@@spagamoto Im a HUGE fan of using the torch, but people tend to think your nuts when you bring out the torch for braising plumbing when you talk about 3d printing lol
there are hundreds of different ABS variants for all kinds of appilications - maybe this seller used a few additives that make it a little more chemically resistant...
Snow The wolf it’s a variable that could matter, not a lot... but some chemical plastic structures work different than other plastic chemical structures.
I'm sorry the acetone smoothing didn't work out, Devin. Thank you for making my suggestion. I'm going to share this video with my mom. She really loves dragonflies.
One thing you can do for structure is using aluminum foil to make the shape you want ,whatever for you want to make, then use the 3D pen to go over it.
I forget which channel I saw it on but I've seen people use wide wood/leather buring tools to smooth 3D pen prints in the way you tried to use the 3doodler attachment at 11:18
Burning tools should work indeed, I have once used a soldering iron (with adjustable in 10°C steps temperature) for welding a few cracks in the plastic of my office chair. The idea seemed insane, but worked out really well.
Can you disclose how long it takes to make certain pieces? I think it would be more helpful to people who are looking to get a 3D pen but don't know how long it actually takes to create something.. Other than that, this is amazing once again! You literally can make anything
Harbor freight or princess auto if you are in Canada sells a plastic welder for like 12-18 bucks. Heats up to melting plastic, flat triangular head, purpose made for smoothing plastic.
Clearly that is some ABS mix of some sort. Pure ABS will completely dissolve in acetone. Something is off here. :p But that dragonfly looks awesome man! You're amazing with those pens. Ok the beetle is pretty dang awesome too!
It didn't look %100 smooth because he used the pen probably. Acetone smooths most polymer 3D prints because polymers degrade when exposed to acetone due to their similar molecular structure.
@@anonymous.s0tt A. I think you miss the point. ABS in a jar full of acetone will 100% dissolve. His did not, ergo it is NOT truly pure ABS, but some form of mix. B. Not all polymers exposed to acetone will degrade or smooth the same way. Many are 100% resistant to acetone. C. I was not commenting about whether or not anything looked smooth.
@@secretagb yeah I was gonna say that people use acetone in order to "glue" pieces of abs together because it literally dissolves the plastic and makes the pieces fuse together. It definitely isn't pure abs and most likely not abs at all.
I’m really digging how that beetle came out, it has lots of nice contrast and a fairly realistic shape! It is saddening that the acetone didn’t smooth the prints out very much though, but I’m sure that has to do with additives in the filament and layer lines that are not as consistent as what a printer would put out. Nonetheless, this was a very interesting experiment and I’m excited to see whats to come!
Beautiful work. It's always great to see someone improvise when the intended methods don't work out, somehow the desperation sometimes gives the project that little oomph that makes something really cool. Great channel.
For the smoothing tool you should try using it while applying the filament and as the filament comes out, the smoothing tool will work on flattening the filament and smoothing it before it hardens
I saw the photos on Instagram and thought it was a real bug that was uploaded by a nature account at first, it looks so amazing, keep up the good work!
Thanks for showing your process. I find 3D printing fascinating but it is a bit out of my scope for now. I love the idea of the glow-in-the-dark or neon reactive filament. Both models looked great. Although, I think my favorite is the beetle. Blessings.
the acetone *did* work! just look at the difference between the original body and the new tail. the originals gave me some james and the giant peach vibes. and the extension was craftsy
A part of me thinks you weren't using the smoother properly. To me, it looked like you are supposed to use it the other way around, and use it to smooth the stuff that is coming out of the pen, not just have it heat up to smooth the existing design...
Nice burning man beetle. And really nice experimentation, I really didn't see when you posted but is nice to see you did my suggestion, even if didn't worked out as intended. IF you want another suggestion of cool things to do I've been working in some porcelain masks, maybe you should try make your own 3D printed masks, I would love to see the how it would turn out with such precision and freedom.
Thanks! I almost used a 3D pen to make the mask from my last video but the instamorph plastic ended up being more appropriate for that. It could be really colorful and fun though!
Do you know much about gliders? It sounds tough but may be possible if there's a glider stable enough to overcome the lumpiness of using a 3D pen. It would be fun to try
Make Anything to start you don’t have to make it a 3d model. You can just make a side view and the wings and rudder. You can use pictures as a reference. But you will need to make sure it’s straight tho. To help balance it out you can leave a space in the front of the fuselage to put the wight in. To make it fly better you will need to send the wings and fuselage cuz I can imagine that the lines from 3d pen will cause quite a drag. Thats pretty much it. :)
Try using a variable temperature soldering iron for smoothing. That technique is being used more and more. You can get different shaped of tips for it.
The Beetle you made was amazing!!! I love it. It's my favorite creature you have made! I liked the dragon flys colors but I think you should try to make another Beetle The same way you made this one but with some of the glow color in corporated in! I'd also love to see you do some different dinosaurs in really cool glow in the dark and neon colors as well as having them have a little regular color to them. I love watching your channel your always a go to for me.
I have some bad abs that didn’t melt in acetone.....maybe this 3d pen abs isn’t 100%ads?(try 3d printer abs)(with normal abs and good acetone(acetone play big role too) I have smoothing 0.4 mm layer in one wall and can’t see layers (0.8mm nozzle )
I would try a 3D print with that filament to see if it acetone smooths any better... -- because that spongey affect is what happens with PLA typically.
try UV resin. it will give your work a real nice shiny smooth surface. its kinda thick. but brush it on. then hit it with UV light. 5 minutes later. its done. and the colors stay true.
the beetle wings were so beautiful before you added more filament. they were rough and random and shiny and it looked so much like a beetle *and* a modern art piece
I wonder if you could make something completely smooth by first creating the rough shape in polymer clay, baking it til hardened and then cast the piece in silicone a molding thing. Then you could use the 3D pen to add a thin coat around the mold in the colors you want for specific areas. Hopefully once it’s all hardened it’ll be easy to take out and it will have a smooth finish, almost as if you had completely made the piece on a flat table and peeled it up. I know this isn’t practical for every use but maybe for the really detail oriented projects it might work? Or just the opposite. The smoothing issue is actually one of the big factors besides price as to why I still haven’t gotten a 3D printing pen plus I don’t know which one is better than the others now. Could you possibly do an updated comparison video for 3D printing pen
I really don't know how those plastic based materials will react, but I thought that if you sand some of your resine, splash it out then heat it, you could get some "melting" effect... or even shave some candle wax... Dunno, those can be some stupid ideas, but if it works, you probably will get cool effects
The acetone smoothing after the sanding was really effective at getting rid of the whitening that sanding causes, so I’d say that was a success.
A quick (*QUICK*) pass with a blowtorch has a similar effect at least on PLA.
you can also just go to a higher grit sand paper
@@NKCubed that's very expensive, a little heat should smooth out the plastic
@@spagamoto Im a HUGE fan of using the torch, but people tend to think your nuts when you bring out the torch for braising plumbing when you talk about 3d printing lol
The next time you need a structure to test on, could you make it a dragon? Mini or big, doodle or print, I don’t care. Dragons are just hella cool.
I love dragons!
I made a dragon on my channel.
Oh a dragon would be awesome please do a dragon that would be amazing I'm sure
Emily Wang yES
Yes!
there are hundreds of different ABS variants for all kinds of appilications - maybe this seller used a few additives that make it a little more chemically resistant...
TheDanielMFG manufacturer*
@@mihitm does it really matter?
Snow The wolf it’s a variable that could matter, not a lot... but some chemical plastic structures work different than other plastic chemical structures.
he was asking if the guy saying seller instead of manufacturer mattered, not the initial claim
I'm sorry the acetone smoothing didn't work out, Devin.
Thank you for making my suggestion. I'm going to share this video with my mom. She really loves dragonflies.
One thing you can do for structure is using aluminum foil to make the shape you want ,whatever for you want to make, then use the 3D pen to go over it.
You should try ABS filament for 3d printer. These 3d pen sticks probably include some additives to melt at lower temperatures.
I forget which channel I saw it on but I've seen people use wide wood/leather buring tools to smooth 3D pen prints in the way you tried to use the 3doodler attachment at 11:18
Good tip. I've got the 3Dsimo burning tool, so that might work!
Make Anything you can also use the nozzle of a hot glue gun
Burning tools should work indeed, I have once used a soldering iron (with adjustable in 10°C steps temperature) for welding a few cracks in the plastic of my office chair. The idea seemed insane, but worked out really well.
@@rockyboo hot glue fixes everything from what I've seen
33shadowkiller correction *forgot..
Not forget..
since forgot is past tense
"like a spider wrapping its prey"
thank you for that wonderful visual
Can you disclose how long it takes to make certain pieces? I think it would be more helpful to people who are looking to get a 3D pen but don't know how long it actually takes to create something.. Other than that, this is amazing once again! You literally can make anything
Harbor freight or princess auto if you are in Canada sells a plastic welder for like 12-18 bucks. Heats up to melting plastic, flat triangular head, purpose made for smoothing plastic.
Hmm I ought to look into that
Clearly that is some ABS mix of some sort. Pure ABS will completely dissolve in acetone. Something is off here. :p But that dragonfly looks awesome man! You're amazing with those pens. Ok the beetle is pretty dang awesome too!
It didn't look %100 smooth because he used the pen probably. Acetone smooths most polymer 3D prints because polymers degrade when exposed to acetone due to their similar molecular structure.
@@anonymous.s0tt A. I think you miss the point. ABS in a jar full of acetone will 100% dissolve. His did not, ergo it is NOT truly pure ABS, but some form of mix. B. Not all polymers exposed to acetone will degrade or smooth the same way. Many are 100% resistant to acetone. C. I was not commenting about whether or not anything looked smooth.
@@secretagb yeah I was gonna say that people use acetone in order to "glue" pieces of abs together because it literally dissolves the plastic and makes the pieces fuse together. It definitely isn't pure abs and most likely not abs at all.
I’m really digging how that beetle came out, it has lots of nice contrast and a fairly realistic shape! It is saddening that the acetone didn’t smooth the prints out very much though, but I’m sure that has to do with additives in the filament and layer lines that are not as consistent as what a printer would put out. Nonetheless, this was a very interesting experiment and I’m excited to see whats to come!
Beautiful work. It's always great to see someone improvise when the intended methods don't work out, somehow the desperation sometimes gives the project that little oomph that makes something really cool. Great channel.
Wow, that beetle looks amazing, especially under black light
For the smoothing tool you should try using it while applying the filament and as the filament comes out, the smoothing tool will work on flattening the filament and smoothing it before it hardens
I saw the photos on Instagram and thought it was a real bug that was uploaded by a nature account at first, it looks so amazing, keep up the good work!
ohh still looking for something to make it smooth! lol
but tx for sharing these!
Loving these longer videos Devin!
Thanks for blessing my homepage with your video, i was almost considering going to sleep!
the beedle is sooooo amazing !!!
These are beautiful! I’m new to this, and so impressed with what you did. Thank you!
Loving the beatle! I can almost hear it take off like a tiny chopper. Tempted to make one myself!
You didnt manage to do what the title said but still ended up with a cool result. Nice.
Wow great stuff! Gj on creating the insects
That beetle is awesome. This makes me regret my total lack of skill for drawing and free hand creations
That weird, bendy/spongey texture could be really cool on 3D printed fabrics!
Great Bugs!! I learned a lot from your video. Super cool!!!
Funny that the beetle's wings looked like a Beatle's Rolls Royce. John Lennon's Rolls looked a lot like your wing pattern and colors.
I love bugs so much they’re so cool
That beetle is one of the coolest things ive ever seen
Thanks for showing your process. I find 3D printing fascinating but it is a bit out of my scope for now. I love the idea of the glow-in-the-dark or neon reactive filament. Both models looked great. Although, I think my favorite is the beetle. Blessings.
I don't know how a human can have the patience for this
I'd actually buy either of those! Bravo!
Woah that beetle is AMAZING!
Yaaaas pls make more 3d-pen videos!!!
holy guac that beetle is amazing, congrats man that's some awesome stuff
I love these funky thumbnails
That clear is pretty cool and i love the glowing effect. Maybe something could be done if you create a model with internal LEDs or some kind?
the acetone *did* work! just look at the difference between the original body and the new tail. the originals gave me some james and the giant peach vibes. and the extension was craftsy
I really like the wings and legs a lot.
That beetle looks spectacular!!!
I found that on a lot of 3d pen videos, people used a lighter just to melt it a little bit to the point that it's just smooth.
the Beetle looks amazing *.* love it too
You should have another channel purely for timelapses
They were both great but that beetle is awesome
A part of me thinks you weren't using the smoother properly. To me, it looked like you are supposed to use it the other way around, and use it to smooth the stuff that is coming out of the pen, not just have it heat up to smooth the existing design...
Exactly what I was thinking, looks like a fountain pen a bit
@@OfelieArt as someone who quite enjoys pen and ink, I wonder if I had the same initial, subconscious thought.
I LOVE YOUR ART!!! 😍😍😍
You are such a great artist
Acetone, ok? After all that, I-really loved how it came out. Pretty cool and large. 👍🏼
woahhhh those are some of the coolest 3d doodles yet! Shame the smoothing didnt work -_- but at least you got some sweet bugs out of it.
That beetle reminds me a lot of dia de los muertos sugar skulls. Pretty cool!
I am not a huge fan of insects but those look really cool
Nice burning man beetle. And really nice experimentation, I really didn't see when you posted but is nice to see you did my suggestion, even if didn't worked out as intended. IF you want another suggestion of cool things to do I've been working in some porcelain masks, maybe you should try make your own 3D printed masks, I would love to see the how it would turn out with such precision and freedom.
Thanks! I almost used a 3D pen to make the mask from my last video but the instamorph plastic ended up being more appropriate for that. It could be really colorful and fun though!
i somehow read the title as ''can your ancestors smooth 3d pen models''
I've always wanted to buy my own 3d pen. But I just don't have the money. I've always wanted to create a small glider that flies. Can you try it?
Do you know much about gliders? It sounds tough but may be possible if there's a glider stable enough to overcome the lumpiness of using a 3D pen. It would be fun to try
@@make.anything you could make the frame out of plastic but use something like parchment paper for the wings.
Make Anything to start you don’t have to make it a 3d model. You can just make a side view and the wings and rudder. You can use pictures as a reference. But you will need to make sure it’s straight tho. To help balance it out you can leave a space in the front of the fuselage to put the wight in. To make it fly better you will need to send the wings and fuselage cuz I can imagine that the lines from 3d pen will cause quite a drag. Thats pretty much it. :)
@@WouKnowWho4810 huh? 😞
Snow The wolf what is the problem?
Try using a variable temperature soldering iron for smoothing. That technique is being used more and more. You can get different shaped of tips for it.
That beetle tho 🤯
Your thumbnails are the best.
For Halloween you should be a skinny thin mustache gangster from the 20s
The Beetle you made was amazing!!! I love it. It's my favorite creature you have made! I liked the dragon flys colors but I think you should try to make another Beetle The same way you made this one but with some of the glow color in corporated in! I'd also love to see you do some different dinosaurs in really cool glow in the dark and neon colors as well as having them have a little regular color to them. I love watching your channel your always a go to for me.
Looks like some Viva Pinata insects. Looks nice.
I love your videos so much dude you're awesome and you really can make anything
Nice work well done!
Does anyone else want rideable versions of this beatle and this dragonfly as pets?
oh hell yeah!
I have some bad abs that didn’t melt in acetone.....maybe this 3d pen abs isn’t 100%ads?(try 3d printer abs)(with normal abs and good acetone(acetone play big role too) I have smoothing 0.4 mm layer in one wall and can’t see layers (0.8mm nozzle )
Plays*
*abs
Well, now I gotta download ads into my abs!?
It is looking dope
whem he was using the clear plastic it looked like hot glue(this was a great video) and i also got a 3doodler start today!
The dragon fly is good!
Wow . You are true real talent .
I would try a 3D print with that filament to see if it acetone smooths any better... -- because that spongey affect is what happens with PLA typically.
Awesome beetle!!
This is still awesome even my parents say it's awesome
Bro the beetle looked like an animal from coco
You could try to smooth it out with a bunch of schleem, and then repurpose the schleem for later batches. That's how they do it on plumbuses anyway.
This is sooo cool thx for tutorials!!! Your sooo cool!!!
Awesome work the legs might be a tiny bit too big but I like it
I dont know if this would work on 3d stuff but a lot of artists use something called Resin to make things shiny.
freaking awesome
Heating up flat 3d pen things in an oven works well to make them shiny and a bit smother, for me at least
This music. I swear to god I hear things from other songs but never long enough for me to place.
I love the beatle so much 🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍
ABS does solidify faster yes your intention was right. And thanks for sharing this video with us.
hey, thats pretty fascinating
that was amazing!!
I wonder if you could use an iron on flat pieces. Put a sheet of wax paper over the plastic?
The thumbnail is majestic
Ps: sorry if I misspelled something
try UV resin. it will give your work a real nice shiny smooth surface. its kinda thick. but brush it on. then hit it with UV light. 5 minutes later. its done. and the colors stay true.
Hmm my impression with that smoothing tool is that it would be used as the filament is extruded. I could be wrong.
the beetle wings were so beautiful before you added more filament. they were rough and random and shiny and it looked so much like a beetle *and* a modern art piece
Noice thumbnail 👌
This is the pen I have and I love it, but needing to use their filament sucks cos it’s so short
beedle is amazing
Yes....Beatle very cool.
Awesome work! I want to buy them
Use a fan or solder fume extractor to get rid of smells.
This is awesome 👏😀
Use a fan with aceton,it helps to spred aceton around in incloser
I wonder if you could make something completely smooth by first creating the rough shape in polymer clay, baking it til hardened and then cast the piece in silicone a molding thing. Then you could use the 3D pen to add a thin coat around the mold in the colors you want for specific areas. Hopefully once it’s all hardened it’ll be easy to take out and it will have a smooth finish, almost as if you had completely made the piece on a flat table and peeled it up. I know this isn’t practical for every use but maybe for the really detail oriented projects it might work? Or just the opposite. The smoothing issue is actually one of the big factors besides price as to why I still haven’t gotten a 3D printing pen plus I don’t know which one is better than the others now. Could you possibly do an updated comparison video for 3D printing pen
An atlas beetle got into our house at one point in time
I really don't know how those plastic based materials will react, but I thought that if you sand some of your resine, splash it out then heat it, you could get some "melting" effect... or even shave some candle wax... Dunno, those can be some stupid ideas, but if it works, you probably will get cool effects