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Please someone help me to make scans of the knarloc with pictures and AI magic or to find scans of the original models before those are lost forever.
>>98045725Give me some more detailed pictures, front, back left, right if possible
>>98042734>Not using a print from the previous thread as the OP imageYou dun fucked up and what the fuck has the up house got to do with /tg/ you retard?
Couple more termoids done, the combibolter wasn't supported enough so came out missing a part. I'll have to greenstuff it part of his arm back on. Other than that happy with it. If anyone wants the STLs of these terminators I can share them. Lazy copy of Azakh body lol, I just thought it's the perfect terminator body and pose, why not just have 5 of it.
>>98046089bloodthirster/daemonprince base coming along, currently printing a couple more broken disc bits, and I'm reprinting the shamans staff scaled up a bit, was too spindly.
>>98046073Nta but I think I’ve got some resin from anvil industry that might be out of production and never got an stl release.Thing with anvil is that a lot of their stuff is modular and compatible for customization.Can the ai ensure compatibility with the the bits or will manual editing in blender be required?
>>98046132I'd need good pictures from front, back, left, and right of all individual bits, and an stl of what the bits are supposed to be compatible with, in order to scale them correctly. Would probably need blender editing yep. Good pictures meaning against a clear background, in focus, well lit etc.
>>98040126Are these IO_Butovs? Do you have the unsupported files?
>>98046146I’ll have to look through my bits collection.If not anvil probably something else will be found.Just don’t expect it anytime soon as I’m the guy who’s pc is busted and I would prefer to upload just one pic that is a compilation of other pics.
>>98046155No worries, however I'm in the process of trying to cancel my membership as I've done everything I wanted to do with it for now. So if you want something done, it'll have to be within the next few days. Depends how dodgy their customer service is lol.
>>98046166Hopefully another anon can take up your place if I’m not fast enough.
It is the anon from last thread with the printer problems.I am trying to level the build plate so I wiped it all down thoroughly and removed the resin tank but I can’t get the leveling screws out. You can see they got dirty with resin and I’ve used a lot of alcohol to remove most of it but I can’t stand screws that are positioned like this because they are so hard to grip. Google says you can remove them with your fingers but I can’t grab them with my fat thumbs. Can anyone suggest how to loosen them or maybe get any remaining resin out from the cracks?
>>98046166>>98046187This is tripoAi right?I’ve done some digging and found one model and just a torso/legs of another that is discontinued. Probably won’t find the rest of the bits until your time expires.With that said I’d like to know what the specific prompts are to make one model generated from a bunch of pictures of different images of different angles of the same model to be archived.Some are still on their resin blocks and if this works wonders then I might blow a load on models I want archived. Especially ones that look highly likely to be hammered by Gwendolyn that are only available in stl form.
>>98045725Seconding this.Also for generally most images to 3d model ai services what are the standard phrases in the prompts to ensure one model from multiple images is generated?
>>98046237try a small spanner ? pliers? could try a dremel to get the resin out .
>>98046073That is the thing there aren't that many good pictures. I foun these ones of the baggage one. http://www. paulbaker.org.uk/kroot.htm
>>98046328there are no prompts its just clicking buttons .
>>98047167There are no prompts. you select your images and click generate.
>>98047220Ok Ill have a go tonight from whatever images i can find
>>98047222>>98047226Thanks guy.
>>98047220>>98047232Maybe this one helps? https://www. instagram.com/p/Ck--vT9uE25/?img_index=1Don't try with the ballista one, that one has recasters and has been scanned, the other 3 are the ones that are impossible to get.
IO_Butov is unfortunately getting shut down. I can’t find a place that has all of his stuff. It’s spread between Cults, Ko-FI and the Patreon but still missing some things. Anyone know where I can pay him for the full version of these?
>>98047245Sure. Can you give me the names and/or pictures of the various gnarlocs you want and don't want?
>>98046089>If anyone wants the STLs of these terminators I can share them.Yes please.
Anybody got a list of wargames Atlantic’s stl releases and which ones are no longer available?I’m looking for the discontinued for sale stl files like the damned and the grognard cavalry. Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.Then hopefully a piracy group that is about distributing the rest.
>>98047311There are 4 versions. Ballista (I have scans of this one, it's easy to get) Baggage (very rare, no recasters) Open mouth, not running (rare, no recasters) Close mouth, not running (rare, no recasters) Basically the 3 that are not the ballista one. There are a couple of fan made models with flimsy quills on the crests that look much much worse than the original model.
>>98047419I have the basic The Damned but not the grognard cav sadly. But I have most of their catalogue, I subbed maybe 3-4 months in to their tribe. Anything else you need?
>>98047554Preferably all of them.Not sure what the size limits are whatever the best fileshare service is when it comes to free sharing though.
>>98047738>just thoughtIf you can’t dump all of them then just their death fields and classic fantasy of only one side then just death fields. Should have included this in the original post.
>>98042734>op's picWhy waste your money and health on a resin printer when a Bambu Labs FDM Printer can give you the same, if not better result?
>>98046237are you sure you need to undo those bottom screws? I don't have a mars 4 ultra but have looked up the leveling process and it looks like you just undo the big screw at the top, and undo the 4 allen bolt things (2 at the top of your pic) and then level.>>98047309he has a discord, may have better luck there>>98047419>the damnedwhy did they discontinue those STLs anyway? I got a bunch of the plastic sprues in the recent KS for them, but was so confused as to why I was seeing preview videos for them from like 2 years before that. I presume there was some previous release of them that got pulled for some reason. surely the STLs can't have been nuked, there's nothing copyrightable on them?
>>98047871>why did they discontinue those STLs anyway?Because they remade them in plastic. With the Grognard Cavalry, you had to buy plastic horses anyway, because the STL file only gave you heads and riders, but not horses. So when they made dedicated plastic horses for them, the need for the upgrade bits vanished.As with the Damned, the digital version was pretty much an prototype of what followed years after in plastic. Discontinued when the crowdfunding campaign started, and they did not even bother uploading all missing files, or name them properly, or fix mistakes people reported in the comments to the set. Not worth it to bother, espcially with the imminent release of the plastics, which are leagues better than those really early ones.What you saw in the videos from two years ago, was prototypes for the plastic models which they sent to some youtubers to spark interest for the campaign, not the old digital ones.
>>98047895Even if the damned models were busted I would still like to have them for digital kitbash purposes.I’m remembering anvil industry’s man portable heavy weapons (held like heavy from tf2’s minigun) and want to have those alongside the defensive turret heavy weapons that are in plastic.As for the Les grognards cavalry.I would like those for digital kitbashing and to hopefully modify station forge’s bike stls to fit with the damned rough riders to have bikes instead of horses if possible.The success all depends on whether the damned rough riders will fit on the regular wga horses.And if I can make pic related edited to work but I am not hopeful in my blender skills.How long does stationforge take before releasing his stuff publicly after the tribes announcement?
>>98047219I don’t own a dremel or a spanner of the appropriate size. Could try my sprue clippers but I’m scared to break something I think the other anon was on to something about the upper screws needed to be unscrewed and not the downward facing ones >>98047871You’re right. I looked at the manual again and my dumbass got the two confuse because they’re right next to one another. Thanks
>>98047921I'll be driving to prague for a day, but i can upload both sets tomorrow evening if i remember to check the thread.
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>>98047738Swisstransfer is good
>>98048058thanks!
>>98048016Hope you have a good time there anon!And hopefully the traffic is merciful.
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Struggling with the low res pictures I found .. It's an ok starting point for blender though, pretty weird details though
>>98048712>>98047422Here's about the best I can do, I'm out of generation credits now anyway :/ They are not terrible, but would need a decent bit of blender work to make them more accurate. Some anon could work on this but I have other /wip/s to work on.gofile[dot]io/d/7bTjZ6
>>98047895ah ok fair enough, thanks. I did indeed get a bunch of them through the gamefound they did, I should have enough for like 1250pts of traitor guard if not more. I have enough of the sprues to keep one of each aside for scanning purposes at some unspecified point in the future, as they're a cool little kit.
>>98048712Sorry that one is fan made and available online. The quality of the sculpt is much much worse than the original baggage model
>>98048809Well the 2 naked ones look like a very decent base to work on, I will try to make them better with Z brush. Thank you so much!Which web page did you use?
>>98049778tripostudio
>>98049778>>98049896It's pretty good , I just used the images from: >>98047422Single image gen for those two naked ones. Just front view and the AI makes up/guesses the back.
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>>98049904is it possible to input additional pictures of the same model to get a better result?
>>98049994Yea probably , I couldn't find all 4 angles of a good enough quality though.
>>98050041Ok I see the 4 picture mode is premium. Here you can find more than 4 angles for the baggage one. Or are those too low res? http://www (dot) paulbaker.org.uk/kroot.htmI also tried Kiri engine but it requires at least 20 pictures. But nobody has uploaded 20 pictures of the same knarloc.
I want to digitize my miniature sprues before cutting them. What's my best option? Should I buy a scanner/which scanner should I buy?
>>98047970Watch a video of someone else doing it anon you sperg lmao
>>98051381I dont think there is any good tech for scanning a whole sprue, youll have to wait for blue laser scanners to get better
>>98050607The baggage one was requested not to be scanned. Anon Im being serious , do you never read the previous replies of the thread ? If you would stop and read the thread before asking questions you would find your question was in many cases alreqdy answered. Its pretty annoying.
>>98050607Nta but has anybody here tried multiple different multiple images to one 3d model generator?Which is the most retard proof of them all that gets best results?
>>98052107Anon, the whole of this thread and last thread was doing this exact thing. I think you might be having profound mental retardation. Please seek a doctors help and refer them to this thread.
>>98052103The ballista is the one that already has scans. The baggage one is needed since is rare as unicorn blood.
>>98052215>mental retardationI mean I like 40k despite how gw runs the whole warhammer ip so you might have a point.I was just hoping that there would be more input.Sorry about ruining mine and everyone’s izzat.
>>98052483NTA but in regards to 3d scanners...My cousin has a PLA printer and told me he was considering getting one but the really premium ones that give crisp and reliably detailed scans are thousands of dollars(USD).Unless you buy one yourself it's gonna be really hard to find somebody with the expertise and hardware to meet your standards. Not being mean, it's just something you need to get lucky with in me experience. You're better off just crossing your fingers or being dilligent in your search on the Gram or cults3d even. I hope you find your kroot dino or w/e those were cool in DoW
>>98052554I’m not the kroot requesting anon.Admittedly the biggest want I have for are remakes of the logh ships.There is one guy who made a lot but they’re a bit pricey and hopefully a buy group got them somewhere on the gram.Not sure where to look and the Triglav ship probably wasn’t covered by the guy.Anyways when I get my pc back and running I’m gonna archive files and make a burner account and try tripoAi unless someone recommends me something better.My biggest concern is that cancelling a subscription for it is easy along with renewing it when the itch comes back.If it is worth having a subscription.
>>98052635my b anon, good luck with your PC and project
>>98052425My bad, been staying up late modelling and unfamiliar with all these knarlocs. Will try one more with those photos>>98050607Apologies anon
>>98052425>>98050607Ok, my sincere apologies for getting snappy and kranky like a big baby earlier. You were right, and luckily those pictures had really good result. Unfortunately the guns are slightly bent looking but a very good base to work from in Blender. Also I am truly out of credits now.gofile[dot]io/d/6i0SfZ
>>98052811Amazing, thank you so much, I can work with that as base in zbrush. That is with 4 pictures?
>>98052922All good!Yea, Using these 4 in pic related.
>>98052942I managed to get more pictures of the other 2https://gofile dot io/d/72mq0k
>>98052982never mind, too low res
>>98052982No more credits :(( I think maybe hailuo or one of the other img 2 mesh services might have multi image free trial.. Hold up
>>98052989yeah and the one I checked had no clear view of the back or right side.
Where is a good place to get pirated Patreon or Cults3d STLs?
>>98053638telegram?
>>98053638rip kemono, you will be missed
>>98047309Bump>>98047871The discord’s no luck. They’ve shut down all talks of files and you can’t contact IO_Butov or the mods directly
>>98053854I pray everyday those lazy cocksuckers finally get the website back up and running. I heard the last one lasted 6 months.
>>98054978????????
>>98054955>discordI just took a look through (I'm in there but don't check in very often), are you sure those stealer heads were ever released? I can see IO say they'd be done by december 25, with the photo you posted, and then he went silent, until jan 26 when he came back to say he's ill. Since then there's been no mention of those stealers.This is the bitz box channel in the XB discord btw, not sure if there's another discord for IO himself.
>>98055097but you cant download nothing or play videos. maybe should've been more clear
>>98053854>>98055097Never heard of this place somehow.Can I get a link in the encryption please?Not sure if the one with anime stls and porn ads was the real one I just visited.I haven’t found a good adblocket tor my phone.
Anyone got any Grimdark future Saurian Starhost? I started GDF Star Quest and looking for heroes and mooks. >>98055143>>98055097Links are broken, the importer doesn't work, shits pretty fucked. some external links still work, but i get malware pings non stop too>>98055145Hindenburg that wayaHR0cHM6Ly9rZW1vbm8uY3IvCgpVc2UgYW4gYWQgYmxvY2s=
>>98053854I know that there is at least one pretty alright creator who has their patreon drive link posted there and it still works and gets updatesOne day I'll sub to them to pay for all the stls I downloaded
>>98048091It was very pleasant to drive apart from the last 10-ish km right before entering the city, but that was to be expected.Grog: aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC8xdFJDT04=
>>98055358Damned: aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC83dzZVS2E= Have fun.. these files are really rough, even for WGA digital standards. But there are some nice bits inside and looking at it, i might print a few parts myself to customize my plastic Damned a little bit. The backpacks in particular are nice.
I'm doing a floating island session where it'll basically be a mobile fortress the players will use to engage other floating islands. Any recommended risers I can use to raise and lower the island? I cut out a piece of foam into a rough shape and marked it with 1in squares and want the players to have the option to raise or lower the island during combat.
First Print, need to lower exposure from .28 to .25, I think?
>>98047871>>98047970>>98052086>>98047219>>98046237Update:I tried the levelling test with a piece of paper and while the left appeared to be a tiny bit higher than the right, I could not be certain if my mind was playing tricks on me or now. I was still waiting for an Alan wrench of the right size to come in the mail too. Settings were also changed, pic rel. I asked chatGPT for help.First I printed the Ameralabs town right on the center of my plate. It came out fine so I tried the wood elf body because it was presupported by a professional studio.Both came out perfect so I got the 32mm base and the plaguebearer arm, but also another plaguebearer arm holding a sword. The base was presupported and the two arms were autosupported by lychee with a couple more supports added by me.The sword arm (marked by the white text) failed to print and pancaked on the bottom of the vat. In my picture you can see where it stuck to the bottom.Finally my new tools arrived so I detached the plate, wiped it all with more alcohol to get rid of any resin residue and I reattached it. I tightened the screws until the they stopped turning easily and I tried the paper test again. They looked about the same albeit both slightly higher off the plate by just the smallest noticeable amount. The good news is that nothing expensive or internal seems to be broken, and I'm currently printing the same base and two arms. Hopefully it works. If not, then I guess the left side of my plate is No-Man's-LandI appreciate all the anons who have helped me so far
>>98055358>>98055388Thanks anon!I haven’t seen any broken files yet.Did you by chance actually buy those stls or were the gained through a wga focused group?Would love a link to the wga group if possible.For other digital files they discontinued sales of.
Update about cancelling tripostudio subscription. It was actually easy, no dodgy customer service prolonging cancellation or hidden charges etc. I'll probably use them again in future if I need to.
>>98057193good stuff anon, sounds like progress is being made. kudos for persevering as I know a lot of this has been brand new to you.The sword arm in your slicer screenshot has absolutely no cross-bracing on the supports, whereas the other arm does. As long as your bed is truly level, that would be my next guess. You could also try putting the other arm in place of the sword arm and printing, since you now know that arm prints successfully on the other side of your plate.Side note: 2.8s exposure time seems awful high for siraya fast. If you're happy with it that's fine though. If you start to notice details look puffy and blown out on your minis, it will probably be that though, so you might then want to spend time seeing if you can bring that exposure time down.>>98056630Difficult to tell from this angle, can't really see the cones. If the cup is as far as it will go though, yeah probably. You may hit the same point that I did, where one layer time results in perfect dimensional accuracy but failed cones, and adding 0.05s to the layer time results in successful cones, but makes the sword/cup stop being dimensionally accurate. In that case it comes down to personal preference. I went with the "imperfect dimensional accuracy, but fully successful cones" option, since most of the minis I print have ball and socket joints or flat joints so I don't really care about perfect DA - but I *do* care about how many failures I get per print, so that won in my mind.
Anyone who's used tripo premium, how much better is the premium model at interpreting images and making an accurate STL? This is the first time I've used it, the free version has done well here but a couple of details are off, like hair being modeled over the back of the helmet, and the wraps on the axe being a bit sloppy.(For context, these are from a KS where payments were taken weeks ago, the creator released renders for every STL and said the files were ready to send out, and then went radio silent. Won't reply to anyone's questions, or to direct requests for an update from KS themselves, hasn't even logged in since the day the project funded. Turns out he's been working on a different account all this time, on another KS that made a lot more money than this one, sculpting files and test printing and releasing them to backers. As a rule I'm not into genning paid files from indie creators, but since this guy's already had my money and the payment's been processed, I did get curious as to what someone's options would be if he never releases them)
>>98057789>those modelsVarus? I know they have/had two dwarf KS campaigns, but I had no idea there was a fuck-up like that. They seemed to be active on various sites.
>>98057789Premium you have access to multi image input so naturally it's better.
Jumping into this AI making STL discussion: Has anyone tried to let it create a whole sprue, instead of the assembled models? With a sprue (not necessarily GW, i was actually thinking about Northstar Stargrave), front and back pictures are often easily available.
>>98057828Yeah Varus, when I was messing with tripo last night I thought his fairly simple models would make a good test to see how accurate it could be when given something easy.Re the KS, I'm trying to be charitable and assume he's just taken on too much at once. His first KS took time to release too, but at least in that one he was in regular communication about delays and next steps, whereas this one it's been nothing for weeks.I actually pledged for that first KS as an add-on to this second KS, so those files are definitely good to release, but he still hasn't done after weeks now unfortunately.>>98057833Thanks, sorry that's my fault, I should have said there is only an image of the front of each file. With premium I noticed there are more models (as in AI learning models) to choose from, and I assume they're better than the free one. So I'm interested in whether the paid models are better at interpreting or even guessing details, for example:>Top image, axe handle wraps: on the 2D image they look like the kind of wraps we all know from minis' weapon handles, but on the 3D model they don't take that shape>Top image, hair at the back of the helmet: you can barely see it but he has hair sprouting out of where his helmet rim should be covering it>Bottom image, elbows: again you can't see it but this guy has bare arms in the 2D image, and in the 3D model the fronts of his arms look like bare arms, but the backs just have three horizontal creases, more like fabricJust wondering if the app can guess those sorts of details better if you pay for one of the premium models. Otherwise the free model has done a very good job of guessing the backs of these minis (obviously I don't know what they look like either lol, but they at least look plausible)
>>98057848yeah unfortunately it was a lot worse, I assume because it hasn't really been trained on images of sprues.
>>98057670Wow I didn’t even know that, thank you, this is very new for me.So is there always going to be a kind of push and pull with dimensional accuracy; Or is it only on this specific test print?Attached is a better photo, I failed only one cone. Going to dial in the temp in my print room later and get a better print window. Hope to calibrate perfectly (or near enough) and move to printing a Champion.
>>98058108that looks like a pretty solid test if you ask me :)I wouldn't say there's *always* going to be that push and pull, but generally with the types of resin suitable for miniature printing (flexible, somewhat shatter resistant etc) there is definitely a slight loss of dimensional accuracy due to their properties. However, we're talking fractions of a mm, so I wouldn't sweat it for mini printing. The most high-detail resin I've ever used was brittle af and I'd never ever print minis in it again, even if it means a 0.5% loss of detail in the smallest areas of the mini.(The maker's instructions for that cones of calibration test print includes a flow chart where you can reach this "dimensional accuracy or successful print" tradeoff, which is how I learned about it in the first place)
Does anyone have noise marines STL? also OP is a fag.
Anyone have scans of these guys ? Or know a tg group that does?
>>98058882Yeah will take a while to download and upload though
>>98058133Ok, yes that is eye opening. The info on the resin types is very useful, and thank you for pointing out what the manual says, that clears a lot up.I’m with you on the trade off, I’d much rather suffer the barely perceptible difference than not have my prices go together.Going to do some exposure adjustments and see what 2.5 will do. If so, I’ll move to my first real print.
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>>98058882>>98059297The gofile upload shat the bed.Here's a bunch of noise marines, scans and proxies: aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3dpc3N0cmFuc2Zlci5jb20vZC8wYmY5NDBmMC1jYmE0LTRhNTYtOTM4OS1jMDk4YTUzOTYwNzM=
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>>98058133Ok on the fourth time I finally got the cones down, exposure had to be reduced to 2.0, although I might do a micro tweak, but everything checked out.Next going to print the Puck Fig.
>>98053841Unfortunately I can't seem to find the two/three specific items I'm looking for on there.
>>98057193updateI thought I leveled the plate and had some successful prints on the middle parts of the plate. Pic rel was my last print. The back row completely pancaked and the front row printed perfectly. like a clean cut down the centerI know my plate is probably not leveled but I thought I levelled it fine. It's odd to me that the entire back row is not making enough contact. Do I need to try levelling it again?? I tightened the screws diagonally (front right, back left, etc) and did the paper thing.
>>98061110Use lychee and generate rafts for your supports, when I tried disabling rafts to save resin I got pancakes. Worth a shot.
ebay rescue progress. First time trying sirayatech tenacious mixed with Fast. Feels good, less worried about brittle minis snapping
>>98061184I am using lychee. I took another look at my plate and the rear was slightly higher than the front. I leveled it again and it seems to be better. I really think my problem was my plate being off. when removing prints off my plate I use a hammer and my scraping tool like a chisel cause it doesn't scratch the plate but I guess the repeated force gradually loosened the screws.I will have a look on lychee and see how to add rafts then give it a try. First I'm gonna print an Ameralabs town on each corner to test the levelness. thanks
Why did this happen? It's like a clean split and half a millimeter shift, but the other two printed perfectly despite being as tall.
>>98061194lovely work anon, great use case for 3d printing, and executed very well>>98061335try to hold all sides of the plate firm while you tighten the screws. It's easier said than done - in practice when I used to have to do this I would have to contort my hand to make sure I'm getting even pressure on all corners of the plate.>>98061362Could depend on a few things. Where in the build plate was this one, in relation to the others? What resin are you using? What resin settings are you using. Those are the big 3 for something like this imo.
>>98061403Something like this, so yeah, i suppose it could have an impact. I did switch resin recently, but i've dialed it in and it's been performing way better than my old standard. Might have to relevel my plate, been a while since i did that.
How long does stationforge take to release models after announcing them on his myminifactory tribes side of his mmf account?There is some stuff and may every anon forgive me for saying most likely will purchase when they become available to support him.
>>98061433yeah give your plate a relevel, check fep tension too if that's old. If it's the one horse that's a right angle to the other two then it's on the section of the fep with the most tension (short edge, close to the edge) so that could have something to do with it. Depending on your new resin it could have an impact, especially if it's a super flexible one like wargamer or TGM7, but even still slightly so with others like tough or ABS like resins..
>>98061335When you click the green magic button for auto supports it should be there, pic rel
>>98061335>when removing prints off my plate I use a hammer and my scraping tool like a chisel cause it doesn't scratch the plate but I guess the repeated force gradually loosened the screws.Don't do that, it will unlevel the plate over time. Use a sharp kitchen knife. I know it sounds weird but it works really well.
>>98061708Well I learned the hard way. I printed the 4 test towns and they came out perfect. I gasped when I check cause I was so relieved, but either because of my settings or the model, it was really hard to take off the plate.I tried to scrap it off with a twisting motion but to no avail. I hit it with a hammer and the plate instantly skewed from the force cause I didn't tighten all the screws completely for the sake of leveling.I leveled it again just now, tightened it a bit more and I'm trying the same town prints.How can I remove these small stubborn prints without much force? Do I leave them alone and let them harden a bit? I am afraid to scratch my plate>kitchen knifereally?? I detach my plate then put it down on an old metal baking dish and do the scraping there. How exactly do I use a sharp knife without cutting myself or the plate?>>98061403thanks, I've been doing that but it's hard to know how much is too much pressure>>98061701thank you
>>98061761Good news is that the print came out fine but I need to find a way to get them off. Google says heat shock but I'm hesitant to put this resin in my freezer
>>98061460Why not getting this month's tribe then? The individual releases will not be cheaper anyway
>>98061865what i do is remove all the model parts from supports, then dunk the whole build plate in IPA then run under warm water , then just carefully slide the blade under one edge of the raft. After that the whole raft and support structure usually comes off easily . You could also try reducing the initial layer exposure time, you know the first 5 or so layers ? You might be mega baking them to the plate when they don't need that much exposure.
>>98061865>>98062079Oh and congratulations on the successful print !! You are progressing :)
>>98062079>>98061865Meant to add, after getting the blade of the knife carefully under one part of the raft I slide the blade parallel to the plate all the way under the support structure to get it off. Ill record a video for you next print I do.
>>98062084Here's a quick illustration to show what I mean.
>>98062102Except imagine warm water running down into the area you are moving the knife through, I find the warm water helps separate the resin from the plate more easily.
update, I fixed the pancaking issue and my prints came out perfect on a fully loaded plateI think all this happened cause repeated force loosened my screws. Now I know to stop doing that shit, I've switched to lychee from chitubox and I'm adding bracketed supports and rafts to my prints. Gonna print the remaining arms and banners for these nurgle daemons know. I hope I'm out of the woods on this one.
>>98062517hell yeah
>>98058921here you go anonhttps://akirabox (dot) to/2bJG8J7ad3OB/file
Sixth print, now trying for a Dark Champion, please pray for me, should be hitting print window soon. Puck came out great, so I'm assuming everything is good to go.
>>98062517good shit man, congrats on the progress>>98061865>I need to find a way to get them offPersonally I would spend some time tweaking your bottom layer settings, now that you've solved the print fail issue. I got my bottom layer exposure time to such a point that prints would reliably stick to the build plate, *but* also pop right off with the slightest bit of pressure under the raft.Additionally, I use a raft that has a beveled rim, kind of like:[printed mini here]\__________/ <-raft[build plate here]I find that this is the easiest style of raft to get my scraper under and lever it upward until the suction to the build plate is broken and it pops off.I also use a plastic razor fwiw, which completely avoids the potential for scratching the build plate with the manufacturer's metal scraper, and the rafts still pop off super easy.
My fiancé printed and painted the first of my orks I've been learning to sculpt with, Look Ma! I'm a real miniature designer!
Anyone know if a scan of an armorcast phantom titan exists? And if it does, where I could find one?
>>98064705sick! well done! and great painting too
>>98064705Good stuff anon!>sculptedIf you have the time I suggest looking into anvil industry’s multi shell thing with their models.Basically some details on digital models can be “separated” as “loose” pieces and deleted off the model in blender before printing.So say a head with sunglasses can be deleted and there will still be a face with eyes under it.I imagine that it is a lot of work but I think it is something worth looking into.I also think you have a good understanding of the oldhammer aesthetic.How did you do it?>>98065545Good stuff anon!
>>98066435>good stuff>was actually a request Sorry my bad.I still want to see armorcast stls get recommended as well.
>>98066435The pieces on my model are all done that way and only finalised before exporting to STL for print.I have like 4 versions of the ork I posted with a hat, different guns etc.I'm working on some grots too, although I didn't plan these well for posing because I was still figuring shit out, so there's a lot of work to do to get them ready
>>98064705apologies you followed the rules. nice
>>98062814lol are you pranking me anon, the pic i posted is modular berzerkers and u sent me the monopose berzerkers that I created myself :P
>>98062067Good point.I think I’m dumb for not thinking this earlier.
Have these guys ever been scanned? Z doesn't sell them, nor any of the entry level Aliexpressers. They're always in high demand on eBay so thought they'd be fairly easy to find, but no cigar so far, recast or otherwise. I think maybe BMM does them however.
>>98066435I think multishell is the most customer unfriendly thing you could do. Instead of giving me two files, one head with, and one without glasses, I need to open up the file with blender and mess around with it. Hard nope.
>>98061194>>98061403Thanks anon :)They are standing tall once again
>>98068229I decided to have the monopose guys at their natural scale but standing on a higher base, the chainswords and heads look huge when scaled up. Also now they can stand with their original plastic counterparts.
Printed this darkoath savager.Came out p good. I don’t think the scan was good enough for eyes to form but it’s fine cause I rarely paint them anyway
>>98068236Anon why are your models covered in cocaine. They're khorne-bros, not slanesshi.
>>98067724Yes and I have them
Anyone happen to have or know where to find scans of the Mord heim metals? Particularly the Beastmen or the Freelance Knight?
>>98067431sorry, pretty new to this. i honestly thought they were the same; my apologies
looking for arbiter miniatures files, as much as possiblehttps://www.myminifactory.com/users/Arbiter%20Miniatures
>>98067730For beginners I think you’re right.For those who like remixing models I think it is amazing.But I see your point.
>>98071782No worries friend thanks for trying :) At least it was cool seeing my file out in the wild.>>98070479It's baking soda I swear! I use superglue and baking soda to form an instant rock hard cement to build up base texture and glue things together. The dust is brushed away/washed before priming.
>>98072347jump on tele and join these groups
>>98068436Looks legit to me, well done anon
>>98072347>$12 for 2 minis, up to $36 if you want to have supportless and supportedI was going to call you a poorfag for not just buying them, but fuck that guy's pricing
catbox[dot]to/5XQhVeZnFx5XuLv/fileAnother kitbash , Lord on jug
>>98072692That hole in the jugger's back is for a 1/16 brass rod banner but could just be filled in
>>98072695mhm, filling a jugger's back hole...
>>98072734Make sure to lube up the hole with your slippery glue before easing the hard rod in
>>98072657Yeah that's crazy expensive, but it's essentially different miniatures between the pre- and unsupported offerings. Still $12 is too much for one pack
Is that a "principles" thing? Those minis don't even look that great.
>>98073034They look good to me. Reminds me of Dagon, probably my fahourite lovecraft movie
>>98072652i'm having trouble getting to these groups after joining a handful through the 'rolodex' of groups. any tips for searching for miniatures? i don't poll a lot of results when i look up specific modelers like arbiter miniatures or station forge.
>>98073042>>98073034I also like them. I don't know where I could use them, but they are not bad sculpts
>>98073601Look for the most generic stuff like "STL" "space marine" etc. And pay attention to the chats in your groups. Often invite links to smaller groups are posted, valid only for a short while.Also pay attention to people asking for files. Often the reply is a forward from another group, and sometimes you can just join that group by clicking it
>>98072652Did sharehammer get the hammer down on it?I don’t recall.A good number of groups are done last I checked.Also what big groups are to be avoided because mods are that awful?
>>98073629Mods?
>>98073629No idea about any telegram dramas and shenanigans with mods. I just googled telegram stl groups and joined some, then like other anon said just joined groups from forwarded posts and invite links. All I do is request stuff that noone has and search randomly for stuff, never interacted with a mod or knew there were mods.
>>98073667Anybody who can ban or mute is a mod at this point.>>98073798I’d imagine that the power gets to some managers of the bigger channels.Maybe that is why some channels get taken down because mods abuse power and then one guy just decides to report the group to have it nuked to spite the mods.
Bit of a long shot but I plan to archive more stuff than just stls on a western digital 5tb elements hard drive.>games>reaction images>misc. stuff>maybe a nsfw thing I forgot to delete I didn’t know I still have.Is one external hard drive good for the and how long until I should be concerned of bit rot?And what programs are there that are Linux compatible that can be used to analyze the drive for corrupted files?
>>98073798>>98073629>>98073628Do any of you know any groups that share Archvillain stuff? I'm mainly looking for the stuff for the Erevan campaign they had
>>98073872
>>98073842If you are worried about long term viability, get a two-slot NAS, that way you will have backup if either drive dies
>>98073885Thank you. I already joined those groups but couldn't find what I was looking for. Let's hope they get shared in the future
>>98073827>Maybe that is why some channels get taken down because mods abuse power and then one guy just decides to report the group to have it nuked to spite the mods.Pretty sure this happened at least once. Especially when the russians started their special operation there was a lot of "discussions" between russians and ukrainians, and people ratted themselves out quite often. The notorious "only scans" guy for example was from ukraine, and some scanners from russia have been particularly mad about him reselling their scans.
>>98072692printed him :)"Y'all came to the wrong hood"
>>98073885Know any places where they scan and archive non-warhammer minis?I’m also looking for wga focused places.
>>98074568for example:
>>98074568>>98074575I wouldn't call telegram an archive though. It's grab it before it disappears. If you want to archive, probably have to host it yourself or something, no idea
looking for modelers/artists/sculptors/stores, whatever they are called, that create sci-fi FDM supportless minis
hey, anybody got the scrungaloids files before the nuke hit?
>>98074363OK, Officially not going to print/buy anything else until I paint these... + 3 Rhinos in the mail
>>98074568Nobody scans WGA stuff.
>>98070558care to share, anon?
>>98077319I know.It sucks that warhammer stuff gets the most attention when it comes to scanners archiving models as stls.But given all the ai discussion here maybe that is changing for the better and even the lesser know mini making companies can get their models archived now.Assuming the ai results create 1:1 results after minimal post generated editing.Hopefully it is just a matter of resizing things around.
>>98078104Here's an invite to a telegram group dedicated to AI model creation that might be useful and/or interesting to you: t[dot]me/+fPXyXH3cJVYzNjY5
I know, this is resin territory, but still i have a fdm-related question:If i want to print something, that is impossible to put flat onto the print bed, how would be the right angle to support it? 30-45°? Or does FDM work completely different? I've been printing terrain pieces just fine, but i would like to print something "superheavy" that i would not attempt to do with my Mars due to its size. What would be the best approach for that?In particular pic related (link: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-legacies-of-mars-vengeance-class-destroyer-391744)I want to print the big parts with FDM, and the smaller bits with resin,
Anyone ever seen a scan of these? Or if you have could you share?
>>98079459derp
>>98079459Soon TM
'm not sure where to ask so sorry about that but, Does anyone have or know where I can find Ion Raptor's Battletech stls? I know he got mad and took them down cause of Etsy assholes but I NEED his Legacy model specifically. It's so much better than the Iron Wind Metals one.
>>98079445I'd cut all of those large pieces in half, all the tinier, thinner pieces I'd get in resin>>98079464Oh those were in the telegram but they got taken down, they're probably still hanging around out there somewhere.
>>98080276:''( remember what the file was called perchance ?? these things are like gold on ebay :(
>>98074575I think I am in those places already or maybe left some when the copyrighting fell on and they got reinstated after.I gotta reinstall the app but I keep distrohopping.
I want to FDM print some terrain. I'm torn between matte PLA and regular basic PLA. I think I might be able to get away with not painting the terrain if I use matte PLA since it comes in the colors I need and should hide layer lines better than basic PLA.However, matte PLA is more prone to clogging. I've not had any outright clogs with matte pla, but I have had little blockages that led to a rough surface finish in some places. But that was with a 0.4mm nozzle, and I want to print with a 0.2mm nozzle for detail.If I get a clog I'll end up needing to sand and paint the thing anyways, and at that point basic PLA is the better material.Any advice?
>>98042734Is sanding the best way to remove layer lines from FDM prints? I need a shit ton of little symbols printed for conversions, but I only have an FDM printer.
>>98082180Ironing gives you a pretty smooth top layer. Depending on the height of the symbols, vertical layer lines might not be an issue.
>>98082180Maybe try vapor smoothing?
>>98082282Vapor smoothing>requires ABS, so you'll have less detail to begin with>slightly melts the model, so you'll have even less detail>uses aceton
>>98072652>>98073885>>98074575its fuckwits like you who cause channels to get shut down. kill yourself you dumb fucking nigger
>>98082538Stop your paranoia. Do you really think GW needs this thread to find out about channels like this, with thousands of members?
All the models here are resin except for the Monolith, Deciever and Tomb Spyder, which are FDM.I'd kill for a proper multi-pose immortals STL, since those are the only fuckers I'm missing.
>>98079445Nobody really answered your question... no, you don't need to angle FDM prints (though there are some edge cases where you might want to; minmaxing part strength comes to mind). Generally, lay the parts flat as you can (the orientations in your pic are probably how you want to print). You're going to want to use tree supports for your support structure (they're easiest to remove).
>>98082549do you really think anyone wants to be your friend because you post anything they ask for like a simping cuck
>>98083026>NOOOOOOOO THIS TELEGRAM GROUP I FOUND ON GOOGLE IS A SUPER SPESHUL CLUB!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Lmao.
>>98083026I dont care, and i am not the Anon posting those pics. But assuming GW really needs /3dpg/ to find out about whats going on within telegram is utterly retarded. Those groups are public for a reason: To provide an entry level layer for newbies to find.
>>98082747these guys look great, i like the red on these necrons, i haven't seen it before. is there a specific necron group with those colors or is this your own creation?
>>98058921Sorry anon, only got the newer ones, the much older ones and the much MUCH older ones.
That's it, I have given up on my moral qualms and got access to AI stuff.This stuff is great, some of these were generated from extremely simple doodles.
>>98084293It also seems decent for scans if you've got more than one angle of picture, though it definitely needs some manual fixing, lots of hallucinated detail.
>>98084293This is how simple the doodles can be btw.
>>98083132Just something I cooked up myself. Bare metal was too simple and this really draws the eye and makes them look like a unified force.BTW, the Deceiver is AI generated, came out pretty OK for a free program and one single image.
>>98084316What moral qualms lol?It's so good, I'm getting chatGPT to gen maulerfiends as if they were sculpted in 1989 gonna use tripo to make models.
>>98084730
>>98084293>furshitNo surprise an AIjeet is also a zoophile. Praise to Ganesha, saar.
>AIjeet
>>98084768
>>98084768>>>reddit
>>98084730If your result is better than mine tell me so I can switch models
>>98084817that looks awesome. can you try this multiple images one?
>>98083026do you have any friends anon? wanna be my friend? I'm the simpanon btw
>>98084830>>98084817>>98084737>>98084730this is so fucking coolall the OOP stuff or just cool looking shit that only exists as pictures can now be modeled using AI and printed.
>>98084873I know man!! When chatGPT started spitting these out I smiled so much. Usually pretty dead faced on the internet lol
>>98084830here you go champhttps://litter.catbox.moe/tcqbph6afqi1at0h.rar
>>98084922
>>98084293>>98084817literally ai slopthay are so bad that I have to think this is some shitpost trolling because I dont want to believe someone genuinely has this shit taste and proudly showing it off
>>98085070Whats wrong with it?
Could we just get an additional /slop3dpg/ thread? It's bad enough that Kickstarter is full of that crap.
>>98085077if you have to ask then it’s pointless to explain
>>98085109So nothing, gotcha
My wife wants me to print her a Warlord Titan.This is gonna take a million years.
>>98085109Lmao literal girlfriend on her period style arguing. Think it's time to stop posting bud
Had to buy some more tripo credits for this kino.
>>98085087Sounds kino
why is chatGPT so good suddenly
>>98085087>>98085335/slop/ is unusable, there is no need to make yet another redundant general just because redditors get irrationally angry at people using and experimenting with new technologies.
Is Openscan accurate enough to make snap fit assemblies? If I can scan multiple parts in isolation will they fit when printed?
>>98085222You have 37thousand years, not one minute longer
>>98084737Why are the back legs on this extended for no fucking reason>>98084293Gooner slop but the earthbound statue is cool
>>98086467Because it's chaos. AI is pretty chaos if you think about it..
Anybody know of the search terms to get into an epic 6mm stl group for the properly 6mm proportioned and sized wh models?I’m okay with the answer in Nintendo encryption.>gens Alright I hope one of you lads have the forumware models to archive as stls.My wallet is gonna hurt buying up third party that is actually decent to archive as stls.I’ll have to get out the measurement tape to check size numbers on bits and resize archived models.Does anyone here have experience to say how bad or good blender for resizing stls to exact measurements is?
>>98086887Why would you resize in blender when your sliver no doubt has the option and much easier to access?
>>98085222if ur using resin. I recommend keeping your layer lines bigger then with miniatures. Im not 100% sure, but im 99% sure that smaller layer lines increase risk of failure with bigger parts (now that I type this out this seems bizarrely obvious). I've been getting way less warping, misprints, and lines with bigger layers. And the difference isnt really obvious. Also it helps keep down printing time a shit ton which is good.
>>98084730What was the prompt for this?
I used to have a Creality ender 3 printer 5 or 6 years ago, but it was always fucking up, and I was too retarded to figure out how to level it. It was always out of level and eventually I gave up and threw it in the dump. Anyways, I saw on YouTube that a lot of new printers are basically plug and play and have auto leveling, ie. retard proof, so I think it's time I give it another try. What FDM printers do you think I should check out, to be used exclusively for printing terrain, between $300-500?? I try to research it myself but every single article or YouTube video on 3d printers are all sponsored ads, so I just don't know who to trust
>>98087427>try to research it myself but every single article or YouTube video on 3d printers are all sponsored ads, so I just don't know who to trustsame here worst part is product reviews so I can’t even know if cheap Chinese alternative products punch above their price like some people say some do.
>>98087427Don't even bother asking the retards here
>>98086949Sliver?You mean slider?When did that get added to blender?I have used it in a while.
>>98085663Not a minute to lose!>>98087000It's gonna be FDM. I only just got this Bambu A1 last week, I'm still learning how it all works. I've told her to manage her expectations, printing that titan is not something that's gonna happen overnight.
>>98087493Yeah, listen to the clanker, buy from the patent trolls that are gonna lock up your machine.>>98087427I had some hellish experience with my first FDM printer, so I know how hard it can be. But afterwards i got a Neptune 4 and later on a kobra 3 combo, and even those budget models were worlds better.Since the Kobra 4 is about to come out and can be bought for 380, or the 3 combo will become cheaper, and they come with the ams, which the bambu does not at that price point.AMS is real great, even if you do not often print multi color. You can have special material for supports that is water solluble, have a 2nd roll as a backup one rolls out or just use it to dry the filament, which makes a huge difference in quality and reliability.
>>98087427Look into the Centauri Carbon/Carbon 2 (practically the same machine; Carbon 2 mainly just comes with multi material native). Just Werks out of the box; I've only had to run the leveling once (when I set it up).
>>98087917I recently got one and I'm pretty happy with it. I just need to find a new place for it, since letting it print next to my resin printer messed up the resin layers.
>>98087413Something like"generate an image of a 40k maulerfiend model as if it was sculpted in 1989. Blue background, bare metal unpainted."
>>98088064Using chatGPT with paid subscription using the deep thinking setting, not instant gen. Then I got derailed trying to trick it into generating lewd scenes while evading the no erotic content filters kek
>>98087917seconding the centauri carbon (1). It is great just out of the box indeed. I wanted an enclosed printer because i have a cat, and the centauri is pretty much perfect for my printing needs.
Finished assembling & sculpting a khornate maulerfiend. Body and head generated separately by chatGPT then tripostudio. The tendrils and exhausts are from a forgefiend resculpt, the shoulder pads are from scan of current berzerker kit, head bunny ears are from a 2E era metal world eater marine.
>>98088494More advanced blending of the parts, smoothing, and fixing weird mistakes of the AI was done in Blender. Satisfying to feel my blender skills improving.Here's the STL for anyone who wants it:gofile[dot]io/d/dj495Z
>>98084730>>98086813Fuck me sideways and call me Sally, are these actual models you're genning or just images? If it's the latter I hope you share they're spectacular.
>>98088774*if it's the former. Fucksake.
>>98070558Good stuff, I won't beg - I'm just glad they're out there for posterity. Weird that all the recasters seem to have Valhallen and Mordian models but not these, which were way more common. (Slowly making progress with my Eye of Terror themed bad guys)
https://youtu.be/5OKuxZKWUccI made a free, 3d printed, Skirmish game.I’m looking for feedbackfalldamage.fun is the site in progress, Links to a complete manual
>>98088914I know this general is often resin focused, so I should mention this is designed for fdm with no painting. The official flat units are made for 4 color printers
>>98088494>>98088520And here's another one with a dog head instead of a pig head:gofile[dot]io/d/xjW7Nh
>>98088914Minecraftheim? Looks cool anon!
>>98088774Those are images generated by chatGPT which I then make into models with tripostudio. I'm uploading a bunch of images and generated meshes now for anyone curious to see / print.
>>98088774>>98088979Here you go anon, everything i have on my pc atm, i deleted a lot of stuff that's sitting in my tripo account but it's much the same kind of stuff.gofile[dot]io/d/sQv3ZY
>>98088856Sweet! Reminds me of these
>>98085358>>98088494>>98088941Can't wait for it to not fit together for shit once printed and have a million fucking non-manifold edges Orca takes an hour to repair first.Dolts like you are why Cults sucks now.
>>98089725How about you stop being a gay retard and open the file and see for yourself before you judge my work anon. Made solid in meshmixer, analysis in meshmixer, no errors in 3dbuilder. I understand though, plenty of paid STLs I bought instantly throw errors in 3dbuilder and/or Lychee. >Dolts like you are why Cults sucks now.I don't sell anything on cults so I'm not sure what you mean by that?
>>98089725>Can't wait for it to not fit togetherI only print things in one piece. If it doesn't fit in the mars 2 pro build area in one piece I don't print it.
Is it even possible to scan parts like this?
>>98090278yeah, scan them on the runner?
>>98090278Scan the whole sprue and separate the different parts in blender vertex edit or something
>>98089725>a million fucking non-manifold edgesA few threads ago I checked another of his meshes out of interest and found it had three (3) non-manifold edges. Calm down.
>>98091030Most AI generated models at the very minimum need some touching up before you try to actually print them
>>98090592>>98090718I thought open scan could only do 7 inch parts at the max?
>>98091385Sorry I assumed you were using an actual scanner for it
>>98091066Whats your point? Do do models you buyboff cults/MMF or find on telegram. If you cant fix a basic mesh problem you are probably not gonna have fun 3d printing .
>>98092555So do*Buy off*
>>98089778Oh shit he's gigantic :'(Any pro tips for cutting models to print in sections ??
>>98092722Working on chopping them up. Hopefully I'll be able to print one in the next few days.
Any clue where I could find elegoo satellite support settings that work with sunlu abs-like? When I print presupported stuff it usually works but when I try adding manual supports I get pancakes.
Is there a good app way to scan minis? I'm getting some old metal minis, and I wanted to make copies.
>>98094435Openscan mini
>>98042734
How long do can you keep resin sitting in the printer?Pretty new to printing, not had any problems before but half of these didn't print properly.
>>98096161Forever but you will have to mix it somehow if it has started to separate or it will more than likely cause failures.
>>98094435Check telegram first. A lot of the old minis is bought to scan, it turns out already had scans.
Doing some rhino parts
>>98098073Looks nice and clean after solidifying
>>98098099bolter
>>98096161one time I hard hardened pieces of resin in my vat. My printer sits under a window and somtimes the sun hits it from an odd angle and I guess manages to pierce the cover over a really long time. I also left it completely untouched for a month over winter. It was really viscous and chunky and needed lots of stirring when I got back. Cold will fuck up resin more than heatJust mix it occasionally and watch the temperature of your home.
Im new to all of this, sometimes ill open up an stl and bambu/orca will say there are non manifold edges and says it can repair. Sometimes it could an hour plus to repair it, I looked it up and tried blender but every guide will say press ctrl a to select all then press m for merge by distance, when I do that I dont see any difference and when I export it out the slicer still sees the non manifold edges. Is there a faster way to repair this or am I just stupid?
Relatively new to printing, have been able to print 8mm scale terrain and pieces well on an Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra 16k with their 2.0 standard grey resin. Have calibrated on multiple occasions and with my settings at a .050 layer size, generally get good exposures between 1.9 and 2.3 seconds per layer. No problems with any pre-supported files so far. Today I was noticing that my details have been less than what I think the machine is capable of and have been trying to tweak it. Shooting for a .020 layer size, running a calibration now to hone in on the correct exposures. I ran a test print earlier and had two models come out well manually supported, and two that failed pretty quickly. I'm pretty confident that the issue on that end was with the supports that I tried on two of the models. I have increased the penetration of the tip and added a rounded contact and am going to try this again. Used the print angle calculator and think I have it optimized for this screen (about 55 degrees from flat plane). Feel like it's been hard to find reliable and useful information about how to actually design manual supports -- anyone have any recommendations of where to start?
>>98101090What I've found works fix really fucked up meshes in blender is:First (if it's really big file) from object mode select the part, go to pic related on the right , +modifier, generate, decimate to around 300,000 faces, apply from drop down.Then same again but +modifier, generate, remesh, Voxel, adjust value lower till it's detailed enough, apply. Then export the stl.
>>98102330the pic, sorry
>>98101448If you like manually tinkering and tweaking then keep doing that. Or you could try lychee database settings for your printer and resin and lychee auto supports. I'd bet you 5 dolla that it will work.
>>98102333>>98102330Also sometimes a simpler fix is import the stl into Meshmixer, click edit, make solid. Settings in picrel. Then click update, wait for it to finish, click accept. Then click analysis, Inspector, auto-repair all. Then export the stl .
>>98101090Also you're not stupid. Except for the case of closing a visible hole manually, no amount of merging or joining in edit mode applied to the whole part has worked for me either.
>>98101090there is an extension for blender called 3d print toolbox (or something like that). It has a 'detect issues' function which will find the non-manifold edges. From there, you can either press 'fix' and see if it can repair them itself, or if it has trouble, then you can tab into edit mode, click the 'non-manifold' button, and it will highlight the edges for you to fix manuallythe meshmixer fix is also a good option in my experience. In the inspection part I like to select "smooth" or whatever the option is that's not "flat". "flat" will just close the holes with a flat face, whereas smooth does a bit of computing to try and follow the shape of the surface when repairing the holes. Looks much better to me.
>>98096161get yourself a silicone spatula and stir that resin up. I stir it mildly before every print. If you leave it a week or longer the gubbins in the resin start to separate and you have like oily shit at the top and pigment at the bottom. That will result in a bad time if you try to print straight away. It will need a very very good stir - bear in mind most resins say shake vigorously for 2-5 minutes before using, and then think how much force that must put them under; that's the amount of stirring you'd have to do. I've done it before but it was like 5+ minutes of constant stirring and 'folding' the resin back in on itself like dough. Might be easier to pour it back in the bottle and shake.>>98098099this looks like something out of a 3rd edition book, good shit
>>98081855Stick with matte. If it’s clogging, what are your moisture levels like? Anything higher than about 28% humidity may start causing problems.
>>98087427I binned my upgraded Ender 3 V3 SE for a Bambulabs A1 and never looked back.
>want to make pseudo 2E marines>have scans of current 40k tactical set>want to equip them with mkiv backpacks and umbra bolters>no scans available, all the recreations are slightly wrong>can 3d scan, so bought (bitz) all the mkvi bolter and arm sets plus a mkiv tigris bolter for good measure>can't get backpacks, all sold out, found one store in the US that has two of the three in stockI can get half a box (10 dudes) on ebay for £40, but I don't want mkivs.
>>98103780>pseudo 2E marinesIf they are pseudo anyway, why are you bothered by "slightly" wrong backpacks?
>>98103789I still want all the parts to be accurate.
>>98103780Nevermind, I just found 10 backpacks on ebay.
Had a weird print failure, half the built plate had the prints cut off while the other half was fine, with the exception that some supports were cut off at the same height as the failed prints but then managed to print fine.Has anyone had this issue before and know what causes it?
>>98104048Release film getting a bit worn and floppy perhaps?
>>98089725It’s mostly influenced wanting to archive oop models quickly.I suck ass at anything blender and so I don’t believe my scanning and scan artifact removal will be good.
>>98102566About piece of good advice is to empty your vast back into the bottle if you don't plan on printing for a week. It them also follow that is a good idea to plan a block of prints in advance rather than leave a "loaded" printer "just in case".
>>98104057Seems reasonable, but I printed out a tightly packed plate immediately after having done a vat clean with zero issues. Might have been a suction cup somewhere or some really janky model?
>>98102566>>98096499>>98098606Cheers, i poured a bit of fresh resin in but it definitely looked a bit like they were slightly different liquids.
>>98104048What slicer? hasn't happened to me in a while, but I've seen Chitubox fail to generate support posts on one layer of the slice, then have it generate them on the next layer.
>printing pre-supported model with mars 4 ultra>somehow gets worse detail than someone printing the same model with a 22.0 µm printer using the same resin I am and the same layer height What the fuck?
>>98102566Thanks anon :)Finally printed all my rhino parts
>>98103780>>98103805>>98103828I am admiring your dedication to the forms you want to make!
Greetings /3dpg/I am in search of some cold war era soviet in 6mm.Where is the best place to look? I heard there's some TG channels for that sort of thing but i've never begun to look.
