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A cautionary tale - Orientation
As I’ve progressed along my learning curve with 3D Printing, I’ve experimented to see what happens if, and the results haven’t always been successful. Not catastrophic either but a long way from optimal.
A good example is the throttle pocket I printed from another Thingiverse download – https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2026350. As downloaded, slicing the file predicted a print time of 2h15 for two.
Flipping them onto their backs before slicing saved over half an hour … but resulted in a suboptimal print. As you can see in the photo, the underside of the front retainers is stringy, because the printer was trying to print this bit into free space.
So the moral of the story is simple. Don’t meddle with what you don’t understand! Or enable supports, take your pick.
casey-jones, Modeltrainmedia and 2 others1 Comment-
Was just going to ask the group for advice about the best orientation for printing something largely flat, but with small overhangs and fine railings like this. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/architecture/puentes-para-vias-bachmann-ez-track
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