• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      And the hounding if you don’t get a Bambu. Somehow “Bambu printing” and “3D printing” seem to be two different things now, given the cult-like fervor.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        While good printers, the amount of waste those Bambus produce just don’t make them feasible in my eyes. If you use 4 colours, they waste about 44cm of filament while you haven’t even started printing.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I want to hound people for getting a Bambu. Look at the bullshit we’re dealing with on 2D printers because they aren’t open source with standard parts.

  • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    all very accurate but I want to add that eveb if you want to resin print in your bedroom you wont be able to. It’s not only that it’s toxic but the smell is so strong that, at least for me, it’s impossible to be around it. My printer is outside in the garage and when it’s printing you can still smell it inside the house. I can feel my cells mutating in real time

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Okay but like I was given an Ender 3 for free and idk where to go from there

    Maybe the fact that the family member who gave it to me didn’t want it around anymore should have been a sign

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    I want to get started 3d printing, partially because I bought a house and farm and need to replace some little bits and bobs that don’t necessarily need to be super strong. It just seems a bit too much to try to figure out right now.

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I went a little crazy on 3d printing during covid. I had a single printer prior but purchased two more. I haven’t printed on ANY of them in like 2 years. I end up just printing stupid shit or because I go so long between printing wasting way too much time to get everything dialed back in. Now I don’t even know what my slicing settings were and I would have to probably start from scratch. I should probably just sell my printers…

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I printed a lot of custom stuff that I designed for specific uses in Fusion 360 when I got my computer, and for about two years afterwards. But I don’t have any more custom stuff that needs to be printed, and I don’t have a D&D group any more, so my printer has been sitting for about six months. I’d say it’s a success though, since I made everything I need, and it’ll still be there if I ever need anything else.

        • 0110010001100010@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          This was the second half of my problem honestly, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to 3d model stuff. I’ve gone through tutorial after tutorial so clearly it’s me.

          I actually have stuff I’d like to print but I’m not competent enough to model it. I’m the n00b just printing stuff I can download from the internet. Or was I suppose…

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            There’s a learning curve for sure. A lot of the tutorials on YouTube aren’t very helpful. Some are downright awful. This guy’s channel really helped it click for me. You can just start by following his lessons and at some point it’ll click and then you can start designing really basic stuff like drawer organizers, which are essentially just cubes, and then work your way up from there. It does take time though.