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I figured it would be interesting to see what everybody is printing with their Flashforge.
This will hopefully spark up some discussions too and make our active little community even more active.
From testing cubes to 20-hour prints, and from a functional part to creative art.. here you can share it with your fellow Flashforgers!
So let's see them!
(hopefully this can get stickied just like the one on the Makerbot subforum)
Great idea!
Here are a few of my latest prints:
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I like the material that you used for that Marvin, Stigern!
I'm still printing with the ugly blue PLA (but it's great to spot defects on that material!)
Here are a few test prints I did recently, still trying to improve the quality of my prints:
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some impressive bridging in that last one df.
Some of my first examples, now got the printer setup and level and turning out some actual parts.
All in ABS from 3D Filaprint (great supplier, all here next day here in the UK and seems very consistent quality and bed adhesion)
Go Gopher - at Low quality settings in Simplify 3D - was something for my daughter as she is building a little board game (normally uses Kinder Egg toys or paper cutouts - she is as ecstatic with the printer as I am ;) )
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A first try at dual extrusion. This I had to do, I backed the Micro3D printer on Kickstarter, then outgrew its tiny build size before it even arrived with projects I want to do. I heard from (so called) experts that a dual extrusion never works, it will fail, that cheap eBay printer will just break etc etc.
Rubbish. It came out really well I thought for a quick test print on low settings - this one was combined in RepG (before I got Simplify) and is a mix of the included filament and one I bought.
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Something more functional - one of a few bits I have printed for the actual printer itself. Again low quality in Simplify3d. This is one of four corner blanking plates for those cable holes on our printers.
Also have done a couple of fan guards (After I broke one of the extruder fan blades while loading filament - a worthwhile upgrade) and a standoff for the guide tubes at the back which stops the filament from not feeding right.
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Have done four of these so far - just waiting on some pink ABS which should be here tomorrow. After just finishing my daughters toy room and storage unit wasn't very happy with the horrible door knobs that came with it. She loves owls so these seemed ideal! After spotting some in store for £5 a piece thought "hmm 3d printer to the rescue!" and found this design on Thingiverse.
These are by far my best print so far, high quality settings in Simplify, 0.1 layer heights. Required next to no cleanup at all - this one is untouched so far bar raft removal. Nearly 3 hours though for 4 of them and the round standoffs for the screw holes at the back.
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Cool prints Bobbler! Good to see you're having a lot of fun with your printer.
Regarding dual extrusion; lots of people will say that it's 'impossible' because dual extrusion is basically dual the problems.. and if you don't have one extruder under control then its almost impossible to get them both under control.
But it looks like you already have quite good settings going on.
The only problem that still remain is that extruders keep leaking plastic and with big parts this means that they leave drops of one color on a surface that's the other color.. Makerware has these purging walls for that and S3D will supposedly come out with some good dual extrusion settings in a few months.
Same is visible in your print: some white drops of plastic on the edges of the blue surface; but depending on your model you can wipe/sand this off (or use Makerware with purge walls for now)
Will get this stickied for you Dargon,
ergh.. so many things I have printed there is 100 or so on here http://www.thingiverse.com/Geoffro/made/
If I were to pic my top 10 favorite prints from the flashforge over the years, it would be these probably...
I put this one first because its the hardest print I've done, and not for the print itself, but getting the model print ready.. It is really high res, your PC crunches a bit just slicing it..
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:383200
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...9_5448D37D&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...0_5448D37D&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...3_5448D37D&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...C_5448D37D&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...A_5448D40A&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...5_5448D40A&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...B_5448D473&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...D_5448D473&jpg
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...5_5448D4CE&jpg
lol.. as I said just go to thingiverse if you want to see more Flashforge stuff, 99 percent of my makes are from the FF, only some of the new stuff is on a kossel.
I did just release my first robot tho, this was all printed on the flashforge
http://www.devogeninteractive.com/pi...1_5448D543&jpg
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:500414
Awesome painting skills too!
Cool stuff Geoff!! Love it! I really love this mask and was also intrigued by the three 'scratches' on it. Did you paint it on or did you use a soldering iron to create those three scratches?Quote:
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Are there any tutorials or tips you'd recommend on finishing/painting your prints? Or did you figure everything out by yourself over time?
But really, they're all lovely, keep us updated when you print something new! :o
Another day, another print :D
This my first attempt at something from scratch as it was completely bespoke for my needs.
Designed in Designspark Mechanical. Fairly easy model to build.
It is a mount for my headphone amp. I have a couple of round rails under my desk that hold it together and wanted to move my amp from being on the desk to nearer myself without being in the way of my keyboard. Quick measure with my calipers and an hour later I have a custom mount :D Can be slid across the entire width under my desk for positioning.
Was originally going to use a cable tie to attach the amp but found it worked better the other way round for access to the controls and jacks, hence the couple of holes.
Excuse the pink, was what I had loaded ;)
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Printed at low quality in ABS, didn't seem worth spending ages on it as it cannot be seen. Would probably do a little more infill on the round structure if I have to print it again as its a not quite solid enough but wanted a little give in it to allow it to clip on.
Man I love 3D printing, there is no place in the world that I could get something so bespoke!
Thanks mate, yep you guessed it, soldering iron for the scratch marks. I am currently filming some video tutorials, as most of the painting I do is just a progression of painting lots of models as a kid, and 3D printed things are no different really, just require a bit more finishing. Prime undercoat, dry brush over the top with some gloss enamel to finish it off, nothing special really, just a few decades of practice :) But I think I can simmer it down into 1 or 2 youtibe vids'. I just want to help people make their prints not look so drab, and with even 30 mins to an hour its easily possible for someone who's never even painted a model before. Alot of my painting is not down to skill, it's just technique, and it's a repeatable technique that you can apply to pretty much all model painting.Quote:
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I still don't find I can get the detail I am after with regular 3D prints, thats why I want to get into SLA printing more because they are more akin to a resin or vinyl model kit which is what I am used to painting more.
I am currently working on 2 really big ones, one is a full size Robocop helmet and the other a life size poseable facehugger.. and boy is that gonna be popular.. all fully articulated with posable fingers etc...
Put it this way, when I say I do alot of printing..
this is just my surplus batch... because all my air tight containers are full of the new rolls (+ 3 machines loaded.. )
Amazingly my wife hasn't cut any of my gonads off yet.. She told me no more than one printer, I am nearly at 4 now and its taken over an office hahaha
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Hi Geoff. I see you own maybe several flashforge. My question to you and maybe others in the forum. Am thinking of buying a 3d printer my first. And am decided between the flashforge creator pro, dreamer or makerfarm i3v 12 inch. I don't mine the assembly but one reason I picked the 12 is because of the bed size. Do you think I'll use the whole bed size. Or I'll be comfortable with a flashforge bed size. And what you think would be a better 3d printer the creator pro or the dreamer. Flashforge USA has a special I think for 950 for Blackfriday.
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Geoff, do you have a YouTube channel set up with your 3D printing stuff? If so, would you send the link?Quote:
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Some of my latest prints, fairly happy with em. The large gears are all printed with some PLA I found on Aliexpress for 32$ incl shipping for 1KG. Works perfectly :)
Hi Geoff. Am looking foward to your custom 3d prints painting video. Also do you use airbrush. Also please make it quick. I love how your 3d prints comes out with the paint job.Thanks.
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I printed out a favourite for the tutorial video, the "Zombie Hunter" by Sculptor,
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:69709
I wanted to paint something I have not painted before for the tutorial and also something with alot of detail that will come out well, and so far looking good. I should be done tonight and then just need to quickly edit the video, so will be available to view very soon.
I am filming the painting session with Candylabs which is a good free time-delay video program, I am setting it at 1 frame per second so it will be fast but not so fast you can't see what I'm doing.
I do have a youtube channel, but there is not alot of 3D printing content on there mainly because it's more dedicated to the mods and 3D modelling I do, but feel free to check out my 40+ useless videos :)
https://www.youtube.com/user/GeoffroAU
I printed the ultimaker 14 piece lightsabe, took almost 48 hours to print all the parts in ABS at 0.1mm
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I have had my creator pro for about 3 weeks now, and i love it, previously i owned printrbots and some self built printers.
I have also printed a complete printer in ABS, which im still working on.
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Am subscribed to it. Waiting on those videos. Thank You!!!
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To save reposting, check out this thread:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...-Robot-Project
I printed a half size inmoov robotic hand on my flashforge (ABS, so the kossel couldn't help me on this one...) probably the most complicated thing I've made so far.