Oh wow thanks. I did lightly sand the top surface, that's about it.
Overture glow ABS. It Prints well for me. To be fair, I took these pictures right after walking inside from the sun, so it was nice and charged up.
The plastic loop on my old viper remote broke, so I popped it open to get some dimensions and got to work in fusion 360. This is rev2 printed in glow ABS.
In the order of acquisition:
Currently all are operational except the Ender 3 pro, due to the Biqu H2 v1 blowing up on me last weekend and forcing an upfra to the dragon+Sherpa_mini+HeroMe toolhead.
What I am about to say will probably go against what at least a few people on here will say, but I've been printing PETg (and PLA, ABS, tpu, etc...) for about 5 years now on 6 different machines. It all started where you are now, on a stock (besides a microswiss hotend) ender 3 and a glass bed.
For me PETg Prints as easily as PLA every time by following these guidelines.
Temp: I print PETg at 245° first layer and 240° after that. I run 75° on all of my beds with PEI sheets and have great adhesion.
Part Cooling: PETg doesn't tolerate part cooling as well as PLA. I run my 5015 setups at about 30% fan speed which delivers a good balance of print quality and strength.
It should also be noted that you should really invest in an all metal hotend when printing above above 230°C. The PTFE tubing in the stock lined creality hotendt begins to break down above this temp and puts off some really bad chemicals, like chemicals that are said to eat holes in your brain amd stuff... Also, you will have less headaches with an all metal hotend, just be sure to lower your retraction accordingly.
Well, this has turned into a wall of text so I'm going to stop here. If anything I said doesn't make sense justlet me know and I'll be happy to clarify. Cheers.
My friend, you have nothing to worry about. Try 6 printers and over 150 spools...
Glad it's not just me. I can't even log in on liftoff anymore for some reason, just sits there loading forever. Tried clearing cache and data and reinstalling to no avail.
I've settled on liftoff until boost is released. Seems to be the best combination of functioning features and nice UI IMO.
This list looks about right to me
Nope, baby wipes lol
Well said. I've been using fusion 360 for a few years now, but have to admit that I only recently began working on properly constraining my sketches. I didn't realize how many issues it was causing me until I began doing it right and stopped having said issues.
I think personally, I would also add a step to this process which would be to take a picture of the geometry in question with a ruler right up against it (to be able to scale the reference image in fusion). It probably won't be perfect, but I think it does help as a starting point that you can then make adjustments to as needed.
I recently bought a 3d scanner, so I'm curious to start using that to scan in reference geometry. Should be interesting.
Yeah same here. Tje decorative stuff can be cool but I also tend to stick with functional stuff. That project your working on sounds pretty cool, I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out. Electroplating prints is something I've been interested in for a while but haven't tried it yet.