A few things that are important :
- if you are going to scale down the tire ( I do not recommend it) be sure that you check the quality of the letters and stripes in your slicer.
- if you gonna use your own print profile for the tire, make sure that you verify the bottom part of the tire in the slicer for any overhangs. If you see even a single blue line, IT WILL fail.
- especially for the tire, it is very important to have the printer calibrated and the filament calibrated and dry. The bottom and top will be printed at 0.08 layer height (if you use my profile), so there is very little room for error.
- make sure that you are happy with the position of the seam. Use seam painting tool in Bambu Studio to customise it, if you do not agree with my choices.. This applies to all components.
- pretty much every mesh in this design is a high-res mesh. But this is especially true for the tire and the rim spokes. So depending on your computer, it might take a while to slice it. Have patience. I had to use hi-res mesh, otherwise the tire it would have been not a "cylinder" but a polygon with multiple faces.
- I have not tested this design (the tire) with TPU. I guess it can be printed with TPU, but I haven't tried, so if you're going to do it... you do it at your own risk.
- I personally printed every component, some of them multiple times. So, everything is tested and confirmed as viable 3D print object. Therefore, if something goes south, please don't blame the design.
- the printing time for the rim decreases a lot if you use non-silk PLA
- in the picture where you can see the back of the rim, that is a piece printed with a low-res mesh. In the print profile I uploaded a high-res mesh
The filaments I used:
- tire - Bambu PLA Matte Charcoal & Esun PLA+ Gold
- rim - Geeetech PLA Silk Gold
- stand - Esun PLA+ Gold
stand label - Esun PLA+ HS Cold White & Bambu PLA Basic Red
The only post-processed object (30-45 min worth of sanding and 3 layers of clear sealer) is the tire, in the first 5 pictures.
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