3d printing as a hobby. where do I start?
Well you first need money, then you buy a 3D printer.
>>110274972if you have no interest in learning CAD or functional design then i wouldn't bother. you'll print off a bunch of retarded plastic trinket shit, get bored, and then sell it for a 50% loss.
>>110275021and then?
>>110275069Then you find models that you want to print and you print them.
>>1102749723D printing isn't really the hobby it's just a part of creating things as a hobby. If all you want to do is make garbage trinkets other people designed just go onto any site that offers STL files and get what you want. Buy a cheap filament printer to start with then as you understand what your doing move to a more specialized design of printer like resin printing. I would learn Autodesk Fusion that's going to be your best bet for designing things to be printed and for slicer software if your using a filament printer I would go with Cura
>>110274972buy a 3d printer and print the boat
>>110274972Start with custom organizers
>>110274972Go to piratebay and download a 3D printer.
>>110275091>>110275041I have some experience with modelling in blender.
>>110275145Just get one of the vibeware solidworks clones. Fusion will run with wine on linux but fuck em. You won't be doing anything insane anyway
>>1102749721. Buy a Bambulab mini without ams.2. Get a bunch of PETG filament spools3. Learn CAD. Onshape has a free tier and you'll be able to transfer these skills to solidworks later.4. Join community like "functional print friday" discord and or use LLMs to ask dumb noob questions without burning up the goodwill of people.5. Start with small models to iterate quickly and learn about tolerances and how to design for FDM printing without support material or minimized support as peeling off support is manual labor and we want to avoid that at scale. Plus it's boring and wastes material.6. "Made with layers" and "CNC kitchen" are good technical yt channels to learn some tricks.7. Maybe also try vibecoding things in openscad or by using the freecad python console.Avoid Prusa products as their machine is less reliable and more expensive.
>>110275230ThisBambu is the only brand you should even consider, their machines just workDon't listen to tinkertrannies screeching about "muh walled garden"
>>110274972Buy printer.Print endless printer mods.Print dragons and whatever your family needs
>>110275722>just work>meanwhile 99% of the bambu subreddit is failed prints, troubleshooting, blobs of deathMost printers now inclduing Bambu "just work", but are never perfect. If you really want the best just get a Snapmaker U1. You can get it for like 600 bucks right now, actually "just works", 4 toolheads with no filament waste.
>>110275827>99%survivorship bias basically
Fa/g/s, if I wanna buy nice not twice, what should I purchase?
>bambulab>onshape>discord>llms>garbage youtube channels>vibeslopThe absolute state of this site
>>110274972Get one of these (the cheapest you can find), some newer core xy printer with either klipper or marlin and a 0.8mm nozzle. Buy a spool of PLA+, TPU and PETG while staying away from meme filaments like carbon fiber or wood.Bed leveling is a nice to have but stay away from ultrasonic sensors.Buy bamboo lab at your own risk, they're currently the best printer you can buy and cheap to boot but they're always online and with the current faggotry going on about in the government you don't want that.Some LLMs can build models for you from just a picture or a good description.
>>110274972>where do I start?Outside of these states:New YorkCaliforniaWashingtonNew JerseyColoradoMaineVirginia
>>110276439is mamdani anti figurines or what?
>>110275827Buddy, I use a Bambulab X1C, two Minis, a H2D and a H2S for some years now and the only failed prints I've experienced were user error as too lazy to clean the build plate and some grease on the plate from handling made the part pop off while printing. If adhesion is too strong: clean with windex - if adhesion is too weak: clean with ethanol. You also want to control adhesion strength depending on the surface area of the first layer. If the surface is large: use windex as a release agent - if the first layer has little surface area: either use brims/skirts to increase contact area and up the adhesion by cleaning with ethanol.PEI coated spring steel print beds are perfect for printing PETG parts with minimal hassle.Snapmaker may be a good option but the bambu mini is like 200 bucks for a super solid printer - ideal as a first printer to test a hobby or to give to kids (that may get bored of this hobby).
>>110276352>Shitting on things without providing a better alternative.The absolute state of this site.
>>110276483NY state government requires software to scan everything you try to 3d print in case it might be a gun part. This law was snuck into the state budget.
3d printing is arguably not a "hobby" in the same way "a bag of tools" is not a hobby.One needs to add some additional aspect for it. Like being into wargaming, making food and/or concrete molds with, selling choking hazard "clickers" to kids until one dies someday and then 10 states demand any stl object smaller than 3cm gets banned. (suprised no legal shenangihans have occured regarding this one yet, and how many people sell these things to kids) Aka ideally have another, completely different hobby (ie, RC boats, Robots, Theatre etc) that makes use of it.
>>110274972start with knee pads
>>110275041Does that mean I can buy a barely used printer at a 50% discount?Not OP btw, I have solidworks experience and I wanted a metal printer for my home setup
>>110275722Bambu is spyware
>>110274972By getting a 3D printer and printing shit. >>110277400Drawing is not a "hobby" in the same way "a case of colored pencils" is not a hobby. One needs to add some additional aspect for it. Like being into manga, making pop-out books and/or origami with, selling cutouts to people until one gets a paper cut and 10 states demand any cutout smaller than 3 inches gets banned. Aka ideally having another, completely different hobby(ie cooking, woodworking, playing the guitar, salsa dancing etc) that makes use of it.
>>110274972Can I 3D printer a 3D printer to 3D printer more 3D printers that in turn print more 3D printers that go onto print even more 3D printers?
>>110279416https://vorondesign.com/The right number of 3D printers is n+1
>>110274972>>110277400Reading this thread, what can I print for my hobbies?I read, cook, play guitar, piano and flute, hike, work on cars, that's about it, can any of these be enhanced by doing printing?
>>110279634Never mind, I watched an Integza video that came up on a youtube short and it looks like microplastics galoreIt's hilarious, I often watch that spic but only as background noise while practicing my instruments
>>110277211OK? So just don't print gun parts then? Duh?
>>110279634https://www.thingiverse.com/Type in a word and see what people have developed for that particular interest.
>>110275145>>110275205Sort of works, but you're probably going to want something parametric with non-destructive editing which Blender doesn't have yet. FreeCAD exists as an uncucked option, but it's kind of shit even after a lot of improvement and the out-of-the-box configuration is shit because "Think of the people who already got used to the autism!". Fusion is the most general purpose solution, but it's also web-based.>>110275722Been printing off parts with no fucking around on my Prusa and since my last experience with 3D printing 10 years ago I think I would classify it as "just werks", given that the alternative was actual torture.I would have had more trust for proprietary solutions 10+ years ago.>>110277400Yeah, it's kind of predicated on the idea that you can come up with reasons to use it rather than reaching for an existing off-the-shelf solution, otherwise you just buy something that sits around and prints off a funko pop before you get bored.
print me this
>>110274972>where do I start?>>>/diy/3dpg
>>110280432I actualy threw this picture at one of these online image to 3d generators (Tripo AI in this case). I had no doubt that it would create a 3d model of the body because, if anything, they are especially trained to make figurines for gooners, but I wondered what the hell face the AI would come up with. And well, I guess its this one.Since its now a 3d model I guess I could now export and 3d print it, but I am not paying a subscription for (you) points.
>>110281305noice! it's that eazy these days isn't it
start making bombs, much more manly hobby than making toys.
>>110280196>10 years agoWell yeah, back then the Ender 3 wasn't even a thing yet and that's widely regarded as the first sorta-reliable mass-market 3D printer.
>>110282986Yeah, it was probably more like 7-8 years ago.
>>1102749723D printing is useless for 99% of people
>>110275084>find models that you want to printdo people really? I just draw what I need in CAD
>>110275145blender is surface mesh modeling and rendering software. to design actual physical objects what you generally want is a solid modeling program like solidworks, solidedge, fusion, onshape, catia, etc. most of these also naturally allow you to model mechanically mated assemblies from multiple parts.
>>110285988it is very useful for all kinds of household and everyday repairs, the problem is that to actually make use of the printer you need to be able to design the components you need which most people without a mechanical engineering or similar degree will be unable to do correctly.
>>110281305unless you've got a high end resin printer whatever comes out of the printer won't look anything like that lmao
>>110281305pay the 9 doll hairs chuddy buddy
>>110286062I don't own a 3D printer but wouldn’t it work if you sanded it and applied a primer?
>>110287074>wouldn’t it work if you sanded it and applied a primer?nobody wants to do that tho
>>110287074they already do this acetone vapors minus the sanding
>>110274972>where do I start?Move to Louisiana and print guns
Last generation of language models can vibe functional 3d models better than someone who launched CAD for the first time, not sure if it develops further
>>110275069I don't know.I bought a 3D printer because i wanted to build robots. That's what I did with my noob CAD skills.>>110286010Yes. For some they enjoy it to print useless crap.I bought mine for a different purpose. See above
I printed a split keyboard, one of the best projects I ever did.
