@MysticMoonsong imgur has a sorting thing where you can just see newest submissions. You do run the risk of seeing the occasional nightmarish horror post, but I used to have a lot of fun sitting in the new queue and just commenting. Not joking, I met someone there once that ended up being my long distance long term partner for 8 years.
The internet has a lot of power to bring people together, if only our corporate overlords would let us do our thing.
@Imperor, that is so awesome. 🖤 I might have to check that out. Yes, the more corporate these social sites become, the fewer interactions and chances we have of meeting like-minded people. I think Mastodon, or at least the interaction with you and a few others, has given me what I have been looking for in a social platform (at a time in my life when I am wanting to rebuild it).
So I run a repair shop in Altamonte Springs, FL - Got a weird one that searching the internet only turned up 1 other instance of it happening, so I wanted to post some details on the repair in case someone else runs into it or in case Creality doesn’t admit that it’s a thing....
Don’t think I’ve seen this before. Don’t even think the author has things for sale from what I can tell. Couldn’t find an obvious option on any of my models to toggle this either....
Total clog with prusament pla in line. Can’t feed anything through even at high heat. Cold pull not possible / filament not making it into hot end to do this....
i should note that the angle of your inclined plane plays into the look a lot. As with the stair-step look, the more shallow the angle the farther the waves will be spread from each other.
I would suggest that you're probably going to have a lot more value from playing with the width of the sine wave than the height.
If the sine waves get much taller than this, the eye starts noticing the ridges more than the pattern.
🧵 using sine-waves to avoid stair-step layer lines continued:
Attempting to avoid the stair-step at the bottom of the pen holder in @noted I took the sine-wave, and revolved it into a cylinder, then subtracted it.
Then i used the "loft" feature to blend from wibbly in the pen holder to flat at the top
The result is fascinating.
This GIF only hints at how it moves in the light & this is with the most matte filament I own.
@rasterweb Sure enough, now I see that you can click on the "Last edited" and read the original. My eyes have always glossed right over that. Good to know!
Kinda like most normal people gloss over the misused word... You could have said "I'm hoping this radicalizes the kid and in ten years he eschempses the evils of capitalism." And it would have been perfectly clear.
I have an idea in my head to CNC a “better” pen, and pencil for myself.
However, after poking at the idea of a better pencil, I think a squishy #3DPrinting TPU sheath around the barrel may be a perfectly decent solution… for the pencil. I’m still making a better pen. ;)
the little double-chamfered bit on the end of the cylinder was slightly bigger than the hole, BUT the TPU was just flexy enough to let me shove it through, and then have it expand and hold it snugly in place.
@shanselman I have an A1 and between that and the P1S I think the better choice as this point is the A1 unless you need to print ABS/ASA and similar materials. The A1 has hot swap nozzles, flow calibration and the AMS lite feels much more resilient and compatible to different filament brands compared to the AMS.
@rasterweb ah! I was trying to figure out if that’s a silicone casing gone wrong… and wondering why is the nozzle oozing sideways… it is essentially a large lump of failed print ☹️☹️☹️
There was a video comparing the Sovol #SV08 (GPL3) to a Troodon kit. The creator concluded that one place the SV08 definitively had a leg up was that it was open source.
About a week later the same creator posted a google drive link with the STEP file for the Troodon saying "Look, Troodon is open source."
Open up the STEP file in FreeCAD and the license metadata: "All rights reserved."
