In general, avoid supports where you can. I have a link that was a good trouble-shoot for PETg as it really is a different beast than ABS or PLA, I'll look for it.
I decided to make my own door for my Ultimaker, I didn't want any permanent modification to it so I decided to make a magnetic window that can easily pop on and off.
I think it looks a lot better than having ugly hinges too.
This is what I came up with:
It also gave me an excuse to try a new technique I read about ---- inserting things into a print during the print!
In this case, neodymium magnets are permanently sealed into the hinge. no glue
Because nothing in the extruder head or heated plate are magnetic.... It worked out perfectly!
It could probably work for other printers too, I put it on thingiverse:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2400431
That thing above looks insane, I mean I can't believe it can keep level and stable with all those ball joints. It looks cool as hell.
I decided to make my own door for my Ultimaker, I didn't want any permanent modification to it so I decided to make a magnetic window that can easily pop on and off.
I think it looks a lot better than having ugly hinges too.
This is what I came up with:
It also gave me an excuse to try a new technique I read about ---- inserting things into a print during the print!
In this case, neodymium magnets are permanently sealed into the hinge. no glue
Because nothing in the extruder head or heated plate are magnetic.... It worked out perfectly!
It could probably work for other printers too, I put it on thingiverse:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2400431
I've been meaning to try that! I was always just worried about pausing the print at the right layer
Very cool! So I guess part of the frame has metal behind it that the magnets can attach to?
That thing above looks insane, I mean I can't believe it can keep level and stable with all those ball joints. It looks cool as hell.
That looks incredible.. is the whole thing printed? Really looks like metal. Can you tell us what (paint?) was used for the finishing on it?
I wonder if ABS smoothing would save time by removing some of the layer edges, but probably not because it doesn't always work evenly... and maybe more labor intensive than sanding.
Hey @iFreilicht I have a prusa mk2! and I'm totally in love with it.
This is the best thing I've done with it so far:
But I'm really impressed with the over all quality. The following is the smallest I've gone with a 0.4 nozzle.
That small print looks extremely good, did you go all the way down to 10 micron layer height for this? What about finishing work?
Maybe you should get a big volume printer next so you can print keyboard cases in one piece?
you reading my mind. Any suggestion?
Of the affordable big format printers I've seen positive reviews on the Creality3D CR-10 (which also recommend to avoid gearbest when buying it). It has 300x300mm base, so enough for a 60% with a bit of margin. But a way better fit in terms of format would be the Tevo Black Widow. That has a 375x250mm base, would easily fit 75%s and not many other printers have wide rectangular print surface like that. Unfortunately, there seem to have been quite a few quality issues with the black widow, power transistors burning up and stuff like that, quite terrifying. The print bed is also aluminium, so you'd have to invest a fair bit of work to make it a good printer