of all the potential 3d printing has, all i seen people do is make stupid idiot shit like cartoon characters and pencil holders. frick you.
3d printing sucks
of all the potential 3d printing has, all i seen people do is make stupid idiot shit like cartoon characters and pencil holders. frick you.
despite all of the potential, there just aren't many uses for the average consumer other than printing out cheap trinkets
It's more that noone who wants some small custom part has any idea how to 3d model the fudking thing then get it made
It's revived gameboard honestly, being able to make figurines at a fraction of the cost of what gameworkshops would sell at. Most of the cost is the IP.
that's fricking gay who cares
3d printing is for making plastic hardware and brackets, drone parts and guns.
Consumer 3d printing is kinda lame yeah. The problem is not many people have ma y uses from them or lack the creativity to utilize it to its fullest extent. Nylon, carbon fiber and plastic filament is kinda based.
Sintered titanium and other metal based 3d printing is incredibly based tho.
I think I'm pretty creative and could think of some cool shit to do with it. I'm a sculptor and pretty good at mold-making, but I'm technologically challenged. How do you get started in this? Where can I go to learn about it? Embrace the tech, I guess.
what are you going to make a cool Star wars vase and then put it on your shelves very useful for autistic people who have a tendency to get veganas wrong
No. I was thinking more like very large figurative sculptures that could be tiled into sections printed, molded, then cast in the final material in such a way that they could be assembled dry, or mechanically as part of a cool pattern locking puzzle. But the locks are integral to the surface. I can see the outside in my head, but the locks would be too precise to do by hand. So what's a good place to learn basic tech?
The "printing" analogy is apt because like printing graphics there's a lot of design and layout preparation that can be done without much concern for the production process, other planning and refinement that needs to happen based on which materials/process you choose, and then actually running the equipment/process to create the finished printed item(s).
To that end, learning the digital file creation part of it is crucial, learning the intricacies of running the equipment is less so, the same way knowing how to create a business card or T shirt design is more important than knowing how to operate the respective presses and troubleshoot the process.
If you are a sculptor used to conceptualizing in 3d you're already well on the way, that middle ground of knowing what design decisions or prep work will make things easier/ cheaper for any particular process or material is akin to creating a screen printed t shirt design in layers so the color separations are already done, or designing an object that will be molded with minimal undercuts rather than just doing whatever and making a more complex mold.
IOW knowing the general principles and techniques of the process is very helpful both to your pocketbook and to whoever runs the job.
tl;dr: learn to create designs in 3d modeling/CAD software and worry about realizing them later, the beauty of the technology is that you can tweak that original record of your idea at will to account for factors you might have been unaware of as a noob.
>a cool pattern locking puzzle
>I'm a sculptor and pretty good at mold-making
You are already bettered equipped to bring your ideas into reality. A 3d printer will nothing but a disappointing frustration for you.
>3D Print model
>Epoxy coat model to smooth it.
make fibreglass/polyurethane/silicone mould from model.
It really isn't that difficult.
learn zbrush
>make stupid idiot shit like cartoon characters and pencil holders
Yes, this is because most people with them use them as toys. Because these people don't know how to use CAD software so don't ever design anything for themselves.
Learn CAD. Fusion 360 is free IIRC. You can pick it up fairly quickly using youtube tutorials.
>Learn CAD. Fusion 360
Ño ño no
Use Freecad
Onshape for me.
Fusion 360 is paid or gimped.
Not sure freecad is up to snuff yet but should probably try it out.
>Learn CAD. Fusion 360
Frick no, learn Blender Sculpting. Free, easy to learn, big community and can emulate traditional sculpting techniques. CAD is just terrible for artistic stuff like that.
And yeah, blender isn't the most popular software for 3D printing and there are many reasons, but in this specific case it's just a better option. You might not be able to make a perfect 34.5° curvature on a perfectly measured gear or mechanism, but it's a great solution for artistic purposes.
To start 3D printing you must first practice 3D modelling/CAD. Once you can produce digital versions of your ideas, you can start working towards printability. If you're coming from a sculpting/art background I can recommend Blender as a FOSS program that should be relatively intuitive.
Solidworks has a student version for noncommerial use that will automatically make a mold for you if you import or make the model in solidworks. It also had in built mastercam to generate the G code.
I'd like to make some aftermarket moulds and fittings for lights and surrounds on any moving vehicle.
It's $200 to get started with PCA printer, then thousands to get a finished, repeatable piece out of the machine. Software, casting metal, working plastic....
I'm having trouble imagining your face on my ass
I work in an aerospace CNC shop. They got rid of their metal printers after they were bought by a large company. Wish I could've worked with them.
it's just autists with no idea what they want to do other than play with a machine. like the same ones that drop 3k on camera gear to take pictures of the ceiling.
>the same ones that drop 3k on camera gear to take pictures of the ceiling
Who does that? Do you have any examples of really, really nice ceiling pictures?
It's a canvas of opportunity. Most users are just moronic. Each printer pays for itself every time it makes a frame or receiver.
>Most users are just moronic
Welcome to everything, ever.
Please be nicer friend
please tell me what you were doing with this incredible technology that is deserving of respect. also I love you baby. :-*
Not him but I prototype robot parts over and over until eventually I have the all the CAD for something I know works well to order "production" parts of
that sounds cool but you're a lying prostitute and I like it
I reprinted broken parts that I couldn't buy without buying a whole new table, counter, stove etc...
Well, lost mold castings became extremely easy with cheap-n-shitty 3D printers. Also lots and lots of retrofit clips, housings, handles and knobs are printable without even leaving your garage. Prototyping mechanical crap is also nice, some dudes were printing pretty damn nice gears out of nylon for their lathe
guns
thegatalog.com
those things fricking suck
If you say so anon
This I see no reason for printing any more of those ghost gats, as a gun owner and 2a enthusiast, we need to get them off our streets alomg with high capacity clips
have fun getting anally raped by tyrone anon
Looks like it's good for making small precise jigs. Can't justify buying one though.
>precise
No. 3D printing and precise doesn't go together. This still holds for 500k metal 3d printers in most cases.
You can easily get parts within ±0.1mm tolerances from a stock 3D printer and you have multiple ways of improving upon that.
Also this
, most people don't have enough creativity left after going through the American public school system to use a 3D printer to its full potential.
> be me
> be unemployed but use time to brush on cad skills and model neat ideas
> no money to 3d print them
> get a job
> too brainded after work to design anything, still too broke to have space for a 3d printer
>still too broke to have space for a 3d printer
Are you homeless?
Nice conjecture bro
of all the potential human brain has, all i see op do is make stupid idiot posts like b***hing about other peoples pencil holders. frick you.
your hobby stinks, fatass
why the frick do people call this crap "3D printer" instead of "CNC hot glue gun", because that's what it is
so why do people call printers printers instead of cnc ink dispensers ?
that’s not how printers work dumbass that’s a plotter
Never heard of an inkjet, have you?
But it is a 3d printer.
All printers are 3d printers.
Bacause they're in 3d tbh.
I mean, I just saved about 100$ and a couple of days waiting time for some AR-15 stuff, that will be needed to create a mockup for my browning BAR AR stock adapter.
But hey OP, keep b***hing about pencil holders
i wouldn't put shit made from this playdough cuck magic material anywhere near a rifle
lmao look at this Black person not understanding basic prototyping. If printed parts fit, they will be used for molds for carbon fiber and aluminium. Mostly because those materials look better, I have no doubts a printed AR lower receiver would work just fine
prototyping, lmao. rick click -> save as -> make prototype. prototyping a carbon fiber aluminum steering wheel for my nuts. nobody has ever seen this.
they do work just fine. i definitely do not have any first hand experience with them, but they work fine
Professionals in every industry that do alot of prototyping for new parts use 3d printing now its pretty based
>a non load bearing component
>NOOOO THATS UNSAFE
Well, safety aside, they are for poorhomosexual cucks who couldnt make the part out of steel or aluminum.
I want to see the parts you've made out of steel or aluminum. Genuinely interested.
> Genuinely interested.
Follow /emt/ (when a new one gets made)
>a non load bearing component
>it's a fricking lower receiver
have fun attaching your fancy superglue to any gun worth a damn
its a stock you moron
Is the stock of an AR-15 part of the upper receiver assembly or lower receiver assembly?
Neither you pavement ape.
>a plastic buttstock will compromise the integrity of mahhh raaaaifuuu
consider suicide.
>non high temp part
This dumbass doesnt know how fricking strong PLA
>it’s good because it helped me consoom product
>prodoocing is the same as consooming
this is your brain on porn
the less american post in PrepHole:
Nice boot dumbass.
What kind of skinny ass feet do you have lol
You know all that shit is going to be worthless when we pass the gun ban right?
Get fricked.
Why do you think people print gun stuff? Bait?
Of all the potential the internet has, all I seen people do is make shitty threads on a Hawaiian Pearl Diving Forum. Frick you.
>Pearl Diving
it takes Guts to write that out
You don't calibrate your printer by test-making a simulated pearl necklace?
Are you a bot or just genuinely new?
>all the pros calibrate their 'chines by making simulated pearl necklaces
I’m having problems with mine. The test ran ok but I want to make one where the last bead is the same size as the neck catch loop thing so it stays on better.
You are going to rip out your insides if you aren't careful with that thing.
pull it like rip-starting a mower
those were the days
Fake wh40k figures sells like gold
do you actually get the detail you need at that size? I was thinking about printing some figures for board games and such...
>make stupid idiot shit
Yes. Simply because there is a very very narrow middle in the Venn diagram of 3d printer owners and 3d engineering modellers. (Primarily because the latter are employed to use much better machines.)
So the vast majority of 3d printers are turning out bullshit from websites. And those websites only show the popular shit. So even if there was something useful, it's probably only for like a dozen people.
E.g. my thrustmaster controller knob replacement. It broke. I modelled and printed a new one. Uploaded it in case anyone else has a broken one (or wanted a more ergonomic shape I guess.) Thrice. Three times someone grabbed it. And I have every reason to believe two of them were mirrorers.
The machines are pretty much useless as anything but Dollar Store bullshit factories (without the marketing) for anyone who can't model. And practically no one can model.
>The machines are pretty much useless as anything but Dollar Store bullshit factories (without the marketing) for anyone who can't model. And practically no one can model.
This is very true.
As a mechanical engineer who uses Inventor at work often, I could not fathom that there are actual people...who do not model BUT own a 3d printer.
Without modeling, you take away 95% of the usefulness of the printer. You're a prisoner of others' creativity.
>You're a prisoner of others' creativity.
I'm stealing this line.
I'm a trained ME and 90% of what I print I design in CAD. I'm now attempting digital sculpture bc how hard can it possibly be.
I cannot fathom ppl that want to 3D print stuff but can't model.
überraschend minderwertig.
Sinnlose Änderungen der Wandstärken. ungünstiges Design zum Drucken ohne Stützstruktur. Einfach Gießmodelle hochgeladen. ekelhaft
sorry, i wanted to translate into engrish...
surprisingly inferior.
Pointless changes in wall thicknesses. unfavorable design for printing without support structure. Simply uploaded casting models. disgusting
Assume you're referring to digital sculpting.
I used it to make some very general stuff. My actual interest is doll making, which is a weird hybrid between sculpting (the human form) and mechanical (all the joints.) I haven't figured out the workflow between the two yet...
Join any 3dp group on facebook. Thousands of printer owners can't modify an STL, let alone do their own modeling. As an engineering dropout that became a truck driver, it's pretty disgusting. That one semester of AutoCAD made F360 a breeze, though.
>Thousands of printer owners can't modify an STL
It's been a while but I never found a method to open an STL to edit it. I usually just imported it into F360 and basically built my own model in its shadow, then made my changes.
Anyone who doesn't upload at least a .step file (although.f3d/.sldprt is even better) with their .stl is basically a piece of shit. The worst is when people go too low on their poly count, so every rounded surface looks like a cut diamond, but if you have a shitty enough printer it will just round it out anyways and look ok.
What needs to happen, is slicers actually being able to work with paramedic solid files, instead of just wire mesh files. It's totally doable too, but we're still stuck in 2010 apparently.
CAD skills isn't a bottleneck.
Wecterners who can afford it being moronic is though.
They think 3d printer just magically prints out excitement like in reddit stories about ghost of kiev.
Turns out they are just only white in America.
FDM is for homos, I'm a SLA Chad.
My dad 3D printed a gear for his israeliteelry gem cutting machine. He also used it to 3D print rings which he used to make molds to make complicated patterns. He built his own because they wanted upwards of a 1000$ for the gem cutter. Pic related is a wedding band he made for my wedding. No 3D printing on this, made his own solder out of zinc pennies. Pretty much pure silver.
youre married to your dad?
anon, thats gross and im pretty sure makes you homosex
You have to be 18 to post here.
My two printers have more that paid themselves off with some of the random projects I've made that friends and family asked me to make another for them, I have a neighbor who flips RVs and I've sold a few parts to him that saved him time and money. Cope is inevitable.
You have an awesome dad anon. Few people are so lucky to have a father that cares.
Hype. I was just working on a concept negative mould to create wax positive moulds for lost wax casting silver + gold israeliteelry. My cousin is the aspiring israeliteler but I'm into the smithing aspect so were working together on some stuff.
The vast majority of people who have 3D printers don’t build things. They aren’t good with their hands.
So obviously when you first get a 3D printer you make knick knacks.
But I think that’s a good thing. Young kids who otherwise wouldn’t design or build anything are interested in a tool where they create all sorts of stuff.
And if they were to harness it, they will learn skills that translate over to other skills.
It’s better than kids playing mobile games all day, lots of kids move onto better diy hobbies
Yeah honestly this. I got a 3D printer for my birthday a while back and it’s nice to have but I want to get into designing 3d models to print and to maybe design some things.
>get a 3d printer! now you can manufacture your own plastic landfill at home!
PLA is biodegradable. It's made from basedbeans (polylactic acid).
I have been in the resin printing game for a couple years, and I've printed a $1000+ of miniatures alone for about $500 in equipment and resin. Telegram for pirating STL files of all sorts.
I finally bought a FDM printer ($250) and I've already printed a pistol grip for my PDW and an AFG for my rifle. That's $50 (retail) right there, and they cost maybe a few dollars in PLA+ filament. There's plenty of people printing guns that work just fine, and they're less than $25 to print a lower for a Glock-compatible frame. It's another hobby that is fun for autists, yes. You can print .22 suppressors that handle rapid fire for $5-10 and can just be reprinted if they break or warp from the heat. I printed a riser for my red dot and it's handled 500+ rounds without losing zero. Again, it's a hobby for most.
>PLA is biodegradable
Under specific conditions seen in an industrial composter, yes but it still takes a long while. If you were to just bury some PLA or leave it in the woods, it will be largely unchanged for many years. The myth that common PLA doesn't present a lot of issues from an environmental standpoint isn't great to perpetuate. That said, it's still better than many alternatives. Best thing you can do to reduce plastic waste IMO is to tune your printer and make sure your prints actually turn out well.
I can't post all the random plastic parts I make for work.
Things to make on a 3D printer:
-custom tray to hold your $500 whetstone
- custom tray to hold your other $500 whetstone because imagine only having just one
-custom covers for the $3000 chisels you use those stones to sharpen obsessively but never use to make anything
-lens cover for the microscope you use to check sharpened edges of chisels and the carbon steel Japanese kitchen knives you use to cut the crusts off of sandwiches with
-custom picks for noodling on the pro quality guitar rig you don't gig or compose music with
-custom key fob for the custom hot rod you never drive anywhere
-custom organizers for the 90% of your sockets you never use when obsessively working on your hot rod you never drive
-display stands for the tiny useless bowls you make on your lathe that you call art because they are riddled with insect holes and other damage
-custom precision one piece shims to level that lathe because eyeballing it with shim stock is for hacks
-complete system of router templates for lettering so you can carve "live, love, laugh" onto pine planks
-replacement knobs for trash picked/ thrift store VCRs you are going to restore and flip
>carve "live, love, laugh" onto pine planks
People still buy this shit on etsy
I have this board at the workshop with a large inclusion that almost looks like vagine. I keep it in the "interesting wood, what do?" pile. Some day I'm going to paint Live Love Laugh or some shit, write up a blurb on how the wood comes from a tree my great grand mother's summer property and sell it 100 bux.
Anon... Are you me ? I've never felt so related
>-replacement knobs for trash picked/ thrift store VCRs you are going to restore and flip
Personally I use my 3DP to square up my sliding bevel keep coffee/hot pockets warm, but the last one never occurred to me. My fleet of 60's-80's era TV sets with various missing and broken knobs thank you from the hearts of their bottoms.
>custom tray to hold your $500 whetstone
>custom tray to hold your other $500 whetstone because imagine only having just one
>custom covers for the $3000 chisels you use those stones to sharpen obsessively but never use to make anything
This is how I picture most 3D printer owners. If I had more disposable income maybe I could be that guy too.
you forget upgrades and ricing out the shitty 3d printer itself
>ricing out the shitty 3d printer itself
didn’t forget, it just goes without saying that all of those other projects get in line behind making new versions of all the printer parts that the 3D printer engineers got wrong but you identified as crap the moment you took them out of the box as a noob 3D printer owner.
Only when all of those failures are fixed and it's *just* right can you begin to make all the other things like chisel covers to replace the obviously inferior stock ones or the state of the art whetstone tray whose design is informed by 30 hrs a week of sharpening meme chisels.
as an employed engineer (not mechanical to be perfectly honest, I design HVACR systems) I can tell you that price matters more than designing the best product
at the beginning I had to change so many designs to make them worse (but cheaper), now I don't even bother and go for cheapest from the beginning
there's also the issue of boss getting too many projects and thus tight deadlines and thus not enough time to perfect everything (sometimes not even enough time to look the project over carefully after finishing the first design)
Yeah, I get that and it's impossible to optimize every single bit and piece of that kind of equipment at any particular price point...so "functional" being the threshold is not just OK, it's imperative if you ever want to get a product to market.
But that kind of points out the folly of the mindset being mocked- nothing wrong with finding some part lacking or redesigning it for your actual needs but some people go overboard just based on an assessment of hypothetical "issues" and waste time "correcting" them to a point where they spend more time improving and testing and dialing in the equipment than they ever do actually making things with it. Then they claim theirs is superior to the stock one the other guy actually makes things with because he has to do two seconds of extra work to smooth out some tiny glitch.
no custom tray to hold the keys?
>plastic shims for precision
sorry I don't read poor
I wish it was satire.
>worried about paying for itself and quality
>will gladly spend $50 on a 2d printer cartridge
3d printing isn’t going away friends
I got to see digital tech sweep through the sign industry and what people fail to realize is that the early equipment is optimized and marketed for maximum commercial appeal and usefulness rather than performance.
It doesnt have be that versatile or more refined or replace all other methods, it just has to be better than the alternative for one important task to catch on and once people have the equipment they will find ways to use it that weren't even considered on the drawing board. Those "surprise" uses may eventually become entire industry niches themselves.
In the case of 3d printing the ability to make perfect reverse/mirror images and interlocking elements are a massive advantage to all manner of creators whether they are making finished items or prototypes or jigs or measuring/registration guages or plugs/molds.
The "rapid prototyping" label just appeals to people who do that commercially who stand to benefit most by early adoption.
I just saw one of those car customization/restoration shows where they noted that 3d printing is helping a lot to make rarer brands and vehicle models better restoration candidates because they don't need to have the robust aftermarket replacement parts support that all the popular stuff has to get all the fiddly litte pieces either made directly or a mold made, or to tweak the shapes, or make a fitting jig. They were using hand held scanners for larger areas and could scan something like an existing fender panel and make a mirror image in foam on a cnc plotter and use that as the guage for recreating the totally missing one on the other side, or mold fiberglass directly over it where appropriate. In some cases that would help show previously hidden dimensional discrepancies from other repairs, or just built in slop from the factory build.
um no? what's fosscad, gatalog, DD, ctrlpew, and the literally thousands of electronics accessories and projects that people have made? you're looking at the wrong communities and forums. go to the communities you have an interest in and see how 3d printing is applied to those hobbies. if you are only looking at 3d printing applied to nothing, with no context, all you get is shitty knickknacks because there's no context for anything else. it's just printing to print.
kinda true but in my opinion its the stock nozzle they give out and the degenerate culture that grew from that.
a 0.4/0.2 nozzle just discourages anything useful cause of time. then most materials suck too but its gotten better.
difference between 0.4mm to 1mm nozzle is huge. you can easily go from idea to 3d print within the hour.
those are just shit to dial in your printer, everyone is really printing guns, even the neets and permavirgins.
>even the neets and permavirgins.
Those are the only ones who use guns anyway.
city dwelling bugman homosexual Black person. Kys.
can't you just buy guns?
Not the kind we're printing. Come find us if you're really interested.
>of all the potential 3d printing has, all i seen people do is make stupid idiot shit
heh, yeah, those chuds are the worst, bud
Obsessed much? Thanks for letting me live rent free 🙂
>the first time myspace lighting made something look worse
A what?
>dare i google it?
>heh heh, le time to make obscure references no one but my subreddit knows about
>you're on your own now bud, I claim victory tee hee
Reddit-queers never change
>someone mentions "google"
>tactically misread that as "reddit"
I see your "bud" tic has made its return
This is fricking abhorrent, I can't believe anyone would do something so grossly offensive. That underextrusion is just so egregiously bad.
Cool zig zaggy design or whatever tho
I used to work at a company that started 3D printing car bodies. The engineers at the company thought it was a dumb idea, and many of them quit after the fact. It did seem to be a dumb idea. The car bodies were very heavy. Since its hard and brittle material, there was no crumple zone at all. Most moronicly the bodies were very vulnerable to thermal stress, so if you cycled them through hot and cold weather the layers would split and the car body would crack in half.
I have done some small scale 3D printing and I feel like it is a lot of hype. The primary advantages of a 3D printer, as I see them are:
- their flexibility in what they can make with minimal (zero?) re-tooling
- the particular of the shapes that they can make
The problem is most anything worth making, is usually made at scale, and at scale 3D printers dont have much of an advantage. If you are going to make a million of something, you dont need to retool, so its a negligible cost.
The one and only real success story I have heard of 3D printing is from SpaceX. SpaceX 3D prints their rocket engines. That makes sense because:
- The geometry requirements of a rocket engine are really precise
- You don't make rocket engines at scale
- You can iterate easily. So if they want to make small modifications they can do so without having to change anything about how they make the engine or the geometry of any other part of the engine.
>cars and rocket engines made of shitty plastic
I think he's talking about laser sintering.
Frames are still best made out of steel tubes tbh.
every production on Earth high volume or low volume is done with CNC milling machines and laser shits that has nothing to do with 3D printing
You could not be more wrong kiddo, there's enough demand for 3D laser sintered metal machining that they make actual machines for it, just check out what Trumpf cooked up to answer the demand.
There are shapes and processes where machining or laser-cutting and welding just won't be enough, where they make the product with 3D sintering, for example complex engine internals that couldn't be machined, venturi-structures for rockets and thrusters and even now, firearm suppressors that allow for continued fire due to elaborate venturi-based cooling design only possible with a sintered 3D structure. You're a bit too naive and not forward thinking enough to find uses, you are probably too hung up on the associated costs of a new technology.
>The problem is most anything worth making, is usually made at scale
Completely ignores the fact that that traditional fabrication methods practically demand that a *need* for large scale production be the primary factor used to determine "worth" unless money is no object.
>be me
> manage screenprinting shop
>all quotes for scratch jobs begin with charge to make screen(s) and setup charge x number of screens
>customer: holy shit that's expensive!
>me: yes but when you make 10,000 pieces it averages out to being very competitive with other processes
> customer: but I don't need that many
>me: I understand, consider that the screen is a one time charge so even if you do a whole bunch of print runs over time the jobs will be cheaper than the alternative
>customer: well...what's the smallest quantity you can do?
> me: one. we literally cannot do less than one.
>customer (bristles as if being mocked): well I KNOW that...but I don't need 10,000 of them!
>me: how many do you need?
> customer: one
>me: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This same principle holds true for fabrication of 3D items as well but the costs of molds or dies or skilled labor and equipment time to fabricate one part makes doing just one even more astronomically priced.
Add in the need for mirrored pairs or interlocking elements and the already astronomical costs increase exponentially.
CAD/CAM turns all that on its ear and 3d printers are merely one new tool in the quiver that unlike most other cnc tools weren't developed and mostly perfected as analog production machines that just needed digital control added to expand their capabilities and precision.
Thank you on that customer's behalf for opening her eyes to the realities of allocating manufacturing overhead
now I want to know if some madman out there is making a fully manual 3d printer, like the milling machines of old
just the idea intrigues me and I hope someone make it purely for he lulz
>Etch-a-sketch 3D printer
How about 3D pens?
that's more like hand tools used by blacksmiths, e.g. making horseshoes using hammer and pliers
actually workable if you want to do very rough sketch or wireframe models, or are just playing around
>3D pens
After making your 15th you get to join a club. And I know one member whose pens are a little underextruded, if you know what I mean.
I've heard the club members all get invites to the secret base of Pen Island
Don't know of any that specifically use layered material deposition to build up shapes by addition but there's plenty of older examples of Pantagraph being used to duplicate 2D graphics and reproduce 3D shapes using subtractive tools like engravers and routers, mills, lathes, etc.
They can even enlarge/reduce the pattern shape and reverse them. Wouldn't be hard to use one to control something like a batik pen to deposit hot wax along with a vertical height control, or a similar funnel like tool to deposit clay slip for ceramics the same way the 3d concrete printing process is done.
Then there's this-
https://3dprint.com/83650/vaxandi-3d-printing-wax/
nah batik pens actually need 3D movement to control the flow of wax, more like what a calligraphy pen would be used. The wax itself is too runny to control since its basically as viscous as cooking oil.
>t. went to school that actually had a batik class
that said, there might be a precise temperature where the wax is in a gel-like state that you can push through an extruder (though no retractions), so it miiiight turn out something.
damnit now I want to see a hacked ender writing batik manually, that would be rad. Basically a more traditionally legitimate version of https://blog.prusa3d.com/how-to-print-on-t-shirts_55588/
>>t. went to school that actually had a batik class
Didn't say to use batik *wax*, next time go to a school that has a class on the myriad formulations of wax used in modeling for casting work, some of which feel like hard plastic and have finely tuned melt/flow properties specifically designed to make them never do what batik wax is optimized for.
"...many variations are formulated to suit differing foundry requirements and key properties such as congealing point, melting point, hardness, viscosity, expansion, contraction, fluidity and setting rate are all influenced by the structure and composition of the wax compound."
https://blayson.com/technical/a-short-introduction-to-investment-casting-wax/
knobs for x/y, dual foot pedal that notches up the layer height one each time you stomp the right pedal and just does a retraction when you hold down the left. two interchangeable parts; one that controls layer height and one that controls the flow rate from the extruder. both probably need to be swapped out whenever you change layer heights but there'd probably be a large number of the flow rate controller mechanism that you can use to incrementally tune the flow rate. I'm not sure what kind of electromechanical solution would be sufficient for controlling the extruder temperature.
>The one and only real success story I have heard of 3D printing is from SpaceX.
If you've flown in the past 10 years you've flown on a jet that has 3d printed turbine blades. They have tiny channels inside them for coolant that allows the blades to literally operate above their melting point (hotter jet engines are more fuel efficient). Its fricking crazy. Definitely not cheap either but they pay for themselves eventually.
i gave up on the groups etc because they all tend to be excessively gay or just ask the same question three million times over
Great places to spend time tho, those idiots eat any provocation with hook line and sinker.
Na, seen it used in a engineering firm to prototype. Pretty useful.
no you haven't fatass
Lmao, actually seen plenty of minor production parts printed too resolve issues that turned up in the field too. 3D printers are useful.
the only thing that's useful to you is a pizza
>you can 3d print the tiny white pizza defenders
ukranians are printing fins to attach to grenades that they drop from drones on russians
>ukranians are printing fins to attach to grenades that they drop from drones on russians
>prusa donates 3d printers to ukrainians
>josef prusa is an arms dealer now
based, my prusa mini purchase supports killing russians
>13 hours
also known as "Overnight turnaround"
aka the most premium option you can get
It only sucks for you because you are a low functioning casual that doesn't know CAD. Any time I need a specialized fixture, jig, tool, or repair, I can design it and in literal minutes have it started on the printer.
Git gud, noob.
>have it started on the printer.
Thats nice, itll be good and ready in 13 hours.
>He thinks the need for speed only applies to cars
Heh, must suck to suck.
13 hours is way better than a week. Never even mind the fact that you don't have to pay someone to spend that week, you know...working.
Still faster than ordering from a subcontractor. Depending on usecases, you can get away with making pretty large structures in a few hours by eliminating internal structures (infill) at the cost of durability or structural stability.
This couldn't be any further from the truth.
We also make dragon dildos.
I think its pretty great, probably the best addition to my toolset ever.
Robotic head I printed/built over the last year for an art exhibit.
It looks at people through the power of machine learning.
It unfortunately suffered somewhat of a lazy eye during transport to the venue though.
Maybe tone down the boot-lips a little for the next print too.
you know what, now I'm considering turning it into a sex robot one day.
The reference model was a 3D scanned japanese woman fyi.
I think the paintjob made the lips seem as exaggerated
>I'm considering turning it into a sex robot one day
Is it possible to learn this power?
sexy dicksucking african lips
gross
Ever seen the inmoov robot? Reminds me a bit of that.
https://inmoov.fr/
>I could hire a Mexican to stare at people all day for a lot less!
You could build angels, instead you built female homietron...
3d printing was a mistake
It takes pattern making for castings to a new level
Right? I was gonna make my own Arduino powered temp controlled desktop fan and one day the big dream is a small irrigated hydroponic garden.
Also birthday gifts with motion activated animatronics or something.
Sadly el 3D printero is still in it's box.
Where tf do y'all find the time
Ok gay
I printed a adapter bracket for a case fan I put in a incubator.
Based. What do you incubate? I just hatched some quails.
Coturnix quail.
Typical narrow sighted opinion of someone who doesnt have a clue about said topic.
You have to get an idea of the limits and capabilities of Additive Manufacturing. I have printed quite a few spare parts, especially TPU is a cool material to work with. My department in university uses the printer for a lot of stuff like fixtures, prototypes and even some functional components.
It takes a while to get used to the process, but then you will come up with ideas or other people will come to you and ask for things to be printed.
You should to be able to design stuff by yourself if you really want to use the potential.
I bought a 3D printer to make parts for an industrial machine. It’s good for precision of around 0.01”, better than standard shop tools but inferior to machine tools.
The $200 machine, Arduino controller, basic hand tools / materials and about a month worth of evenings yielded a knockoff of a $4000 machine that has a 12 week lead time anyway. Parts are actually used in machine, it’s run over 10,000 cycles with no issues.
I’m an engineer and can do own cad and programming. I’m realizing talking to others that this stuff is easier for me just due to training. I’ve made countless small parts to fix other stuff; designing them is simple and relaxing.
I’ve done limited preprint stuff, mostly checking out thingiverse to see what’s popular and get design ideas.
I used to think like OP that these were junk generators. They can be, but they can also be much more. It depends on the user.
What machine did you build?
Vertical sheeter It literally just feeds sheets off of a roll. Rolling out a set distance, stopping, then waiting for operator to remove sheet, feed another, repeat inf.
It's just a lumber box made with shop tools but the stepper motor needs press interfaces to rollers, rollers need to create friction to feed, etc. You'd need a machine shop to make these parts unless you just print them and run them. With printer you can rapid prototype and make almost instant changes (I upsized motor 2x and made ~5 misc running changes to roller holders to make them work better.) As parts fail I improve and reinstall, but it's been running for a year now without further fiddling.
I have always wondered why their aren't open standard industrial machines. Would make barrier to entry for small scale manufacturing way lower bringing costs down for everyone.
I've used it to make all sorts of tiny plastic switches and fittings which break from use. Now I can still keep using my lamp rather than throwing all of it away and buying a new one.
yep...and often times the parts require a ridiculous amount of hand finishing
Learn auto cad and start making it useful. Seriously if you can draw a rectangle and use a ruler you can find a use.
It's a godsend if you can CAD and have a tinkering-heavy hobby. Mine is cycling and so far I've printed
>a set of cable clips because I'm sick of zipties
>a set of cable casing ends because I ran out of them when re-cabling and needed the bike next day
>a grip for a spoke wrench
>a guilliotine for brake lines
>cable guide to stop it from rubbing on the frame
>chain guide to stop it from jumping off
>a bike computer mount
>a mounting bracket for a headlight
>another one because I didn't like the previous one
>a mounting bracket for headlight's battery
>lock-on grips to be wrapped in bar tape I had left over
>dust covers for hubs
>half a dozen bar ends
>four separate bearing cages
>a pin retainer to fix a brake lever (shimano doesn't even carry any repair kits for it, their repair method is "buy a new fricking lever")
>a cap for brake hydraulic reservoir
>a brake bleeding kit
>test fork spacers so I can test various handlebar heights before ordering metal spacers and cutting the stem
>custom fender mounts for a fork with no bosses (ft. coathanger)
>pull rate converter to make shimano road 10-speed shifter talk to shimano mtb 10-speed derailleur (frick you shimano)
>brake adjustment nut for my brother's bike (printed outer threads, cut inner)
>battery grid for my dad's e-bike project (cheaper and denser than chinkshit)
>molds to experiment with pressing fiberglass insulation and epoxy into lightweight and super stiff brake levers (failed so far but still a fun experiment
All printable with a baisic printer and cheap-ass PETG.
I also upgraded my printer lately and made some nylon gears to fix an old planetary gearbox in my commuter bike, so far they seem to hold up. I'm thinking of buying another junk planetary and making it all-nylon inside, save shaft, to see how well that works. After that I'm thinking of making custom nylon pulleys to toss out the chain and use a car timing belt instead because frick chains but also frick Gates and their prices.
Whats with all the cringe posters lately?
farewell present for coworker: african "breeding godess symbol" covered in gold tint
smartphone carrier for wallsocket
amogus
another farewell gift.
brithday present for someone called Roy who also happen to like the midwest (google: Roy's Caffee, next to Death Valley east exit idk)
if you are a creativity deadend then a 3d printer wont save you. if you are a guy who would have made bottleship 200 years ago, out of boredom, 3d printing is great.
pic rel: to avoid misunderstandings in the office kitchen (reads: no beer)
I don't think filament is foodsafe anon
Oh no! poly-lactic acid!
Grow a brain.
If you're suggesting that it's food safe because it's called "PLA", then you're the one who needs to grow a brain, shithead.
You have no idea what the additives are. You won't be using commercially available filament that is nothing but pure 100% PLA.
another birthday gift
my battlestation. only downside is that i have no housing for the printer. this is an absolute needed feature or any wind movement in the room will frick up your print
stop teasing us anon
But srsly, I was worried about enclosing my printer as well (its a cheap ender 3 knockoff) especially as I changed to printing ABS, but it's been perfect for the first 15 hours of printing ABS at least.... The room is pretty drafty as well. All I am saying is that you might as well go ahead and give it a try without the enclosure to see if it can work for you. Possibly use some slightly slower settings for travel speed and smaller layer heights.
Its been working for me so far
lmfoaoaoaooaqsdfkofdgjfd naw man
3d printables or whatever
please...
gib STL
Hey mate what model Waldmann lamp is that and where did you get it?
I don't know where I came across it but someone designed a novel sex toy. Was selling 3d printed versions on etsy or some other site.
if you are not 3d printing guns with it then i don't really know what the purpose of a 3d printer is
Print yourself a ticket to some low crime flyover state to carry around your gunz like a cowboy, jackass.
i don't understand
why not just print a plane?
uhh, parts for literally any other project? guns are cool but most 3d printed gungays don't even make or modify their own models.
making custom casing for diy home security is pretty neat tho.
Once things are more established that's what I plan on doing.
Absolutely filtered, mine has already paid for itself by replacing parts in various appliances
im a design engineer and a 3D printer is one of the things I will never again be without. if I could only keep one tool, it would be a printer. The power to create one off things for pennies just completely mogs everything else out there.
If you can drive CAD its an essential bit of kit, if you cant, then theyre as useful as having any other tool you don't know how to use.
picrel is all the shit i've printed over the years. Some designed by me some not.
so your problem is not that 3d printing sucks but that people doing it suck. You should look into the props and costume industry if you wan to see something artistic. Look up Tom Stanton or Integza if you want to see something technical
a meaty veiny dildo with balls and jerk function
I'm from /ohm/ and i often design electronics and need an enclosure for them so I just design one in CAD and send the step file to a website in my country to get it printed. They ship the part in a few hours and post it to me.
It's not extremely inexpensive but much cheaper than owning a 3D printer since neither am i too good with CAD, nor do i need 3D printed parts often to justify buying a printer
you can make clips to hold diy sensors onto every day items
Wait, you can print other things than guns?
maybe if you had an imagination you would think otherwise.
You printed a mixed race mutt goblina?
dna printer go brrrrr
>not using t-flex
Life-size R2-D2s.
I'll admit, the 3D print community is like 70% star wars & 25% Comic book gays.
That 5% is ppl like me prototyping shit before I make a real one.
I've made about 10 Shift knobs to test out for my race car.
When I find one I like, I have a chunk of 6AL-4V Titanium to have one cut on a CNC lathe.
I'd be tempted to put a brass screw insert into the printed one and cover it with leather.
Shiny metal equals hot in sun.
Sir, please try my shift knob, I made it just for you! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5398494
moronic thread. You can 3D print keyboard cases, fully customizable and dirt cheap if you have access to a makerspace.
My $200 Ender 3 has paid for itself hundreds of times over. Made 22 cupholders for a commercial scuba vessel recently. Charged about 2k for the job. Use your brain and learn stuff OP.
what kind of dumbass company would spend 2k on that
A company that spends 2 mil on a new boat and make 40k a day in the tourism industry.
>$2k
Are they at least ASA?
printing brackets and guns is the main practical use beyond etsy figurines.
I’m making cooler stuff than you are
you're making a finger remover?
lategay here
i work in audio and 3d printing is a fricking godsend. My printer has paid for itself 6 or 7 times now. I mostly print mic stand clips or wind shields or adapters and it rules
Print headphone frame and buy HiFi drivers, some isolated cable with jack, ear foams and headband cushion
Surprisingly most HiFi headphones that cost around $300 have a pair of drivers that cost around $20-$30
Very nice but you should buy one of those headband cushion things that have a zipper. Make it a bit more comfortable for $3
>try to make box for shit i bought
>rev 1
>hinge breaks
>redesign
>rev 2
>hinge breaks
>redesign
>tweak slicer settings
>rev 3
>hinge breaks
>split hinge into separate part that goes into the main box's body via dovetail joint so that I can print it in a better orientation
>it fails
>rev 4
>reuse existing design with m3 bolts
>it works
>reeeee
>result : barely functional part, half a roll of filament wasted, 10 hours of pretending to be a designer
I realized i'm too much of a brainlet to design shit.
You're doing it wrong. Do this instead:
> design and print the minimum element to prove design
> test > refine > build > repeat
> add all other elements
So rather than spending several hours to print a box with a failed hinge design, you spent 30 min printing hinges until you get one that works. Then add the box to the proven hinge design.
Design using rapid protoyping is a mindset shift. Don't feel bad, I've had this exact convo with other mech engineers that didn't get it right away either.
I do quick prints (15 min) just to verify part fits and dimensions on new stuff.
Here's an example, not the best but you get idea. Part on left is a wire cover / trip preventor. The part on the right is a small segment of the bigger part; I printed two of them to make sure the keyed design nested the way they were supposed to. If they didn't (too loose or too tight), change the design until they do, *then* print the big part.
Those little sections probably took a hour to print, the big part was an overnight job.
Another point: 3D print is good at making interfacing parts that are medium tolerance (0.01") and somewhat complex shape. It sort of falls on its face when creating off-the-shelf elements: flat sheets, tubes, bars. Imagine making a human sized robot: you'd 3D print the joints and hands, but the skeletal structure (femur, tibia, etc) you'd want to make from off the shelf steel or plastic rods. Printed rods would be both weaker (b/c of the way the print lines out) and take forever to print.
Boxes, for that reason, sort of suck to print. I do them occasionally (esp project enclosures for electronic, the standoffs, buttons, and box closures on these are excellent) but I don't see those as the best use case.
Here's a better example. I needed to design a press fit for a stepper motor. I had the blueprint of the shaft but wasn't sure how well it would fit. The row on the bottom varies by 0.01" in diameter. The top row was slightly different diameter or D design... can't recall. This takes 15 min to print; the actual drive interface takes ~90 minutes.
Most of the criticism I see about 3D prints hinges on how it's used. I'll reiterate what's said in rest of thread: If one is just printing found STLs its a much less powerful tool than if you're using it to create novel parts for your own unique needs.
>Design using rapid protoyping is a mindset shift. Don't feel bad, I've had this exact convo with other mech engineers that didn't get it right away either.
This is very true with most digital/virtual/desktop developments of processes...the equipment responsible for the final output may seem almost magical in its ability to do exactly what it's told with minimal error but it will do the same with erroneous input. In the old days that kind d of thing could be caught by hands-on workers and accounted for prior to the entire process being completed.
That means anticipating those problems in the design phase becomes far more important and the "rough it out and fix the bugs later" approach that saved time with older production methods works against you.
Fact is that careful design planning and consideration of hypothetical issues before picking any tools up is looked down upon in many fields as some kind of emotional weakness or prissy perfectionism and is only appreciated where massive investments in time and materials or risk of danger is involved.
People who work in fields that aren't like that are often at a loss when faced with equipment that will record every lazy decision or incomplete design aspect they never had to worry about before and may not have even realized existed or might matter.
Then like the proverbial poor workman, they blame the tool.
>you can't fix a 3d print later
Well you can, it's just more for the 'dodgy home mechanic' end of the userbase.
Most recent example, these desk raisers were ment to go lengthways and keep the desk in place with the tops of the triangles, but they were too narrow and the tops just snapped off. Luckily they were way overbuilt so I just turned them sideways and added hot glue. If it starts to get squished I'll print and solder rails on the side to keep it in place.
Hinge guy could have probably had it work the 1st time if it was designed around the m3 bolts from the start.
the printer is a means to an end, and I don't want to spend 100 hours to git gud at CAD if I don't have to.
>>you can't fix a 3d print later
Never said that, what was said was:
>anticipating ...problems in the design phase becomes far more important and the "rough it out and fix the bugs later" approach that saved time with older production methods works against you.
Meaning that it's dumb to risk wasting time to print something to completion and then have to spend more time re-working it because you slacked off to save a fraction of that time on the design part, all so you can get a part that's been re-worked.
Prototyping assumes that there will be revisions so you can get away with doing minor design refinements and they are expected, that's what prototyping is for.
But a prototype and a one-off item aren't the same thing so unless you want to make multiple rejects or accept a hand massaged item you need to anticipate as many problems as you can in your design...otherwise you may spend less time and money just making it by hand.
>Meaning that it's dumb to risk wasting time to print something to completion and then have to spend more time re-working it because you slacked off to save a fraction of that time on the design part
This.
Going back to the printed-box-with-failed-hinge example
If I was building a wood box, and used a crappy hinge... I'd just replace the hinge with a new one. Maybe a larger one, so I had to chisel the box a bit. But it would fit, and the box would work. Craftsman mindset.
The above paradigm (hand fitment of parts, manual rework) doesn't work well with printed things that are unitary designs... all of the thing has to be right the first time. That printed box cannot be easily reworked, or the hinge replaced. Gotta print the whole thing again.
The designed can address this risk of bad parts by breaking down the design to minimum elements, printing those, ensure they work then at last make the whole thing. Design-Test-Build mindset.
thank you
Because we can produce with larger scale factories via logistics.
I printed the housing for a 270 Joule marx generator. I took this frame out of the video. The flash is too fast for my phone camera to be visible in more than one frame.
>not printing a blowjob machine
ISHYGDDT
The main benefit of 3d printing is to make parts that aren't made anymore for repairs, or parts on demand for prototyping or practical problems. 3D printing will never be widespread because it is inherently and an order of magnitude less scalable and efficient than other manufacturing methods such as injection molding. With the exception of very rare circumstances a part that is topologically only possible with 3D FDM additive manufacturing is less of a process issue and more of a design and engineering issue.
>3D printing will never be widespread because it is inherently and an order of magnitude less scalable and efficient than other manufacturing methods such as injection molding.
The problem with this statement is that it is based on notions developed when 3D printing didn't exist, where scalability and efficient mass production were prerequisites for many ideas and items ever becoming anything but prototypes or prohibitively expensive custom builds.
What you declare to be 3D printing's Achilles heel is actually it's primary strength- it completely bypasses the paradigm where a good idea with limited appeal remains unrealized because the demand will never justify tooling and related expenses to mass produce it.
It won't displace injection molding for items that *need* that economy of scale and efficiency to meet market demands, but the fact is that there are lots of marketable ideas that never rise to that level, as well as niche markets for things like obsolete parts, adapters, upgrades and other items, that OEMs have progressively become more hostile towards and want to force into buying all new replacements through making repairs as difficult as possible.
Its true that revenues from those markets may not justify designing and manufacturing and stocking things like that using traditional methods even when the tooling already exists, but that's precisely the point- even with its still relatively slow and limited current capabilites 3D printing turns that on its ear and makes creating those items and serving those markets economically viable. Injection molding will never work on that scale, the molds alone for a $2.00 plastic part cost more than an entire 3D printer does, and to get the cost down to $2.00 you probably have to run 10,000 of them.
Even if someone has to pay $10.00 or $50.00 for it they will gladly if theres no other way to get one and they need it.
If you believe YouTube mouth breathers then the ultimate use of a 3d printer it to print benchies as fast as possible and sell 3d printer parts to people who don't have a 3d printer so they can build a 3d printer and print parts to sell to other people who don't have 3d printers
Mostly I print shit like brackets to hold cordless vacuum nozzles, tool holders for my toolboxes, and prototype stuff for my wife's business.
>of all the potential 3d printing has
That's not true. You can also make wargaming miniatures and gun parts.
I designed, modeled and printed these shelf brackets out of Glass fiber nylon i already had instead of spending cash on shittier ugly brackets from home depot.
only when i posted this shot to here was it oriented this way
The image may be rotated correctly on your desktop by whatever image viewer using the EXIF metadata on the image to correct it,PrepHole strips that metadata though (except on PrepHole)
Edit/crop your phone images even a tiny bit, save, and you will never have this happen.
I use mine for /tg/ activities. Mostly deck boxes for cards and minis for games. I've also used it to print small plastic widgets like a replacement of one of those little tabs that hold up kitchen cabinet shelves.
For the 200$ I spent to buy the printer I've already made my money back. Other people even bought my filament for me to print things for them lol.
Is it profitable to sell those deck boxes or miniatures? I'm in am are that 3d printers is still not that common
ive been thinking of getting just to be able to make custom gears,
how precise can these machines gets in the below 1000$ range?
Depends on how precise you need your gears. I bet you can find some youtuber who specializes on making endless videos about printing gears. There's a channel for printing variation of every other damned object in existence.
I just got a 3d printer, what do you suggest I do with it??
learn 3d modeling
>3d printing sucks
You're using melted thermostable plastic, of course it's gonna suck.
There's way too much models out there to classify them in only two categories
>classify them in only two categories
1. Problem solvers
2. Hot-glue targets
? Is that an SLA or FDM print? Looks like SLA but with huge layer lines… what’s the story here?
FDM ABS, left one is .2mm layer height and vapor smoothed, right one is .15mm layer height and not vapor smoothed.
It's just a cropped pic, their heads are the size of walnuts.
>size of walnuts
That explains it. I've been playing with surface finish on printed heads but the ones I'm working with are the size of a tangerine.
China typically offers knockoffs of US/EU equipment for about 1/3 new price. Once they do that they start copying each other and create a defacto standard of their own. I'd argue these 3D printers we're talking about fall into that category. There's a reason Enders are so cheap.
As for the ones I had to make... China hasn't started making them yet. God knows I looked around and asked for them. I'd say they're too specialized but I'm still getting marketing emails about machines that make tea bags...
I'd smooth her out if you know what I mean
sauce on this gun, where can i find the part files
If you're too incompetent to figure out how to reverse image search (especially from PrepHole where there's a built in feature to hold your hand and do it for you) I don't have much faith in your ability to build a rifle from print files. I didn't know what it was but it took less time to find out than to write this post.
Me personally I make cosplay props from it
The props I sell make a decent profit
I'd love to use it for replacement parts but the amount of time required to model a bracket or some other plastic doo-dad ends up exceeding the cost to buy a replacement. Now, if I can find where someone else has already made a model for it, then life is good but that's often not the case.
That’s 90% of what I use mine for.
I can design most parts in <30 min. An hour if it’s particular complex or required proof prints.
I do that, instead of watching TV. I find it relaxing.
How to download Fusion 360 without providing phone number? After making account I need to confirm location and phone number before I can download it.
Frick fusion.
Onshape or open source.
It's really just the low end FDM shit. My Ender 3 is a fricking headache but my Mars 2(resin) has literally never given me a problem. Build a voron or any other open source printer before you buy chinkshit
>my ender 3 is a headache
I was looking for printers (just getting into it) and I was looking to get an ender 3. What are the specific issues? Would you recommend something else?
I have no suggestions because I haven't researched better alternatives. I bought a resin printer so I haven't even kept up with FDM shit in like a year. Anything cheap is going to be missing features that are crucial for a good workflow.
The ender 3:
>does not auto-home properly
needs software and spring upgrades out of the >box
>requires a new hot-end housing as the original is moronic(have fun printing that replacement when you literally cannot use your printer due to said upgrade)
>needs filament guide upgrade
>needs a ton of glue before each print
>is actually really moronicly designed when you look at literally any newer printer designs.
>prints curl off bed and there is no way to properly level the bed with any real accuracy besides, you guessed it, another upgrade.
It blows my mind that people ever even put up with these things. I get that we all were blinded by the awe of being able to make shit out of nothing but after a few months you really get tired of the compounding effort that you have to put in just to test some setting out each fricking time. Like I have literally never sold anything in the two years that I've had this thing because of how inconsistent it is.
Counterpoint: It's not THAT bad.
I've been using one for the last few years. It's occasionally a pain in the ass, but it's not awful. The only truly significant problems are the shitty bed and (after a lot of printing) the plastic extruder hardware.
I've always just printed on glass, so the actual not-nearly-flat bed has never been a huge issue in my case. If you don't use glass, yeah, you're going to have an awful time getting anything to stick properly. It also has a habit of moving slightly if you aren't gentle with it, and it will need re-leveling after that. I hassled putting a touch probe on it to deal with this, since it doesn't seem to actually go out of level, it just moves up or down slightly.
The extruder will eventually get a groove worn into it after a few spools are put through it. Much faster if there's anything remotely abrasive in it. Easy and cheap fix to just replace it with aluminum hardware, but still dumb that it's an issue at all.
It's not an amazing printer, but I paid under $450 for the three I have. No printer in the Ender 3's price range is really comparable without being a clone of the Ender 3, itself. I've never had issues with the homing, software, or hotend, nor have I ever needed a filament guide. It's always worked at least okay (after starting to use glass, anyway) with relatively minimal hassle for me, at least.
Aside from bed leveling issue, my Ender 3 V2 just works.
Why you want housing for ender 3? Is not good enough as procured from Shenzhen special economic zone? You think needs improvement? Then maybe you find job with factory of China! You have drinks with Lu Huilin, trade story of many printers designed and details of school for engineering!
Or maybe you not do this. Probably is because you never design printer in whole life. You look at fine Chinese printer, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of extruder. You have disease of American capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. You put cheap housing printed on thingiverse on one side, you put bad bltouch of American middle west on other side, you put direct drive kit on top so you are like American youtube guy teaching tech. Maybe you put sex dildo on top to frick yourself in butthole for making shameful travesty of printer of Creality, no?
printer is fine. You frick it, it only get heavy and you still no print anything but star wars character. Go to garage, practice with many reel of filament. Then you not need dumb shit put on side of printer.
>"Canadian" pinchers typed this post.
what a stupid fricking hobby all i seen is pencil holders
you wouldn't download a car, oh wait, they did, a complete functional car, say hello to the Czinger 21C
looks like shit fatass
If it's not open source (public blueprint) and actually affordable for the common pesant with a 3d printer then it's bullshit, just a gimmick big corp used to sell their car