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kleinbl00  ·  1441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v4.5 - April 17, 2020

So we're switching from $42/l cheapass resin to $200/l Easycast HD. So we have to profile it.

Here's our best bet with cheapass resin.

Here's our best bet with purple passion.

Note that this is tedious. You have to print a resolution test that gives you a grid of eight samples each a second apart. The purple passion is even more annoying because while the clear shit comes out kind of like a Jolly Rancher? Or sticky fingernail? The purple passion is somewhere between "gummy bear" and "parmigiano reggiano." So then you need to hit it with alcohol briefly, immerse it in glycerine, hit it with UV light, clean it, let it dry, do the hokey pokey, etc. You'll note that at the initial recommended settings, the shit didn't even stick to the build plate.

But eventually you get the settings you need and you're all happy and

...well shit.

So let's chat with the makers of purple passion and figure out what's going on. In the meantime, the plague mask is fun an'all but visibility kinda sucks so let's see if the Internet has come up with a Covid Bane mask and of course they have. You start with an existing Covid mask

And add a thingy on the front and here's where things get shitty: the build plate on my tiny shitty printer is about the size of a cell phone so this thingy actually sticks out a little bit which you figured would just clip the file but nope, it corrupts it like a mutherfucker

...and it doesn't fit the Covid mask anyway because apparently one of them went Rev2 without the other knowing so now we're at Rev2 on the one but have reverted to Rev1 on the other because Thingiverse? It's pretty much DeviantArt for people who can't draw so we'll fuck with that in a minute but we've been given instructions on how to unfuck the falcon so as you were posting this

...so wish me luck.





user-inactivated  ·  1441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Thingiverse? It's pretty much DeviantArt for people who can't draw

Dude, have you tried learning Blender? I've made several attempts over the years, and every time I hit the "oh, so this is what it's like to have a cognitive disability" point and give up. Anyone who can generate something more complex than a platonic solid with it has my respect.

kleinbl00  ·  1441 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not as of yet. AutoCAD? Yes. Fusion? Yes. Solidworks? Yes. Meshmixer? Yes. MasterCAM? Yes. Mine is a world of straight edges.

The world I'm choosing pretty much lives in Fusion, Solidworks, Rhino and ZBrush. And I mean, I suck in Photoshop? But I suck donkey balls in Gimp.

kingmudsy  ·  1440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey klein? The stuff from your printer looks like the burnt sugar my mom used to put on my birthday cakes.

I want to eat it klein. I want to eat your prints.

kleinbl00  ·  1440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

haha that's what happens when you say "fuck I"m not cleaning the wet resin off this print it's garbage anyway" and you just stick it on the turntable under the lights for an hour. That orangy color it gets is "over-curing."