3DPrinting

I love it. I'm waiting for my bonus to come in at the end of the FY and I'm going to buy myself a 3d printer. In the mean time I'm shopping around for different CAD software to figure out the best balance between learning curve, features, and price. Nothing in the sweet spot yet.

Keep posting!

One of my favourite communities on lemmy! Love the post, love the comments!

I don’t think you will be and certainly hope, you’re never told you post too much!

The more of this the better!! 👏

I just realized I gave no details about the actual design 😂

The body of the one in the picture is co extruded red green blue silk filament, fuzzy skin enabled (0.1, 0.25) The cap leash is made from TPU and glued in place.

First thing I ever designed from scratch was a stash box... Thing. Not really a box but it held vape carts, a stash jar, lighter and matchbook, my pipe and my battery along with dab accessories.

Really need to make a new one though. Don't have the same pipe or battery anymore. Not even sure I still have the original print packed away when I moved to share a pic. I will say, having some calipers to measure funky shaped things is handy, though.

This is very cool.

I have printed a few functional things with my resin printer. Like some pieces I designed in Blender that I needed in order to make some minor repairs to stuff around the house. Was really fun using calipers to measure, come up with a design, and puzzle it all out.

It's much easier than modeling for games or animation, because you can make objects out of multiple overlapping simple shapes, and don't have to worry about mesh geometry. The slicer will just convert the layers into 2d slices.

And I've made some custom gifts, too. Put people's names on things, stuff like that.

But 99% of my prints are miniatures for tabletop gaming.

looks really cool and I like the solution with the attachment of the lid to the box. is the white filament tpu?

also thx for leaving reddit and it is amazing, how nice people are here compared to r/3dprinting, where you post stuff and all the comments are like "who needs this"...

Welcome! I remember this design popping up on reddit. It's nice to hear that you were able to make some side money off it and pivot into other things to keep the income stream going.

TBH, I wouldn't hesitate to post. Lemmy in general is pretty quiet. I chalk that up to a combination of a fairly small user base and having a ton of communities out of the gate - probably too many for the size of the user base. As is usual, there are plenty of lurkers and if you post content they find interesting they'll come out of the woodwork to comment and upvote. I've managed to find a few communities that match some of my interests and do my best to contribute content, although 3D printing is a bit harder because it takes more effort for me to make what I consider meaningful content. I have considered lowering my standards to see if generates some activity though.

Overall, the vibe here feels a bit like the earlier days of reddit. Lots of techies with a handful of normies thrown in. Since Lemmy is FOSS, the user base does lean more toward the FOSS side of things than reddit, which is somewhat nice in that I'm thinking about FOSS a ton more than I was a year ago.

Thank you for sharing! I talked to a friend about 3d printing on Tuesday, saw the cardboard cutter here Wednesday, and then ordered my first printer that afternoon. My Ankermake M5c arrives Tuesday. I'm super excited but i know nothing, so these 'how I got started' posts are very encouraging. I see people talk about Tinkercad. How is it? As someone who is completely new and not a tech person, is that the easiest place to start? Once i get the hang of printing patterns i find online, i want to make scary face parts for a pumpkin (think Mr. Potato Head) and spiral notebook covers with funny sayings. It doesn't matter how bad the pumpkin face parts are - they're just going on my porch for a couple of weeks and meant to look weird. I think the only hard part on the notebook covers will be getting the spiral holes correct and getting 20 made by Christmas for my coworkers. Sorry for rambling - I'm just excited and clueless and found your share encouraging. If i make a post asking people to share pics of their first items/ideas, would that be annoying?