Yeah. I will want to learn some more of this soon but part of it is picking one that doesn’t drive me batty and taking some time to work with it before trying to print something complex.

But as for now I found outer wall order and x/y home compensation worked for me really well to get the pieces together. Slicer settings brute forcing for the temp win.

Remember everyone. Family isn’t friends.

Blood of the covenant is thicker than the silicone of the chip.

Yeah I noticed that. Kinda feels like doing it in the slicer but with brighter colors.

All the best softwares are dead. I apparently used to use the Microsoft 3D builder app to do this but it’s been also removed from the Microsoft store.

But good to know that some of these can still be got somehow.

I have trouble remembering what key pans and what key rotates view and the thought of actually figuring out how to manipulate the 3D file in FreeCAD felt like it was gonna melt my brain.

But thank you for the recommendation. TinkerCAD made me feel like I was playing with children’s blocks but at least I understand them.

I also think I’m gonna try get started on learning something else after I brute force this stupid single print. And I think it will just be trying some of them out.

Amazing. You are incredible.

Oh my God the bastards at Microsoft killed the app!

I had used that before to fix files. It was great.

I can’t seem to redownload it without jumping through hoops but know this was the right answer for none coder fixes. Sigh.

Yeah I think people forget about print orientation and stuff like that with FDM.

I think the person said they printed with supports on but didn’t have great results and my thought is how they didn’t realize they made supports inside their part to get it to print that could have been solved with some mounting points for the bridging.

Which in theory sounds like something I could do… No animation…

But man slicer modifiers made me want to go insane and I barely managed to learn Photoshop, gimp, and the like.

But thanks. I’m noticing basically 2 camps for software and it helps at least narrow down what I’ll find support for using I guess.

I agree that we should know how to tinker or slightly modify files as well but I’d say pulling out a separate software with a huge learning curve is a step that’s hard to get people to swallow.

I think I really wanted to put emphasis on have to learn it, cause for things that feel simple to suddenly find it will take 30 hours of study and then several additional hours of fixing suddenly feels like a jump up in ask for making sure you can actually print a part successfully that’s been posted in a 3D printer file site.

I had experience with simple tools but they don’t seem to exist much anymore and the tools in the slicer software seem to exist to say they do which brings me back to the question of if I was missing something or had to learn a separate software.

But some of us aren’t professional software engineers. And modifying something turns into a bigger project.

TinkerCAD seems to be a popular answer and I hope simple enough cause I’d love to see stuff I helped design reality but not making money on it too means time needs to be spent keeping myself alive first and thus extended hobby space much further down.

So many CADs.

I grabbed FreeCAD but it made no sense to me.

I am down to learn. It’s why I asked but I will say there is a dozen softwares and forks out there and I am not in the right space to be able to spend large amounts of time learning the deep ins and outs. And I generally don’t feel a constant need to design new pieces for myself.

But thank you for the suggestions and the video suggestions as well.

Thanks that seems about right for my experiences but that seems like the info I need.

Yeah… Just STL files.

And I mean trying to add anything in orca slicer seems to be far worse. I got lucky with modifying a single piece in orca slicer via a million measurements and micro adjustments but it felt like pulling teeth from a shark.

Is that like their replacement for 3D paint? I used that once to add a hole to a model?

It’s insane that I feel like I can understand the rules of 3D printing just fine but need to potentially put hundreds of hours learning software to fix other models so I can do it past the easier fidget toys that seem to be designed by the modeling geniuses.

Lofi is not “bumpin’”

It is quite literally the opposite of that. It’s like dying to smooth jazz. I’d rather it be on a much faster tempo I die to.

Yeah doubtful. I think it finds something you will engage in and push on it over and over again until people get normalized to it.

I think it’s more like cold reading from a psychic. It’s gonna use generic generalized data about the big identifiers for you like age and gender and as you respond try to change its answer to what it needs to based on what you gave it.

That’s not new or magical in any way. And it can be really wrong about the broad stuff if you don’t fit in with generic identifying groups related to you.

It really just feels like a sales pitch for the middle class to buy more stuff.

Yeah, well… I like comics.

from Liberals

I.E. the people who think they can win in identity politics alone cause that seems progressive enough. Because they look down on everyone else they are all equal minorities in their eyes.

Years down the line I will wonder why I saved this comment but I hope it will still make me giggle like an idiot then too.

YouTube has been gentrified.