Hi All, Long time lurker, first time poster.
I'm building the 1:144 scale Typhoon from the Nautilus files is PETG and looking for advice. Prints are going well, though I've had a few issues with sections 5A and 5B.
Unlike previous sections, both of these have a small flange on the bulkhead end. At first I didn't notice, and I started with 5B with the bulkhead side down. Fortunately the Slicer (Cura 5) seemed to ignore the flange and printed this part without issue. (There were two other issues with this post which I'll come back to.)
When I printed 5B (again bulkhead side down) it printed the flange and then tried to print in the air. Fortunately I spotted this early and found the cause.
I then tried printing with supports (again bulkhead side down) but this resulted in significant distortion of the leading edge (and failed to print the flange anyway). I then considered inverting the print with the bulkhead up, but have opted instead to remove the flange from the file. This was quite quick to do in Tinkercad (I normally design in Fusion but quick patches to STL files seems to be simple in Tinkercad. In this case create a box hole over the flange and group with the hull). I'm wondering if others encountered this issue, and how they addressed it? Should I simply have inverted the print and added supports? (This option adds about 15 hours to the print.)
I had two issues with 5B. Part of the bulkhead (rectangular block section, starboard side) had some sort of solid issue and Cura ignored the block so it didn't print. The large flange above this block (starboard flange to align with the top hull) has a gap between it and the hull. These were again quickly fixed in Tinkercad (which is when I discovered the small flange discussed above, so I removed this). Again, I'm curious how others have addressed this?
On the whole the above were minor issues and I'm impressed with the kit so far. If my solutions are of interest I can send them to Bob.
Separate to this, I'm contemplating adding a cross-hull bow thruster. Bob has advised me this is unnecessary so I might drop it, but I've had fun in Fusion importing the files and adding integrated mounts for a removable thruster.
Thanks and regards,
Colin.
I'm building the 1:144 scale Typhoon from the Nautilus files is PETG and looking for advice. Prints are going well, though I've had a few issues with sections 5A and 5B.
Unlike previous sections, both of these have a small flange on the bulkhead end. At first I didn't notice, and I started with 5B with the bulkhead side down. Fortunately the Slicer (Cura 5) seemed to ignore the flange and printed this part without issue. (There were two other issues with this post which I'll come back to.)
When I printed 5B (again bulkhead side down) it printed the flange and then tried to print in the air. Fortunately I spotted this early and found the cause.
I then tried printing with supports (again bulkhead side down) but this resulted in significant distortion of the leading edge (and failed to print the flange anyway). I then considered inverting the print with the bulkhead up, but have opted instead to remove the flange from the file. This was quite quick to do in Tinkercad (I normally design in Fusion but quick patches to STL files seems to be simple in Tinkercad. In this case create a box hole over the flange and group with the hull). I'm wondering if others encountered this issue, and how they addressed it? Should I simply have inverted the print and added supports? (This option adds about 15 hours to the print.)
I had two issues with 5B. Part of the bulkhead (rectangular block section, starboard side) had some sort of solid issue and Cura ignored the block so it didn't print. The large flange above this block (starboard flange to align with the top hull) has a gap between it and the hull. These were again quickly fixed in Tinkercad (which is when I discovered the small flange discussed above, so I removed this). Again, I'm curious how others have addressed this?
On the whole the above were minor issues and I'm impressed with the kit so far. If my solutions are of interest I can send them to Bob.
Separate to this, I'm contemplating adding a cross-hull bow thruster. Bob has advised me this is unnecessary so I might drop it, but I've had fun in Fusion importing the files and adding integrated mounts for a removable thruster.
Thanks and regards,
Colin.
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