Success - Dixit Game insert

Here is the dixit insert. Originally printed in mostly white, it ended up milimeters too tall, so i reworked everything and came up with the black version - it has space for the original game + all 7 expansions, and can probably squeeze the promo cards in there as well

Dunno what to do when the next expansion comes out...

Unboxing: MTG Planechase Anthology

 I was excited as hell to hear about this years Magic the Gathering Planechase Anthology. I decided to do a quick unboxing post..

I generally don't get super excited over anything, but I enjoy the planechase card, and in comparison to how much they cost on ebay, this is a steal!

I don't have a lot of text to go with it, so here are a bunch of images. The original special box that the anthologies come in, containing four premade decks. Each deck comes in a pretty cardboard box with art of the main legendary included in each deck. There are 4 20 sided dice in colors coordinated with the deck box art.

Let me know what tweaks you are making to your preconstructed decks!

98% successful!

Hello! Here's a 98% successful print off elephant voronoi from thingiverse, designed by Roman_hegglin and remixed by reginaldll to be flatter in the bottom. The reason I claim it was only 98% successful is because right by the ear my extruded somehow ripped off on of the spokes and I had to tape it back together using a delicate support of painters tape to hold the piece in place. Mad scientist PLA surgery.

Note to self - stop touching the print bed when it's printing - or "the tale of the cursed stl"

Funny story guys... during my technically third attempt at the Art Deco box I placed something on the bed to compare sizes and it caught on one of the exposed screws and held the bed in place when it should have been moving. This of course caused the entire print to shift about an inch and ruined it at about the same spot that my first attempt was ruined.

On my fourth attempt to reprint ... from the beginning... again I ran out of pla halfway through. I have the remainder of a 100 yard spool sampler that came with my printer, it is translucent white. I attempted to feed it in as the black ran out, but for some reason it just didn't fit in. Honestly I'm not sure if the rest of the white spool would even have finished the print, as I was about halfway through and there wasn't a ton of filament left.

I am hoping that my 5th attempt at printing this Art Deco box from thingiverse will prove successful and I will be able to post some pictures. In the meantime I'll probably end up posting a couple snaps of what I ended up with so you can compare and contrast in the pla vs. Abs.

I considered switching to abs since I have three nearly full spools of abs but I haven't been able to properly calibrate my printer to work with abs. I have gotten it to work a little bit but I end up with an obscene amount of warping and or cracking in my prints. So I now have a roll of black pla in the mail from Amazon it should be here Tuesday the 1st. I also ordered some antique bronze pla it should be here about the same time. This will be great because I have had a request to print a bust of Teddy Roosevelt and I think that bronze wood accent that pretty well.

But that's a future post for days to come. In the meanwhile here's a comparison picture of print in abs and the same print in pla.

Successful Mesh Skull Print!

Finally! This morning I woke up to a perfect skull, no supports, no broken pieces. A bit of strings, but easily cut/plucked. The raft came off pretty easily, it snagged towards the front and I had to use a razor to remove a couple small pieces, but way easier than those awful supports on the last print. Black PLA on Printrbot simple metal with heated bed. Extruder set at 210°, bed at 60°. Designed by philnelson in thingiverse

3d printing ups and downs.

The Halloween season is upon us. Now that I have my 3D printer mostly configured... It's only been two years... and I've started using pla instead of abs. I've had many successful prints in the last week.

The majority of my prints have been working towards my private hobby of board gaming. I have been on thingiverse and found a lot of pre-made board game organizers. To test the endurance of my printer I have been printing back-to-back projects and experimenting with speed and support structures.

Printed 4 pieces to Eldritch Horror. They all came out beautifully I have to take pictures of them later. And as it's Halloween coming up I thought I would print something thematic. So I found a really cool pre-made file of a mesh skull and decided to print that...

The skull set at 1.9 size in cura was set to take just over 16 hours. That's a good test for my machine because I haven't done a lot of long prints. this would be a print I would have to do overnight because I work from home and I have to answer the phones occasionally. The printer is loud so I I try to print around the time I'm on the phone.

So after I took lunch at work last night around 7 I set my printer to start because I don't take phone calls after that... I realized a couple hours into it that it's printing  supports  both inside and outside of the skull. I don't really think about  it's going to affect the final project . it printed into the night.

I woke up this morning and it was still printing. I went upstairs made breakfast took a shower came back and it was done. I pulled it off of the bed. I definitely noticed that the supports printed strangely... I guess not strangely they printed as intended. However looking at the project it probably didn't need support and it's kind of fragile so getting any type of Leverage to remove the supports is going to be difficult.

In fact removing the supports was very difficult and I ended up damaging the structure. I chipped off a couple pieces along the top. Also all of the spots where the structure was touching the object, you know all of the spots because it was supporting the object, end up getting a funky white stress mark that sometimes happens when you separate two pieces of filament. Not to mention all of the spaces in the mesh are filled with this structure filament so it ends up just being a total mess. Once I chipped off a couple of the pieces I knew it was basically a scrap project and wasted 16 hours of time.. Oh well lesson learned.

I was testing in Cura and after I turned off supports the print time went from 16 hours and change to about 8.5 hours so I decided to increase the size of the print from 1.9 to 2.5 and the time went up to 12 hours. So I'm going to try that after lunch today and let it print through the night again. The original file for the skull it was suggested not to use supports and as long as I set the printer to go slow enough I think I should be pretty safe.

That said, here are some pictures of the "failure" it would have been perfect if not for those supports!