3D Printing Basics: Where to get printable models! (Ep5) 

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Thanks for the prompt response. I didn't mean this particular series. I meant other instructional content because your still of delivery makes for easy understanding and assimilation, pretty much like a school teacher. Cheers.

Weird that there was no mention about tinkercad as it's more suited for beginers.

Huh

moi 3d or rhino. anything but autodesk. autodesk is a software graveyard 🪦 beholden only to shareholders

What Alex said.

From my experience it is much more difficult to edit than a normal model

FreeCAD harder to get used to using but modifies SLT easier than Fusion,

@@harrycarson11 I disagree and agree. It has all the same abilities to be edited like a normal model. But I find that it slows down your computer more than if you had made the part yourself. This is because when you make a cylinder from scratch, fusion knows it's a cylinder with a perfectly circular cross section. When you convert a mesh cylinder to a solid in fusion. It only sees it as a few hundred or even thousand flat planes roughly arranged in a cylinder shape. Because of this it makes the program run slower. So you have all the same functionality, but it can be slower to edit. If you right click on the project name at the top of the list on the left side of the screen, you can select capture history so you can edit things easier as you go. Otherwise the only way to edit things you do is by undoing with Ctrl+Z.

Yiu should check the videos before this one

I would love to see it and print it myself haha, send to me :)) but I am just a subsea engineer, never seen a drone. Try to reach out on RU-vid to "James Burton", I watch his stuff for some time, I am sure he is the guy for you!

Could do. One arm was in the sun, and warped (printed in pla) so I have scratched it, for now. Need to redesign. I will get back on it soon and print in possibly ABS. ABS is all I have right now. Anyway, ....

is tinkercad even still a thing?

@@patprop74 Yep. ;-)

Some of the functions in OpenSCAD are cool. The outer hull function allowed me to put chamfers on a box in a fraction of the time needed to use a library designed for that purpose.

There are some really cool libraries to help you. BezierScad is one of them. And with ability to rotate and extrude 2d shapes, you can pretty much create any 3d shape you want and use it as a basic shape later.

Lol, guilty!

Yar har fiddle dee dee!

Don't do it, courts have awarded money to be paid to actual licence holder. your admitting theft and breaking the law should be jumped on as soon as we can.

cad programs like fusion360 can work with solid objects nativaly. In programs like sketchup you have to make sure you closed all the sides of your object, or you can have weird results or errors. Fusion360 has scripts and plugins too

Depressingly true

There are many titanic-sized caveats and "exceptions" to this stuff. On Covid-19, not really. Patents haven't played any significant role as to delaying or prohibiting work on dealing with covid. Not yet anyway. Therapeutics thus far, are either in decent supply, off-patent or so complex to produce that few if any 3rd party facility would have been able to even _start_ production within 12-18 months of knowing _how_ to do it. Vaccines - there are very many of them in the works, but none of them are quite ready to conclude stage 3 trials and file for approval yet. So patents are not a delaying factor there, either. Again, yet. Once they start getting ready, production will be licensed out, as manufacturers want to meet demand to the extent possible, and offload production to do so faster. The thing with research and development in tech and medical, is that by now we've come to a point (quite some time ago) where most(!) new research and development is iiinsanely expensive. Especially medical, where success rate from research to usable tech or product-to-market, is _very_ low. Meaning the only ones really able to fund that research and development, is national governments, and corporations financed by investors. With vaccines as an example, the cost of one single candidate from start of research to market, can be in tens to hundreds of billions. And by modern historic track record, only roughly 7-10% or candidates survive all the way to product-to-market. With pharmaceutical therapeutics, that success rate to a widely successful product, can be as low as 0.2%. That money doesn't grow on trees. It's either funded by taxpayers, profits from nationalized industry, or private/commercial investors. Donation based revenue just isn't cutting it with most modern research and development. And with the kind of "success rates" as mentioned, the proceeds from that one successful development, has to at minimum cover all the expenses those 90-99.8% "failed" ones. Not only that, there has to be _some_ level of profit margin on top, to fund newer and more complex research, and for the investors. If the _best possible_ outcome for an investor is to break even, and it's all down hill losses from there - no one is gonna invest in research and development. Well maybe some governments, but the overwhelming majority of funding, is still private or commercial. So while patents can be quite a headache and at times a hindrance, in many areas, there wouldn't be any progress without them due to the immense costs and low success rate of current-day RnD.

I get ads for quadcopter parts. I don't think I've seen any casino ads when I've been on Thingiverse.

If you opt out of targeted ads you will probably see stuff like casino ads.

The ads are easier to read than the thing description text since their 'upgrade' 3 months ago. I really enjoy having to lean in and squint to read the small grey text on a white background...

The prices of printers have gone down. The quality of prints have gone up. PLA has taken the place of ABS as most printed substance. PETG and TPU has become more popular and easier to print. More filament colors have become available. They have Nylon that costs $25 per Kg, and can be printed on any stock machine (Taulamn's Nylon 230). Wood filament. Filaments that have smells added. Color changing filaments based on temperature, UV light, Glow in the dark. Filaments with additives like PLA+/(pro), glass, carbon fiber. Printers that can print food or bio liquids. There are tons of more printer configurations. Delta, CoreXY, Infinite Z. There are better add-ons for printers, touchscreen, color screen, automatic bed leveling, removable beds, magnetic beds, octoprint plus tons of plugins for it like Astrobox, Klipper, and Spaghetti Detective. Printers fail way less often, better extrusion drives, geared, dual gears, planetary gears. Better filament cooling. Slicers are much more optimized, more slicers, more options in slicers, fuzzy skin, tree supports, conical supports, wire mode printing, vase mode, combing, bridge mode, better infills, better scripting support for Gcode, volumetric extrusion, K-factors, adaptive layer heights. A multitude of ways to print multi color or even multi material prints. Color injection into filament (DaVinci, Mimaki and HP's Jet Fusion), the Pallette, prusia multi material upgrade 2s, dual extrusion, swappable print head setups, diamond hotend, E3D Kraken, Medusa, selectra, MM3D, 3Dchameleon (cheapest). 3 in one machines are popping up (3D printing, CNC milling, and Laser etching). Tons of more website and files online for things you can print. There are literally too many things to mention. It's nothing like it was years ago. The first thing I ever printed was on a $300,000+ machine in college. It took a few days to print, was small enough to fit in the palm of my hand, was an ugly see through yellow color, was relatively brittle and weak, and cost about $200 in resin, not including cost of running the machine. Now I can print the same part in whatever color, or material I want in about 3-4 hours. It's strong enough I can stand on it. My machine only costed $200. And the material cost was about $0.10. I actually just found the file on my old hard drive and printed the part a week ago. Then I re printed it at 3 times the size just because. We have come a LONG long way.

It can work either way :) Experimenting with the physical printer was a big catalyst for learning modeling for my friends and myself.

That's what I did.