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Re: 1st printer!

Post by abrugsch » Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:41 pm

It's possibly under extruding. A best quality might fix it...
Sorry I'm terrible at diagnosing bad prints

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Re: 1st printer!

Post by Holydohnut » Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:31 pm

Don't be sorry! I'm grateful for any and all help! I've now tried a "best" quality print, and actually that was worse! One of the fins broke clean off while printing.

I have therefore given up on printing silly boats, and gone back to printing gameboy zero bits! As it was intended! Just found a cracking dummy cartridge on thingiverse into which you can clip the pi AND the powerboost! Meaning that I am now fast running out of excuses to finally assemble the damn thing!!!

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Re: 1st printer!

Post by inches » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:50 am

HoolyHoo wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:35 am
Holydohnut wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:22 am
Thanks all! Can I ask what software people are using to design their models? I was planning on using sketchup but have seen various reports on it making very poor models. At the moment I'm looking at tinkerCAD but if anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
Take a look at Fusion 360. Free for enthusiasts, very powerful and not watered down.
I've been trying to use this, but for the life of me I can't get any .stl's to upload into the cloud things to be able to after them. The uploads fail consistently and don't provide any feedback.
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Re: 1st printer!

Post by HoolyHoo » Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:10 am

inches wrote:
Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:50 am
HoolyHoo wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:35 am
Holydohnut wrote:
Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:22 am
Thanks all! Can I ask what software people are using to design their models? I was planning on using sketchup but have seen various reports on it making very poor models. At the moment I'm looking at tinkerCAD but if anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
Take a look at Fusion 360. Free for enthusiasts, very powerful and not watered down.
I've been trying to use this, but for the life of me I can't get any .stl's to upload into the cloud things to be able to after them. The uploads fail consistently and don't provide any feedback.
You need to import them into a mesh and then convert to BRep to manipulate. Note that it may have many polygons making standard editing difficult.

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Re: 1st printer!

Post by ArKade » Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:28 am

I'm not an expert on 3D printers or CAD software, but I have experience using Fusion360 and other online alternatives. I would not use TinkerCAD or Blender, and would instead choose Fusion360, but if given the choice between Fusion and Inventor, I would choose Inventor. Autodesk is giving free access to Inventor to students, so if you are one, I would jump on the opportunity. I will warn you, though, that Inventor only works on Windows.

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