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I still have no idea what I'm doing really. Just too determined to give up I guess, and it's been such fun. Anyway I made a guitar pedal light switch cover. Still a lot of work to do, and every time I look at FreeCAD the wrong way, the model breaks, but it's been a fun experience nonetheless.

On a side note, anybody have any idea why the face of the model is rough textured, while the foot switch on the lower half is flawless?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you print the foot switch upside down and then flip it? If so, how does its other side look?

I can’t tell how the surface quality is by the knobs.

Your “main” top surface looks like under-extrusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's all a single part, so that's how it printed. I have a sneaking suspicion it's because of how I did the steps in free CAD, not having a clue what I was doing, etc. before I pass any judgment, I'm going to print other files and see if the issue persists. I'm already planning to rebuild the entire thing in free CAD again, using what I've learned in the process

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