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General Lee Jeep
Easy enough to cut up the whole hand piece in the slicer to do that.can you also print the fingers so you can glue it back together all shitty?
Easy enough to cut up the whole hand piece in the slicer to do that.can you also print the fingers so you can glue it back together all shitty?
Especially with something tall and skinny like that.Try printing with a raft. It helps the part adhere to the bed and will prevent it from breaking loose during the print.
Can you print it with the concave side up (so it's printing a flat piece with "walls and turrets")?It finished!
Now on to the back. Having hell getting started, that dip in the center is back. I think since I used a heat mat under the glass the tin foil spacer just sank into the mat. I think I'll try and switch to the pei sheet and magnetic bed?
I realized it with a raft it seems easier to get started because the raft lines are all just straight.
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I just printed it according to the instructions, they suggest face up so the finish is good, I think it came out good.Especially with something tall and skinny like that.
Can you print it with the concave side up (so it's printing a flat piece with "walls and turrets")?
Aaron Z
What in the fuck are you taking about? Are you doing it wrong?I just printed it according to the instructions, they suggest face up so the finish is good, I think it came out good.
I'll hit the bag end on some sand paper to remove the rest of the supports/raft.
The back is running now. Got tired of fucking with the octopi webcam so I used my portable security cam. I never really liked octopi much, it doesn't jive with my printers firmware so its clunky. I only used it because I was trying to leave the printer in my shop and print remotely, that isn't gonna work.
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Not a clue what I'm talking about, if you are keeping track I abandoned this shit 5 years ago cause I had no success.What in the fuck are you taking about? Are you doing it wrong?
Octoprint is awesome.
Set it up once, save the settings. Install the plug-in for your slicer of choice. Then just hit print.
I never had too much trouble getting PLA to stick to the glass bed, sounds to me like your temperatures a little low.
Right now I print everything with PETG, and the PEI sheet is the way to go IMO. That said it’s not exactly fool proof. I did have pretty good luck using blue masking tape over the glass bed for about a year before I bought the sheets.
I think most of the problem is unlevel or inconsistent bed flatness.
Temps might play a role as well
Printing a raft seems to get me a workable print but sucks for the additional time.
I got the PEI setup on the desk, just waiting to get this project completeish before tearing it down again.
That's a option too, I'm not against it either. If this was a milling machine it would be foolish to only set z height with a piece of paper.I added the touch sensor to mine. It’s a better experience wasn’t really that difficult.
Set me up with some PETg parameters...I'd count it as good experience, throw that shit away, and reprint in PETg. PLA will warp and get brittle quickly in the sun. Might as well start the project from a better material.
PEI be ok?245* nozzle, 75* bed, 45mm/s, 3mm retraction.
Don’t even bother trying to print straight to the glass, printing to blue masking tape will work. you need a bigger nozzle to surface gap, adjust it until the layer has some squash to it but it’s not flattened
dudeSpent waaayyy too long in SketchUp on some oval tubing clamps for a pool side table. Sketchup has been really fucked by getting sold off to Trimble, the "solid tools" I needed to get the model ready for 3d printing are a "paid upgrade" now.
I imported the stl into TinkerCAD and fuck me what another learning curve. I finally got a gimpse of a grasp and was able to just rebuild the model entirely in TinkerCAD.
It's printing now, I'm sure nothing about it is accurate.
Seriously, try Onshape. It’s far more intuitive to me—I can’t draw shit in sketchup. Never tried tinkercad, though.Spent waaayyy too long in SketchUp on some oval tubing clamps for a pool side table. Sketchup has been really fucked by getting sold off to Trimble, the "solid tools" I needed to get the model ready for 3d printing are a "paid upgrade" now.
I imported the stl into TinkerCAD and fuck me what another learning curve. I finally got a gimpse of a grasp and was able to just rebuild the model entirely in TinkerCAD.
It's printing now, I'm sure nothing about it is accurate.
Tinkercad is by Autodesk so it'll probably be a good gateway to Fusion 360Seriously, try Onshape. It’s far more intuitive to me—I can’t draw shit in sketchup. Never tried tinkercad, though.
IMO it's not a good comparison to any parametric modeler I have ever usedTinkercad is by Autodesk so it'll probably be a good gateway to Fusion 360
Once I figured out how to assign dimensions to the parts it got a lot easier.dude
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I can model reasonably complicated things in solid works & pro E. Never been able to get fusion 360 to be worth a shit.Once I figured out how to assign dimensions to the parts it got a lot easier.
I never said I was smart but I can model anything I want in SketchUp.
Fusion 360 I had a 25% success rate...