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  1.  Clearly you 'have purpose' Good for you ..  distributing  Techno skills to any who will listen.

      Great!  Many will inhale the knowledge. 

    'Architecture' is imo only the vehicle  here.

     

    A 17 by 17 cm  Study model isn't worth the trouble to be Blunt ..No designer needs such a visual aid.. certainly as a miniature.

    Size  of the plastic 'model' needs be double or quadruple that for  Client purposes.. which is the only real use I could envision.

     One could cobble up a sketch model of some curious interface for further study  perhaps.. but a pencil can suffice happily too.

    Clients often request  to see/experience just they are buying !.... in detail.  Lack of imagination? whatever, it's their need and it's real.

    Many clients have requested and paid for 1/4" scale models. Often of massive size and cost... without raising an eyelid.

     

     Disagree Entirely with your views on Tolerances !!   

    You clearly are new at 'architecture' ?   However I won't venture that fruitless digression further.

     

    Technician personalities have zero'd in  on accuracy and  tolerances .. Clinging to  precision as a Lifeboat.. in the often glaring absence of every other talent .

    An old issue in Architecture .. only the technology has changed.    

     

     Teaching? Lots  of it actually, thank you for asking.

    Always in the time proven Mentorship style ie; slow nurturing,  involving years. Decidedly unglamourous and often difficult.

    Teaching architecture is about imparting Values, Outlook and yess even artistic Tastes.

      Technical stuff... any one can learn.. even on DIY 3d printer forums. Should they want to

     Models ? My offices supported a Models  group,  students/interns typically, that began their craft eaducation building models for study and presentation.

    Quality was invariably outstanding as there was love/ commitment applied.  A lot to be learned in building (even a model) of someone's design.

     G'day.

     

    I won't be revisiting this :-)

  2.  Have a decent set of STL files on hand  Trying to print them from a Cura Slice and the print messes .

    Extruder action is  smooth then in mid circle it Jerks and returns to the begining of the segment  , missing bits and  seemingly of a mind of it's own Can't seem to convince it to laydown a simple continous bead.

    Which to MY mind it should do automatically on a Simple half circle??.  What's up with the  jerk then stop in the middle action?

    Printer has been doing 'jes fine'  on previous other prints (today) so a Hardware fault is seeming  as improbable cause.

    Do I have a setting (s) bungled    OR??

    Can someone lookit this .stl and Cura Gcode.. (Gcode is V small) to see if there is anything obvious

    Cylinder half 1.stl

    AA6_Cylinder half 1.gcode

  3. Interesting plastic rendering..    But what size is that "model' Presumably it's at best A4 size unless you have a serious printer on hand.

    Small models like that can often be hand crafted in the same or less time than printing would require  As these are throwaways or at best, V limited half life discussion objects.

      Precision is largely irrelevant given the purpose and intent of the things.

    Been An architect for 35 yrs   I've seen experienced the race to the digital  age. Some has been great some... some much less than great :-)

     Like 'actors' ..architects are V easily pigeonholed early on .. Choose wisely 

  4.  Recent efforts to help me get a Large 137mb Radial Engine Model file helped  In the least identified the basic problem.. And I ' m grateful for the help.

     Plodding along in my own fashion .. I 've gotten the complete Engine Drawing as a Mesh File 

     2 different ones actually.. One via  Meshmixer  another from a New site: https://makeprintable.com

     The Meshmix one is a wee bit Klunky  /imprecise, the  Makeprintable one is  noticeably  better, not perfect / Ideal .. But Good 'nuff for my purposes. 

    3 test prints later and the cylinders, only a few of them, seem to have aquired a case of Warts... Odd and ugly

     Looking into the cause.. it appears that the Problem surfaces when using layer view studying Curas' 'slice'.. in which  4  or more of the Cylinders (there are 9)   look like Cauliflowers .

     Zooming in on the  Slice with Layer view clearly shows that the thing is messed .. Why? this time.

    How to Fix this  ??  and incidentally why?? those cyls  Which seem to follow the pattern/location rather than the model..as Rotating the engine  leaves the distortions in roughly the same place .

     Dunno  as I'm just guessing though. Is there a setting or fix to this?

    Attaching my Mesh file as reference  It's a Big Un though

    Fixed-2.stl

  5.  OK Small issue tho (beyond having to guess where the front door was :-)

     

    It won't let me register? 3 separate Email addy's...3 seperate User names.. said All were in use.. As if

     Will try it again a bit later. hoping traffic at least might lessen

  6. Erm... None.

    As above:  Komplete Newbie I'm after an engine model for a 1;12th scale DH2 model (ww1 aircraft)  I'm attempting to build.

    Tripped over this Le Rhone engine  file and was delighted.  sadly it's proven not nearly as simple an exercise as I anticipated

  7. Wow... I'm both Flattered and Humbled by your Efforts..  Thank You! 

    New at this being my only credible excuse :-)

    I knew that it was a CNC type file and that It would print all the Internal bits,   albeit  unnecessarily for my needs, I assumed / thought that was unavoidable baggage.

     I'm only after  a simple, looks like the real thing facsimile version..  viewed  from the outside

     Your provided File is interesting.... I had  given thought to Printing the individual bits But Frankly had zero idea of how to separate them into  pieces I can post printing assemble into my desired model.  No idea of how to tho.

    IF I could get One Cylinder Complete with it's Valve gear (pushrod is unlikely to print well in any event and a Bit of ali tube/wire could easily be retrofitted)

     It's the detail of a Complete Cyl that  is all that I'm after/ need tbh.. If it becomes a case of Simplifying.

    The crankcase is simply a Hollow can shape devoid of any significant detail.. That I can fabricate manually ...fairly easily .

    Thought was that I could print 9 cyl assemblies then glue them onto my diy cranckase

    IF? I could trouble you further on this  Can you provide some "how to" info on how I might  get this file  to Print One almost (no pushrod) complete  Cylinder?

     Regards

    Dan,

    vancouver canada

     

  8. Thank you gentlemen:

    Here is the STL  (it was reduced from 134 mb to 25mb STL by makexyz.com)    ( file attached) Can supply the original 138 mb file if wanted/needed.. please advise

    Oddly the first 3 print tries were  very poor but at least it was printing Yesterdays' Slices printed Without any Z  .. sigh.

    Cura doesn't crash but it does seize up for a few mins, maxing out my i7 processor to 100% in process. So somethings amiss somewhere I suspect.

    Here is a Cura file 65mb. I'm wanting to print this 37.2" diameter (real life size) as a 1:12 scale model) so detail will obviously suffer

    AA63DP_Le Rhone Engine.curaproject.3mf

  9.   Trying to print a an ACad File  (stl) that was used as the basis for CNC'ing of a full scale WW1 aviation engine.

    The file/design is credible ..  and the resultant engine has Flown. 

    Trying for days now to get Cura (3.2.1) to  Slice this  File... 135 mb though so i can print a reduced scale model. 

    Wellll It slices.. sort of.. but it  keeps missing sections of the engine.  Even got a 25 mb STL for it to "slice' ... More like it chops it up... in truth

    V annoying .

    Is this file Too Complex for this pgm to deal with?

     Is there any way to get Cura to do a credible job of this?

  10.  Komplete Newbie .. Have A new Anet A6 It came with Cura 14.7 which worked  Updated to 3.2.1  Sort of  . 

     Have generated a model to print  in Gcode   bit of a learning curve but All seems good.  Got it onto my SD card ..

    However the machine tries to start the print in the Auto home position ie; Left front corner of the heat bed.. Not Good.

    Clearly I've done something wrong Possibly in the machine settings?? 

     As On screen in Cura the model is dead centre Not so on the heat bed.

     Dunno the ethics of this, given I don't have an Ultimaker machine..

    But I have No idea as to How to fix this. .. erm Help?

     thanks

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