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What creative project have you long wanted to start but never have? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Could be a painting, a story, a movie, woodworking, absolutely anything. Also why?

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[–] aniki 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not 3d print? I've taught myself a ton of CAD and sm now learning surface modeling. When I'm ready for a CNC, I'll be ready.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I also want to get into 3d printing, and probably will before I find space for a lathe and mill

But that kind of scratches two different itches for me. I know there's a bit more to it, but pressing a button and letting the machine do most of the work doesn't really appeal to me, I want to do it manually.

There's also the issue of materials, I don't often find myself needing/wanting a plastic part, but I do find myself wishing I could get some custom made metal pieces

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nothing about 3D printing is set-and-forget when you're designing from the ground up...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The designing is involved to be sure, but it's the actual hands-on experience of making a physical object that's the fun part to me and with 3d printing and CNC that's pretty hands-off by design. There's some fine tuning, tinkering, and adjusting to do to the machines to be sure, but once the design is set and you have the machine dialed in, you're mostly just letting the machine run and keeping an eye on it in case it starts making spaghetti.

I'd rather be the reason its accidentally making spaghetti.