A 3D printing virgin

Well I have finally got hospital corners on the bottom corner of a 45 x 45 degree print.

These bolster wagons had metal reinforcements on each corner and previously I have avoided putting any supports on them because of the difficulty of clean them up after printing. I bit the bullet and using the D1 as a test removed the reinforcement plate, place 4 heavy and 1 medium supports on the underside of the corner and 4 medium supports on each side where the plate had been. I then redrew the plate as a separate body and printed both. RESULT!

Now I have to repeat this logic for the lefthand and righthand bodies of the twin D4 wagons.

I think in future I will simply draw any corner reinforcements as separate bodies and glue them on later.
Another lesson learned at the cost of almost a litre of resin.

It just needs curing and I can then finally assemble a complete wagon. Isn;t progress sweet.

Mossy

 

Paul,

I would welcome your advice.

The attached are screen shot of a brake van I have modelled.
All the components sides, end, cabin ends etc are separate and haven't been combined together.

The whole thing is to big for my build plate, so I assume it would be better to print the roofs as a single print run.

After that the body marginally fits on the build plate but I cant get a full 45 x 45 tilt so it needs breaking down. My thoughts were a side, end and cabin end as one print and what is left as another, but how do you think I should tackle it?

Mossy

 

Hi Guys

How do you put a thread on the end of a rod? As usual I cant find the right command, so it's bound to be under my nose.

Mossy

 

I told you it would be under my nose, now why didn't I find it?????

Thanks Rob

 

Andy

The thread request was for the hand brake actuating rod. It doesn't show up in this pic, so perhaps I need to make the thread Corser.





Sorry can you explain "The bed plate by scaffold it reduces the pumping action." a little more.

Mossy

 

Andy,

I will give it a blast tomorrow morning before being called on duty for "granny daycare".

Granny loves it, but little Beatrice insists on being attached to Granddad by the hips so any fiddling about with trains is a complete no no.

Whinge over, I actually love it.

Mossy

 

I carried out an interesting experiment today before being summonsed to granny day care duty:

2 prints of the Bouch chassis, a) using Andy Sollis's method, a vertical print with the chassis upside down so all the supports were on the bottom of the chassis, also using the default mono lift speeds and b) a 45 degree tilt using the Photon lift speeds as suggested by Paul (I know he would have gone 45 x 45 but the reduced lift time would add 50%-60% to the print time). Right way up with the supports on the top surface of the chassis.

One is immaculate the other a cosmetic second (the inside edges of the lower solebar didn't print correctly but wouldn't be seen when assembled). Which is which, Andy's won hands down. How does one interpret the results, I don't know.

Since I still hadn't been required I set off an Andy style print of the body having lifted out the cabin floor (again his suggestion). Been back from day care an hour and had a chance to quickly look at it, again it's immaculate except for where I forgot to support the structure above the ends and veranda's. Another painful lesson learned, less haste more speed or in this case success.

So it looks like with Anycubic basic grey resin vertical prints with default settings will become the main stay of printing with of course exceptions.

Mossy

 

Andy,

I will try. Give me a bird at 50 yards and I can get an immaculate pic, give me a wagon at 2ft - crap with a capital K.

It will have to be tomorrow morning as its dance night, yeah I suffer ballroom (not to bad) and Latin(%^&$£*) dance lessons on Wednesday night curtesy of swmbo.

Mossy

 

As promised photos:

A cosmetic failure. You can see the imperfect printing on the far sole bar. This is on the inside of the lowest sole bar on a 45 degree print:



The Andy Sollis Way. Just about immaculate.



Cabin Failures. Exclusively my fault - support, support, support!

 

First time the chassis and body have been unified and blow me they fit together like a glove.



We are out today so I have set the print off and running. According to Chutibox a 1hr 59 mins print run, according to the Mono 4hr 39 mins - a big discrepancy.

Fingers crossed.

Mossy