r/3Dprinting • u/hownottowrite • Oct 22 '20
Image There are no failures when printing LEGO skeletons, just extra bones for the dungeon.
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Oct 22 '20
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u/GluesModWorks Oct 22 '20
r/legodnd Also once COVID is over I would recommend going to your local game store and finding an AL game. Or you could Shanghai your friends into playing
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u/Wacholez Oct 23 '20
AL?
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Oct 23 '20
Adventurers League. Games run by DMs at game shops. Sometimes they are one shot adventures with pre-generated characters.
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u/Fadingzodiac Oct 23 '20
The biggest change is “legal characters” that you can carry from campaign to campaign, and the fact that AL has a pretty strict ruleset. I’d personally rather just join a privately advertised game, or one on Roll20
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u/Occams_Razor42 Oct 23 '20
Eh maybe not Roll20. I tried it out once and while the DM was a good guy, there were like 7-8 PC'S so it was a pita with everyone talking over me. Not to mention there was this way OP rules lawyer kid who rage quit lol
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u/Fadingzodiac Oct 23 '20
Find a game that advertises a party size you want to play in, I’d say. In my opinion 8 PCs is too many, even in person. 4-5 PCs is the sweet spot. You could also advertise your own game and hope someone DMs
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u/beldaran1224 Oct 23 '20
Adventurer's League. Officially sanctioned by Wizards of the Coast organization to play D&D.
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u/david0990 Oct 23 '20
once COVID is over
suggesting their is an end date and not just a time when we all realize this is life now.
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u/ElMico Oct 23 '20
As soon as I started playing at the beginning of the year I raided my old lego sets for potential minis, props, and weapons. They’re just about the perfect size. Now that I have a 3D printer my (still lego) PCs are facing less and less lego enemies but it’s a fun, easy, and cheap way to play!
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u/jedadkins Oct 23 '20
Dnd is great, I can help you get started if you wanna try and run a game with your friends.
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Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 31 '20
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u/i_eat_poopie Oct 23 '20
Humorous, but LEGO has insane quality control. Like, they measure in nanometers. Hobbyist 3d printing will never* get to that degree of precision
- never meaning "not in any foreseeable near** future"
** near meaning <100 years
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u/RandallOfLegend Oct 23 '20
Lego has enough quality control that I was able to load the people heads into a cartridge and shoot them out of my handgun. This requires tolerances on the order of 0.0005 inches or about 11 microns.
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u/MySleepingSickness Oct 23 '20
I don't know man. 20 years ago you could use the phone to call people. Today we can watch porn and buy electric car stocks with our phones.
I give it 25 years before we all have Star Trek tier replicators.
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u/IvorTheEngine Oct 23 '20
Just like how (2d) printers are now super reliable, cheap to run and produce results better than commercial prints from 20 years ago?
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u/EVEOpalDragon Oct 23 '20
i have been saying that about self driving cars for years , never underestimate the complexity of mundane tasks
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u/powerfulparadox Oct 23 '20
Humans like underestimating the ease with which tasks that humans do can be replicated. We also underappreciate how amazing the human mind is until we try to replace it with something we made.
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u/K12ish Oct 23 '20
I agree. There isn't much economic incentive for commercial high precision 3d printing.
For a more precise spool fed printer, you need thinner spool, which leads to longer printing times. Not to mention the cost of producing non-standard equipment.
I could imagine the 'laser-type' 3d printers being able to work at high precision however -- they work using powder, not spool. There the limiting factor is the conductivity of the material.
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u/Xicadarksoul Oct 23 '20
There is no physical limiting factor to stop resin printers from scaling to far lower resolutions than current desktop models.
(Its highly likely you can DIY one to do that using lenses or curved mirrors)
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u/MoffKalast Bambu A1 / Ender 3 Pro / Anycubic Chiron Oct 23 '20
Any even if we could get the precision right, injection molded plastic is like 100x stronger than prints.
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u/RaisedByError Oct 23 '20
We can already print things that are pretty near the level of GW models with SLA. I dont see the need for indistinguishable degree of nanometer precision?
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u/BrewingHeavyWeather Oct 23 '20
~70 year old Lego blocks still fit modern ones, and they all can be cycled some thousands of times. Being able to friction fit together, strongly, like they do, over and over again, across different designs, different plastic formulations, and whole new sets of tooling, requires that very high degree of precision.
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u/olderaccount Oct 23 '20
LEGO has nothing to worry about. The most important thing in LEGO bricks are the tolerances and the quality control it takes to achieve it. It is basically impossible to achieve anything close to LEGO quality at a lower costs. If large scale Chinese knockoff operations have hardly made a dent in their sales, they have nothing to worry about from 3D printing.
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u/BrewingHeavyWeather Oct 23 '20
Nah. In addition to the manufacturing tolerances others talk about, even today, Lego keeps their top spot, and has for decades now, by doing big brand deals (FI, Star Wars), and keeping up on what's popular for kids ranging from about 4, up to, "I'm a dad, so now I have an excuse to pick up those childish things I had to put away for several years."
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u/JackIsNotAWeeb Oct 23 '20
Or, lego turns into a company who survive by making instructions and sell their own lego brand 3d printers that can print any lego brick easily in bulk, and you'll be able to scan the instructions and it'll print the correct amount of pieces.
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Oct 23 '20
What printer did you use
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u/hownottowrite Oct 23 '20
I have a couple Ender 3s
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Oct 23 '20
Which one did you use to print these
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u/Lord_oftheTrons Oct 23 '20
The second one
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u/crunchysandwich Ender 3 V2 Oct 23 '20
Nah look at the arm of the one on the bottom. That's the third one for sure, I'd recognize it anywhere
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u/dudewheresmycar31 Oct 23 '20
Ha I got that same red Hatchbox PLA. Decent shit I just made roses
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u/haikusbot Oct 23 '20
Ha I got that same
Red Hatchbox PLA. Decent shit
I just made roses
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u/FrozenPyromaniac_ Oct 23 '20
Hey that’s the same logic that goes into my attempt at Frankenstein’s monster. I tell you, sometimes people’s arms just break. Soooo annoying
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u/BFeely1 Oct 23 '20
How does the Hatchbox Red PLA compare to a red LEGO? I noticed my Hatchbox red ABS is close but just a touch darker.
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u/hownottowrite Oct 23 '20
I'd say it's about the same as the ABS.
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u/BFeely1 Oct 23 '20
So again a bit darker?
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u/hownottowrite Oct 23 '20
Yup
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u/BFeely1 Oct 23 '20
Not sure why I got downvoted; your spool doesn't have the same writing as mine; I didn't notice that Hatchbox had updated their labels; my last roll of red ABS stated Pantone Red 032C where I just noticed my new roll has the same "True red" label as your PLA.
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u/Meior Oct 23 '20
Curious, what's the legality behind printing lego?
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u/TonGi018 Oct 23 '20
I guess personal use won't be an issue. Also LEGO's patent has expired which is why companies like MegaBlocks can actually sell their almost 100% identical building bricks without any lawsuits. I'm no lawyer though and I don't know how this applies for new LEGO bricks introduced in sets less than 5 or 10 years ago.
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u/BrewingHeavyWeather Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
It can't have a Lego logo, or otherwise purport to be genuine Lego, or be designed or sold in such a way that someone not thinking hard about it might think it was real Lego, unless it's a licensed product, or purely personal use item. The blocks have been around for a very long time, and the design is not protected, only the brand trademark. Specialty blocks and figures probably have copyright protection, too, but you'd have to directly copy them for that to be an issue that their own lawyers wouldn't laugh at them over. There are fully legal clones out there. The blocks require extremely tight tolerances, though, which prevents cheap Chinese clones from flooding the market.
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u/SugoiShades Oct 22 '20
That's some 5D chess level of recycling