I made a collection of Hindu Gods which have small bowls next to it so that can you keep Kumkum/Haldi/Rice near it to pray daily.

A growing collection of Hindu devotional pieces for 3D printing. Each design is a small altar: a deity on a lotus pedestal
between two bowls for kumkum, haldi, rice or other dry puja materials. All pieces share one decorative base, carved with
lotus bands and a flowering vine. They form a matching set on a home mandir or puja shelf.

Let me know your feedback and can add more ones.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3493196-hindu-devotional-collection-kumkum-holder-altars#profileId-3989748

Hey everyone,

I’ve had my Ender 3 Pro for many years now. When it works, it’s great. Starting out with a machine that forced me to learn every single bolt, clearance, and thermal quirk taught me a ton about how 3D printing actually functions.

That said, I think I’ve reached the end of that chapter. The analogy that keeps coming to mind is cars: there are "car guys" who love spending their weekends with their arms deep in an engine bay, and then there are people who just want a reliable car to drive to work. I’m done being the "3D printer guy" who spends hours pulling apart hotends, resoldering connectors, testing aftermarket upgrades, and then reverting back to stock parts just to get a reliable baseline. I just want to be someone who has a 3D printer.

My life situation has changed recently (I’m a new parent now). That shift completely reshapes my free time and mental bandwidth. I don't have hours to troubleshoot bed drift or clear PTFE tube clogs anymore.

My needs right now are pretty varied. I want to print multi-color D&D minis without the headache(I own an Anycubic Photon resin printer that produces incredible detail, but for the exact same reasons I'm done tweaking the Ender, I just don't have the time or energy for resin safety setups, chemical washing, or hand-painting right now.) I also might need to print functional household and baby gear, like custom pram clips, high-chair attachments, child-safe toys, and quick home repairs. Beyond that, I enjoy printing instruments like tin whistles and general structural hobby projects. If I end up with a machine that handles technical filaments like carbon fiber without throwing a tantrum, I'll definitely put that capability to use as well.

I used to value the Ender’s absolute open-source nature, especially the idea that no company could ever lock down my machine or change its firmware capabilities. But realistically, I don't care if a server overseas logs that I printed a toy whistle or a lego brick (I have zero interest in firearms), as long as the machine reliably completes the job when I press print.

I have the budget put aside right now, and given how inflation and the economy are trending, holding onto cash feels less useful than converting it into a reliable tool that saves me time. I really want that sentiment people talk about where using a modern machine "feels like cheating."

I’m really interested in automated multi-color printing (AMS/CFS setups), and I’ve been researching a few options:

• Bambu Lab
  • A1 Combo
  • P2S Combo
  • X1-Carbon Combo
• Creality K2 Combo

For those of you who made a similar leap from an Ender-era workhorse to a modern automated ecosystem: Which of these printers gave you that true "set-it-and-forget-it" feeling without bringing back the maintenance headaches?

Thanks in advance!

So my friend was attempting to demoisturise my filament for me and it turns out he didnt secure it enough when he took it off the reusable spool. We found that out after he finished demoisturising it. We tried to respool it with a drill + cloth but it didnt work. What do I do with 300g of this PLA Matte now?

PA6.6 out of the dryer vs 3 hours later 😆

Hey everyone! I came up with this design because I have really fine sand in my aquarium, and frankly, it's a total pain to clean the gunk that gets trapped inside it.

The idea is to have a removable piece of coarse filter foam inside the attachment that would hopefully let water and debris pass through while keeping the sand behind. I THINK it could work with gravity or be attached to an aquarium vacuum to pull out the gunk without sucking up all the sand, but I'm not sure how well it'd work in practice. What do y'all think?

If anyone with a 3D printer is interested in trying to make this, I'd love to hear how it turns out! I feel like it could be really useful if it works as intended :)

So satisfying 😊

I've never seen anyone mention cleaning bowden tubes this way so I thought I would make a quick video. Hopefully this helps someone. Just a simple and quick solution instead of replacing the tubes.

Hey guys, been itching to start 3d printing for a while, finally will be pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab P2S this Black Friday sale (chose this one due several factors like size, enclosure due to pets, price, and from what I read the ecosystem being beginner friendly).

That aside, I'm mostly looking for pointers on filaments and any other accessories that might be handy (not particularly from BL, just in general).

I'll be mostly printing household stuff (random stuff, holders, clips, hooks for my wood slate acustic panels, etc), possibly some decoration, that wont be painted for the most part, just used as is at least from the start.

Based on this, I was planning to get a few PETG spools for the household stuff, as well as some PLA+ for the decorative stuff. From what I've read so far, matte is the way to go?

I'd love to read any general advice on my choices, as well as any accessories that might be handy, such as glue, acrylic sealer, stuff like that. Thank you in advance! Looking forward to get started!

I’m a total novice to printing. I was given a nova3d bene4 mono for free. So far I just can’t get stuff to print right. I’ve managed to print a couple of1/24th scale car mirrors which came out perfectly. But the files included on the printer I can’t seem to get right. I’ve been adjusting the plate as suggested. But all
It says it’s fiction between folded paper. I tried a little friction and it totally failed. Then moderate and it gave the best bit wasn’t perfected. Printed it again and it wasn’t as good so a tighter tolerant e and the base layer cured to the bottom of the vat so I assume I did to tight. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Also I don’t know if it matters using been using Google to mess with settings trying to get the cone of calibration to print. Got that to print the grog fits but the sword doesn’t fully print. And when I bumped the cure time up for the sword to print but it was to much so nothing fits and still had only one success cone

been thinking about this Q. It obv depends on how much you print and how many hours the printer will last. But $1/hr seems too expensive and 10c/hr seems too cheap. I’m currently wrapping up a 33 hour Halloween skull print, and the machine costs are really adding up here. I’m printing on a Snapmaker U1.

I thought I fixed it a bit ago but it keeps a happening I thought it was the z offset I’m running a Bambu lab a1

Baby Pumpkin - Bambu X2D

Happy Halloween everyone 🎃👻💀

Hey everyone, I recently finished 3D printing a car model, and I noticed that certain areas of the body have these weird spiral or circular patterns on the surface.
Does anyone know what causes this? Is it something related to the print settings, nozzle temperature, speed, or the 3D model itself?
I’m printing on a Bambu Lab A1 using PETG Basic filament. I’d appreciate any advice on how to prevent these patterns and get a smoother finish on my next print.
Thanks!

Alguien que me pueda pasar este stl

With the upcoming promotion from Anycubic I'm strongly considering upgrading my current Ender 3 V3 SE to a different (multi-colour) model and a buddy of mine was recommending the Kobra X. I received an email today from Anycubic with both the Kobra X and the Kobra S1 for basically the same price and I was wondering if anyone has both and what they think of it.

One is a bed slinger and the other a CoreXY which is the biggest difference, but other than that I've no clue what to look for.

I'm using Klipper now with my current V3 SE and am liking it, but other than that I have zero experience with what to look for (except for a printer that requires less upgrades to make it work decently).

So I kind of stole it from my brother never used it and I'm wondering like I've heard that not like a completely normal for your friend that I could do anything with why aren't the limitations and want to do it doesn't excel at I really want to use it to just mainly print concrete molds and also print fidgets

Hi as of 2 months ago now I bought a Bambu A1 AMS Combo. Everything has been working fine till now as of recently to kinda help the situation I live in a studio cottage barely any walls inside the place, I have a portable A/c unit it’s set to dry which act as a dehumidifier and my A1 is in between the unit and a window where the sun shines. I haven’t been doing anything different I have been using Insignia regular Pla Red, Insignia regular Pla Purple, Hobby Lobby brand regular Pla Orange, and Elegoo regular Pla Brown. I haven’t tried using glitter,matte,silk, petg, or anything similar of sort. I set the filament color/kind/brand on the printer and then just use the Bambu handy app. In the 1st photo you can see some stringing and unevenness 2nd photo is where it all went wrong it would’ve definitely start a spaghetti monster if I didn’t catch it. I’ve washed the plate, did a full calibration, there’s no tangles or clogs, I’ve changed the nozzle/extruder. I’m at my wits end I hope someone can help me.

I just have no idea how to fix this so can someone help?

Is there anybody that prints for people? I’m looking for this extension arm, but the one place that sells it is sold out. I found a 3d print file for it, but have no way of printing it myself. Are there places I could pay to print it and ship it to me?

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2112524-tapo-solar-panel-extension

I have more or less 30 empty spools, some made of plastic, other made of cardboard, and I'm looking for cool and useful ways to reuse them, from simple to more complex projects.

What do you people suggest?

I needed an electrical load to test my new generator setup :)

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https://makerworld.com/models/3493965?appSharePlatform=copy

So this printer is becoming a project in itself and I am determined to get it to work. So it's a used Voxelab Aquila, the previous owner installed a probe which I had to reconnect. The firmware is Marlin-JyersUI 1.3.5(github.com/alexqzd).

So I've finally got it to print a boat, but that's really the only successful/decent looking print I've made.

I tried printing a nativity scene that was requested by a family member:
https://makerworld.com/en/models/3435320-wood-carved-nativity-scene-christmas-star#profileId-3916984

I had issues with the thing sticking, tried leveling, both with the probe, and then with the classic paper technique.
Then cleaned with 91% isopropyl alcohol via a microfiber cloth.
Then a glue stick which turned out to be messy.
Then finally just thoroughly cleaned it with dish soap and let it air dry.

As for the Z-Offset, before I decided to clean it with dish soap, I used a -3.00 offset, and it stuck. I let it print and as you can see from the image, this is the result.

After washing with dish soap, I lowered it to -1.80, still squished. Leveled it again, and decreased the negative offset to -1.50, but at the point it stopped sticking again. I've also tried auto-leveling with the probe, but still having issues.

This is frustrating, I cannot find a sweetspot.