I increasingly find myself in need of little widgets of one description or another which are readily and cheaply available in the real world but b***** impossible to find here.
Usually they could be 3D printed. I think.
But I know nothing about 3D Printers. Does anybody here have any words of wisdom?
About the printers themselves, about the materials needed or anything really. I truly know nothing.
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Checkout about 3d modelling programmes first, unless you have a source of pre defined G-Code output to build the object. If you get over that hurdle, then think about the device where, the more you ay the better it is.
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Thingiverse has most stuff. And even more is available if you hunt for it.
I get that the more I pay for a printer the better it'll be, but there's got to be more to it than that.
Including a threshold below which it is not worth buying anything.
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I vaguely know an engineer who has one and who designs and prints his own stuff - I'm aware of replacement knobs for a car parcel shelf and something to do with car door handles.
From the little I know, I'm not sure you'd want to get into designing your own stuff. I believe he ends up doing quite a few prototypes, and he understands what he's doing (and is a very smart engineer).
Other than that I know nuffin.
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>> From the little I know, I'm not sure you'd want to get into designing your own stuff.
No real need.
www.thingiverse.com/
But I'd like to have a go.
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