Do you guys actually bother with all the calibration shit or is it just reddit autism?

My printer arrived last week and I've been getting decent results just using the profile supplied by siraya tech for my resin and printer combo

What’s the most idiot proof wash/curing station?
And what 3d printer producer make the most idiot proof printers that require the least amount of maintenance for someone low IQ like me?

>>97531779
FDM
Bambulab a1 mini

>>97531853
>fdm
I’m after resin printers.

>>97532035
there is no low maintenance and idiot proof resin printer, you'll end up developing allergies and won't even be able to be in a room with resin

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>>97531779
>>97532035
Also, depending on what you want, FDM is more than capable nowadays with a 0.2mm nozzle and a bit of experience

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>>97532234
>think a print looks OK to the naked eye
>prime it and take a photo
>it looks like this
sigh

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Rate my curing station guys?
Super high tech system that covers and cures in darkness :)

>>97532620
I have that same lamp and turntable.

>>97532644
and I will NEVER spend 200 bucks on that elegoo station
I have cured around 500+ models at this point just using this and the total cost was like 20 bucks

>>97532667
I was really concerned about there being spots the lamp can't reach so I overspent by adding a bucket and foil tape from the hardware store.

>>97532706
Foil isn't a bad option but just the turntable and flipping the model work fine unless it's like a really big model, around action figure size or a large vehicle
You get what I mean tho
Usually cures just fine

>>97531418
I have. Mostly boils down to how much you care about really minute details. My pre-calibration models look perfectly fine to the naked eye. But a closer look and some things almost look "poorly scanned"
>>97532620
>UV BOX
nice to know you have high safety standards by properly labelling it anon lol

>>97532907
That and I just don't wanna use it to ship something by accident, it happened before :(

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>>97532484
i mean if you position the models in a way that reduces print lines it can look good, and after painting they are even less visible

>>97531779
Resin printers are not idiot proof, being dumb with them will result in you fucking something up. If you cant read and follow instructions don't get one.

>>97531779
HeyGears should be idiot proof since they automagically work out the settings for a given resin, but they're fucking expensive and so is the resin, and the RS Turbo doesn't even come with a heated vat

I've been having good results with a GK3 straight out of the box using Siraya Tech Fast Navy Blue. The printer has a built in heater and Siraya tech supplies profiles for all their resins for the GK3. You'll still need to learn to use a slicer and probably UVTools to fix up the STL files you buy though

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>>97531233
Posting the before painting

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>>97534697
And after

>>97531233
Anyone know of any beastmen proxies that aren't just goats?

>>97532667
Just search second hand. I got a mars 3 pro and a cure station with bucket snd stuff for 150$. Need to replace the FEV but decent prints so far

it was really cold today and my FDM print failed due to layers cooling too fast...

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hey I hate to request stuff but ive been looking all over for stls to this figure, it was called "SCAF SPACE CHAD AQUILLA GUY MARINE"

been looking for it all over, I see images of it everywhere but no download

this is the original cults3d page but its seems its gone
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/scaf-space-chad-aquilla-guy-marine-action-figure

>>97535733
BASED
>>97535884
Do you have a gram?
By the grace of God I do have this exact figure saved and the terminator one also made by the same guy
No idea it got taken down RIP, I remember it was up for a few years they probably took it down because of the new overpriced marine action figures or something something

>>97532667
Right on, I just throw my prints into a glass jar of warm water and sit it on top of a mirror under sunlight. Been doing it for years

>>97532484
What is this model from?

Can someone help me out I want to model some custom bolters to print? But I don't have small enough calipers to measure the width and length of a normal space marine bolter in mm. Any help about this would be helpful.

>>97541108
piper makes "skorcian" multi-part kit. I think it's supposed to be a proxy for some warhammer unit but I don't really know which one.

>>97541589
if its piper makes than is some trans-positive unit of the tau

Any good classic OOP metal raptor stls out there? Im fine with paying. I want the jetpacks and heads in particular. Ive found a few jet packs but looking for breadth of options and variety

>>97531233
hey, just bought my first printer and i've started printing some terrain. I want to design some aswell. What's the go to program? I've seen many names around but have no idea where to start.

>>97542802
Try reading the OP

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Is there a way to stack models one on top of another in this newer chitubox? I've been thinking of making supports like a tower sort of. I don't really care for time of printing. It really matters not for me if something prints in 3 hours or 12, because I will only bother to take out print next day at earliest anyway. So I like to put as many prints as possible every time I print.

Like currently, I find myself constantly in need of more arms for my Kroot, since I keep using them. So I wanted to print a lot of them. But it kinda feels wasteful to just flood entire place with them. If I could stack them I could make room for other prints as well. But if try to just move them one above another chitubox forces them down anyway.

This feels like such an obvious option, it has to be somewhere, I'm just too blind to fucking see it.
>>97542802
Learning to use Blender is always useful

>>97539805
>gram
I dont know what you mean by that but if you can share the stls id greatly appreciate it! im still trying to look for it.

>>97542840
wouldn't something like this work: throw them into 3D builder, stack them, group them, export as single stl

>>97542840
Been a while, but some slicers did something like that, but people did not really use it, since all it does is use more material and make a single mistake in printing way more expensive.

https://hackaday.com/2021/12/12/resin-stacking-proves-messy-and-difficult/

Important news everyone, Thingiverse just got acquired by MyMiniFactory, "discussion" on crowdcast.io scheduled in 4 days, expect it to be light on discussion.
Given MMF's shitty search and monetary priorities now is a good time to scour Thingiverse for everything you may ever want off of it and back it up.

>>97545676
thingiverse's category filters and search have been pretty shit for a while now, and it's flooded with ai slop.

>>97545738
It's still leagues better than MMF which includes nonrelevant results over your search terms, whereas you search "battletech" on thingiverse and you get battletech mechs.

>>97542865
Telegram of course
Noobs can't triforce
I have no other way of sharing them sorry

I’m running a Saturn 4 Ultra 16k using SatelLite and Sunlu ABS-like grey. Have been having lots of problems with print tearing.
If anyone runs the same machine, resin and slicer with great success I would deeply appreciate knowing what settings you use.

did they ever fix that lasagna bug with anti aliasing on the S4U? last time I tried using aa it ruined my print

>Open model in lychee slicer
>slap some supports on obvious foundational areas
>Press find islands
>Put supports on the island
>Click auto bracing
>Mini prints perfect
Wait, it was literally that easy the whole time?

>>97549712
its easier than that, why all the extra steps?

>>97549840
It is like a cooking recipe
you can skip or simplify some steps, or you can just use the microwave

>>97550576
Auto support, rotate model to make sure feet and such have enough supports, add if necessary, slice.
optionally remove any unnecessary supports from the front/top as sometimes a few get placed.
but 90% of the time just auto support alone is enough.
>that analogy
You cant microwave flour into bread, its not alike at all, microwave only works for already prepared food.

>>97550640
auto supports "work" but they're a waste of resin and make extra work in cleanup. rather just do it myself

>>97551002
I do not find that at all, not after I learned to tweak the default settings to something that suits my printing better.
As I said, I auto support and then examine the model to see where any extras have been placed and any necessary spots have been missed.
As for wasted resin, I get more than 50 32mm scale miniatures per kilogram, that's under a dollar per model, you're counting pennies in savings here and the time saved is more valuable than pennies.

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I'm having a lot of fun with my old Ultimaker S5 these days. I have been printing resin since 2019, but the fact FDM has little to no post processing is great.

The next FDM machine will likely be a bambu A1 of elegoo centauro carbon 2.

>>97551136
>little to no post-processing
If you can live with the layer lines.

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>>97551241
Yeah, the S5 has layer lines since it's an ancient machine my modern standards. Buty weathering heavy paintjobs compensate for a lot.

>>97551300
Even my newer machine, an ender 3 at 0.2 has layer lines, no FDM avoids it, takes lots of sanding, filing and filling.

>>97547277
ah... well unfortunately I dont have telegram. mostly because I really hate having to make an account with a phone number as a requirement...

maybe try gofile?

>>97551045
disagree. auto supports will never be as good or efficient as doing it yourself unless you're retarded

>>97551336
What the hell is gofile???
and like telegram is fine, they're not gonna send a missile to your house because you wanted to download a marine action figure
But yea not doing it otherwise sorry, I don't mess with file hosting or whatever, not my thing I got my hands full already, I apologize

>>97551769
Its basically just a free unlimited anonymous file sharing platform for big files.

Just drag and drop whatever is needed to share, wait for it to upload, then share the link.

I do have soulseek if you use that at all.

>>97552272
You forgot the "pay for the data to share the files for someone else's benefit when they are too lazy to just get on telegram"

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Got my printer room up to a balmy 38c and my quality improved dramatically. I have a 200w heater and a temp controller, just need to pick out a grow tent. Any tents or enclosure recs before I order the first one on amazon? printer is a mars 4 ultra

>>97551769
Telegram has repeatedly sold users' information to GW
>>97552301
The fuck are you talking about "pay for the data" when anon mentioned a free filesharing website.
Part of me thinks the huge autistic push for Telegram was a GW psyop to easily get the IPs/phone numbers of the most prolific sharers

>>97553401
The website may be free, internet access is not.
If you aren't aware of this your parents are probably still responsible for covering those costs.

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>>97551336
You don't need a phone number for telegram anymore.

>>97553568
>You don't need a phone number for telegram anymore.
NTA, but really?

>>97553401
>Telegram has repeatedly sold users' information to GW
They must be counter bribing them too because there have been people selling stuff in broad daylight for years with zero consequence
To each their own psyop and fearmongering tho I guess

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>>97532927
I only just started and the supports are what I'm having issues with, anything they touch turns to shit for me. Looks good from a certain angle other than the bit i broke.

>>97553485
You have a metered connection? Are you in the third world?

>>97553708
that looks pretty good
yeah supports is still my biggest problem
something you could try is making resin supports and using Resin2FDM to see if you get better results.

>>97553789
Anon you're not helping yourself. ISP's don't sell the same plans everywhere, you go 5 blocks in a city and the plans offered will be different.

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>>97553568
you lied to me anon

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>>97554703
HE FELL FOR IT!!!!

>>97554675
NTA but i haven't had a metered connection since like 2013 and even then it was large enough to download plenty, are you a poor phoneposter that can't watch youtube or anything like that also or are you just being retarded and pretending because you said something stupid earlier, if the former please post your plan so we can laugh.

>dude autosupports are so good now, just try them!
>try them
>print fails
Every time.

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>>97554881
>anecdote
That's nice.

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>>97554891
https://c3po.link/Q5BcWzVW6h
Do these settings
Auto orientate by yourself in 45 degrees or something nice
When done, just find the lowest spots on the model and add 2 or 3 more light supports to "anchor" better, or a medium one

That's it that's what i do

>>97555787
NTA but I do thinner supports with a higher density of supports with smaller tips, less scarring on the model and the pull of the plate is distributed more evenly.

>>97555767
Thanks anon.

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>>97532620
Not bad.
My first one was similar just with a fluorescent bulb since I couldn't grab a UV one right of the bat.
Call my new one the Ultrawave.

>>97557995
BASED
Just a fucking microwave
Love it

>>97558087
Timer is entirely mechanical and wiring diagram was inside. Just needed to plug the wall wart into the connectors for the magnetron.

>>97555489
Have the scans of the units from the Darkwater box been released yet? I'm interested in the whole Nurgle section.

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>>97558400
yea

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Pic related isn’t by me but I’m looking for stls of “dropper cap tops” to print and prime white and apply acrylic washes over so I can easily tell what tone the acrylic wash is without relying on the printing on the label.

So far the Ak interactive compatible cap stls have a low profile whereas the other stls designed for droppers Vallejo or armypainter use all have too much of a high profile.

I can’t find any droppers addon stls for Vallejo/armypainter styled caps that have a low profile.
Anybody know of any to post some like pic related without making the cap too tall?

>inb4 look up full cap replacements
I am not sure about trusting 3d printed resin replacement caps I feel the friction with the dropper screw will wear out the resins easily.

Does anyone have a trove with all miniatures of a user name Micron Miniatures at MyMiniFactory? Thx in advance.

>>97560532
I like these ones. The skull is fairly low.
cults /en/3d-model/art/paint-bottle-swatches

>>97562918
Thanks anon!
I think I saw an old Vallejo bottle in there so hopefully I can find an identical old Vallejo bottle style cap on aliexpress.
I wasn’t able to do that with armypainter or Ak interactive dropper bottles.