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3d printer beginner here, got the box in and set up. Everything seems to have gone okay so maybe I shouldn't be concerned but squinting at low res shots in a manual vs what happens in the real world doesn't convince me I got things adjusted perfectly so I figured I'd borrow experienced eyes to critique things. The first layer calibration:  Near the end. Are those gaps and irregularities normal?  Finished product: 
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Prusa claims theirs average around 80 watts
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Nov 15, 2023 01:45
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Anyone wanna give "modeling for 3d printers" technique advice to an idiot? I started this project case both because I want the case and it'd be a good stepping stool to other stuff. I knew overhangs would be an issue but I wanted to get the basic idea down so I have something to iterate on. I pooped out this:  Obviously the slicer hates it and wants to enter a ton of supports no matter which way I orient the model. So what's the better approach? Remove the spacers and print with the big side down? Embrace the supports? Print as two parts and stick them together? Something else entirely?
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Nov 18, 2023 19:24
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Perfect, thanks. I was halfway there.. I had it in my head if I deleted the spacers I'd have to go buy some risers. Clearly I am not yet thinking in terms of I can make whatever the hell I want.
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Nov 18, 2023 20:10
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I don't think that's what Anakin said.
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Dec 5, 2023 02:32
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Some Pinko Commie posted:Only use OpenSCAD and Sketchup if you have a kink for lovely software implementation. Could be worse, it could be FreeCAD.
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Jan 30, 2024 17:35
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Arcsech posted:If you’re willing to deal with the jank typical of open source projects, FreeCAD is extremely capable. A pain in the rear end maybe, but very capable. After the fourth time freecad tied itself in knots trying to resolve a part and I saw no option but to delete and start over, I gave up and decided being forced to store my projects in someone's data mining cloud service was a little more tolerable. Yeah, freecad is technically capable of making impressive stuff and that's rad. But even in the context of open source jank it's over the top.
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Jan 30, 2024 19:47
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In my experience most of the tone comes from the pickups and their placement so the significant bit with a budget guitar is what the cheap pickups can output. Everything else is mostly for the benefit of human comfort, a quality neck feels better in the hand.
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Feb 1, 2024 14:34
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PLA fumes give me headaches so while there may not be any actual or documented long term harms it's definitely not inert.
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Feb 24, 2024 13:04
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Yeah it's not really a critique of PLA as I've developed a handful of sensitivities the past year or two.. exhaust fumes, soldering fumes, the waft of VOCs when opening a sealed container full of plastic, staring at a screen too long, etc. So PLA might be "fine" in a statistical sense and I've just grown to one end of the bell curve. But it certainly illustrates that PLA (or the vendor specific additives) off gasses something and even if one doesn't have issues it's absolutely putting stuff in your lungs.
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Any practical advice for printing TPU? Lots of cautions out there of it being a sponge, clogging gears, and getting stuck in bowden tubes. I'm still pretty new to printing and am having success with PLA, but I want to make a couple squishy things and I'm unclear how big a ramp in difficulty this is. If it matters, I'm using a prusa mini. The prusa docs suggest loosening the idler, but gives no specifics. Just trial and error it?
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