Hello everyone, After a few months watching videos and finding it really cool what I was seeing about planes printed on 3d printers. I found the courage to buy a model and start the project.
Because I already had a 3d printer. A simple Ender3, which I did some upgrades, like replacing the mainboard with a quieter one (ender3pro) installing a raspberry pi so I can print using Octoprint.
So here we start the journey.
Unfortunately I don't have many photos of the Parties but I will post everything I still have available.
So I chose this model... the savage bobber from Planeprint.com https://www.planeprint.com/savage-bobber
I had some difficulties to calibrate the printer and understand the process because the model is divided into some profiles
I had some difficulties to calibrate the printer and understand the process because the model is divided into some profiles, but then you can understand how to do it and configure the profiles as described in the manual =>> PDF Manual
Do things become easier? not necessarily, because some parts even having the same profile we have to adjust some things like temperature and infil%, but after following these videos
Set Up profiles 3
Printing thin walls
Download the wing test file => Wing test STL
it's not too difficult to calibrate the printer to print only a 0.4mm wall (I left it with 0.3mm) to make the model a little lighter
then I realized that the most important setup I didn't understand yet was the Extra Prime Amount. that after the printer performs the retraction it then extrudes a little more material to compensate for the loss of material in the retraction (this in the case of profile 3) which is used to print the wings. And that fixed this problem.
And fuselage print fail because the filament ran out
Right after that i had a problem with my raspberry pi, it was under voltage and i had 3 wings print fail, to work around the problem I instead of using octoprint I just saved the sliced parts on the SD card and had it print without problems
Going back a bit to the case of Profiles after I was successful in printing different parts then things got better because I understood the process. yes I know there are many things and many information to absorb in this new WORLD of 3D printing
but calmly i got it and so i just sliced everything and put it part by part to print.
I still need to finish printing some parts and installing the electronics so I will keep them updated with the finalization process and then the flight. see you guys next week.
Because I already had a 3d printer. A simple Ender3, which I did some upgrades, like replacing the mainboard with a quieter one (ender3pro) installing a raspberry pi so I can print using Octoprint.
So here we start the journey.
Unfortunately I don't have many photos of the Parties but I will post everything I still have available.
So I chose this model... the savage bobber from Planeprint.com https://www.planeprint.com/savage-bobber
I had some difficulties to calibrate the printer and understand the process because the model is divided into some profiles
I had some difficulties to calibrate the printer and understand the process because the model is divided into some profiles, but then you can understand how to do it and configure the profiles as described in the manual =>> PDF Manual
Do things become easier? not necessarily, because some parts even having the same profile we have to adjust some things like temperature and infil%, but after following these videos
Set Up profiles 3
it's not too difficult to calibrate the printer to print only a 0.4mm wall (I left it with 0.3mm) to make the model a little lighter
then I realized that the most important setup I didn't understand yet was the Extra Prime Amount. that after the printer performs the retraction it then extrudes a little more material to compensate for the loss of material in the retraction (this in the case of profile 3) which is used to print the wings. And that fixed this problem.
And fuselage print fail because the filament ran out
Right after that i had a problem with my raspberry pi, it was under voltage and i had 3 wings print fail, to work around the problem I instead of using octoprint I just saved the sliced parts on the SD card and had it print without problems
Going back a bit to the case of Profiles after I was successful in printing different parts then things got better because I understood the process. yes I know there are many things and many information to absorb in this new WORLD of 3D printing
but calmly i got it and so i just sliced everything and put it part by part to print.
I still need to finish printing some parts and installing the electronics so I will keep them updated with the finalization process and then the flight. see you guys next week.
