I recently did my largest print ever which was expected to take 26 hours! But after about 16 hours there was a power cut and the printer stopped and lost all of its progress. In this post I will got through how I managed to recover the print and allow it continue. The power went during the night so I found the printer after about 4 hours of being off. The first problem was that the nozzle was stuck to…
I dropped an SD Card reader while a card was in it and broke the card slot. The electronics were fine it but the enclosure that held the card had broken. I’ve highlighted in the picture below what broke. The enclosure that holds the card onto the pins cracked and would no longer hold a card. I thought I’d share the process I went through to fix this. In SolidWorks I drew a cuboid a bit bigger than the size…
I am working on a project that requires a large print that won’t fit on my print bed so I will have to print it in 2 parts. I was experimenting with different types of joints to join these two parts. The first was a press fit style of joint. The air gap was 0.2mm between the two parts on this print. This finger style joint had a 0.4mm air gap between the two parts on this print. This dovetail style…
I have created a video tutorial about how to model a print in place Hinge in SolidWorks for 3D printing. The finished model can be seen below: The full tutorial can be seen below (26 minutes), this goes into the full detail of how the SolidWorks was done: I have also created a shortened version (6.5 minutes), which only contains a time lapse and a quick overview of the SolidWorks modelling: The files are available on Thingiverse here. As…