Anyone into 3D printing?
- Thread starter Mouse
- Start date
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
the 10" opening is too big for my printer, I limit out around 8". I have done some stuff with Tinkercad, it's not too bad but it probably feels like using paint if you've ever used a bigger CAD program. I'd probably create the spout portion first, then cone your funnel portion to shape. Probably the hardest part is getting the hollowed out pieces centered.
quick 5 minute hack at what I picture you want...
Attachments
I've played with tinkercad a bit, as well as Fusion and some of the other offerings. I'm just not good because I haven't used any of them. Full disclosure I bought a funnel but it arrived cracked and was really flimsy and so I decided I needed to not be a doofus and just print what I need. My print parameters are 11x11x9.8.
I'll find what I need this morning on thingiverse.
I'll find what I need this morning on thingiverse.
Homefryy
Active Member
- Location
- Salt Lake City
I don't know anything about design for 3D printing but I can easily put a model together for you. I have lots of experience with Solidworks and Inventor (what I currently have access to through work).
I appreciate the offer but I found something on thingiverse that should work out for me. I "customized" it to my specs and its been rendering for 3 hours now, who knows how much longer it'll take.
I've got 4 civil engineers in my family that all have CAD skills. I've had my one brother help me with a few things I needed drawn up that had "important" specs.
As far as designing for 3d printing goes there actually are some things that need to be taken into consideration. Mostly it has to deal with overhangs and what angles work best for them. Print software can generate supports that are easily removed after the fact but if a part can be designed to not need supports then its generally better without them.
I've got 4 civil engineers in my family that all have CAD skills. I've had my one brother help me with a few things I needed drawn up that had "important" specs.
As far as designing for 3d printing goes there actually are some things that need to be taken into consideration. Mostly it has to deal with overhangs and what angles work best for them. Print software can generate supports that are easily removed after the fact but if a part can be designed to not need supports then its generally better without them.
- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Had my FIL print this out for my son's birthday last week.
The_Lobbster
Well-Known Member
Anybody on here that could draw up, and print something out if I provide measurements?
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
How complicated are we talking? I feel like my skills are about MS paint levels...
The_Lobbster
Well-Known Member
basically a ring adapter as seen here so I can run a Dana twin stick boot on my samurai case.
Attachments
That seems easy enough to make out of sheet, and plasma cut--so my limited-to-2D CAD skills would work. If you can get me all the dimensions....
RockChucker
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Highland
Been messing with the printer a little more tonight. Found my adhesion problem was a z height offset issue with the first layer. This glass base that came with my printer is neat. It has some sort of plastic matrix that adheres to the part VERY well when the nozzle height is right. As of right now, no plans to use hairspray. I rev’d the HF jack release knob and drew my own that is a more favorable size. Here’s my progression. Lucky first print. Failed 2nd, failed 3rd with different slicer settings via cura rather than the creality slicer and finally my own knob design with cura slicer and only a brim that I used to dial in the nozzle height offset. 
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
Sometimes I wonder if the hairspray is just filler to make up that .1mm for bed clearance.
RockChucker
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Highland
Figured out a way to export topo data into a CAD format, then tweak and print. A guy I work with commissioned a print of Mt Timpanogos.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
That's freakin cool.
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
That's bad ass.
- DAA
- DAA
That is really cool. You could easily sell those all over the country. (tailored to local mountains)
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
x2 .... world wide, really. Offer versions for Mt Fuji, Mt Hood, Everest, K2, Kilimanjaro etc.
You wanted to get into dropshipping Dave, setup a Shopify store offering these for the popular mountains around the world, run ads to mountain climbers and outdoors folks on FB and start printing 3D models of mountains and shipping them out. You could also target people based on location, like Carl says. You control the product and quality, ship from home.... they're small and light weight. Seriously, you might be on to something big here.
