Print of the Month April '18

Hey guys, for this months POTM I thought I'd print myself a little something to tide me over while I wait for my Tesla Model 3...

It's a little supercharger for my work phone!

I have to say, I've been having a few problems recently with the extruder jamming on me and I'm not sure why yet. This meant I had to try three times before I managed to get a finished print of the white sides of the charger...

One of the failed prints

I'm not sure if the new filament I got has gummed up the nozzle, or if it's just time for me to get a new one (it's the same nozzle that came with my printer last year and has had around 8kg of plastic through it!).

I'll keep trying to print stuff but in the meantime I will order a set of new nozzles from Cetus and see if I can get things working again.

Another issue I had with the print was that I ran out of silver on the base, totally my fault, so I had to swap material half way through...

The print itself should have been fairly painless, and if you fancy your own little Tesla supercharger for your desk, you can pick up the models here.

There is also new software out for the Cetus! It seems that they are phasing out the Cetus specific software and moving to a generic UP software. At first glance it looks fairly similar, but I'll do a deep dive at some point and let you guys know the differences in a future blog.

Keeping it brief this week as it's late and I'm a little frustrated at the jammed printer so I'll see you all next week for something hopefully a little more upbeat!

Troez.

Comments

Ovion's Battletech 3D Printable Models

Hey guys, this week I wanted to draw attention to the Patreon of a guy on the Battletech Discord. He's a freelance 3d modeler and is doing some really cool stuff for tabletop Battletech, Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons communities. As I know him from the Battletech Discord (Come check it out by the way) I'm going to showcase some of the models he's put up on his Patreon in relation to the game with the big stompy mechs! All of his models are created by him from scratch and they look great! I won't put any names with them, for copyrighting reasons, but I'm sure you Battletech fans out there will be able to figure out what's what. I picked a small selection of his models to show here, but go check out his page for the whole lot and he is releasing new models all the time. Tanks 'Mechs If you don't see what you like or if Battletech isn't your thing, he does commissions for custom models so it would definitely be wor...

Heroforge

If any of you play table top games like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder you will know there is no limit to the companies providing high quality miniatures for your games. However if you want to stray from the norm, and for example have a steampunk Dwarf or Elf, where do you go? Games Workshop make great miniatures but they are limited to the armies that they use in their games. Places like Dark Sword Minis or Reaper provide a more traditional set of miniatures for fantasy type games and even a few for Sci Fi, but what if you need that one miniature that suits your character perfectly but doesn't exist? Well with the advent of 3D printing, some companies have begun to offer online customisation of miniatures which you can order printed or even download the STL files to print yourself at home. The most well known of these sites is Heroforge . Heroforge allows you massive amounts of customisation for your miniature, from race and gender all the way d...

NASA

Space. The final frontier..... Seriously though, how awesome is space exploration, and especially now with commercial spaceflight making getting to space cheaper and more accessible. I am a massive science fiction fan, like my father before me (Star Wars quote) with some of my favourite movies including Blade Runner, Aliens and Stargate, so its not really surprising to learn I am a massive fan of companies like SpaceX which are trying to push the boundaries of what is possible in modern and future spaceflight. Of course, none of this would be where it is now without NASA. Even though I was born too late to watch them live, the Moon landings are, in my opinion, the single greatest scientific and technological achievements of mankind, followed closely by the ISS. I mean, I even have a LEGO Saturn V sitting on my desk next to my monitor. But LEGO is expensive! I hear you cry, There must be a way I can own a small piece of NASA's spaceflight history witho...

troez3D

Search This Blog