#3D Printing - Show Off - Help - Tips & Hints - Tools

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forest anvil
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Talk about 3D printing, show what you have printed, lets share tips, hints and ideas, what tools to use and how 😊

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First attempt on printing a miniature Tac-2 joystick failed... learning is fun 😄

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Second attempt is better, still some ugly ridges where it should be smooth though

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Made a bracket for my security cameras, went a bit overkill with the holes for screws, but hey, now you got options 😄

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Decided to make a workspace for the 3D printer with tools in arms reach 😄

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heavy niche
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looks cool you should share how the prints look in your program before you print them

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like it'd be cool to see the process behind the scenes of the 3d printing

forest anvil
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Can do 🙂

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Currently testing ideas for a railing where I can mount different kind of tool holders
First two images are from 3DS Max, the colorful one is in the slicer program (printer application basically) and a progress image from the printers cam 😄

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forest anvil
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Test pieces work as intended. The small part is just a placeholder that can be remodelled to hold some sort of tool 😀

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The smaller piece has a very small ridge on the "flaps" so I grabs onto the railing, but can move freely horizontally

forest anvil
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Did not design this one but it is cute and good to have if I need to file or sand down some pieces 😀

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forest anvil
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Not sure who was more confused.... printer or me
Looked at it, the tool is fine lol

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heavy niche
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is making these models hard? I've found Blender quite hard and don't know how similar is it

forest anvil
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it can be if you never used 3d modelling software, I hate Blender but only because I used to spend so much time using 3DSMax

heavy niche
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Blender is very unintuitive for me

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every button and combination that normally does 1 thing, is completely different in Blender

forest anvil
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the hard part starts really when you need to make more complex shapes, in addition to 3D printing you must also take into account what you actually can print, some shapes, arches and other angles require more planning

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3DSMax has a crapton of buttons and shortcuts too, but I felt since I already know most of them in one software I do not want to relearn with another software

heavy niche
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too lazy to start learning Photoshop because I can already do what I need with Paint.net

forest anvil
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Photoshop and Gimp (Linux) ... I just cannot use Gimp

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IIRC Paint.net tries to do things like Photoshop, I could be wrong with todays versions though, was quite some time since I used Paint.NET

heavy niche
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yea it's the same

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nothing changed

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it's a great alternative for photoshop

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and if you get the right plugins you can get close to what you can do with Photoshop

forest anvil
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Yup, pretty much 🙂

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there are online webb apps for 3D printing model making, haven't tried them tho, OnShape seems to be very popular

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these are specialized for 3D printing, so you could learn one of those if you are interested specifically in 3D printing since they do not have a plethora of features you do not use anyways

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my measurments for a android tablet VESA mount are out of whack... have to a bunch of post-print fixes XD

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Tabs on the sides were too wide apart, had to cut into the base and glue new tabs 🤣

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trail heath
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I've had a 3D printer for a while, but I won't be able to use it until we move in... expect to see me post here in a few months wolfwink

forest anvil
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Sweet 😄

hexed dune
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Just shooting an idea but how does 3D printing a 3D printer sound?

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I assume it's possible except maybe all the electrical stuff

heavy niche
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and that's a very complicated process

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but just a model I guess you can do that

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people build guns with 3d printers

hexed dune
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Fair, though I assume there are a ton of open source stuff out there

forest anvil
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The quality of the printer would be questionable though, but you could make 3d printed brackets and such, build the cage out of aluminum tubing... it has been done 🙂

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxcP74W-PgE&t=934s

YouTube
Ivan Miranda
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I 3D PRINTED - GIANT 3D PRINTER BUILD PT.2

You and your company can try Onshape for Free at https://onshape.pro/ivanmiranda

The files for this 3D printer are here:
https://ivanmiranda.com/products/big-3d-printer-mkv
These files are mostly finished and I'll keep updating them with whatever improvements or changes I make to the machine.

The part 1 of the build where I complete the frame ...

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forest anvil
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Made an arm for the security camera bracket

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Dropped the camera just as I was mounting it, but seems to be in working order 😄

heavy niche
forest anvil
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camera picks up the infra-red diodes 🙂

forest anvil
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Lesson of the day, it is easy to break small parts when removing the support material ☹️

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Speed glue to the rescue 🤣

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(That is a box of screws as a weight)

open silo
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If your printer supports it, you might want to look into running Klipper or Marlin with it

forest anvil
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looking them up 🙂

open silo
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I got my printer running Marlin firmware that I modified

forest anvil
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do'h, someone asking if klipper works on p1p on reddit.... reddit is broken "We had a server error..."

heavy niche
forest anvil
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I think I'll bail out on swapping the firmware, the Bambu firmware has stuff I might need later

forest anvil
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Got started on "kit bashin" 😉

forest anvil
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Just need all the small details now 😀

hexed dune
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Oo attack helicopter

forest anvil
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done a bunch of small random detail parts I can use for builds like this 😄

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Gonna print those tomorrow when I get back from work

long veldt
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what printer do you have? I wanted to grab one sometime, any recommendations?

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also your prints are looking really nice

forest anvil
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I'm far from being a pro, but to answer your question, I'll answer with an answer I got from a youtuber 😄
Get the Bambu Lab P1P if it is in your price range, best bang for the buck... it is really fast

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Their X1 is almost the same but with a cover, and some other neat stuff, but if you don't mind the open frame P1P is fine

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X1 costs alot more too

long veldt
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thanks! I'll check those out:D

forest anvil
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It has begun, almost 3 hour print XD

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long veldt
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Good luck!

forest anvil
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Lessons of the day: Tiny parts easily break lose during printing if not supported properly XD ... Do not experiment with too many parts, its a PITA to pick up the failed loose parts while saving rest of the print

open silo
forest anvil
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Thanks 😄

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overall. it wasn't too bad

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Basically these parts got loose and I had to chase them with a pincher so they do not get on top of other parts

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forest anvil
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Lego man looking a bit wonky 🤣

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gusty minnow
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rickets

heavy niche
forest anvil
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Just finished his big brother, much better even if no face 😉

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heavy niche
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woah that's a big boy

forest anvil
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had to make it a bit bigger so it doesn't break during assembly lol

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the small guy has some parts glued 😦

forest anvil
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Something more serious,making this spacer so I can fit a tiny IR remote in this Bluetooth keyboard 😎

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forest anvil
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Added some random details to my hover ship thingy

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my god I hate autocorrect, needed to edit my message like 6 times

forest anvil
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Todays build: fume extractor for soldering or using superglue 😎

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I will build compartment on the backside to hold a filter some day 👍

heavy niche
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nice

forest anvil
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Filter compartment with a sliding door so I can change when needed 😎

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forest anvil
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Dipping into electronics in this room but the enclosure was custom 3d printed 😀

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Typing wrong arming code a few times, then the correct one, system goes into arming stage, armed with pulsating red diode. And finally unarming 😎

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right now this is a dummy, but next I will learn to hook it up to my WiFi and Home Assistant, which in turn can do fancy stuff like play a mp3 really loud, turn all lights on in red etc 😄

trail heath
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That's awesome!

heavy niche
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the explosive used should be a grenade, so that you can't hide from it

forest anvil
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XD

forest anvil
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Designed a backplate for it, but it is too late to print today

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trail heath
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Too late to print? I thought prints are usually overnight

forest anvil
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if you got the space for it, I mean I can hear it from the other side of my apartment, not to mention I would most likely disturb my neighbors

bold venture
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How do i make tpu be less stringy? I turned up retraction and i’m already at the lowest temp my filament says to use. Bed temp is like 50

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but beds fine

forest anvil
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I'm a noob at this and currently having problems with PLA lol ... maybe @open silo knows a thing or two?

forest anvil
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oh wow, cleaning the bed with isopropanol actually made a big difference, no floating parts after a while XD

bold venture
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hmm

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glue stick thingy

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and that helps it stick

forest anvil
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I think I had some fingerprints and what not on mine 😄

bold venture
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open silo
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Bowden or direct drive extruder?

forest anvil
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Got the scale wrong, ball does not fit 🤬

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This is just one section of three, wasted 3.5h on this print alone

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the slot you see there is just a carve-out so I don't waste filament

forest anvil
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This is the idea with all three sections together

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forest anvil
forest anvil
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@long veldt Thought you might want to see the small progress, a start at least 😄

trail heath
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Cool!

forest anvil
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🙂

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Printing parts, 3h22m left

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long veldt
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Let’s go! That’ll be awesome

forest anvil
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4.3h later... ball fits this time lol

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forest anvil
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I need a farm of 3D printers... gonna take 9 hours with my next parts lol

forest anvil
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Camera on my printer sucks so I put up one more security camera in my apartment 🤣

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forest anvil
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Parts ready for assembly tomorrow 😀

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trail heath
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This is a really cool project! Once we're more fully moved in, I'll finally be able to actually use our 3D printer

forest anvil
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😄

long veldt
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are you planning to do scoring and have bumpers and that kinda stuff?

forest anvil
long veldt
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that'll be so sick

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you making them, or buying them? seem like a hard thing to DIY, but i dont know anything about how they're constructed

forest anvil
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I will try to make bumbers, they are crazy expensive

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This is the exit from the plunger so the ball can never go back

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forest anvil
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Started with power distribution ✅️

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At the bottom , a 12V PSU

forest anvil
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Small design flaw 🤣

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forest anvil
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Got my special screen today, made some rudimentary programming 😄

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forest anvil
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Some testing with my "buttons" ... sometimes they get stuck :/

forest anvil
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@long veldt some progress 🙂

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Modelled brackets for the monitor to attach it to the far back end of the box I've built thus far

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long veldt
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That’s awesome! Any plans for the layout of the board?

forest anvil
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just the 3d model I did earlier, I got some ideas but I need to figure out how to design "buttons" first

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Made one yesterday, but the footprint is huge!

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already made a change to this, added a gap at the back so you can pop of the lid if needed

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this is the one (times 3) in the video above

forest anvil
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table taking shape, with monitor attached 😄

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bold venture
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i need to like

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i need to print a new antenna mount for drone 😭

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My current one is trash

forest anvil
bold venture
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so i was lazy and just drilled out all the holes

forest anvil
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Ah, they joys of reprinting XD

bold venture
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but also it sucks because it needs to be in TPU

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also

forest anvil
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Like this frame for the monitor, I somehow made it 1mm to small

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bold venture
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it’s now permanently attached to the drone

bold venture
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And i lost my calipers

forest anvil
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(I blame that it shrunk XD)

bold venture
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So i’m basically just like

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…

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guessing

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LOL

forest anvil
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Eyeballing 😄

bold venture
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it’s like

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less than 1mm between too loose and too tight since it’s held by friction

forest anvil
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oof

bold venture
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i have to get it like

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perfect

forest anvil
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is it a small piece ?

bold venture
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yeah

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it’s smol

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maybe just print multiple idk

forest anvil
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at least that is "good" ... I mean, the frame took me a few hours to print XD

bold venture
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it took me like a hr or two to print maybe

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it’s not big

forest anvil
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My printer is superfast ... at least commparred to this heap of junk (Sovol 06) we got at the Makerspace lol

bold venture
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well

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normal speed

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but then i have to slow it down

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for tpu

forest anvil
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have not printed anything in TPU yet

bold venture
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it’s alright, it’s still stringing but like

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i don’t really care anymore

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im too lazy to change it

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plus i only need drone parts and i wouldn’t really use it otherwise

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and like drone parts won’t look good anyways since i’m running into stuff all the time

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or tapping on stuff with the blades and stuff yk

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plus my drone is already covered in dirt LOL

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not covered but

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like

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the outside has dirt on it LOL

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inside is fine other than just a bit of dust

forest anvil
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😂

bold venture
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i also

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need to print a new camera mount

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but i’m so lazy

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i’ll probably try to find one

forest anvil
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LIttle bit of protyping with a solenoid and 3d printed ramp for the ball to return to start position

hexed dune
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God this whole project is so cool

open silo
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Planned on doing the round bumpers at some point too?

forest anvil
forest anvil
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A new design with a "gearbox" which should extend the elevation a bit while still using a 180 degree servo

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Gonna be first thing I print when I wake up 😄

forest anvil
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Failed 😑 tolerances were too tight making small poor servo to choke

forest anvil
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Skippad the gearbox idea, ordered contiguous servos instead

open silo
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You can modify partially turning servos too

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To turn them into continuous servos

forest anvil
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Yeah, thats an option, but I might wanna use them for something else 😀

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I saw some dumb solutions too, like bypassing the pcb and drive the motor directly lol

forest anvil
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Pics of my pop bumper prototype, still missing the solenoid that is used to pull down the cone using the two outer rods

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The solenoid is triggered when the ball touches the "skirt", which in turn tilts the middle rod making it contact the plate with a hole

open silo
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Ooo, fancy

forest anvil
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might need to redo the plate with the hole as it is a bit too big, the idea is that it should make contact when the ball just barely touches the skirt

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very small margins

forest anvil
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This evenings frankenstein build for a prototype 😄

trail heath
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Lol activate windows

forest anvil
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Not my computer 😛

trail heath
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@forest anvil I finally got my printer set up! Quick question, could scaling a model like 10 times as large cause any problems? I have a model that I designed to be 10x10 mm but that was too small. Should I scale it in the modeling software or the slicer? Or does it not matter?

open silo
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Doesn't matter which one you scale it up in

trail heath
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Ok cool

forest anvil
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What he said 🙂

trail heath
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Sorry for the ping, I'm new to this

forest anvil
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np 🙂