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Ooh maybe I'll use this space to plug the CAD thread and SOLIDWORKS as another CAD option: CAD thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3962532 You can get it through the EAA for $40/year - it comes with your membership: https://www.eaa.org/eaa/eaa-membership/eaa-member-benefits/solidworks-resource-center And I can plug 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers when that drops later this year, which has SOLIDWORKS and some other fun web based stuff for $99/year or $10/mo: https://discover.solidworks.com/3dexperience-solidworks-makers-available-2nd-half-2021 Great OP! Yay new thread!
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Some info on 3D Creator and 3d Sculptor may be of interest to the thread as well. For sure - I believe both roles come with 3DX for Makers, but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.
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Any screw removal kit should do it and probably easier than actual screws if I'm reading that right.
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If it's volunteer mods, never underestimate True Believers who are also given a tin pot dictatorship.
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Ambrose, if you care to share, I would adore seeing those CAD files when you're done, regardless of whether it prints well.
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I buy and use Neiko calipers for myself and the makerspace. A company called iGaging is the BattleBots standard for a variety of measurement devices. I just bought a dial test indicator from them with a selective magnetic base and it's pretty good.
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Do what you want as long as you have a CAD package that'll product manifold bodies, but if you ever intend on making an assembly or having someone make a thing for you, you'll have a hell of a time without using some parametric package. I used to freelance design and fabricate stuff on 3D printers and CNC machines, and I'd charge an awful lot more for dinner giving me a Sketchup or Blender file than none at all. It's a huge pain in the rear end.
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Aug 18, 2021 01:35
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w00tmonger posted:Anyone sell FDM prints that has a good guide for pricing things etc? Going rate for Onyx on a Markforged looks like 3-4x filament cost. It's pricey filament, so that likely is going to cover energy.
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Baconroll posted:I've just ordered a prusa mini as my first 3d printer and was after some advise on what non-printer tools & accessories people find helpful for managing their prints and keeping things running - e.g. hobby knife, scraper, bed cleaning fluids (?) etc Nozzles are kind of "as needed" but if you're just doing PLA/PETG, probably a year? Depends on how much you print. I haven't had to replace mine and I've had it for over a year, but I maybe only have 200 hours of printing on it. Be sure to check the Prusa documentation on cold pulls - best thing you can do for your nozzle to keep it happy. Do it when changing filament types and you'll have pretty smooth sailing.
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I've been using the original Anycubic wash and cure station to great effect with a Form 3, and I'm really interested in upgrading to one of these for the makerspace: https://www.elegoo.com/collections/clean-cure-series/products/elegoo-mercury-x-bundle-washing-and-curing-machine You should be able to cure in a vessel under water just fine
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Looking forward to hooking up a TIG gas gun to your curing station 
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Sep 11, 2021 22:35
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Hadlock posted:What is everyone's experience using alignment pins to precisely align two parts together for gluing These are generally designed for achieving a running fit on reamed holes, but get you some metric undersized dowel pins. They come in handy a lot more often than you might think. https://www.mcmaster.com/dowel-pins/undersized-dowel-pins/
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Hadlock posted:Looking forward to the post in about three months when the DEA kicks in your door with a warrant looking for an illegal grow operation, only to find a questionably legal Warhammer20k figurine print farm instead If you don't need it RIGHT NOW, Grainger is my next option. I order from them more because I rarely need anything that fast: https://www.grainger.com/category/fasteners/pins/dowel-pins
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Sep 13, 2021 22:13
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The Eyes Have It posted:The instant a Prusa with toolchanging / true multi-material goes on sale or preorder or whatever I am mashing BUY so hard I'm going to need a finger splint. I'm hoping to pick up some fancy printers, new job willing, and I'm awfully tempted to set up a huge sized Voron 2.4 with an E3D tool changer for large carbon fiber prints with PVA supports. If Prusa beats me to the punch, hell frigging yeah
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Bodanarko posted:Nitrile gloves
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Yeah, latex is too permeable for the resins and it'll get through and expose you. Nitrile isn't perfect either, so be timely about putting on a fresh pair of gloves and don't sweat going through multiple pairs on a job.
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Ambrose Burnside posted:a buddy of mine is getting clean and was complaining about how alcoholics anonymous has a monopoly on sobriety coins, so i'm designing an independent series of milestone coins, and also the Sculpt Ultra tooling required to cast them from a bismuth-tin alloy That rules! I make medals out of pewter by laser cutting and engraving on plywood for the mold, might be worth checking out! 
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Ambrose Burnside posted:An amazing project Holy moly! Would you be willing to share models? I bet that would be a *huge* hit at my makerspace. What are you using to melt your eutectic alloy?
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A Proper Uppercut posted:Would something like this Garolite bed be an upgrade to the, now that I look at it closer, really beat up glass print bed in my Ultimaker S5? Or should I just buy another new glass one. I pretty much just print with PLA, ABS, and TPU. Did you buy that from a reseller? You should really be talking to an AE of theirs instead of asking randos on the internet about upgrades for a $6,400 printer. FWIW garolite is primarily used for nylon printing, no idea about applications in printing other than that.
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Enders are great if you're lucky or attach no value to your time. In all honesty, it's why I recommend the Prusa Mini so regularly. The build volume is a bit of a bummer, but $350 all in is hard to beat for a workhorse.
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poverty goat posted:Any recommendations? On aliexpress it's like 100 tips for The downside of the cheapest of the cheap is that you're going to be dialing in for every single hosed up one, just spend less than $10 on one decent nozzle. https://www.matterhackers.com/store/l/e3d-v6-extra-nozzle-175mm/sk/MW3RSLMG You rarely have to replace nozzles unless you're using something abrasive, in which case get a tool steel nozzle. ImplicitAssembler posted:So, after complaining about things going pearshaped after buying the cheapest of the cheap, you're going to double down?. Exactly.
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so I was thinking about ordering a bunch of .4 and an assortment of misc unless that's a terrible idea for some reason
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Ghostnuke posted:I think I've officially had it with my e3v2. What's the best FDM I can get that isn't Prusa $$$? The Prusa Mini is still my go to rec for printers. It's $350, so not a terrible price. E: Flashforges loving suck
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Oct 7, 2021 23:42
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Nah, I got mine in the kit and didn't need anything, not even a speed square.
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Deviant posted:where do you all like to buy nitrile gloves for resin work in our post covid hellworld? Grainger for me
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Oct 9, 2021 14:44
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The Eyes Have It posted:I'm really curious about the CF-specialized printer Raise3D is putting out; apparently CF filaments and typical dissolvable support filaments don't like to stick to one another, so apparently reliably pooping CF filaments + dissolvable supports is not a trivial thing. (They made a specialized one for CF filaments and are building it off their E2 IDEX platform) Seems pretty interesting - the build volume is larger even than a Markforged Onyx One, just by a bit. Based purely on second hand experience, it feels like Raise3D lag behind Markforged and Stratasys machines aimed at a similar target, but Raise frequently have bigger beds at the same price. It's not big stuff, mostly fiddliness, but if I'm over $2k on a printer, my appetite for fiddliness rapidly approaches 0. PA12 only is a bit of a disappointment at this stage, especially for a single material only printer. Since using PA6 in my BattleBots bot, I'm a solid convert (for non flexible/noncompliant applications), but I guess that goes for Markforged Onyx as well. E: the only other CF directed printer I know in a similar price point with separate support extruders is the MakerBot Method X Carbon Edition. That's got about half the build volume, but can do a lot of different materials, even third party, which feels like a pretty big boost.
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The Eyes Have It posted:There used to be until everyone went blind Username/post combo
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Yeah the downside to most lasers is that you're either building an enclosure or shelling out for one with an enclosure and that's *mandatory* if you have pets or live with other people. You frequently want fume extraction or air assist, too, which makes things even harder. The upside, though, is that you can get really precise completely solid parts, but you may be able to accomplish similar with 3D printing. I personally think laser cutting is the better technology, but for a hobbyist or homelab it gets rather impractical in a hurry. I might recommend a larger inexpensive CNC router like this one over laser engraving simply because the buildout isn't as intense. Workholding is an art, but there are easy solutions like painter's tape and super glue.
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That's also fair, I might have developed a deafness to anything but the bad sounds that come from them
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Bucnasti posted:I'm getting a Silhouette, it's a digital blade cutter for paper, vinyl and other thin materials. It's used a lot by scrapbookers, and by people making Live Laugh Love signs for their tastefully decorated suburban home, but I'm looking to doing nerd poo poo with it (stencils, decals and custom T-shirts). No lasers are involved, I'd have to do something phenomenally stupid to blind myself with the tiny razor cutter it uses. I did get a Silhouette Pro 4 earlier in the year for stencil work and ended up returning it. 1/16" error per vector foot, got the exact same error on a 20" x 20" box. By the time it got to the last leg on the box it was nearly a full inch off in the same way every time. Engineers said it was a software issue, so double check that they fixed that because frankly I can't figure out how you can make that much error without trying.
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Deviant posted:Y'all would recommend the prusa mini plus then? I want a second side printer to go with my Mk3s, but I don't have experience with cantilever or bowden design. Good move! Fun stuff right here: https://www.cati.com/blog/2021/10/solidworks-2022-whats-new-hybrid-modeling/ SOLIDWORKS 2022 will let you edit STL files in a hybrid solid-mesh environment now, so you can finally make those Thingiverse brackets fit your whatever. Not sure when it rolls out for the Makers offer, but you can get SOLIDWORKS + browser things for $100/year which is pretty rad. Hopefully 2022 will be available for upgrading soon.
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Sockser posted:Yknow obviously a prusa with tool changing opens up a lot of possibilities, and people will have plotter mods ready within the first month Or spend half the amount on a decent ShapeOko instead of making a terrible CNC router that will shake itself apart while moving with the spindle on.
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I think both Titebond 2 and 3 are waterproof
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The person in charge of 3D printers at my Maker space would buy Prusa printers, but knockoff parts from AliExpress for maintenance. Regardless of the quality of parts, any kind of replacement would have a printer down for months as we waited for the slow boat to deliver instead of buying from Prusa. Extremely huge brain on that one.
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The Eyes Have It posted:I ran into weird print issues (including watchdog resets) on my Prusa Mini, which it turns out is the fault of a short right-angle USB extender I used in an effort to make managing the USB stick a bit easier in the enclosure. I had the same problem with a USB extender as well, what a hell of an issue to figure out after it’s been going right for a long time.
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pbpancho posted:Prusa Mini for $250 locally. That seems like a pretty dang good deal right? I've got an MK3S+, but it's going enough that a 2nd machine would see use, and it'd be nice to be able to print a part for when I break something (was out of commission for a few days recently when my fan duct got eaten by a blob while I waited to get one from a friend). Yeah if I could justify another printer I’d be all over that.
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Roundboy posted:Always be buying new printers. How can you print stuff when you are printing stuff already ? It’s being complemented by a laser cutter and home brew CNC router along with my crappy 3018 router
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Inshallah it happens - I’m fiddling with an ATC for the home brew machine!
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There’s are some tumble media methods that work great also - I went looking into it a while back but haven’t gone for it yet if you’re interested.
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ZincBoy posted:Any links to these? I tried polishing in my vibratory system but it didn't really do anything with the media I have. I went digging around and found the things! First, process info from the rep: Kramer Industries posted:Thank you for contacting us. The process to finish the parts in that blog post involved about 6-8 hours in a Plastic Media tumbling step to get a uniform, matte surface finish. The second, polishing step is typically 12-24 hours. Original blog post: https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/tumbling-3d-printed-plastic-parts/ Recommended media: https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/product/liquid-finishing-compounds/ https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/product/synthetic-tumbling-media/ https://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/product/premium-treated-tumbling-media/ Tumble times vary based on weight inside the tumbler.
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I just got an ad for Micro Center doing $99 Ender 3s for new customers. It was through Instagram, so I guess see if the “get Offer” thing shows up for you: https://instagram.com/microcenter?utm_medium=copy_link
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