Mehridian Sanders Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Salutations all. I just got a 3D printer and am looking forward to using it with the community. If any 3D Modelers have something they want printed please send me your STL file and I will print it up and send to you. Shipping and filament cost only. On top of that .. does anyone feel like taking a swing at a "Double Wide Speech Synth Case" for modelling? (To accommodate the TIPI/32k and Speech Synth?) I really don't have the time the learn 3d modelling as fast as I would like to. Thank you kindly in advance. Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 On a side note found my old 10" Acer Aspire One. Which will run the slicer program with 1g of DDR3. Might just run it right off that.Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 40 minutes ago, Mehridian Sanders said: On a side note found my old 10" Acer Aspire One. Which will run the slicer program with 1g of DDR3. Might just run it right off that. Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Congrats on the 3D printer purchase. I also took the plunge and bought one a couple of months ago. Which one did you get? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted July 31, 2020 Author Share Posted July 31, 2020 I picked up the Creality Ender Pro 3 .. good price for a starterSent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 On 7/30/2020 at 9:42 PM, Mehridian Sanders said: I picked up the Creality Ender Pro 3 .. good price for a starter Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Still a good choice. I did find the Creality slicer program to be lacking some. I ended up using Ultimaker Cura for all my prints so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehridian Sanders Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 Still a good choice. I did find the Creality slicer program to be lacking some. I ended up using Ultimaker Cura for all my prints so far. I opened the advanced menu in slicer, and thought I was reading Cyrillic. Gonna have to teach myself this 3d modelling hoodoo sometime lolSent from my Pixel 4 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I use Cura as well. One thing I kinda want to try some day, is to print some "channels" in the back of some copper-clad perfboard for making a clean wire-wrap style circuit card. (Basically, components go on one side, wires on the other. The side that gets the wires gets 3D printed on, to create "retention channels" to hold the wires in place, neat and tidy.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Just bought the Ender Pro 3 as well. This has been a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 I would like to start this with a fun pattern I found... the 2020 Dumpster Fire... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4648427 But seriously, one of the patterns I've wanted to do for a while was this Archon set, which the link is currently down... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187973 Does anyone have this pattern saved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 I recently did some plumbing repair, and was "very pleased" by how well PVC adhesive sticks pipe together. For a solvent weld, it does an amazing job. So, I wondered if you could PVC filament. Turns out, YOU CAN. I am seriously contemplating ordering some of the black, then doing some tests with PVC pipe glue. It could make for interesting builds that are not easy to accomplish otherwise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 13 hours ago, doctorclu said: I would like to start this with a fun pattern I found... the 2020 Dumpster Fire... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4648427 But seriously, one of the patterns I've wanted to do for a while was this Archon set, which the link is currently down... https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187973 Does anyone have this pattern saved? Go to the second tab--you can download each of the thing files individually from there. I just did that about five minutes ago. The zip with all of them in it seems to have issues. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillG Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) On 7/29/2020 at 2:56 PM, Mehridian Sanders said: On top of that .. does anyone feel like taking a swing at a "Double Wide Speech Synth Case" for modelling? (To accommodate the TIPI/32k and Speech Synth?) I really don't have the time the learn 3d modelling as fast as I would like to. Tinkercad is a very approachable way to get started in 3D design: https://www.tinkercad.com/ You add or subtract geometric shapes. Definitely give it a try. Somewhat more advanced is OpenSCAD, a parametric design tool. It is somewhat like programming. https://www.openscad.org/ Both of these are free to use. At the other end of the spectrum, more powerful and difficult to learn, are the full-featured "professional" CAD programs. Edited November 29, 2020 by BillG Added link for OpenSCAD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/28/2020 at 10:11 PM, Ksarul said: Go to the second tab--you can download each of the thing files individually from there. I just did that about five minutes ago. The zip with all of them in it seems to have issues. . . That is so cool, thanks for the tip. Hopefully will print them soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I rather like my expensive CATIA seat. Mainly because I know how to use it very well, but also because it has a very nice built-in sterolithography function for making very nice .stl files. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Just got a printer and am really having problems with supports - esp ones that are hidden... Easy to remove external supports, but how are you guys removing internal supports? For example, in this model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2021930 There's a gap that needs cleared out in this picture: Thanks for any help... Youtube makes it easy to find some simple/obvious things, but not this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 for troublesome supports, I will model a support I am "happier with" directly in the model, and leave a small air gap so that the support acts a little like a raft. the amount of air gap depends on the layer height you intend to use. It should be between 2 and 3 layers of air gap. This allows the plastic in the nozzle to still make contact with the surface, but it does not "spread" like a normal layer, and makes only very weak contact. It is sufficient to supply support for subsequent layers, which WILL stick together, but the weak contact with the support lets the support snap off/pop off. I usually only bake-in supports like that, if there are features that I absolutely must not have material generated inside of-- deep holes, or living hinges, for example. Some slicers will allow you to set this kind of air gap yourself with the autogenerated supports. I think the latest version of Cura supports this, but it is an experimental (eg, hidden-- you have to turn it on manually) option. https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012612779-Support-settings 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 7 hours ago, wierd_w said: for troublesome supports, I will model a support I am "happier with" directly in the model, and leave a small air gap so that the support acts a little like a raft. the amount of air gap depends on the layer height you intend to use. It should be between 2 and 3 layers of air gap. This allows the plastic in the nozzle to still make contact with the surface, but it does not "spread" like a normal layer, and makes only very weak contact. It is sufficient to supply support for subsequent layers, which WILL stick together, but the weak contact with the support lets the support snap off/pop off. I usually only bake-in supports like that, if there are features that I absolutely must not have material generated inside of-- deep holes, or living hinges, for example. Some slicers will allow you to set this kind of air gap yourself with the autogenerated supports. I think the latest version of Cura supports this, but it is an experimental (eg, hidden-- you have to turn it on manually) option. https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012612779-Support-settings Thank you... I've got a lot to learn here.. Not making my own stuff, yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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