLA prints, or using some of that water soluable stuff if its really critical you have a clean surface. All of that before i have multiple hours in bridging for something i can support and sand
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Jan 11, 2024 03:22
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Synthbuttrange posted:Resin printers is more about dialing in the exposure timing, learning to maintain your print film, and not poisoning yourself by using nitrile gloves, respirators and goggles and having a ventilated workspace. I've been using my Photon S for 4 years now. The only major problems I have are the current firmware botching the first print ( so I made an empty cancelable print to run whenever its turned on for the first time), and whenever I use the Tough Anycubic resin which sticks like hell to my FEP sheet unless I wipe it down with ptfe first. Just a copy paste of stuff I've said about resin in the past. Its also a lot less work than maintaining a pre-2023 fdm printer.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:31
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Snackmar posted:Oof, I just went to start a large job on my printers.. I normally load em up with grey eSun PLA+ when the colour doesn't matter, and keep a bunch on hand. biracial bear for uncut posted:As someone that recently started this: Don't. gvibes fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 11, 2024 03:45
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We talked about sunlu as a good pla fillamment before, but is ali express really going to sell it to me for $11/kg? (5 rolls of a color bundle plus $20 shipping ) works out cheaper then from sunlu.com itself and arrives only a week later I've ordered plenty from Ali, so any reason not to get a 5 pack of black and 5 of white for $110 to my door?
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Jan 11, 2024 03:54
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gvibes posted:I recently bought a cardboard spool and had the same issue, but there are models for pieces that go around the rim of the cardboard that worked perfectly. Yeah, I've had to use those on the PolyLite spools I've got in the one multi-AMS unit, and I've used a respooler a few times as well. Sometimes the spools still have issues due to lower weight etc. Often those are reliable options, but they're all less reliable than just getting a plastic spool to begin with, unfortunately My beef is basically that I was buying a solution that I didn't have to think about, and now I have to think about it. Heck, I would be happy to just buy Bambu filament in bulk at the membership price, but the Bambu store in Canada is constantly running out of materials and parts. Look at this nonsense: 
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Jan 11, 2024 03:58
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I have a resin printer and I like painting my Warhammer 40,000 models in significant detail. The detail comparison between a resin and FDM is just non-existent at that scale. Trying to paint something printed in filament to the standards I enjoy would just not ever be possible.
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Jan 11, 2024 04:10
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tater_salad posted:Wrap em in election tape Four more spools! I’ll see myself out…
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Jan 11, 2024 05:00
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Four more spools! I actually laughed out at this. I described this joke to my girlfriend and she looked at me like I was an idiot. A++ would laugh again
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Jan 11, 2024 05:19
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I had to put my resin printing stuff aside for more pressing matters, but dang I look forward to when I can get back into it. Can probably do better than the old Mars I have too. Resin and Filament printers aren't really comparable. Different tools with different uses.
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Jan 11, 2024 06:08
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My point earlier is that the "just works" workflow isn't there at the same price points that FDM equivalents are, yet.
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Jan 11, 2024 07:09
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I'm catching up on youtube channels I haven't checked in a while and Strange Parts got a tour of the Prusa manufacturing process that's pretty neat. It was released 11 days ago so I'm a bit behind, maybe it was in the thread already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIOOlT3KJI
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Snackmar posted:Oof, I just went to start a large job on my printers.. I normally load em up with grey eSun PLA+ when the colour doesn't matter, and keep a bunch on hand. Yup. eSun is pivoting over to refills and cardboard now. One store I order from has them on cardboard, the other only sells the refill version that's intended to go on their reusable spools. It's a bit of an awkward position, but as mentioned you can go with printed rims too mitigate the issue.
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Listerine posted:Got a second X1C in December, did a quick 30 minute print to make sure it worked after setup, went on vacation. My brother was having similar issues with PLA and turns out he needed to dry his filament out. Of course he keeps all his stuff in his garage, in florida, where it's like 100% humidity all day everyday so that's not helping him. He dried out one roll that was giving him a lot of issues and after letting it sit in his filament dryer he bought for like 4 hours it prints perfectly now.
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Four more spools! Lol.. nice.. autocorrect won the popular vote I guess.
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mattfl posted:My brother was having similar issues with PLA and turns out he needed to dry his filament out. Of course he keeps all his stuff in his garage, in florida, where it's like 100% humidity all day everyday so that's not helping him. He dried out one roll that was giving him a lot of issues and after letting it sit in his filament dryer he bought for like 4 hours it prints perfectly now. If I make a dryer, is there generally a timeframe for how long the benefits of that last before I need to dry it again? Is that a thing? I'm assuming it depends on the humidity of the area in which I'm printing but I figured I'd ask anyway.
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Jan 11, 2024 14:33
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hark posted:If I make a dryer, is there generally a timeframe for how long the benefits of that last before I need to dry it again? Is that a thing? I'm assuming it depends on the humidity of the area in which I'm printing but I figured I'd ask anyway. I wouldn't make one, they are fairly cheap to buy on amazon. I think my brother paid like $35 for the one he got. I told him, anytime he starts having clogging issues after printing for a while, dry dry dry lol
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I got the Sovol 2-spool dryer for $38 and it delivers what it promises without any fuss. Unless you've already got a dehydrator sitting around that you don't use, it's probably less hassle overall to buy one. Getting a dryer with a port that lets you pass filament through it and print directly from the dryer is especially nice if you're dealing with anything very hygroscopic or it's a particularly humid day out
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Get a dryer that can do 70C is the only comment I have. The sunlu v2 can do it but the pass through is in a bad spot (the v1 is awesome but can only do 50C). I ended up getting a cyclops clone I print off of. Make sure it has heating, some they advertise as dryboxes are just hygrometers with regenerative silica packs, which are only decent for printing out of (my environment overwhelms the silica in a day or two). Eibos makes what are considered the best "affordable" filament dryers (expensive, but not professional $1500+ dryer prices). The Cyclopes and Polyphemus. I don't know about their single spool dryer but I expect it's quality. Also: make sure that the dryer isn't sealed completely, humidity has to get out somehow, I have to prop the sunlu v2 open a bit (there are also STLs for this, but I use a metal hook hanging off it to prevent it from closing completely. 
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Jan 11, 2024 15:40
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If I’m in a non-humid climate, is silica enough to dry it out? Or do I need to heat it up? I presume it is probably filament specific too, but I figured to ask here before buying something wrong. Like, for example, I was about to get the v2 above but that post made me reconsider it.
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deimos posted:Get a dryer that can do 70C is the only comment I have. The sunlu v2 can do it but the pass through is in a bad spot (the v1 is awesome but can only do 50C). I ended up getting a cyclops clone I print off of. Make sure it has heating, some they advertise as dryboxes are just hygrometers with regenerative silica packs, which are only decent for printing out of (my environment overwhelms the silica in a day or two). I do the same with my sunlu.. I usually cook the filament for awhile and then just prop it open with an Allen key from my workbench to let the wet out.
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gbut posted:If I’m in a non-humid climate, is silica enough to dry it out? Or do I need to heat it up? I presume it is probably filament specific too, but I figured to ask here before buying something wrong. Like, for example, I was about to get the v2 above but that post made me reconsider it. Silica doesn't dry poo poo. It'll suck moisture out of the air and maintain a dry environment but it won't pull anything out of filament.
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I was gifted a partial roll of old moist PLA in a color I didn't have and only wanted to print a few parts with. I just used the printer's heated bed and some alumium foil over night as a makeshift drier. It reduced the weight of the spool by a few grams, made it print OK.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I'm a little less worried about that but my personal history is different ([spoiler] Raw deal, man. Sucks hard. Glad you're still around.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:(stuff) I was no-poo poo worried that something might have happened to you, it's been an awful long time since we've seen you around. Happy to see you're still kickin'. 
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Acid Reflux posted:I was no-poo poo worried that something might have happened to you, it's been an awful long time since we've seen you around. Happy to see you're still kickin'. Had some snowball health issues that culminated in a coma back around Easter and spent the remainder of last year re-learning basic poo poo (like literally relearning how to chew food, etc.), just now got to where I can enjoy hobbies again. I have got a backlog of silly printed things to share pictures of though.
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 drat man, I'm really glad you're still kickin'. Sorry to hear you had to go through all that.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Had some snowball health issues that culminated in a coma back around Easter and spent the remainder of last year re-learning basic poo poo (like literally relearning how to chew food, etc.), just now got to where I can enjoy hobbies again. How the gently caress was it August ‘22 when you had to print the chill pills?! It feels like you were arguing with people ITT much more recently than that. It’s scary how time flies the older you get. Sorry to hear about last year’s health adventure, that sounds super rough. And I hope you beat the odds on the other stuff too. gently caress cancer.
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 finally figuring out Keyshot for doing renders, can bang out renders of minis super fast now, i like the unified look, plus I think it'll look nice when i port this all over to a website
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