Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-16 Thread Hammer, Erich F
On Friday, January 12, 2024 at 19:21, John Lolis eloquently inscribed: > Regular printers are ornery enough to my way of thinking, but 3D printers > take ornery to a whole new level. It's almost like they take printing problems into a new dimension!

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-12 Thread Lolis, John
I found that there's a wealth of helpful tips in the articles found here: https://community.microcenter.com/categories/3d-printers Here's an interesting one. We haven't tried printing the toaster here yet: https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/12537/3d-print-of-the-month-the-torture-toaste

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-12 Thread charles meyer
This is a matter of which of the many settings to tweak to what specific setting. Ex. infil, speed, temp, Z distance. As they say, the devil's on the details. Charles. Date:Mon, 8 Jan 2024 09:00:12 -0800 From:Baffo 32 Subject: Re: 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl It seems inc

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-12 Thread charles meyer
Hi Lena, It's been my experience 3d Printing that stringiness is attributable to the settings but knowing which setting(s) to change - that's the rub. That can also change on each print. Some people think 3D printing is like manufacturing where you set the machine specs and click Print. The tr

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-12 Thread charles meyer
Hi Erich, A patron was concerned re: the print as it did print stringy and so many I've printed for the past 5 1/2 years have printed well so they can get spoiled. I have spent countless hours with trial and error which is why I've learned to print a myriad of objects well. I'm not assigned 8 ho

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-11 Thread Tim McMahon
I stumbled onto this today when I was looking for something else.  I have no 3D printing experience so I'm not sure how useful the information will be. https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/print-quality-troubleshooting/stringing-or-oozing/ When I was looking for solutions to your problem, peop

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-08 Thread Baffo 32
It seems incredibly helpful to perform a general calibration and tuning of the printer, for which there are a number of guides. This can often rectify the problem, and also produces example good quality prints so that the problem can be further narrowed in on. My personal experience was of stringi

Re: [CODE4LIB] 3D Print - Correcting a Thingiverse .stl

2024-01-08 Thread Hammer, Erich F
Charles, First, I was surprised that for generously shared plans someone would complain about "stinginess". ☺ Second, while I have not designed 3-D prints nor used a 3-d printer, my teenage son has several different kinds of 3-D printers at home and has done a lot of printing and troubleshoot