3D printing

[umbral edge]

im going insane

[umbral edge]

Done with petg after this

Cuz FUCK

This shit sucks

I have to print so slow

[whole wind]

least angry petg user

[umbral edge]

It's so durable which lured me in but nobody mentioned 50mm/s max

[whole wind]

yup

warp central

[umbral edge]

my silly self designed a time constrained thing

using this

i have been going nonstop for weeks

on the plus side

i havent seen a material CA glue bonds better to

it like

SEEPS in so strongly

rips off chunks if you try to seperate

really good

and having it look good is so hard

cuz its transparent

ive had to do shit like this so often now cuz blegh

i need a new filament after this

probs going back to pla lol

[errant fern]

https://gothamist.com/news/manhattan-da-bragg-asks-3d-printer-company-to-block-production-of-ghost-guns
lmao gl

[heady tundra]

it dont work that way 💔

new york is fucking silly

[errant fern]

They are consistent in being a shitshow at least

[heady tundra]

true

i love how we have over 300 million guns, and theyre trying to treat 438 "ghost guns" per year as a public safety issue

[errant fern]

You see the problem is that it's going in the hands of people who can actually build stuff instead of the local crackheads

[heady tundra]

problem?

[queen coral]

The former are always more dangerous in the long run, the latter burn out quick. Whomever can endure the long game are considered much more threatening to governments and regulators.

[elfin notch]

sounds more like a ender moment, my settings for printing petg on my prusa, works good

[umbral edge]

I mean it is a stock e3 pro

With like

1000h of printing

[elfin notch]

that would do it

[umbral edge]

I should get an all metal extruder tbh

It would help a lot

Also get a steel hotend

Nozzle*

I've heard those help

With the filament sticking

[umbral edge]

I fucked up lol

[heady tundra]

does anyone know the 3d filament (or something that has similar enough characteristics) that bsb uses for the custom facial interfaces?

[whole wind]

I just bought this roll since people seemed to have good reception with the bambulab A1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VDP2S3P?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

I'll let you know how it feels when I make mine

[heady tundra]

ah okays

i was thinking something with

much lower Shore hardness

[umbral edge]

the important thing here would be the infil, you can work eith harder tpus and still have it turn out soft as long as you fiddle with infil

[heady tundra]

ehhh in my (limited) experience, using harder TPUs and trying to compensate with a lower infil doesnt work too well

you end just feeling the infil pattern through the wall

[umbral edge]

did you do a gradiated infil?

[heady tundra]

i dont remember

[umbral edge]

have it be high density towards your face, with like 3-4 top layers, then adjust the ramp of it

[heady tundra]

hm

[umbral edge]

also BS doesnt have any info released on manufacturing process of the facial interface afaik

[whole wind]

You could definitely go with something less hard but in my experience tpu has a tendency to be a nightmare to work with when it's comfortably squishy.

[heady tundra]

rip

[umbral edge]

its defo not 3d printed

[heady tundra]

fair

[umbral edge]

its a molded foam

cnc milled 100% as you can see the tool lines

but i think they use some kinda recycleable mold material for it

that they can break down and remelt

[umbral edge]

also fixed this

just increased the flow to 115%

prints are literally perfect now

might retry using the silk pla

[umbral edge]

finished the project!

[whole wind]

ayy lookin good

[whole wind]

Finally got it working to the point where it doesn't take 4 hours to load!

It worked! Now to see if I can print it.

[whole wind]

I am pleased to report that it is a perfect fit right off the bat. Even with just straight up pla it's surprisingly comfy

Can't wait for the tpu to come in the mail

[heady tundra]

oooo

hell yeah :3

[umbral edge]

I've discovered the downside to hairspray as a bed treatment

This took 15 minutes to get off the bed

If you put too many layers of it, it gets perfectly smooth

And so it's a perfect suction

Combined with the over extruded first layer

It just

Will not release

Lol

Also accidentally printed this .2mm in the air

Looks odd

But goes to show how good hairspray is lok

[whole wind]

And thats why I got garolite

[umbral edge]

What that

[whole wind]

3D printing surface for print beds. Basically the same material used to make circuit boards.

[umbral edge]

I use glass cuz my bed uneven asf

Bowl

[whole wind]

It has micro pores in the surface that give extra grip and contract slightly when it cools. That way prints grip on really tightly while printing and pop off with the slightest touch when cooled down.

I had one a few years back and it worked amazingly well. No more hairspray or glue sticks neccessary

I'm sure more manufacturers must have caught on to it by now and made precut sheets for printers by now

back then I had to order a 2 foot square sheet and cut it to fit the bed

ah found the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PK4oXbJT8&ab_channel=Maker'sMuse

bit old but it still holds up

Time for some extreme ventilation

[pine spire]

why is it spiral

[heady tundra]

anti spiral

[umbral edge]

Why is it bad

[whole wind]

Got a screenshot of the sliced model? Night be able to see what it was trying to do from that

[vast hill]

I mean, it kinda just looks like the filament isn't sticking to itself, which usually means either wrong temperature or it needs to be dried...

[umbral edge]

It also looks overextruded

[vast hill]

I mean, he's not getting ANY squish on that top layer

So hard to say if it's over/under extruding when there could be thermal or physical problems

Honestly it's probably just a case of printing too cold if I had to guess

[umbral edge]

Maybe
I tend towards printing too hot so my issues are always more in aesthetics and overhangs lol

[vast hill]

Printing too hot at least has some aspects of practicality 🤣👍

[umbral edge]

Mhm!
Slightly overextruded and slightly too hot, but in a calibrated sense

So I get super strong parts

:3

And still have it within tolerances

[vast hill]

Can print faster that way too 🤣

You DO risk clogs more, but it's manageable

[umbral edge]

I was printing petg... So still no lol

[vast hill]

Fair 😂

[umbral edge]

The point is to overflow a bit either way

I made rings that are 5mm thick, about 30mm across

And they could support my weight

On the weak side

[umbral edge]

making a neat lil topo map of kilimanjaro :3

[heady tundra]

climb to the top when it's done

[umbral edge]

I'm not that much shorter

[elfin notch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51bMMVWbC8 neat

[pine spire]

found an abs printer what do i print

[winter fractal]

My very very modded printer

[winter fractal]

Another printer of course

[heady tundra]

my gas oven goes down to 100F

PLA glass transition point is like 140-150F

and i need to dehydrate this shit..

[vast hill]

A good way to get a big plastic donut

And ruin your oven

Go to a thrift store and buy a food dehydrator if you want to save money, or buy a proper filament dryer.

[heady tundra]

lame

[umbral edge]

Does it actually do 100 stable tho?
Use a thermometer to measure
Either way, best free method is just using your bed lol, take the box Filament came in, rip half of it off so it's just a lid basically, poke a hole in the top of it, then put the spool on the bed, cover with box, set bed to whatever recc temp the filament has for dehydration, wait 8 hours

[vast hill]

Whether it can do 100 stable or not is entirely irrelevant, because gas releases water vapor when burned.

[umbral edge]

Depends on the kinda gas oven
If it's a heat element or internal burner in the cooking chamber itself

I gots a gas stove that heats up a heat pipe which is routed into the cooking area

[heady tundra]

uhh I see an open flame at the bottom of it

it's super old

[heady tundra]

I'll do this, thankies :3

[pine spire]

froge

[whole wind]

Forg!

[pine spire]

59 minutes, 0.6 nozzle, 0.3 layer height, petg
this is reasonable right

[winter fractal]

Definitely could use some tuning but time is alright

[winter fractal]

I'd always recommended following this guide to a t
https://ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/

[umbral edge]

I avoid going above .2 later height myself lol

.3 with a .6 nozzle is CHONKY

[pine spire]

i like em big

[umbral edge]

That's a toothed worm gear not a screw at that point

If it works for you then nice but I could never lol

[pine spire]

ive found its just about the bare minimum for the mostly function over form prints i do

i ran out of the cyan stuff, unfortunately ive still got a couple rolls, each less than 200 grams, of old wet petg that i absolutely cannot be arsed to stick in a dryer

[umbral edge]

Just run it on your bed in a box for hours ex

[pine spire]

https://www.fabreeko.com/products/fysetc-venture-xl-600x600-large-format-3d-printer-kit

[pine spire]

pla+, did actually bother with drying the roll, only 3 hours though, switched to 0.2 layers
boy did i cook with this model

knife thingamabob

[umbral edge]

Bit the bullet and bought the centauri carbon

When I get it I'll tell y'all how it is

I got the fbt bundle cuz it's a good deal

They shipped the 2 spools and the anti vibration feet already 💀

It'll be a couple months before I get it lol

[whole wind]

Took forever but I made a thing!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7030229

[vernal ginkgo]

Welcome to the club

Had the first accessories arrive for it already, I’m still awaiting for the batch of cc to ahip

[woeful parcel]

Ewwww feet

[winter fractal]

I'm going to need a new room for these damn things soon

[umbral edge]

Fun lil make

(trying to get use out of the rainbow silk pla with 0 layer adhesion

[vernal ginkgo]

Some gooood news

[errant fern]

They are open-sourcing their RFID tag thingies?

That's cool

Although RFID is a bit of a red flag imo

https://www.elegoo.com/blogs/news/elegoo-rfid-ecosystem-feedback-solicitation

[errant fern]

As long as they dont end up locking it down, I think that's pretty cool. I can see a lot of uses for that.

[umbral edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnjVVY0om48

insane

high temp pla

better thermal resistance than abs or petg

and they have a GF version

its a normal pla price too

im getting some

[heady tundra]

what nozzle temp is used for printing it?

[umbral edge]

Printing Temperature: 210˚C - 230˚C
Bed Temperature: 25˚C - 60˚C
Printing Speed: up to 300mm/s
Fan: ON

https://us.polymaker.com/products/polymaker-ht-pla-gf?variant=44469752758329

[heady tundra]

oh damn

[umbral edge]

https://www.printables.com/model/1284555-elegoo-centaur-carbon-ptfe-tube-guide

[vernal ginkgo]

Buying some

[umbral edge]

I'm getting some with a steel nozzle on next paycheck lol

[umbral edge]

Never heard of this before

Interesting

[vernal ginkgo]

Needs a hardened nozzle?

[umbral edge]

It's fiber glass

Ofc it does

[vernal ginkgo]

Oh alr

[umbral edge]

Damn already

[heady tundra]

is it that bad???

[vast hill]

Probably someone who got in over their head

[heady tundra]

hopefully

but then again its like

3d printing is very easy if all you do is just download stuff from thingiverse

[vast hill]

Not...really. that's one aspect but there's a LOT of unprintable crap out there and the material science side of 3d printing catches people a lot, along with the mechanical engineering side.

[heady tundra]

well duh but im not talking about that

theres tons of people who just print silly little things they find online with

[vast hill]

I mean yeah, there's lots of people who do even that wrong too 🤣

[umbral edge]

^

[vernal ginkgo]

Wth

[vernal ginkgo]

To my knowledge people are having good experiences with it

[heady tundra]

oh ok

[umbral edge]

I've only heard people complain about Bowden tube angle (too tight of a turn at head, fixable)
Light inside way too dim (easily fixable)
And panel glass is tinted way too dark (bright lights fix, and you can mod a Bambu labs door onto it)

[heady tundra]

damn alright, probably gonna be my next 3d printer then

[vernal ginkgo]

Disnt they update the light?

[umbral edge]

Idk

[vernal ginkgo]

I believe they did

Im 99% sure

[umbral edge]

I sure hope so cuz it was basically a motion sensor diffuser over a single small diode under the camera lol

[umbral edge]

Oh nice

Cuz that lil thing was all it was before

The teeeeny blue one

They also opened up ports for custom strips that can be controlled via the software

Yeah no not bright enough

Screw that lol

Light is too high and not bright enough to bounce around and light up everything

Need a bed mounted light or just one that is below the height of the head too

I'll just tape in some cheap strip

[vernal ginkgo]

I hope they release info on the mcu soon

[umbral edge]

I shot it

Nah JK just slammed a hole thru it so I can cram a boroscope in

Now I have this insane view

[whole wind]

Noice

[umbral edge]

Panic decision this morning that works

Turns out I need to fix my offsets

[whole wind]

lmao

Gotta say, I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that before but I like the injenuity!

[umbral edge]

Same

I had a bit of paper beside me tho lol

[whole wind]

Green was a nice choice

[umbral edge]

Yeah I'm liking it

Teal-turquoise is a fav

Imma get some good pastel orange from polymaker and I'll have my fav colorscheme

Gotta add a knob for the extruder and z axis still

And a filament guide again

Maybe some better cable management

Got some clips here

Also the PSU and hotend fan shrouds make it so much quieter

[umbral edge]

and the tungsten carbide nozzle i got is working great

i think i need to up temps a lil but its pretty identical performance from what i can tell

[vernal ginkgo]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[vernal ginkgo]

Also

Bought this at a auction

But:

Took me 20 minutes to fix

Now I only need to replace the PEI plate and I’m good

[umbral edge]

should i get a steel pei sheet for my e3p

ill have to clamp it on top of my glass bed cuz the aluminum plate is bowed

[vernal ginkgo]

Well, having new issues with my Anycubic printer, for some reason its leaving those gaps”holes” on my prints

[vernal ginkgo]

Having an issue were my printer is leaving small holes in the print near the circle edges

[umbral edge]

Oh

Could be like

Slightly too high temp and too fast moving

It's not getting enough filament down in that spot, and has a lot of ghosting there

I'd just lower outer wall speed a bit

[vernal ginkgo]

Did it already, still doing that

But I’ll lower it even more

[umbral edge]

Raise flow rate?

Are you printing external walls first or last?

Can you print it at a diagonal?

[vernal ginkgo]

Last

[umbral edge]

Oh

Why

[vernal ginkgo]

Idk but I did notice it weird on this printer

Not like that oj the bambu

[vernal ginkgo]

How?

[pine spire]

PA?

[umbral edge]

Slicer setting
Flow rate

[vernal ginkgo]

I feel like the printer might be having underextrusion

[umbral edge]

Yeah

Slightly

Do like 110%

It's my Default

[vernal ginkgo]

Once I get home I’ll try

I hate the slicer the printer uses

[umbral edge]

Do you have to use it?

[vernal ginkgo]

Yeah

Locked firmware

There is a way to get orca slicer to work on it but its by jailbreak

[umbral edge]

ew

[vernal ginkgo]

Can’t wait to get the elegoo printer on Tuesday. If it works better I’m getting rid of this one

[umbral edge]

im current batch :(

[vernal ginkgo]

I'm sure it will arrive quickly

[umbral edge]

1 month

[vernal ginkgo]

it will ship quickly

do you happen to have a MC near you?

[umbral edge]

not at all

7h iirc

[vernal ginkgo]

oh well

jay

I might have made the worst decision of my life or a good one

[umbral edge]

i got my e3 pro from a MC
100$, flew coast to coast with it as a carry-on item

why

[vernal ginkgo]

how tf does airport security allow for a 3d printer in a carry on

[umbral edge]

if this is the worst decision of your life you have had it pretty easy 💀

???

its not like i could do anything with it

machine parts arent illegal

[vernal ginkgo]

my bank account its sitting at 600$ this is me betting it works and I can resell it

[vernal ginkgo]

allow me to remove this metal rod and have a pipe on the caben

[umbral edge]

??????
i could just have a pipe in my bag

[vernal ginkgo]

the worst decision of my life I honestly dont know what it is but moving to texas was a bad one, I can't stand the heat

[umbral edge]

they are allowed on planes, you just cant smoke it lol

[vernal ginkgo]

I highly doubt they'll allow that

...

[umbral edge]

why

[vernal ginkgo]

I just realized

[umbral edge]

realized what

you have to use words when explaining things

[vernal ginkgo]

https://tenor.com/view/gohine-hohino-no-hohineee-gohineee-gif-17792172174678204487

[umbral edge]

[umbral edge]

Wut is it

Petg?

[pine spire]

ye

i did end up having enough

[vernal ginkgo]

Yey

[umbral edge]

my filament arrives in a couple days

[vernal ginkgo]

Woop

:3

[umbral edge]

the korba screen looks like a wack placement

i like the bezels tho

[vernal ginkgo]

I like the placement of the kobra more actually

[umbral edge]

make sure to share measurements of the benchy :3

[vernal ginkgo]

Measurements?

[pine spire]

https://www.3dbenchy.com/dimensions/

[vernal ginkgo]

Haven’t measured it yet but I can say one thing. This printer blew me away with its quality

I’m really considering buying a second one

[vernal ginkgo]

can't measure angles but all of the mm were good expect for one

its giving me 61mm

[vernal ginkgo]

can I print ASA in my house?

[vast hill]

CAN you? Of course. SHOULD you?...that depends.

Got any small pets or kids?

Any respiratory conditions?

Is the room at least somewhat adequately ventilated?

[whole wind]

Open a window, close off the room from the rest of the house and keep a fan to ventilate and you'll be right as rain

[vernal ginkgo]

chiuahua

[vernal ginkgo]

its in an open space in the house

[whole wind]

Alright

[vast hill]

I would keep the dog away from it while it's printing, and until it airs out. Burning styrene isn't the best for small pets.

[vernal ginkgo]

mmmm... the printer is near a window, would it work if I open it and put a exhaust fan?

[vast hill]

I can't really speak to your airflow situation

[umbral edge]

Learned that there is a Lenovo Thinkpad x1 carbon

Which surprised me cuz yknow

There is also the printer with the same name

[umbral edge]

Seems like they got away with it just because they have a hyphen lol

[umbral edge]

Wtf is wrong with my printing lol

It looks like under extruding but it's so inconsistent

Imma cancel this all and try again

Ah the brass wheel is wearing out again

Extruder gear

Couldn't print a spacer since it was acting like this

Ez fix

[umbral edge]

like a dream

[vernal ginkgo]

I honestly don’t know how you can handle printing with one of those

I bought one, used it for 1 month and got rid of it. Couldn’t bare the suffering it working 50% of the time the other 50 would be a catastrophic disaster

[umbral edge]

Mine is pretty reliable

[umbral edge]

I think it's unironically a skill issue tho, not in any mean way at all, but it's such a mechanically simple machine, so it's dog easy to troubleshoot with how few parts there are
It can be horrible at first, but once you get used to it, it's very predictable

My worst experiences are with silk filament adhesion lol

@vernal ginkgo

They keep teasing me

Now they send a hotend, but still keep the printer

[vernal ginkgo]

For sure but at the same time I had the a1 mini, I guess sincr I had the bambu I chose the easy route

[vernal ginkgo]

Hope you get it soon!

[vernal ginkgo]

If they announce the MCU I’ll buy a second centauri probably and sell the Kobra s1

Found one hell of a deal today. Sunlu s4 dryer for 80$

[umbral edge]

Me too

Got the nozzle, it's machining is really nice

Like everything is nicely toleranced, all fins are exact same thickness

Also new PEI sheet and PLA-HT-GF

THE SHEET IS SO GOOD OMG

It just sticks perfectly

Never used pei before

[vernal ginkgo]

I want to buy some pla ht gf

But can’t find it in a color I would want

I need to get some red and white pla for my next project

[vernal ginkgo]

Let me know how it goes with the 0.2 nozzle

[whole wind]

Exactly! No more glue!!

Or hairspray despite it's fun properties

[errant fern]

You guys are so lame, I simply held the print down. 16 hour prints fly by real fast

[umbral edge]

I'll still use hairspray and glass for petg tho

[whole wind]

I guess that's fair

[vernal ginkgo]

Get vision miner

That thing is insanely good

[umbral edge]

why?

[vernal ginkgo]

?

[umbral edge]

Why is it good?
Like what makes it good?

Also I'll only be using this for another month

[vernal ginkgo]

I just applied it to my centauri carbon PEI plate. Also use it with my a1 mini.

Its great to hold down any filament to the plate. I used to have issues where the corners of my prints where starting to flex, never had that issue again after using VisionMiner

-One single application last for like 30 prints. Havent even used 1/8 of my bottle and done like 100-120 prints out of it

[umbral edge]

Noted for if I have the issue

[vernal ginkgo]

Centauri carbon making beautiful parts

[heady tundra]

danggg

[umbral edge]

Imma be pushing that machine so hard when I get it

You already know it's gonna be wack

I managed to get my e3 to print structural parts at 218mm/s

More than double base speed

[vernal ginkgo]

I’m surprised of the out of box speeds on this machine, its always trying to go faster

I had to slow it down for my filaments. I might get rapid Pla for it

[vernal ginkgo]

what filaments will you be using?

[umbral edge]

I wanna see how good it is with my high strength petg, and the htgf pla

Mostly pla pro tho tbh

It's good enough for most things, easily my fav pla

Polymaker pla pro*

It has a hardened steel nozzle which I'm not a huge fan of but it's built for it so it won't be as bad as replacing it with one

[vernal ginkgo]

Why you dont like it?

[umbral edge]

Thermal properties are a bit worse, it's marginal but the lower mass and conductivity compared to tungsten and brass does affect quality at high speed

Tho I've not used a printer built for a HS nozzle

It can be tuned for like anything else, but it's not simple

[vernal ginkgo]

You will like the machine out of the box

Not many printers come ready for abrasive filaments out of the box

Specially on the 300$ range

[umbral edge]

Fr

[vernal ginkgo]

how can I get rid of such line?

[umbral edge]

set your seam to a direction

[umbral edge]

Tried orca for the first time

It runs my printer so much better than cura

And faster

But the patching is so much smarter lol

Cura doesn't calculate efficient pathing, nor have the smart line placement directions to make it lower likelihood of first layer small lines coming off the bed

It's pretty well done

The wonders of modern printing lol

Discovering PEI and actually good slicers after years is funny

[vernal ginkgo]

Lol

Been using orca for my Elegoo since day 1

Found 10 kg of pla for 77$

Not a bad price

[errant fern]

I would use orca but it seems to be broken under wayland and i cba doing the workaround

[umbral edge]

@vernal ginkgo

[vernal ginkgo]

Thats a strong part

[umbral edge]

It's not even 100% infil

Just crazy strong pla

[umbral edge]

Couldn't break it on a table edge with my body weight

:3

Insane

[whole wind]

yeah but you light af soooo

[umbral edge]

It's still 130lbs + a 4inch lever

[whole wind]

Teeny tiny

[vernal ginkgo]

You really light

[umbral edge]

I'm a normal weight for my height

[vernal ginkgo]

5’3?

[umbral edge]

5'3 130lbs would be on the upper end of that
I'm 5'8 ish

Trying the nightmare rainbow silk pla

Again

Wish me luck

First layer is going on beautifully

I think I've fixed my extrusion issues!

Used some actual metal shims this time

Not plastic, so it can't flex at all

I think that was the issue before, the plastic shims were squishing a bit which let the gear skip

First layer is literally the best I've seen this filament do so far

So even <3

[vernal ginkgo]

After trying out the elegoo centauri carbon. This isn’t worth it unless you really need a tested reliable printer

[umbral edge]

It adhered fine, but it contracted so hard it lifted the PEI sheet and still warped it
However I did successfully do my first multi material print, manually, with a pause in the gcode

I also misaligned it

:3

[vernal ginkgo]

First multicolor for me also using the pause gcode function

[umbral edge]

It's something I am absolutely using in the future, it's pretty easy
I just gotta check it all the time, but has really good results

[past kestrel]

i took apart my extruder and lubed it with the lube that came with my printer do yall think that will that cause problems?

it said metal grease in chinese so i just went with it

[umbral edge]

what kind of extruder

and where

there is a lot unanswered here

id say at most itll cause a lot of smoke

[whole wind]

Like jay said it very much depends on where you're putting that Grease

[past kestrel]

on the gears

forgot to say sv06

standard extruder for that

i didnt put any grease where the filament comes through

i put a bit of filament through it and it wasnt giving any visible problems if yall think i need a different kind of grease for the extruder gears ill buy some

i think the grease it came with was probably for the bearings cause i heard those dont come lubed

[whole wind]

Then it's probably alright in that case.

As long as it's not anywhere near the heating element/fillament

[past kestrel]

cool

[umbral edge]

not me rushing making one of the oldest board games in the world rather than prepping for a set ill be playing in front of 80-140k people

(semi historically accurate royal game of ur

[umbral edge]

going insane

[umbral edge]

I still haven't prepped a set :)

I fly tomorrow

I will glue on all the tiles later

But

172 prints later it's pretty much done

7 checkers with a magnet of 2 colors, 4 D2 sticks, 5 blue trim segments,1 knob, 1 magnetized close drawer, 1 base box, 1 game board printed in 2 colors, 29 dark decorating tiles, 40 light tiles, 15 eye tiles

Oh and 38 5x1 circle magnets

Oh and 20 lil plugs for the magnet holes

I had to drill 4 out

Magnets wrong direction

Been building this for 20+ hours straight

I haven't packed for my flight tomorrow

Why am I like this

[umbral edge]

@vernal ginkgo tracker (printer box for scale)
It's so big omg

[umbral edge]

this is hilarious

the poop bucket is a mini version of theprinter

[whole wind]

Lol

[umbral edge]

Polymaker has a 35% additional off of everything today

[vernal ginkgo]

Tried to put it on the back but wasn’t able to

The screws were over tightened and made out of Chineseum metal. (Stripped easy)

[umbral edge]

Yeah one of the needed maintenance screws on the head stripped out instantly
Filament got stuck in the hotend (my fault) it was kinda bulged and I didn't think about it being overdiam

Trying to save it by running it without any fans, letting heat creep into the heating

Heat sink*

[umbral edge]

Didn't work, swapped the hotend out with the spare, and just swapped the nozzle to keep on .4

[vernal ginkgo]

How did you already ruined a hotend 🤣?

[umbral edge]

It just didn't extrude lol

I can fix it just got a unclock

[umbral edge]

Yeah I'm so used to a fully manual setup that I didn't use the special unload/load functions

Which is needed

Cuz it's not a simple machine now

Also can confirm it runs my super brittle PLA-HT-GF

Which can barely bend at all

But I was pretty concerned with that bend before the head

But yeah

I need to find a new home for it, it's got such a heavy head it wobbles everything I put it on

But it's still stable enough to print these like that

Which is wild

[vernal ginkgo]

Its a. Really good printer

Specially for the price

[umbral edge]

Totally

This is insane

Imma get the spec for all the flush screws on the head and give you em

So you can replace them

To not have rounded heads lol

Just waiting to email until Monday

[vernal ginkgo]

Those are?

[umbral edge]

The ones on the right side of the head

They are extremely prone to rounding

[umbral edge]

board behind nozzle has a led pad

:3

[umbral edge]

@vernal ginkgo @vernal ginkgo

https://youtu.be/ZJUVRm-niio

[pine spire]

chat i think my filament might be a little wet

[umbral edge]

Maybe

[pine spire]

friendship ended with aligned rectilinear, now line is my new best friend

[umbral edge]

gyroid best

[heady tundra]

100% infill gang

[vast hill]

https://tenor.com/view/nacho-why-confused-jack-black-gif-8714598

[umbral edge]

https://tenor.com/view/fn-fal-gun-animated-reload-gif-16393335

[ivory magnet]

MY CARBON ARRIVED

And I’m moving..

first setup will be at the new house! Lol

[umbral edge]

Be super careful with the screws on the whole thing, it's super low quality and will round out almost immediately

[umbral edge]

Also go to Lowe's and get the big rubber paver to set it on, makes a world of difference for vibrations for 7$

[ivory magnet]

yeah i saw that recommendation in a few videos.

[umbral edge]

Me too, I work at Lowes so I picked one up and it's 100x better than the anti vibration feet you can get for jt

[ivory magnet]

Right now I'm mentally figuring out where I'm going to put it. Obviously inside is optimal, but I keep all of my resin printers outside in the garage. I know I could potentially run into issues with fdm prints in the humid florida garage.. but I like to have all my stuff in one place. It's my shop. It's inconvenient to have everything split.

I do have a couple filament dryers that I could run when needed/ make sure to store my filament inside when not in use.

I also wonder if the humidity issues would more or less be minimized due to the enclosed nature of the printer

[umbral edge]

It is still gonna be humid in there kinda, it's thermally enclosed, but humidity does thru the small holes and fan spots just fine when turned off
I've had condensation form in it when heating up the chamber once
Not familiar with what you mean by the printer being affected by humidity though, from what I know the only issue with humidity affects the filament, and thus the printing.
I like printing out of the dryer, makes a pretty large difference in surface quality for all smooth materials I've used.
I'm in the same climate as you, just a tiny amount cooler lol, so assuming results will be identical

[whole wind]

Ooooh we talking filament dryers?

Just saw this video recently which was pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EWexck8NE&t=111s&ab_channel=CNCKitchen

Definitely something I would consider if you're storing a lot of fillament and don't want to keep buying silica gel

[umbral edge]

You can microwave silica gel and dehydrate it

:3

I recently got my first dryer

It's an uhhhh

Sovol sho2

[whole wind]

From what I understand you can only do that so many times before it's not usable anymore

[umbral edge]

Yeah

If you are running a farm then totally

Soldi state is goob

I need to invest in some dryboxes

Tempted to seal up a dresser drawer and fill it with a dessicant bed for the rolls to sit in lol

It took 30+ hours to dry out a roll of pla pro and petg

[whole wind]

Or just holding fillament somewhere for a while and you don't want to have to do any extra work to keep them dry

[umbral edge]

Yus

[ivory magnet]

That’s what I was referring to! The heat would probably help the prints if anything. The humidity rapidly deteriorating my filament is what I’m more worried about.

Sometimes all it takes it no joke like 3-4 hours before certain (PLA in particular) filaments become quite brittle.

[umbral edge]

I haven't run into any issues with this one, but the spool is outside the chamber but you can mod it to be inside with a panel spacer and internal spool holder

Haven't with this printer while printing from dryer*

[pine spire]

enclosed multi material thingamabob?

might be a lot of setup...

[umbral edge]

There is heated MMUs and elegoo is releasing one soon

[ivory magnet]

Which I will buy day one lmao

[umbral edge]

Same
Mostly for just ease of using multiple rolls, not multicolor stuff

This current setup

Also a sidenote, polymaker pla pro and elegoo pla works fine even a couple days after drying for 24 hours

[ivory magnet]

AHHHH im so excited to open up the box and fire off a print. It was PAINFUL to wait like 3 months for it… it finally show up.. and then I load it in the U-Haul hahah

[umbral edge]

Ouchie
I love this damn thing, I got to compare it directly to an h2d recently and it was nearly the same print results, just different build quality and volume lol

[umbral edge]

Shit rips

[umbral edge]

https://www.youtube.com/@SyntheticElectron3D/videos

this super small channel is making some cool mods for the ECC

mostly fan/volume mods

[vast hill]

Been working on making custom deckboxes to replace the boxes that come with this DeWalt parts box

I just finished the dice box 😁

The boxes are print in place and fold up into stand alone deckboxes too, so you can store them inside the case or on their own

[whole wind]

Looks awesome man!

I've been trying to do something similar with my toolbox for a while. Unfortunately I kinda dropped the idea after a bit

[vast hill]

Which brand?

If you can give me measurements I can tell you if mine will work

[whole wind]

Unfortunately it probably wouldn't work it's a Rigid toolbox

I'm thinking my best bet at this point is get a big block of foam and cut it to fit each tool

Got a 3D scanner to make inserts but I found it's a pain to 3D scan each tool and near impossible to make them optimized enough to model anything without fusion 360 crashing.

[vast hill]

Well, it would fit, it just wouldn't lock in because rigid is larger.

[vast hill]

Don't need a scanner for that anyway, just a pair of calipers

[whole wind]

True but I'm talking about making form fitting slots.

[vast hill]

I know, you really don't need anything more than some calipers and a top-down photo for the more complex stuff, I promise 🤣

[whole wind]

nahhhhhhhh

[vast hill]

Your right, for that you probably also want a radius gauge 😉

[umbral edge]

i learned how to make form fitting parts from early on, making lik 100 different mounts for eyetrackvr setups lol

just a ruler and a single pic is all you need

[pine spire]

i wish i had a chronograph

[whole wind]

Like the watch?

[pine spire]

like the contraption that measures the speed of projectiles going through it

[whole wind]

oooooh

I gotcha

[vast hill]

It's technically 3d printing? 🤣

[umbral edge]

is that a demon core kendama

[vast hill]

It sure is bud

[pine spire]

what are the odds elegoo pla+ is anything like esun pla+ in terms of strength

[whole wind]

Most likely, however every manufacturer uses a different formula for pla+

[vast hill]

I mean, I think there's only like 2 producers of resin in China for PLA resin?

So 50/50?

But eSun PLA isn't particularly strong anyway?

[elfin notch]

Pla resin?

[pine spire]

resin?

[elfin notch]

Dunno

[vast hill]

All plastic is hardened resin, in a base material science sense 😜

That said, after doing some digging because I was curious, it actually appears like eSun produces their own PLA pellets, whereas Elegoo buys their base material, so the chances of them being the same are almost 0

eSun claims they are fully vertically Integrated, which is an interesting detail to know

[umbral edge]

many of the companies buy pla as nurdles and make their own blend

which is inefficient

but cheaper for smaller batches

its super mixed tho

interesting market defo

i know some of elegoo stuff is just other brands spools

and their standard pla is very interesting

goopy

[pine spire]

cant find sunlu translucent yellow petg in stock anywhere....
it's a really nice color

damn you 3djake for this bullshit "in stock, if you wait a month!"

[pine spire]

they make pla+ in the same color
we are so back

[errant fern]

Does it look like my plate had proper adhesion?

[umbral edge]

Static cling?

[errant fern]

Very sticky paint

[umbral edge]

Man I find the idea of "embedded device fingerprints" in a 3d print to be so fuckin funny

Like same thing that paper printers have

The yellow dots it prints out that is unique to the printer and directly traceable

Good luck implementing that in a printer lol

People will just run a different firmware

[errant fern]

How would they even implement that in a simple 3d printer

[umbral edge]

You cant

It's just not a precise enough machine

It doesn't work on what is basically a grid like paper printers

Like

Paper ones inconsistencies are more towards colors being in the same spot, and even distribution of ink

The placement of individual colors is very reliable

Whereas 3d printers are so so so imprecise

And in order to read the id, you would have to take a damn ct scan of the object

It's for ghost guns of course, and isn't a new idea, but it's tarded asf imo

[pine spire]

da gub simply aint got da means

[umbral edge]

It's time to claim the means of production

[pine spire]

core one appeared at my local makerspace

[vast hill]

Nice! I sold my X1C and bought one too, been really happy with it

[pine spire]

they gave me the printer it replaced

[vast hill]

Heh, IN the core one box no less 🤣

[pine spire]

aw hell yeah

aw hell naw

[umbral edge]

what even is that

[vast hill]

https://tenor.com/view/project-clueless-gif-24372134

[pine spire]

this was a tevo tarantula from 2016
by now the only stock parts are apparently one of the motors and the frame extrusions

used to be in a heated enclosure to print the foul stuff

needs a power supply, sbc and probe to get it running

[pine spire]

https://tenor.com/view/project-clueless-gif-24372134

[vast hill]

https://tenor.com/view/game-of-thrones-tormund-giantsbane-this-is-the-way-gif-6920601626819058768

[pine spire]

i have no filament and i must print

[pine spire]

so i took a look at the bed

just imagine those wires
on those pads
looking exactly as they do off the pads

[vast hill]

Oh man, hopefully there's enough slack for the ol snip-and-strip?

[pine spire]

ya, plenty

[pine spire]

gonna go pick up a spare psu from my grandmother today, checking that off the list

[pine spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1n09aul/lego_3d_printer/

[umbral edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluJj3NEdQA&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

took em long enough damn

[pine spire]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008393691671.html? am i tweaking

[umbral edge]

Is that a bedslinger with a MMU for 265?

[whole wind]

oooh that's pretty cool

Both of those things

[vast hill]

It's REALLY bad

Fwiw

Apparently the firmware is completely borked (which usually wouldn't matter...because Klipper...except that their AMS thing is proprietary...) and their beds are very typically warped beyond a mm out of square

[vast hill]

They have to answer the INDX somehow, or their entire ecosystem gets eaten...and I'm honestly not sure this is gonna do it.

It's all the same costs as the INDX with needing to buy and maintain multiple hot ends, except you still have to pay for the heater and thermistor, on top of what the wireless receiver will cost, AND you'll have to buy a second AMS...but without the gains of things like TPU multi-material or the time savings of it just needing to swap tool heads and heat up & prime. The added time from cutting, retracting, and re-spooling, then extruding each filament is still the longest part of their MMU system...and this does nothing to address that. The purge was annoying but it kinda feels like they ignored that in favor of trying to sell people a second AMS?

[pine spire]

figures
maybe is hackable...? its so cheap....

not that cheap now that i think about it

[vast hill]

You can, but you still then ALSO have to deal with the overly floppy bed

[pine spire]

my 5.5kg of jayo clear petg has arrived

hate that plastic spools are often the cheapest

[umbral edge]

Plastic is always cheaper than cardboard, and easier to manufacture

[vast hill]

It would be better if we could all agree to move to a single reusable spool drsign

Cardboard spools are pretty awful for other reasons like the impact to print speed and the increased friction they add that the extruder needs to overcome, not to mention how much longer they cause it to take to dry the filament.

[whole wind]

Bambu labs has a pretty nice reusable spool that is made of plastic

Although chances are they copyrighted it

[vast hill]

Agreed, although they are likely to get litigious if someone else uses it

[whole wind]

Yup

[vast hill]

There are also problems with the Bambu Lab design anyway

Whatever the final solution would be, it needs to be something that is ALSO easy to wind if there is any hope for other manufacturers picking it up

The solutions right now really don't go onto replacement spools very well

Needs to be more brainless

[pine spire]

fml everything exploded
my probe cooked itself alive and i dont know why
i burnt my finger on it
my sbc appears to be dead
i no longer trust the mainboard nor psu
all the parts for fixing new printer now go to fixing old printer
fuck

[vast hill]

That sucks 😞

[umbral edge]

5v to ground my beloved

[heady tundra]

poof

[pine spire]

probe arrived, sbc is gonna be here by wednesday
we back

[pine spire]

it arrived today!

[pine spire]

i have made a small oversight

this has a mini hdmi rather than a micro hdmi
and no ethernet port

[whole wind]

🤢

Mini and micro hdmi suck so bad

[ivory magnet]

lfg

first print is sent off!

[ivory magnet]

Damn, this thing prints amazingly.

Like damn, okay elegoo.

[fickle thorn]

Man I definitely need to invest in a printer that won't shit itself everyday lmao

Looks great!

[umbral edge]

Get the ECC

Get itttt

[shy hedge]

Recommendation for CAD for 3d Printing, Fusion 360 or Solidworks Maker's License?

[whole wind]

Fusion 360 is probably the better way to get started, the personal edition is free so you can learn all the functions without having to worry about a subscription

Also Solidworks and Fusion360 are very similar in layout so when you learn one you have a very good idea how to use the other.

[shy hedge]

What happens if you start out as a hobbiest, but then create something you want to commericalize. Can you have your file and license converted to commercial at that time or are any of those files made while a hobbiest/maker/free license now locked to where you cannot commericalize them?

[whole wind]

Not sure, I've made many models over the years but I've always released them for free. From what I understand commercial is for companies to use to stay out of legal trouble, they're not going to hunt down an individual person who happened to make a neat model and wanted to sell it. As far as I'm concerned the only difference between the personal version and commercial version is less features for modeling.

For example the personal edition will only let you have 10 active models at a time. However, you can easily get around that by exporting your file as a 3mf source file and delete it off the dashboard. That way you don't actually lose anything, you still have the edit history for the model, and you won't hit the 10 document limit.

[shy hedge]

oh interesting, where do you export it to, your local drive?

[whole wind]

You can export it anywhere you like, I just have a folder called archived Fusion360 models

[shy hedge]

What about 3d printing, does it have to be a particular file type?

Anything you need to do to make it 3d printable and not risk wrecking your printer?

[vast hill]

You can also get around it by "locking" the file to edits, fwiw

You don't even need to export it

[whole wind]

Well when it comes to 3D printing you need to use a separate program called a slicer which takes the 3D model and "slices" it into the layers the printer makes. Typically what you'll see people do is they make their models, export it as an obj (geometry and color info) or stl (geometry only) file. Then the slicer program works it's magic and converts it into a file called gcode that the printer can read.

there are multiple kinds of slicers out there and they all work quite well it mainly comes down to what printer you're using and what slicer that manufacturer recommends. One of the most common slicer programs most people use with their diy printers is Cura because it's relatively easy to set up and understand. Other people who are more experienced in printing may want to use a slicer like Orca or Prusa since they have more features like model stitching for large models at the cost of making things a little more complex. For people who don't want to diy their 3D printer, there are also higher end companies who made their own slicer programs for their own brand of printers like Bambulabs. Simple to use, easy to understand, just send the file over and print.

[whole wind]

Did not know that, I'll have to look into it lol

[shy hedge]

Better to export as obj or stl, or doesnt matter?
I have a bambu printer that uses bambu slicer and another that uses Cura slicer

[whole wind]

Doesn't really matter, both will work just fine for 3D printing.

Obj has more information but you shouldn't really need to bother with it unless you want to do multi color printing.

[vast hill]

STL is going to work best. .OBJ and .STP are prone to errors with the way Fusion exports the files

[whole wind]

good to know, I've never had any issues exporting to obj but if other people are saying there's issues than it's good to note

[vast hill]

Fusion doesn't care that the slicers aren't properly optimized to read the data correctly, so when you do complex extrudes with a lot of generated vertices, the slicers tend to read that as non-manifold objects and throw errors that aren't actually there...it's annoying 😂

[whole wind]

Gotcha

I kinda would've expected that with Blender if anything

[vast hill]

Blender commits similar but different sins 😂

[whole wind]

couldn't agree more lol

[vast hill]

It just throws verticies all over the place that don't attach to anything

[whole wind]

That right there has nearly ruined a couple of my projects

Would love to be able to model more in blender to learn how to make organic geometry but that little issue there makes it so annoying.

[shy hedge]

IS that regardless of whether you plan to do single or multi-color?
Also is multi color something you build at the Fusion level or you assign that in the slicer?

[vast hill]

Color stuff inside the slicer. There are people who color inside of blender, I've never heard of anyone doing color inside of fusion (although I suppose it's technically possible...) but all of the tools you need to do a good job of it are in the slicer.

[whole wind]

It is possible I just did it about an hour ago lol. But yeah it's probably best to just do it in the slicer.

[shy hedge]

Any one using any gloves for finger control and/or haptic feedback?

Debating on buying some vs making some from some of the DIY projects out there

[whole wind]

for 3D printing?

[shy hedge]

I am intersted in 3d printable version or commercial

The lucid VR project was pretty cool, but the founder went AWOL and I cant find STL files or a solid guide to build the damn gloves despite an entire discord where no one has compiled a guide to building the gloves, despite 100s of people making it...

[whole wind]

Gotcha, in that case you might be better off asking in #vr-questions-and-help

[vast hill]

I've never personally understood how that would meaningfully help my personal workflow

[whole wind]

I think he was just asking in general for VR games.

But space mice on the other hand 😙 👌

Live my diy space mouse for 3d modeling but I need to tinker with it some more.

[ivory magnet]

Yo, 3d print chat.. so, I bought the "extended family bundle" for my centauri carbon and it came with a few extra build plates

https://us.elegoo.com/collections/accessories-for-centauri-series/products/dual-sided-build-plate-pack-for-centauri-carbon-centauri-3-pcs

How tf did they do this?

my first thought is that the built plate has some micro etching that transfers to the base layer of the print.. but like... the effect is stunning.

This isn't some sort of film is it?

I guess it is quite literally a "holographic plate"

as is.. micro etching into the pla/ filament that refracts light a certain way. Really impressive

very cool. seems to be an actual holography. Was on point with the assessment hah

[whole wind]

From what I can tell you are correct they use micro etching

[vast hill]

Mico-etching is more or less exactly what it is, yeah

Or at least it's a good way to explain it

It's a physical texture on the plate that transfers the reverse onto the print.

It works on other things too, my wife has some silicone molds with a similar effect she uses when making chocolate, it works exactly the same there too

[vast hill]

One thing to be aware of is don't use higher temp materials with those, you can damage the plate. Needs to keep the temps down for it to stay usable.

[umbral edge]

its just a textured plate, exactly the same as when you take clay and press it into a textured mold, it takes the shapes of the stuff you press it into
so the holographic microscopic triangles on the surface get iversely mirrored by the plastic, and since its symmetrical it is a perfectly functioning copy
if you rub your hand across it then it will go away due to hand oils, but soap and water brings it back!

dont do flexible polymers on them, they can end badly

[ivory magnet]

Yeah, this is all super super cool

[ivory magnet]

good thing I am a dumb pla boi

[ivory magnet]

Do you have the other build plates?

I have been having trouble printing on anything other than the standard "Rough" plate and this super smooth holo plate.

I have tried multiple prints on the "carbon fiber" build plate and it's failed every time

[vast hill]

I have a carbon fiber plate from WhamBam, but it's not a patterned texture, it's real carbon fiber 🤣

So it's a lot less noticible

[ivory magnet]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I found my issue with print failures I think

[umbral edge]

Ye

I just run first 2 layers 1/4 speed, slightly over extruded with mouse ears

I've been using the smooth side of the default mostly

[ivory magnet]

This feels so OP.

both resin printers going + the centauri

[umbral edge]

I miss my nozzle cam, imma prob swap for a lighter print head setup and install a spot for it again

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019656765090037830/1384045223252070492/image.png?ex=68d821cf&is=68d6d04f&hm=a16cab2cddd11077351a46d28e65e0035f15cf684dac11a8a80add1b06f4e4fb&

This was so peak

I streamed it off of vrcdn so I could remote access it

[ivory magnet]

I have had such weird performance with the build plates in general. I had a great print with the holo star build plate smooth side.. but then I encountered print failures (bad bed adhesion) on the carbon fiber plate and smooth side of the rough plate.

However, on the stock rough plate, I almost get overadhesion issues where the raft is really stuck to the print.

[umbral edge]

The only thing that isn't tuned right out of the box is first layer

I had massive under extrusion issues

Still have notable gapes in first layers

No clue why

And some have overex

Most things are super well tuned

But the first layers aren't defo

Printer to printer

Print some various tests for it

Also I do often use the glue stick on the smooth side

For even better adhesion

Also have you been drying your spools properly?

[ivory magnet]

Yeah it's kinda funny tbh. Some things are so ridiculously tight and tuned out of the box while some other things are clearly overlooked.

overall impressed though.

[ivory magnet]

And sorta. I still haven't gotten filament drying down to a science yet.

[umbral edge]

What I've done that worked is just keep drying them over and over with the lid cracked

[ivory magnet]

I have this guy

[umbral edge]

Dryers are still kinda newer tech, so most of them aren't the greatest designed
Some get the moisture out good, but the heat gets out too
Some keep the heat in, but moisture doesn't get out cuz it's too sealed (mine, I just put the scraper in to hold it like 1cm open)
Some do both (looking at 600$ tho)
And some do neither

Oh I'm not familiar with the space pi

I'd have to look stuff up

[ivory magnet]

I am very excited for the multicolor addon

[umbral edge]

Fr

Not for multicolor for me mostly, I can do most things with good tolerances and enough time

Just convenience of material choices

[ivory magnet]

same

I don't care too much for actual multicolor haha

Just being able to quickly and easily swap mats is what I'm excited for

[umbral edge]

I wish MMUs were more expensive tbh
Thousands of tons of waste at this point from the ease of access of the Bambu ones

[ivory magnet]

what you mean, like material waste? Like wasted print material?

[umbral edge]

All the multicolor printed toys and trinkets and stuff

It was bad enough it was banned off of etsy

[ivory magnet]

Wait for real?

what

[umbral edge]

Yeah it was like

Facebook moms

Got a hold of it

And AI generated 3d models

Because it was all so accessible

You you have these people cranking out like 80g models with 100g waste per in purges

[ivory magnet]

Oh god. Yeah, I was shocked when I came across cult3d and saw the ridiculous amount of ai generated models everywhere. AND they're all PAID

Also, where are people getting their prints nowadays? Any good communities?

I have been a thingiverse guy since day 1 but it seems kinda lame lately

[umbral edge]

Printables

Thingiverse isn't as good

Printables has dope challenges and stuff sponsored by prusa

It's lovely

And there is easy print integration with slocers

[ivory magnet]

swwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeet

yeah, I use prusa still for my Ender 3 pro (which I recently revived btw hahaha, thing still is kickin after like 40 bucks in upgrades)

what slicer you use for your centauri?

I really like the network options and I've just been using Elegoo's fork of Orca.. what's it called, ElegooSlicer?

[umbral edge]

I'm using orca

Elegoos "fork" is I think just a rebadge

[whole wind]

Don't knock PLA! It's a lot better than people say. I use it all the time!

-# and not because I print in my bed room and don't want to die from the fumes of other filaments like a dumbass

[ivory magnet]

I love pla. I print in it exclusively haha.

welllllll... besides resin. I mostly resin print.

[whole wind]

Fair enough, I want to get into resin printing but maaaaaan it's messy

And a bit expensive

And highly toxic

[vast hill]

If you use home assistant at all, I have a script that can take a snapshot from the camera every 10% and send it as a notification. Not sure if you can add the resin printers to home assistant but you definitely can with the elegoo...

Like that

If anybody wants it:
https://gist.github.com/Xelinor/f6c692b06efcf00c17788d590c4f08f1

[vast hill]

I'm a Thangs guy mostly. I'm moving over to posing stuff on printables instead, but Thangs is where I go to look for models since it searches everything.

[hazy nimbus]

hmm, this isn't printing but the hobbies often go hand in hand, so Imma just ask here anyways.

Y'all think the makera z1 is a good device to get into cnc (mainly for dnd stuff like fancy dice boxes)? 760€ for me, and it's the first enclosed desk cnc getting me hyped so far. the genmitsu cubico looks nice too but I fear it'll limit me in size too quickly :/

also wanna do some aluminum/brass stuff for e.g. leather stamping, so I'll lkely need the more powerful one

[ivory magnet]

Ah cnc, I’ll get into it one day!

Also, I had no clue you could get an enclosed cnc for under a grand. That’s wild

[ivory magnet]

You've actually got me pretty interested in this machine. First I have heard of it.

For 3d print peeps: https://www.makera.com/pages/makera-z1

[hazy nimbus]

I can't find anything about the pricing of the optional attachments though... might come with the KS release.
Because for their other models, 500€ for the air filter or 4th axis module seems a bit excessive.

And yeah, there's a few desktop cnc machines for around 300$ out there, but with varying quality and precision, often with relatively low RPM. but alas, I'm but a beginner in this stuff so I might be getting snake-oiled

I'll take my chances and put down the deposit since they claim it's refundable, and decide when I see the KS prices I suppose

[umbral edge]

Found this gem y'all would like

[errant fern]

What the fuck is this monstrosity

[vernal ginkgo]

Wtf

[whole wind]

Tbh I'm more impressed than horrified

[pine spire]

how...

[heady tundra]

spray foam failure

[umbral edge]

btw the cc mmu is delayed

they releasing the cc2 with an mmu system and removed "q3 2025" off the cc page

[vernal ginkgo]

Aww :c

[umbral edge]

I think I've just had the worst injury thing that a 3d printer can give

Second to flat out fire and horribly burning you

Clogged extruder

Was unclogging it

Yeah it unclogged alright, and exploded on my face

Molten plastic, audible explosion

I'm lucky I had glasses on

It hurts a LOT

So PSA, clogged print heads are pressure shrapnel pots

@vernal ginkgo @ivory magnet

I have 1mm wide blisters across my face now

:)

Looking a bit better now, it's mostly 1st degree, minor blistering but it was LOUD and freaked me out lol

Only small shard of plastic shot out that wasn't molten, poked a tiny hole

OH NO IT WAS FIBERGLASS PLA

😭

This is gonna suuuck

[vernal ginkgo]

Didn’t know that could happen

Hope you get better soon, and that no fiberglass stays in your skin

[pine spire]

oh fuck

[umbral edge]

It's cuz the heatsink hole too small

Should taper down and be much smoother

Tbh 3rd party hotends might be the go if the bore surface is smoother or more tapered

And I only got 2 solid bits of plastic stuck into my skin, and a lil itchy, but otherwise only mild burns

Doing fine

[whole wind]

OWWWWWWWWWWW

at least you had glasses

[umbral edge]

It would hav been a hospital time probs if I didn't

I was inches away

[whole wind]

yee

[vernal ginkgo]

Noted. Use safety glasses while fixing a 3d printer

[umbral edge]

@whole wind @vernal ginkgo they fucking ai generated first aid reccomendations for burns (and its bad cuz its for fire burns, not molten plastic/sugar burns, which should be treated differently 💀 )

"remove all plastic stuck to skin"

[whole wind]

I'm surprised you bothered to email them.

[umbral edge]

what?

[whole wind]

What would you even say "help my face is covered in molten plastic"

[umbral edge]

nah i just gave a detailed explaination of how it happened, and how it is caused by the design of the heatsink bore

[whole wind]

You'll have to excuse my crappy English I just drank 5 fireballs for a wizard bit

[umbral edge]

with proof

[whole wind]

Ooh I gotcha

[umbral edge]

so i sent pics of the burns and plastic on face lol

cuz it was relavent

im getting a whole new extruder

itll be fun taking this thing the rest of the way apart tbh

they have followed up with their R&D team, saying they will look into associations between the surface finish of the heatsink hole and clogging

[ivory magnet]

Don’t think I put this anywhere?

Most recent stupid print project. Halo CE Magnum. Did it a few weeks ago. Lots of parts. Recoverable mag, rubber band on the slide so it’s “cockable”

[heady tundra]

real one when

[ivory magnet]

You can probably see a couple weird pseudo failures on a couple of the resin printed parts, but given the design it’s a little expected (and the layout I chose in slicer)

A little post processing could fix it up.

[ivory magnet]

Halo 7 legendary edition:

preorder bonus:

working magnum

[heady tundra]

neeeeed

ngl campaign evolved would've been received well if they shipped magnums with preorders

[umbral edge]

1800%

[fickle thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-car-crash-gif-25646236

[queen coral]

I recently got a new tower case, I didn't like the gap from the PSU to the edge( ...and the sff gap to the side in a full size PSU bay ).

[fossil valve]

YEEEE FINALY i can show cool shit and learn morw

Where are my centauri bros at?

[umbral edge]

Mine exploded on my face

Make sure to point the holes away from you when unclogging a heatsink clog

[fossil valve]

had mine since release never had a single issue

[umbral edge]

I have so many issues with the hotend clogging

But I've put like

7 spools thru it

[fossil valve]

Strange I can show my prints

[umbral edge]

And swapped filament over a hundred times