I just designed & printed my first BentoBox, and I had some of the problems you did. I'm printing on a Creality Ender 3 v3 Plus using Creality Print 5 & Tinkercad. The .STL files looked like Picasso works initially. Creality Print told me there was an error, and gave me a Repair option. After Repair, the files opened normally in Tinkercad, and printed normally. While the lid did not throw an error, it printed poorly. I decided the bottom-down orientation caused the generation of full-lid support. The support did not remove cleanly, so I reprinted the lid on edge. That was a winner! I'm using filament for the hinge pins, but I'm not sure how to mount the latch. That's what I was hoping to learn from your video. I'm sure someone will show me yet, but it's time to call it quits for today.
I'm printing my first 'Bento' box right now for one of my laser testers. The outer box itself came out with several missing, reversed and additional polygons which freaked out the slicer. I imported it into Lightwave 3D and fixed the errors in about 10 minutes. If you can handle some small errors then it's a very quick way to generate a custom box for yourself.
Just printed an outer box and lid on my X1C with Bambu Basic PLA. Box outside is 193x131x97. Default settings, gyroid infill, 15%. Lid printed on its side edge with support. Bambu Studio added a wide brim to the lid. Printed great. Was expecting the lid to fail, but no problems. Am printing on High Temperature Plate that already had glue stick applied and the door open.
To have it print correctly, as there’s an error in the .stl you MUST select Scan for errors in the slicer . There’s one in the Prusa slicer . This will fix it and print ok.
I’m extremely curious what caused this. I did the box, insert, no issues. Creality K1SE, Creality Print. Only issue I had was the lid which flipping it on the plate and tree supports resolved…
You may have incorrectly sliced it, maybe a different filament type. Im printing one now and havent ran onto any problems although my lid is printing on a different side. I uploaded a short of it on my profile.
Thanks, I just watched the short. I tried 2 different filaments. Maybe I'll try again on a different printer and see what happens. I sliced it in Bambu. I printed it upside down because I didn't want to have to use supports.
There's another youtuber who tried this and the box outer stl needed repairing for bad geometry before printing otherwise it tries to print a solid object
I have successfully printed a custom box. First 2 attempts at download brought in a solid box and one with supports inside! very strange. Finally, it gave me a useable file that printed perfect with petg. HOWEVER, the lid is a different story. Because I added text to the top of the lid, I wanted to print the lid right side up to get good results with the text. The hinges protrude below the lid, which means I had to add supports on a 4"x5" box. Tried 4 different support values. If support is too open, then print fails. If support is too dense, must use hammer, chisel and lots of sanding to remove support. (ideal would be an idex or your ams with pla supports (something that doesn't adhere to petg). Someone in these comments mentioned to print lid on edge. I may try that with a brim for stability. TIP, when you are on the site, right mouse click and do translate, esp before downloading (when in that dialog box). And you should use 2m x 28mm pins, available on aliexpress and ebay. the 28mm is difficult to find, but they are available (or you could just buy 30mm for the hinges) but for the front clasp, you do need 28mm pins. Hope this helps someone. BTW, that bento box is cool if they continue to develop it, it could be awesome. Right now it is buggy.
All great points. I got the box and the insert to print great out of the gate. The lid was also a challenge for me. I flipped it on the plate and chose “auto-gen tree supports”. Fairly impressive considering there was a forest of tree’s, barely a mm high yet, the lid peeled off with no issues.
You should mess with Tinkercad. It's super easy to design things and doesn't require all of the knowledge that programs like Fusion360 do. It obviously can't do as much, but for basic things needed around the house, that is my go to.
I got my first 3D printer a few months ago and have been busy learning Onshape (free, browser based) - to be fair, I'm an IT consultant and have a lot of experience in 2d vector design so the transfer wasn't too bad. I've designed loads of things round the house (components to fix home appliances, gadgets etc) and now starting to think about designing items that I can eventually sell either locally or online. If you have an idea for something you want to design, I'd be happy to have a look at creating the basics in Onshape and sending to you to tinker with
I just designed & printed my first BentoBox, and I had some of the problems you did. I'm printing on a Creality Ender 3 v3 Plus using Creality Print 5 & Tinkercad. The .STL files looked like Picasso works initially. Creality Print told me there was an error, and gave me a Repair option. After Repair, the files opened normally in Tinkercad, and printed normally. While the lid did not throw an error, it printed poorly. I decided the bottom-down orientation caused the generation of full-lid support. The support did not remove cleanly, so I reprinted the lid on edge. That was a winner! I'm using filament for the hinge pins, but I'm not sure how to mount the latch. That's what I was hoping to learn from your video. I'm sure someone will show me yet, but it's time to call it quits for today.
I'm printing my first 'Bento' box right now for one of my laser testers. The outer box itself came out with several missing, reversed and additional polygons which freaked out the slicer. I imported it into Lightwave 3D and fixed the errors in about 10 minutes. If you can handle some small errors then it's a very quick way to generate a custom box for yourself.
Just printed an outer box and lid on my X1C with Bambu Basic PLA. Box outside is 193x131x97. Default settings, gyroid infill, 15%. Lid printed on its side edge with support. Bambu Studio added a wide brim to the lid. Printed great. Was expecting the lid to fail, but no problems. Am printing on High Temperature Plate that already had glue stick applied and the door open.
Interesting. I wonder if there was a bug in the software when I generated mine... Thanks for the info!!!
To have it print correctly, as there’s an error in the .stl you MUST select Scan for errors in the slicer . There’s one in the Prusa slicer . This will fix it and print ok.
Thanks!!
I’m extremely curious what caused this. I did the box, insert, no issues. Creality K1SE, Creality Print. Only issue I had was the lid which flipping it on the plate and tree supports resolved…
I think it was a bug in the software. I printed it again a few months later and posted an updated video and it printed fine.
I had no issue with the box printing, but i can't get the lid to print. Something's really off with this Bento3d thing.
I agree, and I tried to redo the box several different times with the same dimensions and got failed prints all 4 times on 3 different printers...
You may have incorrectly sliced it, maybe a different filament type. Im printing one now and havent ran onto any problems although my lid is printing on a different side.
I uploaded a short of it on my profile.
Thanks, I just watched the short. I tried 2 different filaments. Maybe I'll try again on a different printer and see what happens. I sliced it in Bambu. I printed it upside down because I didn't want to have to use supports.
There's another youtuber who tried this and the box outer stl needed repairing for bad geometry before printing otherwise it tries to print a solid object
I'll try to find that, thank you!
I have successfully printed a custom box. First 2 attempts at download brought in a solid box and one with supports inside! very strange. Finally, it gave me a useable file that printed perfect with petg. HOWEVER, the lid is a different story. Because I added text to the top of the lid, I wanted to print the lid right side up to get good results with the text. The hinges protrude below the lid, which means I had to add supports on a 4"x5" box. Tried 4 different support values. If support is too open, then print fails. If support is too dense, must use hammer, chisel and lots of sanding to remove support. (ideal would be an idex or your ams with pla supports (something that doesn't adhere to petg). Someone in these comments mentioned to print lid on edge. I may try that with a brim for stability. TIP, when you are on the site, right mouse click and do translate, esp before downloading (when in that dialog box). And you should use 2m x 28mm pins, available on aliexpress and ebay. the 28mm is difficult to find, but they are available (or you could just buy 30mm for the hinges) but for the front clasp, you do need 28mm pins. Hope this helps someone. BTW, that bento box is cool if they continue to develop it, it could be awesome. Right now it is buggy.
I'm definitely going to have to try this again. Thanks!
All great points. I got the box and the insert to print great out of the gate. The lid was also a challenge for me. I flipped it on the plate and chose “auto-gen tree supports”. Fairly impressive considering there was a forest of tree’s, barely a mm high yet, the lid peeled off with no issues.
I need to make items on Demand. Looking to have something create the design for me. I am too Old to be designing on a computer. LOL
You should mess with Tinkercad. It's super easy to design things and doesn't require all of the knowledge that programs like Fusion360 do. It obviously can't do as much, but for basic things needed around the house, that is my go to.
I got my first 3D printer a few months ago and have been busy learning Onshape (free, browser based) - to be fair, I'm an IT consultant and have a lot of experience in 2d vector design so the transfer wasn't too bad. I've designed loads of things round the house (components to fix home appliances, gadgets etc) and now starting to think about designing items that I can eventually sell either locally or online. If you have an idea for something you want to design, I'd be happy to have a look at creating the basics in Onshape and sending to you to tinker with
No Bento Box?!!! Good Try! Keep it Up! Your a Natural! :). And I am not being sarcastic.....
Thanks!