A:M used for 3d printing: Small spare parts and helpers

[Fuchur]

Hey guys,

I am currently using A:M mainly for 3d print modelling of spare parts or small "helpers" and so I wanted to show a couple of them to you and what I am up to.
Some images are rendered from the 3d models created in A:M for printing others are just the resulting prints.

It is not character modelling or printing (most of the time) but stuff that serve a real life purpose. Most are small, some are bigger and they are not "great" innovations in general but just sometimes pretty useful.

Hope you like a couple of them.

If you like to see time laps of the printing, etc., have a look here:
https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en

These are the corresponding blog posts to the images:
- https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en/3d-print-globe-holder-1207
- https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en/3d-printing-stand-for-cable-channel-1206
- https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en/3d-pressure-from-keyboard-supports-the-one-that-keeps-breaking-or-getting-lost-1202
- https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en/3d-printing-mini-spare-part-for-my-car-1183

Best regards
*Fuchur*

[robcat2075]

How interesting! I like watching the time lapses although I dont' understand all the decisions the process makes.

Could you have avoided all the extra support material for the globe holder if the big C shape had been split down the center and made as two halves to be glued together?

[Fuchur]

Yeah those are really fun. The printer automatically creates those and saves them on the MicroSD card. (or to the cloud, but I blocked that... see below)

At least a lot of them yes, but glueing is always less stable than "fully" fuised prints, especially for stuff where the wall thickness is pretty tiny like in these cases here.
And it is not always easy to model in A:M, since A:M doesnt have real booleans on a modelling level as you know. So if I can avoid it somehow, I avoid splitting models into parts which are meant to be connected.

The great thing about my new Bambu Lab printer in contrast to my old one is, that supports are very easy to get rid off and are much less dense but fully functional than on my old one. (Bambu Labs printer are great, but have serious data and design protection flaws which I had to overcome using my firewall... they really send the 3d design data to a chinese server by default and than the printer downloads it from there again... it is pretty crasy to me... luckily I found ways to overcome that, but still... you can read more about it here.)

You can just rip it of with your fingers without a lot of force (no hurting yourself involved here ;)) pretty easily in most situations. With my Makerbot Replicator 2 I could not dream of doing that in many of these cases where it now is really close to flawless but with the hollowed round shape at the bottom of it.

The biggest problem was, that I can not print this at 100% of its size but only 96% or something like that.
I will see if it is fine like this or if I will have to split it if it rally has to be 100% in size.

Best regards
*Fuchur*

[itsjustme]

Very cool!