There was a video comparing the Sovol #SV08 (GPL3) to a Troodon kit. The creator concluded that one place the SV08 definitively had a leg up was that it was open source.
About a week later the same creator posted a google drive link with the STEP file for the Troodon saying "Look, Troodon is open source."
Open up the STEP file in FreeCAD and the license metadata: "All rights reserved."
@rasterweb ah! I was trying to figure out if that’s a silicone casing gone wrong… and wondering why is the nozzle oozing sideways… it is essentially a large lump of failed print ☹️☹️☹️
Some #3Dprinting today. I haven't printed #TPU in ages, but need some of these little bumpers to support a glass top on a patio table.
TPU is a slightly soft/flexible urethane plastic that can be tough to print (for me anyway). Good results today tho'. The advice to print hotter, slower and a little thicker than PLA seems to work pretty well.
The two-part approach worked well for me to be able to squeeze these into mounting holes. As one piece they don't deform enough to get thru the hole.
@ottaross Foam rubber (actually mainly plastic nowadays) is aerated is it not? You would have to have a material that would chemically reproduce the "bubbling" process, and you would have to print it smaller and let it expand as the bubbles are produced?
@Natanox@logicalmoody I honestly don’t think the problems have anything to do with a printer, although I do think that a bed slinger would be worse because I theorize it would induce more wiggle.
From my testing last time ( see the toot i linked in my reply to myself), it really does seem to just be an artifact of those two skinny sections
i should note that the angle of your inclined plane plays into the look a lot. As with the stair-step look, the more shallow the angle the farther the waves will be spread from each other.
I would suggest that you're probably going to have a lot more value from playing with the width of the sine wave than the height.
If the sine waves get much taller than this, the eye starts noticing the ridges more than the pattern.
I am experimenting with a new #stitching technique for our new prototype GLoA E-reader case covers. I have fallen in love with the results. Still can’t believe this is #3dprinted plastics! #lasercut leather and hand stitched. Needs some minor adjustments but progress is good.
Overnight print is off to a solid start. I haven't done one this big in a while and I'm excited to see how goes the gradient filament. Also, the estimates for how long this print will take are crazy. Maybe it will still be running at 18:00 tomorrow?? That's not what Cura said. But we shall see!
@kim is going to see her nieces tomorrow so I busted out the 3D printer so she could be the best bad influence possible :neofox_wink_blep: :neofox_peek_knife: #3DPrinting#sword
@geerlingguy@jan@octoprint quick question, what's the printer model?
As for the bltouch, i highly recommend you install it and hook it up to octoprint, as it would allow you to see how bad the bed is calibrated in the gui.
After just not getting productive with freecad and solvespace (although I learned a lot from both) and beingt too frustrated with Fusion's free tier and really bad app streaming experience I might have finally found something I start feeling productive and quick designing models for 3d printing. And it's #Plasticityhttps://www.plasticity.xyz. Yes it's commercial but no subscription. Did some small mount adapters I needed as first projects today and they turned out really good. #3dprinting
I never got my 3D printer set up to do really pretty, flawless prints - but I do seem to have reached a point where it will run & print just fine when I hit it up, even if it's been sitting dormant for weeks 🤞😁
Printed a Noted Core with wood impregnated filament.‡ This is a very boring beige, but I wondered if maybe it was one of those things where "boring" actually kinda worked.
Asked wifey her thoughts & - to summarize - #3DPrinting looks best when it embraces its nature. I love the translucent colors with little sparklies, or really nice color transitions, or just simple vibrant color. This just looks... meh.
Designed and #3dprinting some aquarium hose couplers because I refuse to pay €20 for a little chunk of plastic. There is no way this can go wrong right? Right? 😂
this is overdesigned for what it is.
it lets me pull the strings seperately. in case i want my window to look ratty af with a blind raised way more on one side than the other
I was somewhat skeptical of multi-color prints on the Bambu Lab printers using the AMS but now that I've started to design things I'm trying to be efficient and I've got it down to a single color change after the first layer and there is no tower of wasted filament.
For these prints it's just a single layer of text on the bottom but I'm pleased with the very minimal print time it adds and almost zero waste.
