Piano / Synthesizer - Scale Model - Nord Stage 3

Thanks! What are your findings regarding trade-offs? Do you have any suggestions, if you don’t mind me asking?

My first print had really hard-to-remove supports, probably because I used the traditional supports and not the tree. Then I decided I wanted to print it as one object (instead of keys and body separately) because I have a U1. I also colored the LCD screens gray. I printed it once vertically, which required almost no supports, and once lying flat on the bottom. Having the keyboard be smooth because it's aligned to layer lines is really nice, and the same is true for the top, so I think the best solution is the one that you used. The LCD coloring looks great on the vertical print, but on the horizontal print the slicer has gray on only a single layer for part of it, and the red lower layer shines through. Playing with things tonight, it looks like the model is pretty messy and has many non-manifold edges etc. I'm hoping that if I can fix that (work in progress) then the gray coloring will work right. Separately, I think the knobs stick out too much, and come off very easily.

Yes, the traditional supports are hard to remove. But I only added the print profile, as you pointed out, to make sure the keyboard and top fases align with the layer lines for better quality. I belief the traditional supports also print faster than the tree supports. I think that’s why I chose them, cause you don’t really see the bottom of the part anyways. The LCD in gray looks nice indeed, feel free to add it as a print profile. Concerning the model’s quality it may very well be that it’s pretty messy indeed. I made this model in TinkerCAD couple of years ago. Now that I reviewed it I should have used fusion360 or Siemens NX, but I used the same tinkercad file instead… so maybe I will remake it again to resolve these manifold issues. Thanks for bringing this up.

Yes if you have an ams, or only want to print in one color, it indeed is beter to choose a profile with the synth flat on the bottom. There is also a printprofile with the synth slightly tilted so that only 1 filament change is nesseseary instead of every last couple of layers.