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The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/vaevictus138 on 2024-12-23 12:41:06.

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/Sea-Improvement7160 on 2024-12-23 12:29:47.

I plan to print incense burners and give them out as Christmas gifts. If there was a fire because of the negligent use of a burner, could I be held liable? I downloaded the file from TV.

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/KyleScore on 2024-12-23 12:21:49.

I want to do a big lightbox for my garage. I haven't been able to find any info on if I can upscale a model , cut it into bigger pieces then glue up do instead of having a small sign I can get something that looks more like a full size dealer sign.

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/FerriitMurderDrones on 2024-12-23 12:15:06.

So, I've been using PETG for a while where I've printed at around 250mm/s at 250C nozzle and 70C bed. My bed is a flexible, magnetic PEI bed and I'm using an Ender 3 V3 SE (regular Ender 3 broke, but it's almost fixed by now). My new settings for EPLA are 100mm/s at 205C nozzle and 60C bed. The issue I'm having is with bed adhesion. I can't get shit to stick to the bed

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/Sterflex on 2024-12-23 12:10:35.

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/Sea-Rest7776 on 2024-12-23 12:05:39.

Lid on, two carbon air filters from anycubic, in a closet in my bedroom. Right now I don't have access to a separate room to run it in (but I will soon-ish) will this minimize fumes enough to where being in my room with the door closed would be ok?

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The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/Alwankvich1 on 2024-12-23 01:23:27.

Original Title: Sum of btch why guess it's time for glue on my hot bed (Bambu A1 With PEI plate) after 67+/- prints my plate isn't holding large prints anymore (the green one is PETG and the Purple is PLA GID(glow) both where dryed and used while in a creality Pie heat/dryer

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The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/wheeltouring on 2024-12-22 22:18:49.

• the part cooling fan is as loud as a vacuum cleaner, and the cooling fan of the power supply is almost as bad.
• the large volume plastic housing of the printhead seems to hit resonance frequencies pretty often which causes the printer to emit loud ÖÖÖÖÖK ÖÖÖÖÖK ÖÖÖÖÖK noises which drown out even the fans. It is annoying to run this thing overnight even if I put it in the far corner of my rather large house. It would be impossible to use it in a flat with neighbours even if you live alone and wear earplugs.
• the printer takes FOREVER to actually start a print, even if you skip the painfully slow and time consuming bed leveling procedure. It moves up and down, backwards and forwards, randomly nuzzles the bed in several places even though you told it to skip leveling. It inexplicably heats up and cools down the nozzle and the bed between the various, mysterious steps and you have to wait for it every time. It is driving me bonkers.
• it is seemingly impossible to preheat nozzle and bed so you can start printing immediately after getting the .stl file in the printer. I can do that esily with my 3 Pro and my 3 S1, but not with this one. It is necessary to go through all the previously mentioned steps if you want to watch the first layer so you have to wait and stay with the printer for several minutes.
• it appears to be impossible to adjust the z-offset whlle the printer lays down the first layer. My skirt lines, brims and the first layer all have way too much squish and changing the offset in the display in the expert mode has no effect on the nozzle whatsoever, no matter whether you click on save after changing the value or not.
• the bed leveling doesnt seem to work either, I printed a rectangle half the size of my palm and one side was perfect from the first 0.2mm layer to the sixth (that means it cant have been overextrusion), the other side showed the ploughed-furrows look of excess material. That means that that part of the bed must have been significantly higher than the other, despite having done several bed leveling rounds previously. The printer seems to forget the results whenever you switch it off.
• print quality is noticeably worse than what I get from my 3 S1, even though I am curently running the V3 Plus at less than a quarter if its advertised speed of 600mm/s and with the accel toned way down too.
• sending files to the printer by WLAN (one of the best parts) only works with the Creality Print 5.1 slicer, which sucks balls. It hasnt got the "lay object flat on buildplate" function that Cura has (or rather it is not nearly as good), it has only got the most rudimentary of combing functions, and you have to set the bed temperature in the frigging FILAMENT settings, not among the other settings! That one drove me nuts until I found the solution through extensive googling. It also barely lets you adjust the z-seam andwhen I thought I had it the way I wanted the slicer fucked it up in the weirdest of ways that I have never experienced with Cura.
• I set up a custom printer profile in Cura and tried to create g-code for the Ender with that, but you can only feed it to the printer with a USB stick and I have already had the printer do the most random things and throw up error codes with that method. My computer says there is already a problem with the brand new USB stick that came with the printer so we will most likely never find out what the problem was before I send this POS back.

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/bloodyskull84 on 2024-12-22 21:43:51.

You can find videos talking about how BambuLab products are so nice almost everywhere. But is BambuLab really good or that’s just marketing? I noticed that they send free products to almost everyone runs a small/medium 3D printing profile on TikTok/IG/YT. What’s your opinion?

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The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/TheCakeIsALieX5 on 2024-12-22 14:22:58.

So currently I design some things and towards the end of one of the designs I got the idea to emboss my name somewhere small in a corner. Like a brand name of sorts.

So I made the sketch, the extrusion and thought:

How do people feel about doing that?

Do you guys think it is ok or even cool or do you disagree doing that? I am really not sure and thought why not ask reddit for some opinions?

Thanks!!

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The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/Lopsided_Series_1056 on 2024-12-22 14:01:39.

I wanna print fetal heart models that can be dissassembled to show how they are inside and what should be looked for on prenatal ultrasound.

This is a wild shot but can anyone guide me to these stl?

something like this https://mwu3dmodels.com/en/shop/normal-fetal-heart-model-with-axial-sections-levocardia-variant/

The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/manni_mcfly on 2024-12-22 13:47:57.

My Anycubic i3 Mega, which I bought about 6 years ago, is becoming increasingly prone to issues. I think it’s just getting old. I wanted to replace the hotend and realized that there are no original parts from Anycubic available anymore—only cheap replicas. Fans (I often get a clogging in the heat sink area) are also hard to find or expensive.

Somehow, it doesn’t make much sense to me to invest a relatively lot of money compared to the price I bought it into such an affordable printer.

Other than that, the Anycubic was sufficient for my needs. Not great, but okay. I don’t print that much anyway.

I’m completely out of touch with what’s good in this category nowadays. The A1 from Bambulab looks really nice and affordable, though. I see it everywhere lately.

What do you think? For example, I have absolutely no interest in lots of modifications and tinkering. I just want a tool that works.