• Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    I use my 3d printer sparingly. I don’t like printing useless stuff, so I design parts when needed if I can’t find them somewhere else.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I use my printer when I need it. Once I learned CAD, the need to print toys and trinkets basically evaporated. (I did just print a tiny guitar for my daughter for Christmas as a placeholder for a trip to the guitar store after the holidays were over.)

      The printer is now an extremely useful tool. The drawback is that I don’t use as much filament and have had a few spools degrade on me. It’s no biggie, but it’s a time suck to dry it and get it usable again.

      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Do what I do, when you have filament, extrAs, supports. Leave them in a 5 gallon bucket until 2/3 full. Then go out to the garage with your old toaster oven and make filament bricks. It takes no time at all to make…please help me I have filament bricks 9x12x1" everywhere. Please normalize this lol

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Same but when I do use it, wow is it handy to have around. It’s more than paid for itself with all the stuff I’ve been able to fix with it or make outright.

    • NixDev@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I am the same way but I get hell from the wife for purchasing something that isn’t being used. So now I have a table full of articulated dragons, and a wife asking why I have so many…

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    I like printing those flexi Dino’s.

    It’s for my niece. Honest. Grown men don’t play with Dino’s….

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        My favorite is Gunther’s steggo.

        To print. My favorite to print! (“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ahahahah!”)

        Although for testing new filaments, I usually go with a small egg-shaped spiral printed glue pot (or paint pot or small parts holders,) small things, I feel like spiral prints show flaws, as well as layer adhesion issues.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        my niece likes the sparkly stuff. That you know… destroys nozzles.

        Ah the things we uncles go through, huh?

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I use the microswiss hardened nozzles they last well enough for the price points. unless you’re going to go up to the ruby tipped nozzles, they’re still going to wear out with just about any of the abrasive filaments.

      • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I recently tried some dual-color silk filament. Half the filament is one color, half is another color. It makes cool looking parts that are different colors on each side.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        (I mean, that’s the joke, right? I do play…. Even when no one is around. Actually? Helps me focus; gives my mind a rest from problems for a minute, if that makes sense.)

    • NixDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Your niece will love it if you ‘scale to print volume’ (in prusa & super slicer)

      Did an articulated dragon on an ender 5 plus. It is over 4 foot long. My daughter loves it

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        that… would make a dragon that’s larger than the niece is.

        I shouldn’t do that. It’ll give her… ideas.

        (who am I kidding, this is what uncles are made for! the only way this could possibly get any better is if there’s LEDs and a pi pico.)

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      The articulated print-in-place animals are such great gifts.

      They are fun and look magical how they are just printed as one piece.

      I also like the NASA fabric, it is like 3d printed chain mail, but then futuristic

  • Lilnino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I got addicted to converting USGS and European digital elevation data to 3d topo map prints; I just think they’re neat!

    • Chriswild@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      That sounds neat. If you change filament with elevation it could be pretty educational too

      • Lilnino@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        My wife is from Italy, so I printed out a topo of the valley where she grew up. It took me a long time to figure out how to change to the European projection in the software I was using, and I didn’t write down how I did it; unfortunately I’m not sure I can figure out it again! There’s a digital elevation TIFF of the whole EU available online, even Czechia! If you want to make it a project, I can point you in the right direction and give you some pointers on converting to a obj file to print. I found a couple websites that went through the process, but I didn’t find their directions very complete and had to figure a lot out myself.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I recently made a violin that sounds pretty decent but I don’t know how to play it yet

    The main body was what I was worried about the most but it turned out pretty easy it just took a long time

    Check out the “modular fiddle” everything fits fine on a cr6 se

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m a mod in a telegram group (not piracy oriented). Pretty much every other day comes in a clueless idiot asking, ipsis literis, “what’s the best printer?”

    Ask said idiot what they want to print and you’re met with one of two: silence or “I wanna print some stuff”. What stuff? “Oh just a couple of stuff first, you know” - They want a printer without having a fucking clue of anything and they’re always surprised to know that resin printers are a thing.