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konfab
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Current project is to make some cup holders for my car.
It has these little trays on the dashboard that are too shallow for anything useful, but because it is a Fiat, they couldn't make them a normal shape.
Solution I have found is to use a photometry app called reality scan:
(excuse the stain, but that is sort of where I want to put it.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/realityscan
Using the app, I can get a 3d scale model of the tray. I can then subtract it from a cuboid to get something nice to build up a cupholder:
Right now am having issues with getting this cutout file into Onshape.
It has these little trays on the dashboard that are too shallow for anything useful, but because it is a Fiat, they couldn't make them a normal shape.
Solution I have found is to use a photometry app called reality scan:
(excuse the stain, but that is sort of where I want to put it.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/realityscan
Using the app, I can get a 3d scale model of the tray. I can then subtract it from a cuboid to get something nice to build up a cupholder:
Right now am having issues with getting this cutout file into Onshape.
Looks like you're in blender. You exported it as an stl / obj to get into Onshape?
konfab
Honorary Master
Exported as STL, but onshape has trouble reading it and just displays nothing.
Maybe obj is a kinder format...
edit: it is.
Need to redo the boolean difference as there is a mess in the corner, but at least I have a starting point now.
AfricanTech
Honorary Master
Nice app - I’ll have to try it.
My (very basic weekend project)
Modified an existing Thingiverse design to accommodate this massive roll of paper towel my wife found.
Designed the ‘cutter’ part from scratch and have already designed (but not printed yet) a better V2.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Thanks. I've been avoiding buying unknown brands when it comes to filament but it's basically impossible to find any white ASA anywhere.From FilX. Was R310 I believe. You can order through me if you want
You know if these spools fit nicely in the Bambu Lab AMS?
s0lar
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I may be uneducated but I have bought some premium filaments. Namely Fibrelogy and Extrudr. Honestly I cannot see the difference to cheap arse eSun. What am I missing? I normally use ABS, PETG and occasional PLA. Extrudr gave me negligibly better print on a tolerance test other than that I see no difference other than cost.
DrJohnZoidberg
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I don't mean I don't buy affordable filaments, just ones that aren't well known.
eSun is massively popular and is widely used so there is a lot of feedback online and even excellent testing videos online for many of their filaments. With unknown brands you really don't know what you get until you start printing with it, and if it's bad then it's just money down the drain.
FilX is quite a big player in the local scene now. They've been delivering great filament for over 4 years now. If you haven't tried their SBS yet you haven't lived.
They recently updated their spools specifically to fit the Bambu AMS. The ASA colours are Black, White and Grey.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Yep, that's what makes it difficult to find any feedback or videos online like you do for the big Chinese filament brands.
I might give it a go, first going to see what happens with the PA Nylon I just got to see if it will work for what I want, just have it in the drier for the next 12 hours.
Tinuva
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You need to print one of these and buy the fans+filters+acid-free activated carbon to go with and build it ASAP.
If the smell of ABS is not enough to convince you, you should watch this video by Nathan builds robots, to convince yourself it really is needed even for PLA and other not so bad smelling filaments. Then maybe later also something that will move the air outside, some form of exhaust piping.
Use meshmixer and the reduce tool to reduce the polygon count. Or just model around it in Blender to try get the same shape but manually. That's how I'd do it. Sent it here and I can give it a go if you're sukkeling
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Cheap filaments cause the clogs with inconsistent diameter, it's not worth the headache of clearing clogs when you can just use eSun/other affordable but reliable brands, without the headache. My 2c
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Thanks!
It's definitely something that concerns me, but I don't print all that often so it hasn't really become a priority - but I'd rather do it, and the outside venting should also be pretty feasible.
konfab
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I managed to get it into Onshape by using a .obj file.
But yeah, will try mesh mixer anyway as I don't need the texture to be embedded in the mesh. Less polygons is always easier to work with.
Else link the original here & we can mess around with it.
karnuffel
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I have to admit Im a FilX fan. Their support was awesome when I first tried SBS about 2 years ago.