3DPrinting

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3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.

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Share your 3D prints! (lemm.ee)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would love to see some of your prints on here! When I was younger my dad and I built a 3D printer, and I loved it. Since then I haven't had the funds/time/space to get back into it but as that was like 12 years ago, I know 3D printing has gotten much higher tech.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The wall art is gorgeous! How did you get that smooth final metallic look? Or is that just how it looks on picture?

Honestly that's one of the coolest things about 3D printing - being able to create highly specific parts that could be impossible or impractical to source.

I've heard that 3D printers are used to repair those terrifying "iron lungs" that some people are still depending on to survive. This is because some of the parts that break on them are literally not produced anymore!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It's not really smooth up close haha just standard sorta 0.2mm layer height, sanded down a little, then I spray painted them gold which hid some of the rough spots

And yeah I'm a big believer in repairable tech, 3d printers are huge in terms of being able to replace the kind of custom shaped plastic parts that the manufacturer doesn't sell spares of and the appliance is completely unusable without (as I'm sure is the intention 🙄 planned obsolescence is truly one of the worst things we've ever come up with)