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Is a 3-d printer useful or fun to play around with?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:51 pm
Might be a covid purchase. I’d like to learn how to use them.
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Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:53 pm to baybeefeetz
If you're asking if it can make a dildo, I don't know
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:54 pm to baybeefeetz
Yes, they are fun to play around with. It is as useful as you want it to be.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:54 pm to JetsetNuggs
Hahaha wtf are you talking about hahahahaha
You’re crazy. You’re crazy.
You’re crazy. You’re crazy.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:55 pm to LegendInMyMind
Is it possible to print (copy) a sculpture of my face?
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:55 pm to baybeefeetz
If you know what you're doing, they can be useful. Just like any other piece of equipment
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:56 pm to baybeefeetz
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Is it possible to print a sculpture of my face?
Yes... you just have to buy a good 3d scanner and learn the modeling software
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:56 pm to baybeefeetz
Hotel Artemis, Charlie Day’s character.....
Fun, yes.
Deadly, possibly.
Fun, yes.
Deadly, possibly.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:56 pm to IAmNERD
Oh yeah? What have you found yours useful for?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:57 pm to baybeefeetz
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Is it possible to print (copy) a sculpture of my face?
Probably. What would limit you on specific stuff like that is software. Don't buy cheap, but you also don't have to buy the most expensive either.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:57 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
And because of that, I’m out.
Jk but I was hoping that by now it’s so easy almost anybody can do it.
Jk but I was hoping that by now it’s so easy almost anybody can do it.
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 6/3/20 at 3:59 pm to baybeefeetz
Get a good one and it'll be fantastic. Buy a kit so you learn how it works as you build it. That way you'll know how to fix it when things go south (which, inevitably, they will).
They're even better once you figure out that you can print actual useful things with them and not just little boats and articulated octopuses ad shite like that.
They're even better once you figure out that you can print actual useful things with them and not just little boats and articulated octopuses ad shite like that.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:00 pm to Grilled Bald Eagle
Yeah I was thinking it would be good for little pieces/ parts that break or get lost.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:00 pm to baybeefeetz
Pick a modeling software and download a copy (wink wink). Watch youtube tutorials and start making random trinkets. I took a intro modeling class in college about 4 years ago and we had access to some pretty high end printers at the time. Had a blast.
You can also download files and print whatever, but the fun will be making it yourself.
You can also download files and print whatever, but the fun will be making it yourself.
This post was edited on 6/3/20 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:03 pm to baybeefeetz
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Jk but I was hoping that by now it’s so easy almost anybody can do it.
3D printing has had extremely rapid tech development, but it still relies on understanding and being fluent in modeling software... scanners are a great tool for capturing scale and precise detail, but it doesn't do everything... there is still a learning curve
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:06 pm to baybeefeetz
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Oh yeah? What have you found yours useful for?
We have one we make up scale model prototypes on.
It runs with the same ESPRIT software we use for machining. I can do all the computer stuff but past that, I'm lost. I've never physically set it up to run and there are lots of settings on the damn thing that I'm sure I could mess something up. I just work with the customer engineering prints and post the program.
It is a pretty cool piece of tech and some in my industry are saying that "additive manufacturing" (basically adding material, or 3d printing, instead of removing material, or machining) is the wave of the future but I'm not worried all that much about it completely putting us out of business. It has helped us in actually visualizing some of the more complex parts we do, therefore, giving us a better ideas on ways to machine particular parts. So it has certainly helped our processes on some really complicated, high dollar jobs.
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:06 pm to baybeefeetz
No
A 2 inch knickknack takes 24 hours to print and it’s noisy as an old xerox machine
A 2 inch knickknack takes 24 hours to print and it’s noisy as an old xerox machine
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:07 pm to Grilled Bald Eagle
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and not just little boats
I've got a half dozen benchy boats laying around all over the office
Like this guy
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:08 pm to baybeefeetz
You trying to print firearms?
Posted on 6/3/20 at 4:15 pm to BigDropper
I’m trying to print a dild... I’m trying to print a little boat.
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