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After a 30 year I.T. industry career and 20 years volunteering as a firefighter, this seemed like a great "next thing".
Mostly I'm interested in designing and making small replacement parts for things that get broken. I've had some success with that already, and will be doing more of that as summer comes around and things get busy here in Maine.
I feel like I've moved up a notch from "brand new beginner" to "approaching competence and designing". So much further to go.
Replacement hinge for an Igloo cooler. Print it with TPU-95a. Print on the plate in a way that the strands at each layer are diagonally alligned to the right angles of the hinge to provide good strength. It's flexible enough to work perfectly, and so far tough enough that it seems to be holding up just fine. A millimeter thick TPU-95a laid down at a 45 degree angle crosshatch should be plenty strong, but if not it could easily be another half or more mm thick.
Igloo Cooler Hinge (replaces OEM part 24012)
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My wife and I are traveling to Scotland and have a tradition of doing a custom luggage tag for our trips. It can help spot the right back as you retrieve it. I decided to share this one. The length to width ratio and the width of the strips (called the Saltire) meet the definitions I could find on-line (although there are competing definitions, this seems to be the most commonly used). I've rounded all the corners to avoid sharp edges.
Flag of Scotland - Luggage/Backpack/Tag / Keychain
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Stackable sorting dishes that are about 100cm (about 4"). I have seen others out there, but wanted mine just this way so these are designed from scratch. They're sized for me to sort bricks while I build a model kit. They're useful for other things as well. I've rounded the inside bottom where the sides meet to make picking up pieces a little easier. These stack nicely and are quick to print.
Stackable 100mm (~4") small items tray
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Rid your kitchen of fruit flies. I've seen a few attempts at this, but this one I know works well and should be easy to print. It's designed to easily fit a standard mason jar. It requires no support as long as you have a well tuned print and filament profile.
Fruit Fly Trap - REALLY WORKS - Fits Mason Jars
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Please enjoy this decorative 4 Leaf Clover for St. Patrick's day. Fits a standard US 2" hitch receiver.
Only 1 color change. I used PLA but you can use PETG, ASA, or ABS for more durability if you're going to use it for a long time.
Designed in onShape CAD, imported and tested in Bambu Studio
St. Patrick's Day - Hitch Cover - No Support
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After watching the treatment of Zelenskyy the other day, I wanted to show my support for Ukraine in an inoffensive way (If your politics are different from mine, that's fine but I don't need to hear about it). I realized I had just the right colors for this on my shelf, and decided to give it a try in onShape. About 4 hours from idea, to getting the calipers out to measure, to a test print, and then this final print. I'm happy with it. I hope you will be.
Ukraine Flag Hitch Cover - no support needed
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This is a toy version of a child's ankle brace. When a child needs a brace, a toy like this can help “normalize” the whole process.
I've printed this with BambuLabs “TPU for AMS” (TPU-AMS) which is not as soft or stretchy as typical TPU-95a, but does provide a tough, flexible, semi-rigid feel that is ideal for something like this. You can use PLA or PETG or even ABS if you like but the TPU-AMS will hold up to children much better, I think.
This is only my second design, so be nice.
Ankle Brace for Child's Stuffed Toy - no supports
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Let's get "mathy" on speed settings. I'm new at this so maybe I'm completely screwing this up (there's a question at the end).
Here's what I see...
I started this because I wanted to know if:
(1) I should use the "High Speed" version of "Generic PLA" as my filament profile in studio or not.
(SPOILER ALERT: YES)
(2) Are these settings artificially low for other filaments to make Bambu seem to print faster (SPOILER ALERT: Probably Not)
(3) Does this make the "speed" settings in my project which are way above the limits in the filament profile completely irrelevant? (SPOILER ALERT: No idea).
The work....
I compared the profile settings in Bambu Studio for "Generic PLA", "Generic PLA High Speed", and "Bambu PLA Basic" and see some interesting and possibly confusing things. MOST of the settings are identical across the three. The exceptions are "Max Volumetric Speed" and "Scarf Slope Gap". Ignoring the scarf slope for a minute the Max Volumetric Speed is 21mm3/s for Bambu PLA Basic, 18mm3/s for Generic PLA High Speed, and 12mm3/sec for Generic PLA.
Looking up "Max Volumetric Speed" it is described as a kind of speed limit, not to be bypassed during print to avoid clogs and other problems.
Recommended print speed for the Generic PLA I have is "40-80mm per second" -- but to compare that to the Max Volumetric Speed which is in mm3/sec I have to convert the linear speed (40-80mm/s) into a Cubic Volume.
A 1mm length of cylinder with a 1.75mm diameter comes out to 2.4mm3. So 1mm/sec = 2.4mm3/sec of filament. Closing that loop, we have a speed limit on Bambu PLA Basic of 50.4mm/sec; on Generic PLA High Speed of 43.2mm/sec; and on Generic PLA of 28.8mm/s.
Question 1 answered: Since my generic PLA recommends a print speed of 40-50mm/sec I can definitely use the "Generic PLA High Speed" profile which sets the limit at 43.2mm/sec.
Question 2 answered: The range for Generic High Speed PLA in the profile is a pretty good match for the product from the vendor, so this is probably not Bambu stepping on the scale to benefit themselves. Just a decent conservative number.
Question 3: How does a max speed limit of 50.4mm/sec interact when the project I loaded has a layer speeds well above that for most of its settings? The initial layer is set at 50mm/sec but infill and wall layers range from 100mm/s up to 300mm/s.
Are these higher settings just being ignored with the max rate of 50.4?
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Anyone got a Cuisinart food processor?
This is a simple box-tray to hold a spare cutting disk for a Cuisinart food processor. It's built with some extra strength the larger span walls so it should hold up pretty well. It is stable standing upright next to the Cuisinart or lying flat.
The commercial blade holders and other 3d projects holders I've seen only hold 3 disks. We have a fourth disk and needed a place to hold it. I also needed a simple project to use to learn Bambu Studio design. A project was born of those needs.
Yes, it's super simple and probably most of you could also do this in about half an hour - but you didn't, and I did. ;-:
I printed this on a P1s that I've owned for about a week now, using generic PLA from Creality on a textured PEI plate. I have zero problems with adherence but if you do, you'll want to solve those before printing this. It prints upright so if you are prone to problems with “wobble” you'll want to fix those with another project first as well.
Be gentle - it's my first ‘from scratch’ project.
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Feedback for @MakerWorld -- Love the site and the generous rewards program. Being able to easily reward people who produce and give away great content is fantastic.
As a user, I do have one bit of feedback for you. It is difficult to navigate while searching back to my collections or a specific collection unless I create my own bookmarks in the browser. Can I strongly suggest a sidebar panel or drop down that lets a user select to go directly to one of their collections from pretty much anywhere on the site?#Makerworld
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