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I need advice about whether to dive in or not (lemmy.world)
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I'm creating a board game that has custom 3d pieces. I'd like to test out my print before I send it to the game manufacturer and also want to make demo sets. They need a huge tooling fee before they'll do samples. There are app. 10 designs and no bigger than 45mm.

I'm not sure as to whether I should buy a starter printer or would the learning curve be so big that I should just have a POD company do it. I know blender really well but have never printed anything from a file. I was going to make the file from blender for the company too. Any thoughts? I think my SO and I would use it for other things, probably, maybe, if it's not so complicated that I give up on it.

Thanks for any advice on this, I don't know what direction to point on this and I have a ton of work to do already.

Edit: You guys are awesome. I went from totally lost to ordering the Neptune 3 Pro and it should be here next week. Thanks for everything and I hope it goes pretty smoothly, I'll keep you posted. Thanks again.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If your pieces are detailed I’d recommend a resin printer. I just got an anycubic photon mono x2 and I’m finding it excellent. I printed this x-wing a couple days ago.

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

I started 3d printing with resin printing too. But do you think it's a good entry point for op's this purpose?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Really depends on the models in my opinion. Small highly detailed models would do better in resin.

I started in FDM and then went to resin. For me resin is way easier. Far less fiddling with hardware.

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

The quote from the company said it was PVC, should I care about that? Great models btw, way more detail than I have.

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

They said they’d do the injection moulding in PVC? If so you’d be fine making prototypes/demos in resin.

Also, have you in to the game crafter to see if they can do what you need?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they saw most of my blender models and said that was the best choice. Not sure as to why, is that weird?

Also, have you in to the game crafter to see if they can do what you need?

I'm not sure of what that is, is that a community?

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

They’re a board game POD service https://www.thegamecrafter.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/

Wow, as I said, I'm new to this type of design. I just found a company someone recommended and haven't really looked elsewhere. Thanks for that link.