Is it worth getting into 3d printing?it looks like a cool hobby but I don't know if people just forget about it after playing around for a month
>>107629041It's nice for Xmas since I can just use it to make the plastic crap that people love, without feeding the capitalist machine to much.
>>107629041>FDMmodern FDM printers seem a lot more user friendly but the low end printers of yesteryear were real pieces of shit and it took a lot of effort to get a good print. Kind of tempted to buy a new printer to see if it's as nice as the youtube shills say. One modern downside is the amount of AI Slop all over platforms like thingiverse. Designing stuff yourself and printing it can be fun and cool, but finding fun/useful designs is slightly a pain in the ass now. Modern filaments like PLA are safer... sort of.>Resin SLAit's so much fucking work you have no idea, and you will almost certainly make a mistake with safety and poison yourself eventually. Most people who get into resin do it to counterfeit plastic model kits and it ends up either not saving that much money or causing a lot of other problems. If you have a garage or workshop with industrial ventilation and are willing to spend on proper PPE and be disciplined, go for it, but it's not a good thing to get into casually like FDM printing PLA filaments.
>>107629041I use 3D printing frequently but I'm pretty into racing cars which requires a lot of part fabrication. Usually how it goes is there will be a few months of the printer being cold and completely unused then a week of it running prints 24/7 as I make a part over and over again.>>107629107I do this too.
If you have other DIY hobbies is extremely useful, as a hobby into itself I don't know, you get tired of printing plastic trinkets eventually.
My issue is I can't into 3d software. CAD/modelling eludes my smooth brain. I've made some simple stuff for my stuff but the stuff I need to get done which are complicated require stuff I can't model, so half of my stuff is still cardboard and ca glue.
>>107629041If you have MCAD skills or modeling skills (like blender) it's a gift that keeps giving. I use 3D printing for over 10 years and it's still fun as fuck to design shit in CAD and then holding it in ones hand a couple hours later. I agree that just printing out downloaded models would probably get boring after a while.
>>107629619Try FreeCAD tutorials made by "Mango Jelly Solutions" on yt. Or try on shape, it's pretty straight forward with lots of learning material available online.
>>107629862I'll take a look at the freecad tutorials, thanks anon.>OnshapeIf I was okay with using cloudshit I'd just get a local shop to print out my stuff instead of having a printer myself.
