As no one has started one yet
I was recently badgered into buying a 3D printer by a friend, they have come down in price quite a lot recently now the chinese have jumped on the band wagon, I got a creality cr10 30x30x40cm from Banggood for 370chf (plus the usual customs charge), mainly for printing big things
so any tips, advice, help etc etc can be asked here
so this was how my mate got me into it, he gave me his spare iron man printed bits to mess around with
from the raw printed pieces
To this
May be good to prvide some more detail like telling us what you use it for (with examples), where you buy materials from, cost of running, and how you rate it overall?
PS Just saw your edit. Please attach photos instead of hotlinking or they end up huge.
This is what the printers been busy with for the past couple of months, War Machine from Ironman 2, as my friend is building Ironman
That looks great.
I was toying with the idea of getting one but the printer and printing wouldn't be the problem, it would be getting up to speed on MCAD and getting a decent package for it.
I'd be interesting in what other MCAD packages people are using and what the learning curve is like.
Good thread!
yep, I need to rescale the pics in imgur, shame on the fly doesn't work on here.
Costs - well in PLA filament (plastic) so far its taken about 15kg, its sold in 1kg rolls usually, at about 20chf per roll on line, I get mine from https://www.3d-printerstore.ch
PLA is the easiest to print as its low temp and quite forgiving
I've been using 3d builder - which is free
and sketchup - also free
and for encoding the files for the printer Simplify3d (not free, things like cura are free though)
The cool thing with the Creality printers is you can print from an SD card so you don't need to keep your pc on 24/7, some of my prints have taken over 100 hours
Awesome. How big is that Iron Man suit, surely it can't be big enough to fit on an actual person as a costume? I cant get a good sense of scale form the photos.
yes its full sized scaled to me
Holy moly... very impressive. You could print some amazing halloween costumes. Next: Robocop or Terminator?
Also where do you get the schematics from? Is it a case of download them then plug and play?
the files came from Etsy, a guy called maxcraft, but you still have to do a fair bit of work splitting / scaling them to fit on your printer bed, and of course sanding / filling afterwards ready to paint
There are lots of free things to print on
https://www.thingiverse.com anyone what a complete full size stormtrooper?
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:391664
I wish I had more time to play with the 3D printer. I'm using OpenSCAD to design parts and Slic3r to slice.
Nggghhhhhh yesssssssss...
Serious question: i there the chance you could custom design costumes for people as a side business? I can't imagine there are many places that do that here in CH...
Ours is still in the box, waiting for ten or more consecutive minutes in a day to start putting it together.
So that'll be never, then...
The figure needs some discarded pizza boxes and empty beer bottles next to it to complete "Ironman's demise" theme...
I'm no where near skilled enough in 3d modeling and costs would be stupidly expensive
didn't know you had one, which one?