That struggle is so real… Although, once you start to learn paremetric modeling, you stop having as much plastic waste around and a whole bunch of slightly different prototypes of a desk organizer or toilet roll holder that result from not measuring properly the first time.
I measure 3 times and still need to print at least 3 times to get something right.
I’m working on an outdoor hose grommet that’s a custom fit to my house. I measured with calipers. I also took paper, traced the fixture and marked the holes before modeling and 3d printing.
I have a desk full of badly fitting prototypes. -or just bad because I forgot to set a print setting in the slicer.
I need to print something to repair my garage door rail. I have no idea how to get started on measuring that.
That’s okay, though. I also need to fix my 3d printer before I can get started on the other project.
That’s easy, just get a second 3d printer to print parts to fix the 3d printer
I suspect more than a few of us are feeling called out with this comment.
Most likely it’s … All of us.
I found my dad’s old calipers and the inside of the case had disintegrated. I wanted to print a new inside mold for the caliper case. But that meant taking measurements of the calipers. So I bought new calipers to measure the old calipers.
I’m prepared to be friends based on this anecdote.
“RANDOM BULLSHIT PRINT!”
You miss all of the bullshit you don’t print
~ Wayne “Not the one you’re thinking of” Gretsky
I’ve pretty much settled on just printing flower pots and cute animals for my sister. Last one was this bulbapot
You don’t know me. Everything I’ve ever printed was critical.
Now this is dedication to the meme
Will you marry me
Wow, you put real effort in that. Do you need to separate paths for that or can you 3D print any random image?
It was actually very low effort! There are a number of image to STL converters. I used this one: https://imagetostl.com/
Like you can see it’ll flub some stuff. I would have been better off filling in the areas of text and doing the emboss manually myself, but I just wanted to hit print. 2% infill, I think it was like 2.5g of filament and 20mins.
It’s fun to screw around with that process. I’m tweaking one of my friends cabin to use to make a mold. My goal is cast concrete or something similar so I can pound some thin copper around it, and be left with a cool wall decoration.
Almost all my prints these days are ones I’ve created or modified in freecad.
Massive respect, freecad is the dark souls of 3d design
It just has a steep learning curve. Since the 1.0 release though I’ve had few problems with it. Nice addons and only freezes up for long periods when you are importing a massive mesh so far. I’ve gotten pretty good at taking one color stl files and converting them to multi color/extruder.
A person doesn’t need so many benchies and effiel towers
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it!
Me 5 years after buying a 3D printer: been working on CAD’ing that one project for well over a year with probably about as much time left before it’s ready for its first prototype.
(And that doesn’t include all the time I was distracted with other projects, many of which were not 3D-printing related at all.)
I’ll dust my printer off when it’s time for that first prototype.
Cover the printer up. Dust kills it.
Not cleaning them will do that.
That was me in Skyrim hoarding Dwemer artifacts.
Recently just started my 3d printer back up. Had 2 full spools still in the box, opened it and just started breaking. The filament just explodes when it gets old.
Had to buy a brand new spool of filament for a $0.20 part.
And it has no automatic bed leveling, so it took like 6 attempts to get it flat enough.
Wait you qre printing stuff 2 weeks after getting a 3d printer?!! You yungsters have it so easy
In my time we had to build, then spend a whole spool just trying until we got something not horrible
Sounds like someone needs a recycling extruder
