Reply To: Supports needed in Slicer or not?
Hello Porter,
Thanks for the message and for the tutorial.
I think that you mention this information in the tutorial… My apologies, it seems like I have memory issues! I finally printed my tank, It’s a small one, 5cm long.
I’m a total beginner in this field, and I got a Creality 3 V3 SE printer 2 weeks ago. Likewise, I used Cura as slicer with the default Creality V3 SE profile (I couldn’t find this profile in Prusa). The nozzle is the default nozzle, which is 0. 4mm and I used as PLA the Creality Hyper PLA Filament (1.75mm).
By the way, I was blown away with the easiness of the setup of this printer, and despite the fact that a lot of people say it’s garbage, it’s working pretty well on my side, the auto bed leveling is also cool.
You can see attached the result of the tank and also the result of the “Benchmark” with Benchy.
I faced some small issues with this first test and model.
- I couldn’t use the dowels, they weren’t fitting. Probably my fault or the parts I printed were too small, and my printer is not enough accurate? I therefore glued everything.
- For the canons, although the beginning of the print was going well, at some point the printer was like lost. It printed what I would call a ‘small bags of knots’. The canons have a diameter of 3.7 mm, It’s once again maybe too small for my printer…
For point 1: I’m going to run some tests. I plan to create some cubes and subtract some cylinders in different sizes from them to see what I get as measurement once It’s printed, to see how accurate it is.
For point 2 …
Some thoughts and questions about this experience with Blender:
I feel like modeling hard surfaces as we do in the tutorial, so with Blender is ok if you don’t want accurate models, but not really suitable if you need a lot of accuracy. For sure, Booleans don’t help, as using the non-manifold feature can lead to unexpected results (like some parts being destroyed or slightly different).
For real functional objects and hard surface objects, would you still recommend Blender, or would you use an app like Tinkercad, Fusion 360 ?
I’ll stop here because I have plenty of questions, but that’s already a lot!
My tank
Benchy
