All I know how to do is take stuff other people make, and chop it up and tweak it
I have 3 3D printers…an Anet A8, an Anycubic Kossel, and a TronXY X1 (that one isn’t setup…haven’t figure out how to tell the wife I have another 3D printer)
I need some unrelated to flashlights. Unique housing for my diy night vision.
It would be nice if we would have our member here that could do .stl for us at certain price. To make our unique ideas real(well at least in plastic housing ) Earning some $ to cover some house expenses is not bad idea. Especially if you are talented software user individual.
I use Google sketchup with some plugins to model with. I haven’t done anything crazy with it but I can do basic things at least. The print bed is roughly 8”x 8” x 7” (LWH) so I can do relatively large prints. I could do a BLF GT lens cap for example.
I did print the BLF GT lens cap and it came out okay. This was printed at a .2mm layer height. If I choose to do .1mm it would have more detail in the letters but it would have taken significantly longer. This print took about 7 hours to do because of the slow speeds of my printer… Notice the artifacts/defects such as stray lines caused by extruder feedrate issues and bed leveling. I’m about to buy a much better printer (hopefully) and I’ll be able to print with higher resolution and better dimensional accuracy which is important for the right fit when printing something like a lens cap.
I’m seriously considering buying a new 3D printer. I would not mind printing things for people and I can 3D model to a small extent. As long as people are willing to pay for shipping and the small price it would cost in filament to print them. The only problem is that I travel quite often for work. I’ll be gone this whole month installing an A/V system in a federal courthouse.