Hi, do you plan on indexing newer sites that provide #OpenSCAD customizer support? I don't know if Thingiverse's is fixed or not, but there are others around now:
Lightweight PLA experimentation continues: tried to make something that's not printed in vase mode: didn't go that well, it's ok on the outside but the stringing on the inside is extreme #mayke
The single extrusion width walls are really practical though. I've been wondering if this material could work well as a cladding for a standard PLA frame...
This is a nozzle experiment for my PC fan desk fan designed in #openscad
So I have this folded_package module I wrote for #OpenSCAD which approximates sheet cardboard work and seems ok, but the current code is not handy to use:
I have to declare several modules that are called by it to both draw the top layer cuts and remove the object volumes (with a parameter to ask it to return either the object for preview or their bounding boxes), instead of passing them as children,
I suppose the least weird way would be to have it called over the volumes directly, with the first one being the top-face module, and the other ones being the objects to package, directly being layed out and not from another module?
Like:
@valkyrie @FreeCAD is my software or choice. I started with #Fusion360, but grew to hate it for its inferior performance in being sluggish overall. I don't have enough determination, time, and patience to learn #OpenSCAD. This leaves #FreeCAD as the only (but still a very good) choice.
Today I...
Got disappointed in modern technology.
Enabled some soldering purchases as a result.
Explained rounding to the kid.
Planned a cake.
Bought some ink for an #Inkscape tutorial; makes sense, right?
Improved and fixed my #OpenSCAD code; procrastination is also time to find mistakes.
Has written an OpenSCAD cycle. It's a marvellously simple language and I'd argue that it would make a good first language for kids. Simple, visual, with printable results, what's not to like?
The print speeds aren't even the fun parts. Tune Aracne and Organic Supports is a lot of fun.
Recently, I tried my 0.5mm nozzle to see if I can get the speed of my 0.6mm but detail of a 0.4mm nozzle. So I took my parametric preasure advance tuning tower I have posted here before, as I can set the nozzle size in #OpenSCAD.
To my surprise, the slicer is struggling to slice it for a 0.5mm nozzle to get the rext right. Some of the text just isn't even in the final slice. So I am playing around now with resolutions and also seeing what is the smallest text I can have on a vertical wall with a 0.5mm nozzle.
Woke up before 5am from missile sound and then explosions. Turns out air defense managed to catch them all above my city… two other cities weren't so lucky.
Spent the day testing my 3d printed templates for mending and my new piece of recording gear, this clamping arm. Incredibly useful! Also cleaned the overlocker after the latest corduroy project, and it was time anyway.
Need to add 1/8 circle markings to the template file, for matching while pinning. More #OpenSCAD ahead 😎 #sewing#filming
So, I've been quiet for the last week. I had a crazy project at university, and we had to implement an FIR filter and FFT on a #STM32, but we did our demo today, and it went great.
When I got home, I cracked a beer and worked on my printer enclosure, and it always relaxed me and just needed to chill.
So I added the famous honeycomb wall to my enclosure for webcam and light mounts.
I calibrated my e-esteps after this, because it came with a different gear for the extruder motor and I decided to replace mine, because this one was taller and after about 3 years of printing I could see a smaal line in mine due to friction over all my prints.
I also haven't calibrated my e-steps since moving to #Klipper. I probably should have, but I still had the stock setup and used the Klipper community config combined with the official #Creality config they have on their Sonicpad's Github.
My first print is looking good. It is actually a Klipper calibration (my own parametric #OpenScad design to allow you to customize the size for better acceleration and top speed).
But one thing I've noticed is that I have a slight over extrusion. Which I think is due to my extrusion multiplier in my slicer, which I calibrated over the years for this filament. It might have been due to miss calibrated esteps, but I need to update it now.
I've been a long time proponent and participants in open source, starting I think back when I added Unicode #fonts support for #POVRay. Got sucked into Multimedia and some #3DModeling and animation #GameArt for one of the earlier large publishers. I stepped up my #OpenSource game by becoming one of the core developers then board members for #Inkscape. Got sidelined a bit, but getting involved again.