3d printed parts

[ittigger]

I've seen the 3d printers - I wonder how hard or easy it will be for the average joe to use them.

[Rvjimd]

Did your parts turn out reasonably smooth? I suspect for good finish most parts will need a bit of light sanding before paint?

What filament did you use, PLA?

I have one ordered but while I wait on it to show up I'm learning fusion 360. It is a full blown cad program but I like the feeling of learning something new like this and I hope to be able to design the stuff I need/want for my RC stuff.

[bigdogrod]

parts look good, those are on my list as well.

itigger: go for it, i know nothing about 3d printing, but monoprice has one on sale for under 200 bucks so i bought it, but it turns out the bed was too small, so i returned it and got the next one bigger. i know nothing about printing, but it's not too hard, grab a file from thingverse, and keep printing with different settings until you get what you want.

[Rvjimd]

I did the old "bait and switch" to myself! It was the low price of the monoprice select mini that got me thinking about printers again and then I decided to research things a bit more and decided to splurge and I ordered a Prusa mk3.

Jim

[bigdogrod]

the mini was fun, just not big enough, the monoprice select plus has been good so far and a pretty good deal at like 300 bucks, and i think it's an i3 clone, although nowhere near as fast or as high resolution