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The project was going great until I hit several roadblocks.
The project was going great until I hit several roadblocks.
Printer failing
My 3D printer broke; most of the time it wouldn’t produce any filament, then suddenly it would rapidly splurge filament.
I fixed my printer by looking online for people with the same problem. I took that information and fixed my printer by replacing the hot end nozzle.
But I still had the issue that the filament was not sticking to the build plate. I raised the heat on the build plate to try and solve this, but it did not solve all the issues.
I then tried out a new slicer called Prusa. This came with its own problem though. I could not use Tynkercad because it uses .stl files instead of .3mf, which is what Prusa uses. So, I scoured the web and I found a file converter to turn .stl to .3mf.
The video on the right, shows my 3D printer failing on a print. As it was extruding the filament, the filament stuck to the nozzle, snapping the plastic from the hot end and causing the print to fail.
IMG_7877.MOVModelling challenges
The modelling was going well and I had finished the collectable series and I was moving on to the dice tower. I had the idea to make a fold-down portable Dice Tower but it wasn't possible to do something that complex on Tinkercad so I switched to Fusion 360. This is a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) app where I could design 3D mechanical models.
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