I use my 3D Printer more and more. The more I learn to design the more useful 3d printing for the shop comes. It is crazy how you start changing your thinking to integrate printing stuff for projects, tools, tool fixing, and organization. It is especially fun when you start thinking "How can I design and print something to solve that problem". I am currently working on a magnetic bandsaw fence where the main supports are 3dprinted. Hopefully, I'll finish and get a video on it in the next few weeks.
That’s great to hear! It is really satisfying to think of a solution, design it, print and done! That bandsaw fence sounds like a great idea, lightweight and magnetic! I’ll definitely check the video out! Thanks for watching! Pete
Great question on tolerance! Every time I print with a new spool I print a calibration cube. It’s a thingiverse model, just a one inch cube I can gauge my printer with. Luckily I have had really good results with the Sunlu printer. It usually prints to less than a tenth of an inch, but this also depends on the filament. Sometimes I reduce the size of the thing I’m printing my 1% in the slicer and reprint the model. I use this process on the Ender especially. For some reason I haven’t figured out yet the X axis expands and contracts a bit more, around 0.2-0.3 inches. I’m not using the printers for super fine printing but it’s good to know how accurate the set up is. For both of the printers I have used pla, petg with no problems. They seem to hold tolerances, or predictable variations pretty well. I tried abs on the Ender with poor results. I couldn’t figure out the cracking and irregularities so I kinda abandoned the effort. Thanks again for the comment and questions! Pete
I use my 3D Printer more and more. The more I learn to design the more useful 3d printing for the shop comes. It is crazy how you start changing your thinking to integrate printing stuff for projects, tools, tool fixing, and organization. It is especially fun when you start thinking "How can I design and print something to solve that problem".
I am currently working on a magnetic bandsaw fence where the main supports are 3dprinted. Hopefully, I'll finish and get a video on it in the next few weeks.
That’s great to hear!
It is really satisfying to think of a solution, design it, print and done!
That bandsaw fence sounds like a great idea, lightweight and magnetic!
I’ll definitely check the video out!
Thanks for watching!
Pete
Loved the vibe. Can you discuss your experience with tolerancing and materials on these entry level machines?
Great question on tolerance! Every time I print with a new spool I print a calibration cube. It’s a thingiverse model, just a one inch cube I can gauge my printer with. Luckily I have had really good results with the Sunlu printer. It usually prints to less than a tenth of an inch, but this also depends on the filament. Sometimes I reduce the size of the thing I’m printing my 1% in the slicer and reprint the model.
I use this process on the Ender especially. For some reason I haven’t figured out yet the X axis expands and contracts a bit more, around 0.2-0.3 inches.
I’m not using the printers for super fine printing but it’s good to know how accurate the set up is.
For both of the printers I have used pla, petg with no problems. They seem to hold tolerances, or predictable variations pretty well. I tried abs on the Ender with poor results. I couldn’t figure out the cracking and irregularities so I kinda abandoned the effort.
Thanks again for the comment and questions!
Pete