• Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    8 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·
      8 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·
        8 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·
      8 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·
      8 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…

  • Lilnino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 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·
      8 months ago

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

      • Lilnino@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 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·
    8 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·
    8 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.