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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Things to remember about resin printing: Thank you for the insight! Luckily for me I already have most of the stuff on hand because I work with regular resin (both UV and epoxy) for fun on the side, so I already have a UV light set up, bottles and bottles of alcohol, and gloves, but it is definitely worth noting all this information! My twin brother recieved an FDM printer a few years ago and while fun, it just never seemed to have the level of quality I am looking for. After watching the recommended youtuber above, I definitely think I am going to want a resin printer and the Elgoo Mars seems to be the path I am walking down.
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If you want to gently caress around and make things, yeah get an affordable MSLA printer and (stinky) resins. If your resin printing situation is more along the lines of "aw poo poo this print failed -- drat that fucks my workflow up hard GOD I DO NOT NEED THIS poo poo RIGHT NOW" then pony up for a Formlabs.
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CommonShore posted:I really don't find that managing the FDM printer is especially challenging. FDM printers work as well as they do because we have good slicers and.. what.. 10 years of industry and hobbiests figuring it out. The big issue with FDM are people who completely lose the plot, expecting Resin levels of fidelity, and aluminum on a bridgeport levels of parts accuracy. If you can't see your reflection in the top layer your FDM printer is a failure. There are some astounding levels of insanity that happen around FDM printers. Today, my buddy goes "why is my printer doing *posts picture*". He's underextruding, deeply. But "only the second layer". Well.. that's first layer being to tall. Turns out he had installed a hardened steel nozzle and didn't know the side effects of having a metal with half the thermal conductivity might do to extrusion. Everyone I've known running BLTouch has had mysterious and insane faults with them at some point. Same friend in fact... Another was obsessed with part cooling, setup his printer with a pair of 5020 blowers, there's enough airflow that he has layer adhesion issues, and has blown apart bridges. There's the existing universal "put glass on it" answer for every inexpensive printer. Advice that was valid 8 years ago, that still is the first 50 posts on a "I can't get stuff to stick" questions. Yes, per gram, resin is more expensive than PLA.
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Bad Munki posted:
Hell yeah! I still love getting parts off the printer that work and do things. It's so satisfying seeing cad models in real life that solve whatever ridiculous problem they're intended to.
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Dec 21, 2020 12:01
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For person looking at resin printing, the Anycubic Wash and Cure station is amazing and worth the money. I'm certain there's equivalents from Elegoo and so forth now, but it's a machine worth having.
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NewFatMike posted:For person looking at resin printing, the Anycubic Wash and Cure station is amazing and worth the money. I'm certain there's equivalents from Elegoo and so forth now, but it's a machine worth having. I will look into it! Thank you!
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Dec 21, 2020 16:18
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Is the photon mono x just as good, but bigger?
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Dec 21, 2020 16:23
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Tesdinic posted:I will look into it! Thank you! Seconding this. As someone who is handy enough to have made my own, I don’t regret for a second having gotten the thing. I did rig up a second UV light so I could cure the leftover supports and cleaning towels though.
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Tesdinic posted:Thank you for the insight! Luckily for me I already have most of the stuff on hand because I work with regular resin (both UV and epoxy) for fun on the side, so I already have a UV light set up, bottles and bottles of alcohol, and gloves, but it is definitely worth noting all this information! 95% of the things people consider a huge pain in the rear end about resin printing is pretty much inherent to working with UV resin in any capacity. If you're already used to dealing with it, you're gonna have a great time.
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Also, and I cannot stress this enough, get one of those big aluminum cake pans out turkey roasting pans, and put your printer in that. That way if the fep ever leaks, it won't end with resin all over the floor and furniture. It'll still be a mess to clean up, but way less of one.
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Dec 21, 2020 21:03
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Welp, I've been fighting with the bed leveling on my old Maker Select v2 for a while now where cross corners were all messed up and one corner would want to be WAY lower than the rest. Finally checked the two Z screws and one was like 1mm off from the other  Been using my original style CR-10 (with only one z stepper) for so long that I totally forgot about that. Can't believe I was able to get prints to come out pretty good for the most part with it messed up that badly.
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Dec 22, 2020 03:39
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w00tmonger posted:How realistic/worth my time would printing a 3d printer be nowadays vs just buying a cheap ender 3? It'd be a great use of your time to build your own machine. If you browse the web aimlessly, watch poo poo TV, read the news, you will be proud of the time you replaced. And if you do, please update the thread about it, to help slow its degradation into a very specific Yelp.
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Mofabio posted:It'd be a great use of your time to build your own machine. If you browse the web aimlessly, watch poo poo TV, read the news, you will be proud of the time you replaced. I'll also add that you can build a printer that's better than any of the usual offerings that way.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I'll also add that you can build a printer that's better than any of the usual offerings that way. This is entirely dependent on your bank account, patience and pain tolerance.
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Dec 22, 2020 05:33
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Hmm. My printing issues might be deeper than a bad nozzle. I bought the nozzlex but promptly lost it because of family issues distracting me, so today I thought I'd swap on another cheap brass one and just see what I could do with it. A test print clogged after the first layer, and I noticed the hot end has some big globs of filament inside it. I assume it is getting out sideways somehow but I am not sure how. I put the nozzle on and tightened it while at temperature.
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Bad Munki posted:Not that I have ever done anything like this because man you’d have to be some kinda dummy! But did you forget to tighten the hot end into the heater block while it was hot? Because that’s an easy to forget step that would lead to exactly that. If you were an idiot. An absolute buffoon. Which I surely am not. I've certainly never done anything like this either.. Nope, not at all. And I definitely didn't use a heatgun and dental picks to painstakingly remove all the PLA that had theoretically oozed out from around the heat block and everywhere else. Nope, didn't happen. On a side note... how is the SE300 and Duet upgrade to your RMax treating you? I am still super satisfied with mine. Love the PanelDue. Rarely ever visit the Duet WebUI anymore as I can do everything from the LCD instead.
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stevewm posted:I've certainly never done anything like this either.. Nope, not at all. And I definitely didn't use a heatgun and dental picks to painstakingly remove all the PLA that had theoretically oozed out from around the heat block and everywhere else. Nope, didn't happen. I’m loving it, the prints are great. And I actually love the web UI as my preferred approach. I have it on a static address on my network, and with synced bookmarks across all my devices, it’s like two clicks to pull it up anywhere. Which was extra cool the other day, I started a print and it looked okay, so I went down to the shop, separate building a couple hundred feet down the hill from my house. Happened to poke my head out huge door of my shop at the same time my daughter stuck her head out the door of the house. “It’s not printing, it’s just making a big ball,” she tells to me. Ten seconds later id killed the print from my phone without moving an inch. Definitely need to hook a webcam into the thing. Anyhow, the prints are great, I’ve been making some ornaments and my wife is even impressed with the weirdly smooth surfaces it produces now. 
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Aurium posted:Their messaging on dxf is all over the place, but it's still free. Thanks again for this, I just used your method and it seemed to work great.
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Dec 22, 2020 11:07
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Scarodactyl posted:Hmm. My printing issues might be deeper than a bad nozzle. I bought the nozzlex but promptly lost it because of family issues distracting me, so today I thought I'd swap on another cheap brass one and just see what I could do with it. A test print clogged after the first layer, and I noticed the hot end has some big globs of filament inside it. I assume it is getting out sideways somehow but I am not sure how. I put the nozzle on and tightened it while at temperature. Make sure you get the bowden tube tight to the back of the nozzle (and clean it in the process). This guy's guide to that is pretty good and is useful if you're replacing nozzles or bowden tubes or both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qqKUwviww
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:This is entirely dependent on your bank account, patience and pain tolerance. This was the first unread pst for me and I legit thought I clicked on the tattoo thread by accident.
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Doctor Zero posted:This was the first unread pst for me and I legit thought I clicked on the tattoo thread by accident. That's funny, I deleted my response post, 'but what activity is that not true of?' Try with: tattoos, cooking, pet ownership, amateur sports, vehicles, travel, college...
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£15 for a whole new hot end later (came with 2 heaters, 2 thermistors, 5 nozzles, 2 silicone socks, 1m of Bowden tube, fittings) I'm printing Christmas decorations with the 0.5mm nozzle when that's finished up I'll have a go at proving my thin wall/double extrusion theory. The white PLA I'm using is creality's, it's blobby garbage at whatever temperature. I only got it because the supplier I prefer is always selling out of white. Would not recommend.
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I do not like white 3D printer filament. Anecdotally it usually prints the worst of any of the colors. I suspect it's because it needs more of a pigment load than any other filament to turn it opaque and pure white, and since the pigment (likely something like titanium dioxide) does not melt, it affects the flow and extrusion performance. Prusa's vanilla white prints way better and it's only slightly cream colored. That's my go-to PLA for general use. But anything that's close to PLA's natural color (translucent straw) will print better than opaque white.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:... pain tolerance. This, a lot of times over. I've enjoyed the end result of my work on a custom core xy machine, learned a lot of things along the way, but there's a high degree of masochism there. If I wanted to just print, I'd just go spend the equivalent money on something mass produced and get a far more reliable machine. Or spend the same money on many Ender 3s and get 98% (accurate measure, tru) of the capability and have a whole fleet of them. Some 3D printer designs are better than others, but you'd really have to spend a lot more money to produce something substantially better than the current crop of off the shelf hardware.
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Sagebrush posted:I do not like white 3D printer filament. Anecdotally it usually prints the worst of any of the colors. I suspect it's because it needs more of a pigment load than any other filament to turn it opaque and pure white, and since the pigment (likely something like titanium dioxide) does not melt, it affects the flow and extrusion performance. Seconding on this. I'd rather print with dye-free/natural PLA and then paint the print with white paint for plastics.
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snail posted:Some 3D printer designs are better than others, but you'd really have to spend a lot more money to produce something substantially better than the current crop of off the shelf hardware. While I've spent more money than necessary on my BLV Cube, I don't necessarily agree, The additional cost has mostly been because I wanted to experiment. Sure, it's more like $1500-2000, but you do get a bigger build volume and better speed/quality ratios. Also not having a bowden setup makes your life simpler as well. But sure, anyone starting out and wants to print: Ender 3 if they have basic handy skills, or Prusa if they don't.
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I’ve had my Ender 3 Pro for a few weeks now and I’ve been real happy with it. The only calibration I’ve done is make sure the belts are tensioned and did the paper thing to level the bed. I did that autodesk test print (https://github.com/kickstarter/kickstarter-autodesk-3d) yesterday and it came out really nice:  Got a 25/30 according to their scoring system. Anyone have good, like, stocking stuffer sort of things they’ve made?
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I've never seen anyone who didn't like to play with this trilobite. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:28259
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Elder Postsman posted:I’ve had my Ender 3 Pro for a few weeks now and I’ve been real happy with it. The only calibration I’ve done is make sure the belts are tensioned and did the paper thing to level the bed. I did that autodesk test print (https://github.com/kickstarter/kickstarter-autodesk-3d) yesterday and it came out really nice: For kids the flexi animals are fun: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=flexi&type=things&sort=relevant For generic grown ups coasters are a quick print and there's a ton of designs: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=coasters&type=things&sort=relevant Likewise pen holders and/or vases that can also be used as pen holders are good for all ages and you can use cool colors: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=pen+holder&type=things&sort=relevant https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=vase&type=things&sort=relevant If you're giving to someone who uses tools a lot there's a big variety of stubby screwdrivers that take 1/4" bits: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=stubby+screwdriver&type=things&sort=relevant SD card holders are a good one for nerdy folks who might have a lot of them: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sd+card+holder&type=things&sort=relevant&page=1 In some ways there are too many choices.
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Hmm judging from the 1000 unread comments I haven't been here in a while. I wanted to make some poo poo again, but my Fusion 360 license is supposdly expired. I think I turned on the free mode on the site, they said to log off and on in 30 minutes but it's been hours and it's sitll not working. Am I just screwed if I used the startup license before or is there still some way back in? I'm not using it nearly enough to justify the stupid subscription.
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Dec 23, 2020 19:32
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I had to renew recently and it took awhile to activate.
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I know I'm an infrequent thread contributor, but I mostly view this hobby as ancilliary to my tabletop gaming hobby and the printers as a means to an end. And that sometimes leaves me in a jam since I'm not good with this stuff. For the second time an overnight print got hopelessly gunked up all over the hotend and packed into the housing. tried working it loose with heat and a little elbow grease but I think I'll probably need a whole new assembly. It's an Ender 5 plus that I got second hand pre-assembled. (first time I just called the printer, Ender 3, a total loss  ) I am hamfisted and not descended from the monkeys who touched the monolith and don't want to gently caress it up worse, so I'm willing to bite the bullet and hire someone to repair it, but I'm not sure how to find such a thing locally (Madison WI area). They ain't printing the yellow pages anymore to look someone up. Any suggestions?
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I know madison has a couple of hackerspaces. I'd try emailing one of them to see if they could point you at a member that would take it on.
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I just posted to my local city subreddit when I needed some help with mine a while back, and got a few volunteers. Picked the closest dude, threw money at him and he fixed it. That or Craigslist might be a good option.
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Rexxed posted:If you're giving to someone who uses tools a lot there's a big variety of stubby screwdrivers that take 1/4" bits: This is brilliant and something I never thought to look for, thanks! There are all kinds of model cards on thingiverse, I printed this F-22 for my two year old cousin and he loves it! Quick and pretty easy to print
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Forseti posted:This is brilliant and something I never thought to look for, thanks! these are also pretty great for kids, maybe a little detailed for toddlers but ideal if they're a few years older: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2887652 there's a whole series linked in the description
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I posted this guy's 2019 3d printed nutcracker video and I recall that somebody printed one, so I'm posting his new model video for 2020! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyD0Ay7f_hk Forseti posted:This is brilliant and something I never thought to look for, thanks! I gave a few of the stubby handles in flouro yellow to my cousin who said they're great for adjusting the carbs on some of his small engine stuff. The bright color makes them easy to see when you drop them in the garage, too!
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I just posted to my local city subreddit when I needed some help with mine a while back, and got a few volunteers. Picked the closest dude, threw money at him and he fixed it. That or Craigslist might be a good option. Aurium posted:I know madison has a couple of hackerspaces. I'd try emailing one of them to see if they could point you at a member that would take it on. Good advice, I will try these avenues before I destroy what's a pretty nice printer with my privative ape-hands.
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Rexxed posted:I gave a few of the stubby handles in flouro yellow to my cousin who said they're great for adjusting the carbs on some of his small engine stuff. The bright color makes them easy to see when you drop them in the garage, too! Yeah I was going to print out an assortment in various colors for my brother in law and gift them along with a cheap assortment of bits from harbor freight or similar. I have a bit assortment from them that I've had for forever and use all the time, but being able to stick all the sizes I need for a particular job into separate handles would be super handy. Edit: I printed out the first one and it might be juuuust a hair too tight. I stuck it and one of the bits in the freezer to see if I could make it fit but I'm actually not sure if a hole like that gets bigger or smaller when stuck in the freezer. I suspect it may actually get smaller but I could also picture the material contracting and making the outside diameter smaller while the hole's inside diameter gets larger? Dunno, anyone know how something like a washer changes size with cold/heat? Forseti fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Forseti posted:Yeah I was going to print out an assortment in various colors for my brother in law and gift them along with a cheap assortment of bits from harbor freight or similar. I have a bit assortment from them that I've had for forever and use all the time, but being able to stick all the sizes I need for a particular job into separate handles would be super handy. I think it kind of contracts in all directions? I'd considering putting some hot water in and then pushing the bit in to shape it a little better, although maybe just print another one after adjusting your settings. You can dial in some expansion settings in your slicer if you don't want to try to adjust e-steps for your motors. CHEP has an older video about doing it in Cura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jsBI3OeUJQ
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