Finally Bought a Printer

[Das Boot]

Well, I finally pulled the trigger on one, and any comments are welcome, good or bad as to my decision. (Screwed up and bought a resin printer, but I canceled and bought this one instead.) I knew I’d getting too big of a hurry and order the wrong kind. I ended up buying the pro.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DPZFXCHW?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

[Fishb0y]

I thought you were getting a real printer!

I feel like I wasted a lot of money on different printers... I'm loving my X-1 Carbon.

[Das Boot]

Casey,

I thought you were getting a real printer!



Just kidding you Casey! :-)) Your Phrozen looks like a great resin printer. I am looking forward to seeing what you will produce with it.

Good luck on your new venture Casey...

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

Canceled the resin printer and got a regular ABS printer

[RazorAntilles]

I have the AD5M Pro also and successfully printed my 1/96 LA-class with it. I’ve yet to have an issue with the printer that wasn’t a user-generated problem, but I’m still incredibly new to 3D printing overall. One thing I don’t do with my printer is connect it over wifi. I’ve heard it can have connectivity issues and cause prints to fail, so I manually load each file onto the printer and press the go button. Overall, getting the printer setup and running was a quick process, and I got the 5M Pro because I wanted an enclosure from the start due to the higher temp and potential fumes associated with running PETG filament, which seems to be one of the ideal filaments to use for boat hulls.

[Das Boot]

It’s going to be a learning curve because I’ve never done it before.

[RazorAntilles]

My next hurtle is figuring out the best way to split STL files so I can scale up from 1/96 to 1/72, because that's now a huge temptation for me, even though I've barely got my teeth into my 1/96 boat. The included slicer software is pretty decent, though there are better choices out there.

[RCSubGuy]

Scaling is incredibly easy, provided the new part will still fit on the print bed. Just select the part, click on "scale", enter the new size or scaling ratio, and you're done.

[Ken_NJ]

Casey, today's Dive Tribe is about 3D printing

https://rc-submarine.com/so/64PKjhw-O?languageTag=en&cid=5e46cca3-5bd7-469a-a189-970db1b583de

[trout]

Just pulled the trigger for a Elegoo Centauri Carbon.

[Das Boot]

This is great. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1E1...ibextid=wwXIfr

[Das Boot]

This is how it’s done.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/141800550555213/permalink/1156587962409795/?comment_id=1156654612403130&reply_comment_id=1156947242373867&mibextid=wwXIfr

[Subculture]

Just pulled the trigger for a Elegoo Centauri Carbon.

Sounds like a line out of Babylon 5.

[RazorAntilles]

Here's a comparison of two sails I printed with my AD5M Pro; one in the plan-matching 1/96, and the larger in 1/72, or at least what I think is 1/72 (scaled up from 100% to 133%). The 1/96 sail was printed with 'normal' settings and the 1/72 was printed with 'fine' settings. The 96th sail is actually a test piece now, because I wasn't happy with how many visible print layers there were with the 'normal' settings, and so I reprinted the sail in 1/96 to make sanding and finishing easier.

Edit: I did not, in fact, print the 1/72 sail with 'fine' settings; it just looks better to me because it's larger.

[gantu]

I had it too with an anycubic printer. Now i own an Bambu Lab P1S and have super surface finish. I use always Spectrum ASA 275.