I usually print useful stuff and not much figurines/models - but had a request from my kid for their friend, so
I usually print useful stuff and not much figurines/models - but had a request from my kid for their friend, so
Pretty happy with how it turned out- 0.2 layer height in PETG, took about 9 hours
This is seriously impressive for PETG. Have you ever considered picking up a resin 3d printer?
I have definitely thought about it, but I really don't have a use for one or the will to deal with the mess of resin. My understanding is that the benefit is significantly greater detail is possible but don't know of any other upsides, and the nastiness of resin seems like a big downside. Do they do anything else better other than detail? I've only been in the hobby for a few months so I'm still learning about this stuff.
Thanks for your comment on the print - it's taken me a LOT to get PETG dialed in but I can crank it really consistently at this point - aside from settings in Cura, my magic bullet was direct drive and bringing retraction way down. I could definitely get this print smoother with 0.12 or 16 layer height and going slower but I wanted to get it out quickly for the kid, this was at 90mm/s
Strange, I don't see anything useless in this photo. Gotta print em all!
Kid's friend has good tastes in pokemon.
That’s nice print!
it’s better to hobby with the kids, than not. When I first got into 3d printing…. My dad had one of those freebie inkjet printers; you know the ones… “free with computer,” but then the inkjet cartridges cost more than the PC did?
It ran out of ink, he was grumbly about it. So I asked if imcould have it. A few months later on was talking about printing stuff on it… I think he wanted to print out taxes. Yeah. “It doesn’t print those kinds of things any more…”
This was late 90’s? I read an article in … maybe it was popular mechanics or something like that… and got obsessed) that was a hideous printer.