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3D printed on a Prusa MK3S using PLA+/Silk PLA

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, ok. I assumed that you printed the layers separately and then just glued them together, in which case I was wondering, why not have the printbed side outwards. But it makes sense for a whole piece.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's something you could do, but getting the individual parts all aligned properly and glued down would be a pain. I guess it would be possible to print a tool to make it easier, but that's certainly a lot more work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can see how aligning small face pieces would be problematic. Although, how hard would it be to make small indents on the back piece that would perfectly fit the elements?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you have the CAD files, not hard. That's most often not the case if you downloaded the model from a site like printables.com or thingiverse.com, as I did with this model.

Some slicer programs might let you do that too, but probably not as easily or as well as CAD software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you very much for all your detailed answers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well you know it's very hard to get 3D printing enthusiasts to talk about 3D printing.