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3D Print Organic Lattice
3D printing makes it possible to produce shapes and features that are difficult to produce using conventional manufacturing methods. If you own a 3d printer at home you can print nice looking & practical pieces of art to add to your home decor.
Using Fusion 360 I managed to create and print a nice looking cover for our water jar. It was not very difficult but surely needed some patience and a little bit of trial and error with Fusion 360.
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Accurate Dimensions
Oftentimes printing with accurate dimensions down to 10th of millimeter is not a big issue. For instance if you are printing a single piece object like a statue it doesn’t really matter if that’s 0.1 millimeter larger or smaller in Y axis or X axis or both.
But sometimes the pieces that you are printing need to fit perfectly into each other or maybe need to be compatible with some non 3d-printed parts, like a 3d printed RC car that “I buit recently (maybe another article on that later).
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Make perfect first layer prints
No matter if you are new to 3d printing or have years of experience,there are times you run into this issue that the first layer doesn’t stick well to the printer bed.
Why is the first layer so important? Imperfect first layer causes various problems like warping, bad first layer print and in some cases print failures at higher layers and can be very frustrating and wasteful.
Here are a few tips that I found helpful to get the best 1st layer print.
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