Drunk bought a 3d printer.. Where do I go for information??

poopipe

As above.   

In my defence it was quite cheap and its a particularly spicy merlot.  

I've no interest in the non-art garbage that fills 90% of search results.  Does anyone know of any guides geared towards figure/vehicle printing?? 

Zack Maxwell

I think the Pixologic official YouTube channel has a lot of videos of people making figures for print.

garcellano

did you keep the receipt? lol ... *just in case lol

poopipe

Backing out now would be  tantamount to admitting I have a problem.. 

I'll check those out Zack,  thanks

carvuliero

Check this guy he use to have pretty cool blog where he explain whole process in details but link is dead at least for me

Link:http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?119321-Jose-Alves-da-Silva-s-(aka-Zeoyn)-Sketchbook/page21

Note you have to manually go to page 21

PS: did you at least got a DLP printer ?

poopipe

If I'd got drunk enough to buy a DLP by accident I suspect I'd have been too far gone to type my credit card details out.. 

Taylor Brown

What printer did you pick up?

Mr.Moose

https://www.thingiverse.com/ Is what we referred a lot of people to when I worked at a 3D print studio. Its got an education section as well...though looks quite different than when I used it. I would download some models from there and examine them as part of your learning process. I never made too many things with movable or connecting parts; The ones I did had a tendency to start to get loose (Who would have known the art students popping the joints on and off would do that??)
It isn't too hard once you figure it out, but learning the type of joint you want to use and figuring out how to make it print and work right is a bit tricky when you first start. Espc depending on size.

https://www.3dhubs.com/knowledge-base/how-design-snap-fit-joints-3d-printing A basic snap joint and some other information you can read through on the knowledge base there.

I personally use CURA With makerbot for the printing, It has some basic processing/setup functionality in it.

I have an old dead thread that contains a lot of information that helped me when I first started https://polycount.com/discussion/156891/tell-me-everything-about-3d-printing#latest

Though things have changed a bit since 2015 I think a lot of that information is still relevant. 


Bit of a messy response, but hopefully you've got enough to get started lol! 

Ruz

I just imagine you waking up in the morning with a traffic cone and a 3d printer and wondering what happened. (bit of fear and loathing style )

Clark Coots

Should be interesting when you start drunk 3d printing stuff with your drunkenly bought 3d printer. Post the results!

poopipe

Taylor Brown said:

What printer did you pick up?

one of these little beasties.  

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XXPN8GY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

so no great loss if it turns out I don't use it much.  

Taylor Brown

poopipe said:

Taylor Brown said:

What printer did you pick up?

one of these little beasties.  

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XXPN8GY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

so no great loss if it turns out I don't use it much.  

The monoprice ones aren't bad. Just keep an eye out for defects, they have poor QC

poopipe

i know,  i have one of their knockoff cintiqs .... 


it's buzzing away on one the test mesh now - it looks pretty promising