3D Printing Handling Extrusion Issues on the Ender 3 The Ender 3 is a great 3D printer. It is inexpensive and is a good starting printer (as well as a great reliable printer for more advanced users). It is easy to upgrade
3D Printing Is 3D Printed Terrain the Future, or just a passing Fad? I have to admit, I bought my second 3D printer (an Ender 3 Pro) with the sole purpose of using it to print terrain for a Pathfinder game that I am the GM
3D Printing Ender 3 Woes - Time for maintenance I recently started printing some large objects. The prints were taking between 14 and 16 hours. After printing 2 pieces (I'm printing an update of this Shuttle from the 2nd Dynasty Starship III
3D Printing Setting up Klipper with Ender 3 and BLTouch In a previous post, I discussed installing a BLTouch Auto bed leveling sensor onto my Ender 3 Pro 3D printer. In this post, I will discuss how I got faster print speeds using
3D Printing Getting things to stick to a glass bed on my Ender 3 So, today I printed a 3.25 hour print. it took me three failed attempts using a brim (the brim kept coming off the bed) on my glass bed. I tried to raise
3D Printing New Design - Futuristic Computer Terminal I posted my latest design to Thingiverse. This is the first one that I've developed completely in Fusion 360 that I didn't use the Lithophane generator for.
3D Printing New Designs on Thingiverse - Jan 21, 2019 Here are a few designs that I've posted to Thingiverse lately
3D Printing New 3D printed case for my Raspberry Pi I recently installed OctoPrint on my Raspberry Pi so I could remotely control my 3D printer. I needed a good case for the Pi. I found one that allows me to mount the
3D Printing Installing the BLTouch auto bed leveler on my Ender 3 Pro I purchased the BLTouch so that I could have an auto-leveling (auto-tramming) 3D printer bed. Manually tramming the bed (making sure that the bed is even with the X-Axis) is difficult, if not
3D Printing Simple 3D printed vase code for OpenSCAD I goofed around with OpenSCAD tonight and came up with a little module that I'm using to create models to be printed in vase mode on my 3D printer. You can find the
3D Printing Programming + 3D printing = bliss I just wrote my first program using OpenSCAD. It's a free tool for writing code that generates 3D models. It's very powerful and I wanted to give it a try. I decided to
3D Printing 3 Simple upgrades for the Ender 3 3D printer I just watched a great YouTube video from CHEP about 3 simple 3D printer upgrades for the Ender 3. I decided to download and print two of them. One of the upgrades is
3D Printing Creating a stone texture for RPG Gaming tiles In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a stone textured RPG gaming tile
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3D Printing Create your own 3D Printed Terrain Tile with complex shapes - Anyone can do it with free software I recently purchased a new 3D printer so I could design and print my own 3D printed terrain pieces. I found myself limited by the tools available for free when I wanted to create something more than basic shapes, so I figured out a way to easily get complex shapes.
3D Printing Printing RPG Tiles with my 3D Printer One of the reasons I bought a new 3D printer was so that I could print my own miniatures and terrain for our roleplaying game. Note: The STL files of all of the
3D Printing My new 3D Printer (Creality Ender 3 Pro) is fully assembled I recently ordered a new 3D printer. I built my last 3D printer from a kit and it took me about 5 or 6 hours to complete. I had this one assembled in about an hour.
3D Printing My first 3D printed terrain design I ordered a new 3D printer yesterday. We're about to start a new GURPS campaign and I wanted to start using 3D terrain. There's an entire world of hobbyists designing 3D printed terrain.
3D Printing 3D Printer Z-Axis Woes In a previous post, I discussed my new 3D printer and I briefly mentioned that I'm having z-axis banding issues. I'm not quite sure what's happening, but I initially had severe z-axis banding
3D Printing My first 3D printer - the Geeetech i3 Pro B (Prusa Clone) Back in the day... When I was a kid (back in the 80's), I used to come home from school and watch a great TV show about future technologies. I don't remember the