If you’re reading this on a feed reader (which I recommend in general) I’d like to draw your attention to the changes I’ve made to the site, in particular the sidebar. Right under the blatant advertising for my Etsy store I’ve got a list of useful 3D printing links. If there’s a link that you use on a regular basis …
3D printing helps a little girl move her arms
This is going to be all over the place, so might as well be here too. Via http://www.3dfuture.com.au/2012/08/3d-printed-magic-arms/ I know a lot of the stuff I do isn’t this caliber, but I’ve long thought that 3D printing could allow the building of cheap custom prognostics, even thinking that one of the printed hand projects could be adapted to medical use. …
Want to win a 3D printed game?
I’ve been using these pieces to detail testing and I will print the whole thing one day. But if you don’t have a 3D printer and want to play the game all you have to do is design a 3D logo for their game. http://illgottengames.blogspot.com/2012/07/win-copy-of-pocket-tactics.html
Ooh, what could that be for?
I made this prototype for an idea with absolutely no graphic design which I immediately regretted. In fact once I had the prototype in hand I wondered why I felt like I even needed it. It was so obvious. So onward to some design work first.
The tortoise doesn’t always win
With skin turned on one of these was printed at 20mm/s, the other at 40mm/s. Can you tell which is which? Nope, neither can I. There is no discernible difference. The picture doesn’t really show it but they’re both equally bad. My conclusion still stands. Skin doesn’t play well with detail
Continuing to push the detail
A bit more fiddling this weekend to get more detail as fast as possible using pocket tactics pieces. From left to right, the archer and shield maden were printed at the same time with a 0.1mm layer height and the skin plugin on to double the exterior layers, really pushing it. The hope was that providing two prints at once …
Milestone reached
I wasn’t sure it was going to make it through the print I was doing. But it did. Barely. I have just ran out of my first spool of filament! I don’t know if I should be happy or remorseful. I really don’t have THAT many 3D printed things lying around, do I? Where did all that filament… Oh. Yeah, …
3D Printing tidbit 4 – Closing RepG from the Task Manager
If ReplicatorG locks up your windows machine (which happens more often on lower spec machines) and you can’t get it to close do the following: Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the Task Manager Go to the Process tab. Find “JavaW” (Not ReplicatorG) and click on it. Press the “End Process” button.
3D Printing tidbit 3 – Test your filament diameter
Filament diameter is a killer. If you don’t test it before you print you’re likely to waste a whole plate of pawns. [Sigh] PS. Bonus tidbit: If you’re like me and build to an SD card from replicatorG then be sure to give your S3G additional information by changing the name of the file when you save them. For me …
Pushing the detail, the detail pushed back
As soon as I saw pocket tactics I knew I was going to be printing it. And what a great opportunity to dial in my printer settings to get the best possible prints of very small details as fast as possible of course. Click on image for higher resolution Quarter for scale. The fire mage on the left was printed …