For a faster way to save all the individual puzzle pieces, right click on the component, click save as .stl and then, from the structure drop down, select 'One File Per Body.'
There is a way to mass save separate stl files: right click on the component, save stl and in the menu , you will see "Structure: one file", change it to one file per body.
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alcx112 that's exactly what I was gonna say, saving one by one is just crazy :D. Well done !
Thanks for the tip, till now I used a workaround: Added a 1mm Bottom-Plate to combine alle Bodies into one in Fusion360, imported the STL in Slic3r and removed the Bottom-Plate using "cut" and "split".
Yeah was thinking that there was no way that this program that professionals use to make working models with thousands of parts didn't have an option to save each body individually.
The puzzles turned out spectacular, but what got me was the idea of being able to show geographic features side by side. Imagine the grand canyon, Everest, and the marina trench all framed at the same scale. These could even include a micro Eiffel tower, to the same scale, just to give a sense of their true vastness.
Because they can't do that now? 20 mins to throw up geographically geometrically accurate landmarks and a day to print em Way faster than that even depending on the printer
Great idea! When I clicked on the video, I expected a different kind of 3D-puzzles (like the ones I usually print - twisty puzzles) but still I was amazed of your results. I'm wondering how a Model of a city would look like as a puzzle. With a close-up on all these houses (and potentionally some sights), you'D probably get a nice puzzle as well.
Protip: Though it takes a tethered computer to run, Pronterface is amazing for this kind of job. If you have a failure in a print with a ton of little parts, you can tell it to omit objects from future layers. Just disable the piece, pause the print, secure it or remove it from the bed if you need to, and let it resume. Edit: For real though, I'd love to see that functionality in Octoprint someday.
You could connect the puzzle pieces with a small line at the bottom of the puzzle, then split the puzzle into four quarters and print those. Once it's printed you can cut the pieces apart very quickly. That way you only have to save four bodies.
A city landscape with this technique would be great. I'm studying architecture, and I often make them for my urbanism projects, I wish I had a 3d printer for printing them like this. I loved this video, so inspiring and interesting
i'm not trying to speak negatively about any other 3D printing channels, but your content is consistently better than all the others that just print things off thingiverse saying "look at this thing i made" and begging for high fives. I love the real educational style and application of processes you use. While your video is structured as a step by step tutorial, you seems to make a habit of explaining why you do a thing a certain way and these are the kinds of tips and tricks that lend themselves to a great body of knowledge that can make future creative projects possible for the viewer. Great stuff and keep it up.
oh my gosh I'm impressed EVERYTIME you post a video, wow what can you not do!!? you're like a magician comin' up with new stuff. This is so incredibly cool to watch!
Having watched the vid properly, rather than on my phone at lunchtime, WoW! Dude, this is epic!! We could 3D print our whole country and send it to friends and family. Then have a get together and build a nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hootin heck! You've got a entire event right there! Mind you, kansas and it's peers will seem pretty dull. Did I just come up with a good idea there? Aargh! I need a second printer in that case! Otherwise there'll be no time for printing anything else!!
I would highly recommend Affinity Designer, it's a brilliant alternative to Adobe Illustrator. It's a small price to pay but no costly monthly subscription. Worth checking it out. Btw this brilliant 3D puzzles you've created, very unique 👍👌
Devin I need a lot of help. I tried to use my school’s MakerBot filament on my cr-10 (OH BOY WAS THAT A MISTAKE) and my feeding stepper actually stripped the filament. So I tried to pull the filament out of the tube and it snapped, but too short to grab it with anything. So I unscrew the feeding tube and I DECIDED FOR SOME STUPID REASON TO CUT THE PART OF THE FILAMENT FEEDER TUBE THAT IT CLOSEST TO THE EXTRUDER. whoops. So long story short my extruder is jammed with a bunch of little bits of filament all at the very bottom of my extruder and there is no way to get them out. I’ve tried running good filament, but it still strips it. I have literally disassembled my extruder and idk what to do about it... it’s a new printer and I def don’t want to buy a new one, but I’m open to getting a new hot end... any suggestions from anybody??? ( sorry for the long comment... )
You might want to try cleaning the nozzle using the atomic pull method, if you haven't already. It's possible the plastic has decomposed into something that doesn't soften at regular PLA temperatures. If there's plastic stuck above the heat break, you should also try pushing a thin wire or drill bit up from the bottom of the nozzle. Otherwise, I would try replacing just the nozzle first, and then the hot end if that doesn't work.
Awesome video and a funny coincide. Yesterday I presented 3d printing to my son's 3rd grade class. I setup my printer and let it print while talking to the class about 3d printing. Afterwards I answered questions for them and one of the questions was "could you 3d print a puzzle". I sent a link to your video to the teacher since it was such a great answer to the question. Thank you for all of your great content.
Really cool!! I‘ve already printed some maps for a friend of mine. Unluckily I don’t know how to work with Fusion 360° that good in order to follow the steps you’ve did there. Illustrator I‘ve never used.
i wanted to use this in a project i'm working on. is there any way to change the box's form? for me it's an rectangle, and does not fit with what i want. i would prefer a like-sided square.
I imagine combining this with the Palette 2 so as to make colored terrain sections: Blue water for lake areas, green forested areas, white tipped mountains, etc
Amazing design and I admire your abounding persistence! An interesting alternative design choice could be to change the filament at set Z heights. This could give a striated mountain affect or resemble elevation topographic map. But in any case, super impressed with this project. Thanks for sharing it.
This is really cool and I’m tempted to do one. Do you have an airbrush? Take a single, light, low angle pass from one corner with a light grey or white. It will look like light falling on the terrain and will make it stand out with a hill shade effect. Thanks for the video.
You should be able to create the .dxf/"cookiecutter" in any CAD software that has spline and offset tools. I think you can also use Meshmixer to slice the .stl with your cookiecutter file.
I like how when i first followed this channel i had no idea what you were talking about and i just liked the projects. Now idk how long later im in a graphic design class and i can understand most of the terms you are saying xD. I still love the projects and stuff you do too. I would really love to make a puzzle. Sadly i dont have a 3D printer so for now i just have to stick with paper and cardboard.
quick trick: extrude a rectangle on the bottom and join at 1mm thickness then in the slicer set model position minus 1mm it turns all into one part and then the .stl is one file and you can print it all at once
Custom terrain STL may be easily made online with the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Ceres, Vesta NASA Trek with the built in point & click "Generate 3D Print File" tool. For example, "NASA Moon Trek: Hesiodus crater, Mons Pico, Plato & Tutorial"
Hmm this video gave me some ideas. Thanks for sharing. I have a mini printer so such a print would take longer. Wonder if I could make original designs this way with thinner pieces. Guess its all about spacing things out, maybe keep the pieces numbered. Eager to try something out now but I wanna make some unique puzzle piece shapes by hand as I've recently helped some family with a very uniquely shaped pieces style puzzle and well, that just seems more fun. Maybe a little 3D pop out with a plan to paint it later would work decently enough. Now just to find the best paint for PLA.
So few years ago I wasn't into 3D stuff and so, I tried to remake Laguna Seca in a sandbox racing videogame. AND YOURE TELLIN ME IT COULD HAVE BEEN JUST THIS EASY?? Ok, you got my attention.
There is a 'mass operation': you export all of them into one STL (by exporting the component or the project as STL) and then you take it into Mesh Mixer and use the separate tool. Mesh Mixer is also the better tool for what you did in the beginning in the Windows 3d thingy. Watch Maker's Muse's videos on Mesh Mixer, he just did some good basic tutorials on those functions
Is it possible to 3D print a city model this way but with cutting it up into puzzle pieces and just have a city model that someone with to much time on there hands can paint?
YOU JUST INVENTED A PUZZLE FOR THE BLIND! AWESOME!
Lucas Hartmann how do I give you many likes so that your comment goes to the top?
Omg you're right
Omg yeah!
Omg u stupid
Why Why stop hating on comments and hate yourself cause you don't care about the blind.
For a faster way to save all the individual puzzle pieces, right click on the component, click save as .stl and then, from the structure drop down, select 'One File Per Body.'
he is prob slapping his fore head right now.
or export it as one stl and in simplify3d use "Mesh -> Seperate connected Surfaces"
you're a lifesaver
Who literally here only watches and doesn't even own a 3d printer, but here for the fun of "knowing" what to do... lol
me
Get one!
I do not have one either
I just like his vids
Me asf
There is a way to mass save separate stl files: right click on the component, save stl and in the menu , you will see "Structure: one file", change it to one file per body.
alcx112 that's exactly what I was gonna say, saving one by one is just crazy :D.
Well done !
This needs a pin... I just made a puzzle like this myself (Waiting for it to print!), without knowing about this...
lifesaver
Thanks for the tip, till now I used a workaround: Added a 1mm Bottom-Plate to combine alle Bodies into one in Fusion360, imported the STL in Slic3r and removed the Bottom-Plate using "cut" and "split".
Yeah was thinking that there was no way that this program that professionals use to make working models with thousands of parts didn't have an option to save each body individually.
The puzzles turned out spectacular, but what got me was the idea of being able to show geographic features side by side. Imagine the grand canyon, Everest, and the marina trench all framed at the same scale. These could even include a micro Eiffel tower, to the same scale, just to give a sense of their true vastness.
E R woah yeah that would be super cool
that would be extremely hard and expensive, as well as time consuming to make but cool idea nonetheless
Because they can't do that now? 20 mins to throw up geographically geometrically accurate landmarks and a day to print em
Way faster than that even depending on the printer
Omg u should make a puzzle of your face by scanning it and doing the same thing u did with the other puzzles u made!
Yeah!
I really want to see this lol
Someone hook me up with a good 3D scanner :D
Lmao Do it! Now XD
WOW THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!!!!
Great idea! When I clicked on the video, I expected a different kind of 3D-puzzles (like the ones I usually print - twisty puzzles) but still I was amazed of your results. I'm wondering how a Model of a city would look like as a puzzle. With a close-up on all these houses (and potentionally some sights), you'D probably get a nice puzzle as well.
And with colors? How big will the building be
This is so incredibly cool!
I am sorry this comment is 4 years old so idel who'll read it. But make something commented on make anything 😭😭
Showing how to create and print 3D maps even without the puzzle feature was cool.
Protip: Though it takes a tethered computer to run, Pronterface is amazing for this kind of job. If you have a failure in a print with a ton of little parts, you can tell it to omit objects from future layers. Just disable the piece, pause the print, secure it or remove it from the bed if you need to, and let it resume.
Edit: For real though, I'd love to see that functionality in Octoprint someday.
Good hint! Thanks!
You amaze and then keep amazing us! Thanks for all your effort in making these videos. quite inspiring
This would be so great for blind people :D
I love your videos so why don’t you just make more videos
Lel, it would be the future
Ahhh I see from your playlist that you are a sinner and clikkie
mars Puzzles for blind people already exist
You could connect the puzzle pieces with a small line at the bottom of the puzzle, then split the puzzle into four quarters and print those. Once it's printed you can cut the pieces apart very quickly. That way you only have to save four bodies.
A city landscape with this technique would be great. I'm studying architecture, and I often make them for my urbanism projects, I wish I had a 3d printer for printing them like this. I loved this video, so inspiring and interesting
i'm not trying to speak negatively about any other 3D printing channels, but your content is consistently better than all the others that just print things off thingiverse saying "look at this thing i made" and begging for high fives.
I love the real educational style and application of processes you use. While your video is structured as a step by step tutorial, you seems to make a habit of explaining why you do a thing a certain way and these are the kinds of tips and tricks that lend themselves to a great body of knowledge that can make future creative projects possible for the viewer.
Great stuff and keep it up.
This is exactly why I absolutely LOVE your channel. Will be doing this asap!
That was insane. Super unique. We were amazed. Thank you so much. Your so good at what you do!
I just realized that it's impossible for you to do daily uploads because of how long it takes to do prints...
oh my gosh I'm impressed EVERYTIME you post a video, wow what can you not do!!? you're like a magician comin' up with new stuff. This is so incredibly cool to watch!
grand canyon would be awesome to put on a shelf
if I had a 3d printer I wouldn't bother with the puzzle part id just make it smaller and way more acurate
Lol i live there
Totally awesome. I have a friend who loves puzzles. This'll be a great birthday gift!
this is the kinda thing i was imagining when i first heard of threeD printing. amazing man.
You should do a 3d figure puzzle like of an animal or plant or building
Ooooo, yes.
He cant. He can only do landscapes or other things that have no pieces that are hanging over the ground of the print.
@@cade-music that is not true. He can use supports
You used multiple techniques I've been trying to figure out, plus a great idea for a gift. Thank you so much
I guess I need to watch several times to get it all. I sure missed how you built in the .3 mm gap for each piece to fit together.
Could you make a puzzle that is assembled in the shape of a sphere? Like an earth puzzle
Elizabeth García sure just cut the puzzle stl in meshmixer
But the earth is flat
+Lil neilA no it's not. It's a donut.
Blitz Fire no its not. Its an dinosaur shaped planet
omg ur right
If you print with the same pattern, same shape, same size, but different map, you can make really cool mash ups
Super sick build man!! Keep up the great work man. Great content as always!!
Having watched the vid properly, rather than on my phone at lunchtime, WoW! Dude, this is epic!! We could 3D print our whole country and send it to friends and family. Then have a get together and build a nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hootin heck! You've got a entire event right there! Mind you, kansas and it's peers will seem pretty dull.
Did I just come up with a good idea there?
Aargh! I need a second printer in that case! Otherwise there'll be no time for printing anything else!!
we could 3D print the earth like a globe. The future is now
I wanted to cover my entire ceiling with terrain until I realized how much printing time that would require haha
Just dedicate one printer to the task.
I would highly recommend Affinity Designer, it's a brilliant alternative to Adobe Illustrator. It's a small price to pay but no costly monthly subscription. Worth checking it out. Btw this brilliant 3D puzzles you've created, very unique 👍👌
That’s awesome! I’ll defiantly try printing these!
Devin I need a lot of help.
I tried to use my school’s MakerBot filament on my cr-10 (OH BOY WAS THAT A MISTAKE) and my feeding stepper actually stripped the filament. So I tried to pull the filament out of the tube and it snapped, but too short to grab it with anything. So I unscrew the feeding tube and I DECIDED FOR SOME STUPID REASON TO CUT THE PART OF THE FILAMENT FEEDER TUBE THAT IT CLOSEST TO THE EXTRUDER. whoops. So long story short my extruder is jammed with a bunch of little bits of filament all at the very bottom of my extruder and there is no way to get them out. I’ve tried running good filament, but it still strips it. I have literally disassembled my extruder and idk what to do about it... it’s a new printer and I def don’t want to buy a new one, but I’m open to getting a new hot end... any suggestions from anybody??? ( sorry for the long comment... )
You might want to try cleaning the nozzle using the atomic pull method, if you haven't already. It's possible the plastic has decomposed into something that doesn't soften at regular PLA temperatures. If there's plastic stuck above the heat break, you should also try pushing a thin wire or drill bit up from the bottom of the nozzle. Otherwise, I would try replacing just the nozzle first, and then the hot end if that doesn't work.
Cranfres Thank you so much
If you do want a new extruder, get the Flexion extruder. It prints better and allows flexible filament.
Thank you everyone I appreciate it
That's what you get for stealing from your school :D
Your channel is so cool and your work is amazing !
Awesome video and a funny coincide. Yesterday I presented 3d printing to my son's 3rd grade class. I setup my printer and let it print while talking to the class about 3d printing. Afterwards I answered questions for them and one of the questions was "could you 3d print a puzzle". I sent a link to your video to the teacher since it was such a great answer to the question. Thank you for all of your great content.
Really cool!! I‘ve already printed some maps for a friend of mine. Unluckily I don’t know how to work with Fusion 360° that good in order to follow the steps you’ve did there. Illustrator I‘ve never used.
Cat you said fusion 360 degrees
Did you consider any tolerance for the joints ?
Now need to get it painted up! Cool project!
My new favorite Make Anything video. Really cool project.
Amazing!! Great start of February!!
This is the coolest thing you’ve ever made IMO!
Wish I had a printer to make one
Man you deserve way more recognition
I would love seeing this done with the entire moon as a 3D sphere puzzle!
man you are a genius, love your ideas, love your channel
Who else thought that the thumbnail was sand
i wanted to use this in a project i'm working on. is there any way to change the box's form?
for me it's an rectangle, and does not fit with what i want. i would prefer a like-sided square.
+Tim Tem just get the rectangle and cut it down to a square after the fact! Or any shape for that matter :)
I imagine combining this with the Palette 2 so as to make colored terrain sections:
Blue water for lake areas, green forested areas, white tipped mountains, etc
you're my favorite 3d printer youtube.
Amazing design and I admire your abounding persistence! An interesting alternative design choice could be to change the filament at set Z heights. This could give a striated mountain affect or resemble elevation topographic map. But in any case, super impressed with this project. Thanks for sharing it.
Hey, I reckon it would be cool to change the color so the different heights change color so it looks like map terrain
That would be so cool. Especially with a blue water level layer :)
I like the crater one a lot!
Kinda like those 3d crystal puzzles u should check them out and maybe even try to 3d print them cuz theyre really fun to put together in my opinion
This is really cool and I’m tempted to do one. Do you have an airbrush? Take a single, light, low angle pass from one corner with a light grey or white. It will look like light falling on the terrain and will make it stand out with a hill shade effect. Thanks for the video.
3d, 3d printed puzzles possible? spherical moon puzzle?
Omg you’re a genius your ideas are so creative!
You should be able to create the .dxf/"cookiecutter" in any CAD software that has spline and offset tools. I think you can also use Meshmixer to slice the .stl with your cookiecutter file.
+KiaranScath yup.. I just know meshmixer can also crash doing a big operation like that
Epic! You could shell the bottom of all of the pieces to save time and material! I wanna do it now...
This is on another level Devin :DDD Loved it
I like how when i first followed this channel i had no idea what you were talking about and i just liked the projects. Now idk how long later im in a graphic design class and i can understand most of the terms you are saying xD. I still love the projects and stuff you do too. I would really love to make a puzzle. Sadly i dont have a 3D printer so for now i just have to stick with paper and cardboard.
I've messed around with creating 3d topographic maps, never though of making puzzles out of them though. Awesome idea!
Can you add a link to the lines for the puzzle in the description? I don't really want to have to do it all myself.
quick trick: extrude a rectangle on the bottom and join at 1mm thickness then in the slicer set model position minus 1mm it turns all into one part and then the .stl is one file and you can print it all at once
can we do this in tinkercad?
Custom terrain STL may be easily made online with the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Ceres, Vesta NASA Trek with the built in point & click "Generate 3D Print File" tool. For example, "NASA Moon Trek: Hesiodus crater, Mons Pico, Plato & Tutorial"
i am about to design replacement door panels for my 1985 ford pick up and this seems to be a great idea to do that
for your next project you should make 3d puzzles made from 3d models kinda like a rubik’s cube with multiple layers but a puzzle
Hmm this video gave me some ideas. Thanks for sharing. I have a mini printer so such a print would take longer. Wonder if I could make original designs this way with thinner pieces. Guess its all about spacing things out, maybe keep the pieces numbered. Eager to try something out now but I wanna make some unique puzzle piece shapes by hand as I've recently helped some family with a very uniquely shaped pieces style puzzle and well, that just seems more fun. Maybe a little 3D pop out with a plan to paint it later would work decently enough. Now just to find the best paint for PLA.
You are amazing and extremely smart. This channel needs WAY more attention! Keep up the awesome work! 😊👏
Holy guacamole this is so cool!! Especially the Mars planet one
I would love to see a 3D printed fully round puzzle of the moon
So few years ago I wasn't into 3D stuff and so, I tried to remake Laguna Seca in a sandbox racing videogame.
AND YOURE TELLIN ME IT COULD HAVE BEEN JUST THIS EASY?? Ok, you got my attention.
The best puzzles i have seen in my life!
Props for the patience
I don't own a 3d printer but you are a genius and I learn a lot from you :) you are amazing keep doing what you do best, PRINT!
your videos are really cool!
this would be a great gift idea
Thats a lot of work! Respect.
You should make a 3d printed ocarina that can be played.
Dude, your off the chain with all of these insanely cool ways to print in 3d! 🤔👍
Love the filaments that you use 🤓🤓🤓
That Mars puzzle is so cool
Thank you so much for this awesome idea!! The 3D models from NASA are super cool. I will definitely print some moon craters soon :D
Can you recreate older prints? Please
this was incredibly exciting and new and cool!!! im so happy
cant reach the STL-generator website, is there any problem with the site - i always get a time-out message
me too
It would be really cool if you painted it to look like the actual view so you could have both color and shape factors.
This was AWSOME!
Such a cool idea, we're literally about to make out own! Thanks Devin!
+MakeShaper please share when you do!
There is a 'mass operation': you export all of them into one STL (by exporting the component or the project as STL) and then you take it into Mesh Mixer and use the separate tool. Mesh Mixer is also the better tool for what you did in the beginning in the Windows 3d thingy. Watch Maker's Muse's videos on Mesh Mixer, he just did some good basic tutorials on those functions
+Kaido1 I use meshmixer all the time, but actually find the UI of 3D builder to be more straightforward if you're just doing simple operations
Change filament color a couple times during the print for an elevation map?
This is such a fantastic project. Thank you for your detailed explanation of the process. 👍😎🇦🇺
It takes a particular genius to do this! Never stops amazing me!
OMG WOW I LOVE IT IM MAKING TONNNNNSSSS OF THESE
Could you please put your print settings for this somewhere?
Super cool I've never seen anything like this!
You are talented man, very creative mind, I really enjoyed this video. Keep it up 😉👌
it is really awesome! Thanks for your sharing~!
This would be great for diorama making
This looks awesome
Is it possible to 3D print a city model this way but with cutting it up into puzzle pieces and just have a city model that someone with to much time on there hands can paint?
To make it even harder you could make the pieces different colors to sorta trick the mind in a way