r/3Dprinting

A stool that, as it degrades, turns into wildflowers.

The stool is 3D printed in PHA, a bacteria-produced material that is 100% biodegradable. Its shape comes from 3D-scanned rocks, while the surface is inspired by fungi and microbial structures.

It sits between the natural and the digital: organic in form, material, and afterlife, but made through a fully digital process.

Inside are seeds and nutrients, allowing the object to slowly break down until what remains is not waste, but wildflowers.

https://www.instagram.com/nicho.ms/

I sanded back an old helmet, wet sanded the new primer layer up to 3,000 and then added a wet black gloss coat. After that, I polished the hell out of it with Meguiar’s automotive polish, a microfibre cloth and graphite powder. I skipped clear coating before the graphite as the helmet was very shiny already. I’m pretty happy with the outcome

Check out the first steps of my strandbeest!

Is this a filament issue or marker issue? Immediately starting bleeding through when I painted it. Using the Shuttle Art markers on a PLA print. Fortunately my 8 year old son said it gives the squirrel character since it isn't perfect ❤️

Hey guys! Since Apple only supports STL files I decided to build a Quick Look app for 3MF files. My main goal was to keep the UI/UX as close to as possible to Apple.

## Features:

- Instant 3MF previews in Finder
- High-quality thumbnails
- Browse all build plates
- Interactive 3D preview
- Rotate, pan and zoom
- Fast loading performance
- Native macOS integration
- No slicer required
- Privacy-friendly (files stay on your Mac)
- Clean, lightweight interface

I’d love to hear some feedback!

- What do you think?
- Is something missing?
- Would you pay for the app and if so, what is a fair price?

I am not looking to get rich of it, but it would be nice if the (Apple related) costs are covered.

Edit: Thank you everyone! With your help I've redone the model in fusion 360 and changed it from a circle to hexagon shape.

First time ive ever used fusion 360 or created a 3d model. I made this and the section that was on the plate was deformed. Is there a reason this happened? Did I do something wrong?

How can I fix it on the next print?

I'm currently designing a VOC extractor for the Bambulab H2S/H2D, I'm going to print it out of ASA and it works by attaching an aluflex tube, extractor fan and speed regulator in order to print materials like ABS, ASA, PC, PPS and PA as safe as possible.
Since I have never designed an extractor before and this is my first extractor design, is there any advice?

Edit:
Yes I did keep in mind that it will also have effect on the enclosure temperature, that's also why I want to use a speed regulator for the extractor fan.

I ran into the constant, annoying issue of trying to awkwardly wash my hands while camping, it previously required 2 persons just to get it done.

To solve it, I designed this clamp-on station. It attaches right to the edge of a camping table, keeps your soap clean on top, and upcycles a standard plastic bottle into an easy water dispenser.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions to improve it!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3012895-campwash-portable-hand-washing-station#profileId-3384062

Title says it all. I haven't been able to find any posts/trouble shooting advice for this problem.

This is my first EVER benchy. Just set up my first printer, Elegoo Centauri Carbon (1). Followed the instructions, and videos online. Let it do its calibration thing, loaded the PLA filament that was sent with the printer, and pressed go.

But why is the bottom black? And why is it smooth, and clean with this discoloration? My mat doesn't seem to have any visible damage to it. Otherwise I think this print is totally fine, and I'm excited about this journey :)

Hey so my corners have been printing like this and I’d like to figure out how to get them to print clean. I reduced the outer layer speed to 30mm/s and that definitely helped but clearly not enough. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

These Laptop Motherboards are an interesting option for making decent powered computers. Case made from PETG

I needed a budget-friendly and modular way to store my growing filament collection, so I designed a custom solution. Feels good to look at! (After many many years)

Bought a standard SONGMICS 10-tier shoe rack (the 28x45x173 cm model with 12mm metal tubes) and designed custom connectors to fit it perfectly.

So I updated the temperature and retraction settings on the filament, updated rate and pressure for the white. It did improve in my eyes, but I'm still wondering if there's any more improvement to be had ? Maybe it's how the model is set up in the slicer ? Any recommendations, will be appreciated.

Ironing on
Filament dried
Flow rate, pressure, temperature and retraction all done
P2S Combo - Bambu Studio
Green - eSun PLA + (with preset)
White - GIANTARM PLA (with preset)
0.4mm Nozzle
0.20mm Standard @BBL P2S Process

In the slicer:

I have the cube part and then I set the logo as a modifier part inside the cube model itself, and matched the top layers. That is all I have done. If I assemble them, the parts of the logo that are "in the air" materialize instead of going on the cube, hoping you guys understand what I'm saying.

So for work we are again exploring 3D printing technologies, I am a 3D hobbyst at home used to Bambu and FDM. It's always nice to see some companies actually pushing the bounderies and using this in real production settings.

I was told this logistics bot is 80% 3D printed in MJF powder polymer technology. They had an exact replica so I found some videos of it actually moving around.

In this case the device itself is not cheaper, its more expensive by using 3D printing, but since it's so well optimized it's much lighter, and can accelerate and brake faster due to less inertia. Making the overall factory operations more efficient and being able to have more robots working on the grid frame as it supports more of them! Thought it was pretty cool and something we don't see often around here.