Post your latest print!

[lennart-bruggink 3]

aaand a latest update on a print: a league of legends character called Cho'gath:

After Illuminarti's dragon post i'd changed the supports with meshmixer and this is the third print.

Still need to remove the support, but until now only the knees are broken a little. ( lets hope i dont screw it up an break the part.

 

 

[aaronalai 2]

Glad to see things are progressing well, definitely post a picture of the after shots! If the support structures work out could you post your Meshmixer settings?

 

[lennart-bruggink 3]

If the support structures work out could you post your Meshmixer settings?

 

Now that you mention it, I have scaled up the print to twice the size in Cura, not in Meshmixer, this makes the supports effectively twice the size.

Anyway,

the layer height was 0.1mm, the diameter 1.6mm. Actually, pretty much standard I believe except layer heigth

the key is to add your own support.

printed with Brim in cura @ 35mm/s

err, what else do you want to know?

 

[ian 32]

I really hope this one comes out good after the cleaning... would be a mind blowing print I think :-)

Ian :-)

 

[IRobertI 520]

Aww, I thought it was an Ultralisk first (and went "Ultraliskuuu!" in my head, man I'm such a dork... ). Still looks like a cool print though

 

[lennart-bruggink 3]

Aww, I thought it was an Ultralisk first (and went "Ultraliskuuu!" in my head, man I'm such a dork... ). Still looks like a cool print though

 

hah maybe i'm equally dorkness, because i know what an ultralisk is..

 

[Nicolinux 288]

hah maybe i'm equally dorkness, because i know what an ultralisk is..

 

No it means you are just old, or from Korea

 

[vinay 1]

Here my first (long) print iron man face plate

 

 

[chrisp 10]

Spool Adapter Multi-Step

Something I had to print to get away from the tension issues of the stock spool holder.

This runs super smooth spinning on 608 bearings and it's fully adjustable to other spool sizes and expandable to multiple spools on one holder.

When changing filament it automatically goes right back on the roll the way it came off with no hassles of a bird's nest.

 

[ian 32]

So i basically sat back and let my ultimaker2 do all the work this weekend :-)

Here is the blog entry :-)

http://ultimaker2.blogspot.de/

Ian :-)

 

[aaronalai 2]

@ChrispCreator

I like the design ChrispCreator, are you going to post the stls anywhere?

*Edit, I finally read all the posts about your design; I'm really glad to hear things are running much smoother! Fantastic design!

 

[chrisp 10]

 

AaronAlai

I would post it on Youmagine or thingiverse, but I'm not finished with the entire design. I'm making an adjustable wall mount bracket, the sleeves for the bearings, and the knobs.

If you would like, I can post it up there for you to download what I have so far.

Let me know.

 

[braddock 1]

Nice, though might be good to try a different orientation so the supports aren't connected to face, which you want to be as smooth and clean as possible.

 

Here my first (long) print iron man face plate

 

 

[porter 8]

Hi Guys

here`s my latest print, made a toy for my little girl, its a simple shape learning/puzzle game with some of the characters from Winnie the pooh.

will post files on youmagine for anyone who wants to print it.

total print time took 17hrs, ran into a few minor problem which consisted of warping in the corners and 1 problem that keeps re-occurring in my prints, missing layers see image 3 ( what causes this?)

best

porter

 

[aaronalai 2]

AaronAlai

I would post it on Youmagine or thingiverse, but I'm not finished with the entire design. I'm making an adjustable wall mount bracket, the sleeves for the bearings, and the knobs.

If you would like, I can post it up there for you to download what I have so far.

Let me know.

 

Cool, I'll wait until you put them up. Thanks!

 

[ian 32]

Aaron when are you getting your ultimaker2 ?

Cant wait to see what you get up to ? :-)

Ian :-)

 

[Nicolinux 288]

ran into a few minor problem which consisted of warping in the corners and 1 problem that keeps re-occurring in my prints, missing layers see image 3 ( what causes this?)

best

porter

 

Take a look at this post, we are trying to find out what it is (link).

 

[aaronalai 2]

@Ian

I wish I knew, probably within several weeks :???:

I keep having dreams about the UM2, but I have a hard time imagining it in my home. It will be a joyous day when it arrives!

 

[aaronalai 2]

@ porter

gr5 posted this a little while ago it may be applicable, if nothing it is something to look for when diagnosing the issue;

 

cat hair and dust can really ruin your day if it doesn't melt at 240C or cooler.

Regarding the spools getting stuck. 99.9% of the time it's fine. But if you are doing a 5 hours print with 1000 lines of height and one line is underextruded you get this annoying horizontal line in your print running all around every detail at that level.

Without measurements - I would say the extruder can pull/push 10 to 20 pounds of force. It takes about 1/4 pound of force to turn the filament normally. But sometimes something sticks a little. It's very rare. And might take a whole 2 pounds of force to get things moving again. Meanwhile that layer looks different from all the other layers.

 

 

 

[gr5 2,167]

@porter - very nice print. I'd be tempted to dip those into paint which would paint just the characters and script text.

 

[valcrow 144]

Since I've been doing almost as much painting as printing... I figure I'd get start using something a little bit more legit than 10 year old paints and Fence spray lying around the house. So I got myself a new airbrush. Totally new to airbrushing and it arrived just before the start of the weekend. yay!

After spending Saturday trying to paint stuff, I came across a few issues. It's wet, you need wet things all over your table, and you need 3 hands. So naturally, Since the airbrush is going to help out my 3d prints, the 3D printer needs to do something nice for the airbrush, So today, I designed and printed an airbrush holder thing so I have all my paint tools all in one easy place, and all the wet stuff feeding into one area so my table isn't full of water and tools.

Oh Yeah, I couldn't find a container... so I just used an old CD spindle cap. Unfortunately, I plugged in a wrong number during design for the radius, and it ended up a bit squished. but still works. All the holder components are perfect though. Stuck a few pieces of leather to protect the brush & tip.

Holds these things. You need the airbrush at an angle, the eye dropper to add precise thinning water/solution. Syringe for adding LOTS of water to purge to change colours, and a paintbrush to mix paints in the little pot and scrub stuck on paint, tissue to clean your brush/spray test. All the parts snap together.

And here's everything assembled. Everything sprays/drips into the container for ease of cleaning. The paintbrush is positioned directly infront of the airbrush so when you purge your airbrush, you clean your Bristle brush with the resulting spray as well.

Hopefully this will make my airbrush learning less messy.

 

[ian 32]

beautiful creation !

Ian :-)

 

[owen 19]

beautiful creation !

Ian :smile:

Yeah

Except I don't like the colour

It needs painting :wink:

 

[IRobertI 520]

An attempt to build a crossflow fan thingy.

 

The plan was to fill the front up with sections of straws to form the honeycomb pattern. I very quickly went "noooope!" and decided to take advantage of the fact that slicers produce honeycomb patterns for a living.

 

[ian 32]

robert your white cable covers on the left look so so good :-)

Ian :-)