For The Birds

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Slipshine
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For The Birds

Post by Slipshine » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:15 pm

Printed with Makergear M2

Sliced Simplify 3d Creator 1.1.4
Layer height .15 mm
Print time 29 hours in 2 batches
1st batch 20 hours for main house body.
About 1.2 lbs of filament.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:117080
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Bratag
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Re: For The Birds

Post by Bratag » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:26 pm

Great print!!!

Hope the birds appreciate the low layer height finish :)

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Re: For The Birds

Post by jsc » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:59 pm

Bratag wrote:Hope the birds appreciate the low layer height finish :)
"Look at this, Bob! You can barely see the layers!"

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Jules
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Re: For The Birds

Post by Jules » Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:48 pm

I like the fact that the finishing work is greatly reduced. Does that add a lot of time to the print? :)

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Re: For The Birds

Post by Bratag » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:00 pm

Jules wrote:I like the fact that the finishing work is greatly reduced. Does that add a lot of time to the print? :)
Lets take your .15mm print - lets say we have an object thats 15cm high that's going to require about 1000 lines to print give or take a few

Now lets bump the layer height up to .25mm - now we only need 600 lines to print the same object.

Granted you lose a little quality on the finish but if you are planning on painting (or my suggestion for stuff that goes outside XTC-3D) then chances are you are going to smooth out the lines in post anyway.

Don't get me wrong I do print at low res but usually I am like Maverick in Top Gun - I feel the need ... the need for speed. Especially on large prints like this one.

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Re: For The Birds

Post by Jules » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:36 pm

Bratag wrote:
Lets take your .15mm print - lets say we have an object thats 15cm high that's going to require about 1000 lines to print give or take a few

Now lets bump the layer height up to .25mm - now we only need 600 lines to print the same object.

Granted you lose a little quality on the finish but if you are planning on painting (or my suggestion for stuff that goes outside XTC-3D) then chances are you are going to smooth out the lines in post anyway.

Don't get me wrong I do print at low res but usually I am like Maverick in Top Gun - I feel the need ... the need for speed. Especially on large prints like this one.
Yeeps! That's like 67% longer! :shock:

(Really does make you appreciate a fine finish.....'specially on a larger print.)

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