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The Eyes Have It posted:There used to be until everyone went blind Username/post combo
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Oct 20, 2021 18:27
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The Eyes Have It posted:There used to be until everyone went blind 
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Oct 20, 2021 18:28
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The Eyes Have It posted:There used to be until everyone went blind 
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Oct 20, 2021 18:33
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I was actually wondering the same thing since I just ordered a Silhouette digital cutter (not a laser cutter but similar). Maybe we should start a thread for it.
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Oct 20, 2021 18:35
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I use my 3D printer mostly to make gears so I figured it might be faster with a laser cutter. They seem way too expensive anyway.
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Oct 20, 2021 19:13
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Bucnasti posted:I was actually wondering the same thing since I just ordered a Silhouette digital cutter (not a laser cutter but similar). Maybe we should start a thread for it. There's a kiddo on the Voron Discord who has permanent blindness in his right eye from a 1.5W laser pointer and a split-second of stupidity.
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Oct 20, 2021 19:27
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The Eyes Have It posted:There used to be until everyone went blind NewFatMike posted:Username/post combo The Eyes Had It
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Oct 20, 2021 19:56
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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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Oct 20, 2021 19:57
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CNC routers are noisy and generate a lot of dust and are probably more impractical for 'home use' than lasers.
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Oct 20, 2021 20:24
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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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Oct 20, 2021 20:33
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A CNC router would be great but unfortunately I don't have a workshop.
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Oct 20, 2021 20:40
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Chernabog posted:A CNC router would be great but unfortunately I don't have a workshop. You pretty much need a workshop for CNC routers or lasers. You can kinda get away without a workshop with hobby 3d printers but that's only for FDM style machines. Resin machines really need a workshop-type space.
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Oct 20, 2021 21:18
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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.
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Oct 20, 2021 21:38
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Yeah, I have my ender 3 at my home office room and that's about as far as I'd go.
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Oct 20, 2021 21:40
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We've got a laser cutter and love it. Projects feel real professional coming out of it, but there's usually more post-processing than with 3D printing. It's also a lot harder to search for SVGs for it than it is to find STLs for 3D printers.
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Oct 20, 2021 21:45
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My filament still hasn't arrived and I'm not sure if what came with the printer is enough for my toothbrush holder so I've had to content myself with printing a couple of these clips for ethernet cables with broken clips but 3d printing is definitely very cool.
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Oct 20, 2021 23:08
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Can you cut cloth with a laser cutter or will it just burn?
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Oct 20, 2021 23:12
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Doctor Zero posted:Can you cut cloth with a laser cutter or will it just burn? Both.
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Oct 20, 2021 23:13
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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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Oct 20, 2021 23:33
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mystes posted:My filament still hasn't arrived and I'm not sure if what came with the printer is enough for my toothbrush holder so I've had to content myself with printing a couple of these clips for ethernet cables with broken clips but 3d printing is definitely very cool. The (undoubtedly) PLA that your printer came with is fine for anything that doesn't need to carry a lot of load or get hot. It is totally appropriate for a toothbrush holder.
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Oct 20, 2021 23:54
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There might not be enough OF IT for that object, though
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Oct 20, 2021 23:56
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Javid posted:There might not be enough OF IT for that object, though  . I guess I could figure out how much there is and see if it's enough based on what prusaslicer says but it's also not the color I want anyway so I might as well wait another day for fedex to hopefully get its poo poo together and deliver the filament. Also there's probably something to be said for testing the printer using an existing design first so I know the problem is with my design if it doesn't work.
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Oct 21, 2021 00:14
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w00tmonger posted:Maybe this is better for the printing in tabletop thread, but what would you guys use for a filament that's going to be used for a wet pallette? PETG or maybe ABS. Both should hold up okay to acrylics and both survive washing in the dishwasher top rack, which isn't the case for PLA. Using ABS you could also do a bit of acetone polishing to really get it sealed BUT if you're using paints/varnishes that are thinned with acetone, ABS is obviously not going to work. I'd probably use more top layers than for generic prints. Turning on ironing might give you a nicer finished surface for palette surfaces you want smooth.
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Oct 21, 2021 02:00
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I guess I finally joined the secret ender 3 club where I have disassembled my printer almost complete and rebuilt it. Once for redoing my initial install squaring and once most recently because of catastrophic filament build up in the hotend Ordered some new Capricorn tubing for just the hotend, but I need to print some spacers to do the proper mod, so everything is put back together but reprinting this bullseye shroud is pissing me off, failing at the last 2 min if a 3 hour print on the little ears breaking off My level is spot on, and my zlevel is great, but it seems like my filament is getting a bit too stiff on retraction and casing the nozzle movement to break the parts. It's pla @215 because the manufacturer recommended 210 and it's getting colder in my basement A touch hotter? Go slower on the small bits? Both? The nozzle is brand new, and the only real difference now is that my silicone sock is off until a new one comes, and my fan shroud is broken on one mounting side, but its still at the right height Roundboy fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 02:14
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Not going to lie, I nearly impulse bought that phrozen 8k. I’ve never had a resin printer before, but I haven’t really a specific need right now and plenty of other projects.
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Oct 21, 2021 03:49
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My longer LK1 arrived today, haven't taken it out of the box yet, Is there anything I should get right away to upgrade it?
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Oct 21, 2021 03:58
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Roundboy posted:I guess I finally joined the secret ender 3 club where I have disassembled my printer almost complete and rebuilt it. Once for redoing my initial install squaring and once most recently because of catastrophic filament build up in the hotend post a picture of the failure(s) and we can give more useful feedback, but 215 is pretty spicy for PLA already; if it's so cold in your basement that you have to overcompensate that hard, an enclosure might be warranted
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Oct 21, 2021 04:33
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Roundboy posted:My level is spot on, and my zlevel is great, but it seems like my filament is getting a bit too stiff on retraction and casing the nozzle movement to break the parts. It's pla @215 because the manufacturer recommended 210 and it's getting colder in my basement My gut feel is the opposite. Colder, and that you did the Capricorn tube, have you checked your extrusion accuracy? I had a beautifully coloured, but awful to print PLA recently that had filled a rubbish bin with failed prints, until I dropped the temp to 190, and lowered the extrusion another 5% despite my extrusion being accurate and printing other filaments flawlessly. This filament should be rebranded as butter. Aurarum is forever on my do-not-buy list.
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Oct 21, 2021 09:15
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Just got my shipment notice for the 8k. Christ I gotta clean up a space to put that giant fucker.
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Oct 21, 2021 09:19
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My Longer 3D Printer has arrived. This will be interesting.
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Oct 21, 2021 10:46
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This is what I came to see after 8 hours http://imgur.com/a/rKLxtkD Which was an almost completely clogged nozzle, my heat sick melting and just a mess all over http://imgur.com/a/wvbBtDa Interesting on the pla temp, as the spool of this particular silk pla wants 210. In fact, my first print of this failed because I accidentally left a temp tower script enabled in slicing, and every so often it was dropping the temp 5 degrees, and I finally caught it printing at 170 and the layers stuck to each other, but barely I guess I can try the usual calibration stuff at lower temps to see what is up, but I only mention the cold basement in the case of drafts as I walk past. The new tubing should be here today, I was just attempting to print some needed parts before that with a fixed existing tube and no sock
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Oct 21, 2021 13:39
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Roundboy posted:This is what I came to see after 8 hours  The gently caress is going on with those excessively long screws that bypass the heat break and appear to make contact with the heatsink? Seems like a prime opportunity to flood the heatsink with heat faster than the fan can cool it and turn your entire hotend assembly into an overheated mess. EDIT: It looks like that hotend was designed that way on purpose? What the actual gently caress? Some Pinko Commie fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 14:23
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That's what Creality hotends do. Any upgrade doesn't have those, of course.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:28
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have you had any success with that filament before? is the basement damp or dusty? by "this spool wants 210" do you mean it says that, or you did testing and that worked best? I'm not gonna say 210 is never correct for PLA but I only get my nozzle that hot when I'm trying a cold pull or to otherwise hamfist out a clog
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Oct 21, 2021 14:30
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It seems very popular with the ender series, and the stock fan setup does seem to keep up with stuff even with me hacking away at it. I'm sure I'll be getting a new hotend at some point, but waiting at least a month before I go all 3d printer of Theseus Edit: that is what the spool says. I always thought there was some special reason they wanted that temp but reading it closer they say 210 +/- 15 which just seems like a crazy huge range. Or a whatever temp you want to use is fine Trying a cube of it at 200 but it's generally printed fine 200-215. Never had to dial in any pla prints, I just spent the time working on petg temp settings for stringing. Pla was just working until what seems to be separation between the Bowden tube and my nozzle This was one of my first prints before everything was really dialed in, it was functional but had some issues, and i broke it overtightening : https://i.imgur.com/k3kNTTT.jpg My first reprint failed at the ears by snapping them off. I was assuming filament or the nozzle was sticking to it and t snapped it during travel. I ended up slowing it down to 75% on the printer itself and it seemed to be fine https://i.imgur.com/t4cFySv.jpg still some little minor things i want to clean up, but i have everything hacked together at the moment waiting on new parts Roundboy fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 14:30
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Both my Prusas print PLA at 210-215 with the default PLA profiles, so I don't know
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Oct 21, 2021 16:28
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I also think a lot of filaments have a wide range because why would you trust the tolerances on cheap Enders and ender knockoffs to be trustworthy.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:37
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Lol, yeah, that’s exactly why 
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Oct 21, 2021 17:03
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biracial bear for uncut posted:
I junked my hotend for a microswiss one for the ender 3v2. It's just a loving mess of bad design and worse manufacturing
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Oct 21, 2021 17:29
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Commodore_64 posted:Not going to lie, I nearly impulse bought that phrozen 8k. I’ve never had a resin printer before, but I haven’t really a specific need right now and plenty of other projects. I nearly stopped myself when I realized the shipping annihilated nearly all of the early bird savings but then I did it anyway because I have problems
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