The solution to really messy edging and surface detail from the solid ornament is solvable by breaking the beveled letters apart into individual chunks, with the letter face toward the print bed. Having the letter surface on the print bed will guarantee a smooth surface, especially with translucent filaments, where even minor layer variations are very noticable….
Category: 3d printing
Holiday Ornament – First Draft
With Christmas fast approaching, I decided to start designing our family ornament for the year. I wanted it to be simple, but interesting, and identifiably us. I settled on a fairly simple shape with each of our first initials beveled into a cube. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) At full…
2 Kilometers Printed!
I had a spool of gold ABS loaded into the printer after helping the 10 year old print up some gold bars and coins for a school project. I don’t have many things that get printed in gold, and I don’t particularly want this spool to sit around and age without using it up – so I pondered…
Bestiary – Ghosts
Why wouldn’t you want to have a set of green ghosts around? Especially if your adventurers might be snooping around tombs. Ancient tombs, at that. There may even be mummies about. Boo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The ghosts were hard to clean up. None of the heads came…
Blade of Marmora
Voltron is kind of a big deal in this house. So, it’s natural that, come Halloween, I needed to print a Blade of Marmora so one of us could be Keith. The blade, along with a few other costume bits, will also serve well as cosplay for upcoming Cons. The model for this blade is by Billy…
Glue Tests
It was finally time to pick a glue to use when assembling a few different projects over the Halloween weekend. There was a slight problem, though. Or a few problems. Problem 1 – I had no idea what glue to use for plastic. Problem 2 – these projects were using multiple kinds of plastic, which can be notoriously…
The Sewer Dungeon
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Over the course of a month we built a sizable dungeon for the start of our Pathfinder campaign. Traipsing about in the sewers will be a recurring activity during the course of the campaign, albeit it in a variety of different sewers. The thirteen…
Monument Valley – Totem
Everyone in the house has played, and often continues to play, Monument Valley. It felt like the house needed a Totem friend of its own. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) This Totem is at half scale from the original model, primarily to speed up printing time. View this…