Thoughts on 3D Printing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bed Leveling
After almost 2 weeks with my shiny new FDM printer and poking, fiddling, printing, failing, fiddling, poking, more fiddling, printing, failing again, poking more, searching, poking, I've finally gotten consistent prints.
Took a while. And if the above wasn't clear enough, holy shit, 3d printing is fuckin' fiddly.
It's been an experience. Not a bad one.
Thoughts on 3D Printing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bed Leveling
Still, testing the limits of one's patience in real time using a machine which uses hot plastic to create things is perhaps not for everyone and I totally get that.
It took me two weeks to get to this point, and I'm sure I'm going to deal with something else this week. 3d printing is like that.
This has me wondering how we present it to classes at certain education levels.
Thoughts on 3D Printing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bed Leveling
Imagine having a 36 hour print fail. Or any of the other number of failures that can happen. It's a lot. many expletives were said aloud when I saw balls of plastic and not lines of filament adhering to the glass bed.
Maybe resin would be more beginner friendly? But that brings a host of other concerns about handling the materials. Like I said, fiddly.
For those willing to, well, fiddle, it's certainly rewarding.
Thoughts on 3D Printing or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bed Leveling
Like the wrapper said, I've learned some things, and that's always good. Some are even unrelated to bed leveling. Or adhesion. Or offsets or....
Now to start printing what I've been waiting on. Here's a printed rabbit:
