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| sleemanj:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 30, 2017, 01:30:33 am ---Am I the only person who, despite understanding the aforementioned advantages of custom 3D printed enclosures, just can’t stand the look of them, since the surfaces come out so terrible? (I know that professional 3D printing can achieve much better quality, but that’s not what we are discussing here.) --- End quote --- Eh, who cares if the layers are visible, it's funvtional apparatus, not a beauty contest. I print at 0.3mm and i find the finish just fine. Obviously print orientation needs to be considered, but for my functional prints i don't do cleanup other than removing support. For more aesthetic stuff to steal a phrase, filler and paint makes it the printer it ain't. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: sleemanj on October 30, 2017, 07:41:33 am ---Eh, who cares if the layers are visible, it's funvtional apparatus, not a beauty contest. I print at 0.3mm and i find the finish just fine. Obviously print orientation needs to be considered, but for my functional prints i don't do cleanup other than removing support. For more aesthetic stuff to steal a phrase, filler and paint makes it the printer it ain't. --- End quote --- Sorry, I just like nicely made stuff. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---Sorry, I just like nicely made stuff --- End quote --- You do realise that most 'nice' things you buy are 'finished' in some way? Surfaces will be deburred, machined, painted, all sorts of things. You could do the same with a 3D printed part if you could be arsed, but you want it to be a magical replication box where you feed in some anonymous material and out pops a fully formed and completed product. Making things just isn't like that, regardless of the medium. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on October 30, 2017, 10:14:43 am ---You do realise that most 'nice' things you buy are 'finished' in some way? Surfaces will be deburred, machined, painted, all sorts of things. You could do the same with a 3D printed part if you could be arsed, but you want it to be a magical replication box where you feed in some anonymous material and out pops a fully formed and completed product. Making things just isn't like that, regardless of the medium. --- End quote --- I would appreciate it if you don't belittle me by lecturing me about expectations I don't actually have. Home printed parts are structurally and often functionally inferior to traditionally manufactured parts. There are printers that do better, but you definitely don't and won't own those. FDM is a great technology, but not even the most vigorous post processing can change its nature. As you say, it's not a magical replication box. It's a printer that squirts coarse plastic approximations. |
| Mjolinor:
The first two 3d printers I bought were Stratasys model 768. One BST and one SST. I quickly sold the BST and bought a broken Wabhao for £80. I then spent several months making the Wanhao print as well as the SST and sold the SST. The parts it makes are of course identifiable as 3d printed but they were with the Stratasys. They are good looking boxes that take no effort to make. This is about as rough as they get with no effort put into cleaning the bed or levelling it, just draw (15 minutes using Openscad) and print (20 minutes). Control panel for my spot welder. |
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