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Post by **alexanderfoti** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:56 pm

I have been playing with my new 3d printer:

This thing is great for dieselbiking. The ability to make brackets, manifolds etc, out of plastic (and quite strong). Granted metal is best a lot of the time, but for fiddly things its pretty awesome.

and keyrings of course.

I'm taking requests! Black/ Red/White colours available.

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:10 pm

What 3D modeling files do you accept?
Also dimensional restrictions and accuracy would be nice.

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:21 pm

Tetronator wrote:What 3D modeling files do you accept?
Also dimensional restrictions and accuracy would be nice.

STL files would be nice. I can do 50 microns accuracy. However, its a bit of a fiddle, so smaller things are harder to detail on.

Max Dimensions 15 x 15 x 15 (mm)

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:27 pm

Cool, I'll yell if I need anything small printed!

Also! What kinds of plastics are you using?

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:29 pm

Tetronator wrote:Cool, I'll yell if I need anything small printed!

Also! What kinds of plastics are you using?

Definitely!

ABS and PLA - PLA is more forviging but more brittle.

ABS is a pain to print things that are large and flat as it loves to curl, but its much stronger.

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:34 pm

Yeah, I know that feeling...

A tip for printing ABS, get a box to cover the entire printer, keep the heat inside till the print is done and let it cool with the box covering it. (No peaking!)

It helped when I printed my phone holder.

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:42 pm

Many thanks. I have just started covering the printer with a box. I found that increasing the head temperature by ten degrees helped as well.

Post by **Stuart** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:14 pm

Alex (or anyone else for that matter), be sure to start a proper 3D Thread if you start knocking up bike parts for projects. Very interesting subject for us prototypers! I learnt about STL files after attending the Gaget show. I think Google's free software can handle these files.

Post by **Diesel Dave** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:22 pm

Will it accept a pencil (blunt) drawing on a ripped up cigarette packet?

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:00 pm

With a creative enough operator for sure...

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:12 am

Yes indeed! As long as its simple enough for me to make on sketchup

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 3:27 pm

If you accept sketchup I can most likely help as-well then, I've got some experience.

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:21 am

Hell yes! I've got some logo ideas for the HATZDA. Might just have to print up a keyring myself - my buddy here recently got one, and is always itching to "practice" with it.

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:39 am

OK. New update, Sketchup is crap and produces many unprintable results.

I have switched to Solidworks, which is very hard to use but much better!

Post by **Stuart** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:19 pm

Thanks for the info Alex

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:31 am

alexanderfoti wrote:OK. New update, Sketchup is crap and produces many unprintable results.

I have switched to Solidworks, which is very hard to use but much better!

So you bought Solidworks... That's an expensive joke, but yeah its the way better tool for it.

Wish I had the money for it, got to use it during my studies.

Post by **alexanderfoti** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:41 am

No, I had a friend lend it to me, he is using it for studies.

Granted its likely outside the licensing model but ho hum

Tetronator · Post by **Tetronator** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:43 am

Lucky, get some good use out of it while you can. The people of Solidworks are notorious when it comes to 'illegal' use of their product...

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:48 am

Not sure if this will help, or if you guys already know this stuff.

I started with Solidworks, and then moved to sketchup now that I'm out of school and poor. SketchUp ends up being ok for 3D printing, but it has a similar learning curve to Solidworks. The difference is Solidworks ends up making the process very easy/smooth once you learn. All the learning with Sketchup is how to get around the clunky way it works. The clunkiest part is that it does not create solids at first - all you are drawing/creating is hollow shells. Sketchup has an extra step/steps to make your model solid. google or youtube "making a solid in sketchup" and there's plenty of tutorials. I had to figure that out before I could print out the model of my clutch adapter.

mark_in_manchester · Post by **mark_in_manchester** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:00 pm

I've had good results using 3D printed plastic (done by someone at work - I have no hardware or software) as a pattern for casting in aluminium at home. Sure makes pattern-making a lot less of a pain in the a***.

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