>>784384 Is there any software that tells you whether a model you have made or imported will stand on its own feet/give accurate predictions of the centers of mass of a figure before printing it?

>>949291 I know of Solidworks, but it's proprietary software-as-a-service subscription crap. The software itself is supposedly good but I always avoid anything using that business model.

I recently bought a 12k resin printer (Saturn) since I wasn't able to get satisfying results casting epoxy keycaps for my custom split keyboard. I'm really surprised with the print quality. These are old pics where I was trying out various ways to fill out the key legends (paint, colored wax, play-doh), turns out the best way is with play-doh, although it can stain the keycaps and you need to sand them a bit.

Are 3d printers capable of producing stuff similar to this?

>>950056 Yes, resin printers are extremely good at details and wouldn't have any problems printing any of the pictures you posted, depending on the scale you might have to print the model in multiple separate parts and join them. They're also cheap and easy to use, the cleanup process is a chore though. Depending on the resin you're going to use it might get a little expensive. At most you'll have to sand your models a bit due to supports. Regular 3d printers are also getting very good, they're more expensive and you have to fiddle with them a lot more to get good results, but they're very low-res compared to resin printers.

>>950056 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVFFDQqxmNA

>>950067 Forgot to mention, resin is very brittle compared to PLA or any other material that regular 3d printers use.

>>950073 >>950067 >>950056 The future is now!

>>949391 Be careful with resin-printed keycaps. Prolonged skin contact isn't great with some blends. Depending on the resin, skin exposure can cause irritation, and you get increasingly sensitized to it over time. You can essentially develop an allergy to it through overexposure.

>>950098 Oh shit, didn't know that, thanks. I'm using elegoo white, maybe I should add a few coats of nail polish or varnish.

>>950067 >>950073 Would it be worth it to use a resin printer to make a master mold so that you could have the definition of resin printing and the resilience of what ever material you used make the final product from?

>>950103 Sure, but molding and casting is anything but simple. If you're doing jewelry or small details, you'll need a pressure pot or/and a vacuum chamber. I tried doing epoxy keycaps and was plagued with inconsistent mixing, air bubbles (even after using a vacuum chamber before pouring and with the mold inside of it) and just very low quality results. Maybe I'm retarded, maybe you'll get better results for what you're planning to do, but it's almost a guarantee that you'll have to spend a reasonable amount of money on a good pressure/vacuum chamber.

>>950103 You could also try injection molding with resin printed molds, but that's another rabbit hole full of problems, nowadays it's cheaper thanks to some tabletop solutions, but you can only do small models.

>>950115 An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkpFRBPenA

I may need help setting up this one. I wanna use it in conjunction with my regular plastic printer so I can print a cute Roll.

>>963995 What's the problem with it?

>>963995 >flat thing gets dunked into vat of plastigoop <??? >models materialize on flat thing How the fuck does this kind of printer work?

>>978988 The goop is bombarded by UV light, layer by layer, and the light turns it immediately solid. I think that's basically how it works. A ray of light is used to draw each layer, and that makes the 3D object.

>>963995 Oh I didn't know they made these as consumer models.

Are CoreXY printers a meme?

How retarded is it to resin print PETG tubing for water cooling purposes?

>>979260 >CoreXY printers a meme? > Well, are they? Actually, explain what meme are they, or why are they worth mentioning. I don't know of them and I've been trying to research about printers as much as possible.

I wanna print me a cute Roll-chan. Are there good models to download?

>>1011905 https://www.models-resource.com/

Do these print well in color yet?

>>1019845 Do you mean resin that prints precolored? It's aight.

See this cutie Roll-chan? I need a lil' help here because I wanna print her. What's the best way to adjust this 3D model with UltiMaker Cura so I can print it with an Ender 3 printer? Please tell me step by step how to set each parameter? Thanks.

>>1031410 Tree supports for starters probably. Have you printed other things out to understand your filament better such as minimum layer time?

>>1031430 >Tree supports for starters Like this? >Have you printed other things out to understand your filament better such as minimum layer time? I have printed plenty of things, but I always had my sister to do this part for me, so I never truly learned.

>>1031435 I don't really have tutorials saved and haven't touched mine in 2 years, but minimum layer time should help when barely any material is extruded and it isn't solid yet. The individual layer render and enabling supports/viewing supports should help adjust supports but I don't remember anything else, just that supports are needed to lay the material on top of and it should be thin where it makes contact so you can snap it off.

>>1031439 Well, I tried to learn this on my own and I think I got it more or less right. Correct me where you think I went retarded. I'll try printing it like this. If you wanna try the exact GCODE file I made with these parameters, here it is: https://files.catbox.moe/u47ovx.gcode

>>1031537 Did you buy the model or got it for free? In general you guys buy them

>>1031537 Your settings are fine, but you kept the model too tiny. It's likely made more for a resine printer, because with PLA it's too little to have good definition. I was printing the file as you shared it and it's so small it broke off the plate because it had no surface (here's her boot). You could use PLA for that model, but you'll have to make it bigger.

Forgot pic.

>>1031580 >Did you buy the model or got it for free? >In general you guys buy them I don't usually buy them, my sister used to give them to me for free and I think she pirated most of them if not all of them. But I did buy that Roll. It was pretty cheap. And so is this Luce model, but even though its cheap I have problems right now with my CC. Anyone has a Luce model to share? Ideally this one. >>1031964 >Your settings are fine, but you kept the model too tiny Yeah, I noticed after I had shared the file. Will modify it later.