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Longtime Dakkanaut





Denison, Iowa

Well, I took advantage of Cyber Monday and picked up an AnyCubic Vyper. I went with an FDM printer over a resin one because I have other projects than miniatures to make with it. That being said, it's still going to work for vehicles and terrain. So, what should I print up first?
   
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For miniature-related ideas, check out the 3D printing section here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/96.page

 
   
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I wonder if you might find this of interest. Humble is running a deal on 3d printable miniatures and such.

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/dungeons-monsters-3d-printable-tabletop-software?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_2_layout_type_threes_tile_index_1_c_dungeonsmonsters3dprintabletabletop_softwarebundle

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Made in gb
Leader of the Sept







Welcome to the wonderful world of making more random plastic stuff than your storage solutions can handle

I would recommend trawling Thingiverse for some random free stuff on themes that you enjoy. My collections are here if that helps with some inspiration as to what types of things are available.

https://www.thingiverse.com/gflinty/collections

Kickstarter is also a good source of STLs. There are decent looking terrain campaigns going on almost constantly, you just need to wait for a preferred theme to come along.

My first FDM print was some 3D terrain for Blackstone Fortress. It was free and looks really cool.

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

 Flinty wrote:
Welcome to the wonderful world of making more random plastic stuff than your storage solutions can handle


This thrown in is the best advice you will hear on this thread. By buying a 3d printer you are in danger of deepening the rabbit hole you are tumbling down as a gamer. You don't need to buy stuff to add to a pile of shame anymore, you can instead just download the files and press print. They can then just add to the tax on your living space.
You will also now have a digital pile of shame taking up space on your hard disk, or virtual files you will never get to print. Let alone then paint. These will not take up much space but have the same mental burden.

I am not saying either of these are true problems, but something to be mindful of.


What is likely to be the second best advice you will find on the thread is this:

So, what should I print up first?


The answer is simple. Accessories for your printer.
1. You need a spool holder so that when spools of filament get low the spool doesn't have to steep and angle between spool and extruder pipe.

2. Tool holder is useful.

Possibly a bed leveller tool, and other things of use.
I cant link these as I don't know your printers model, but if its anything like the Ender 3 there are a lot of useful add ons to print.


n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan






Pleasant Valley, Iowa

One of the first things I do with an Anycubic I3 Mega is disassemble the print bed and add a drag chain to the wiring to the bed. As it is designed, the solder points to the bed flex as the bed moves, and eventually the wiring breaks (and is a fire hazard to boot!). Adding a drag chain sidesteps this.

The Vyper looks like it has a nearly identical heated bed setup so you should explore this - it's about $10 in hardware and pays for itself since a replacement bed is like $40, and of course, it could prevent a fire.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
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 Flinty wrote:
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Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

There is a similar printable for the Ender 3. I am yet to print that, because I didn't really knew what it did. That being said it isn't on the main list of essentials for the Ender 3, maybe that model lacks that vulnerability at least to that extent.

In any case the OP is advised to visit user forums for his model of printer and find what other customers have printed and recommend.

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

 Orlanth wrote:
There is a similar printable for the Ender 3. I am yet to print that, because I didn't really knew what it did.





Essentially, it distributes the moving stress along the whole cable. The I3 Mega (and I suspect the Vyper) are cable tied at the solder point to the bed, and without a drag chain, the wire flexes back and forth right at that one pinch point. Eventually some of the internal wiring stays to break, the voltage stays the same so the wiring gets hotter, the internal wiring frays internally more and more, and eventually the last few strands become less of a wire and more of a light bulb filament, melting and burning the sheathing. I can't quite find it but I have a picture somewhere of a bunch of melted scorched wiring on my printer when this happened pre-chain.

You can technically print all the links to make your own drag chain but oh boy that seems like a hell of a lot of labor to save a lousy $11.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
Made in gb
Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

Ok, thank you for the heads up.

Unless I get a 'better' specific link I will add it to the print list. yes it seems a bother, but I would want to buy, or print, a 'drag chain for the Ender 3', not just a 'drag chain'. Looking at the linked image is seems yours is fitted and connects to specific components printed or purchase for your model of printer.
It seems to me that for this to work it must be correctly fitted yes, with mountings for the printer rather than just a guard for the cable slapped on and left to do its own thing.

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut





Denison, Iowa

 Orlanth wrote:
 Flinty wrote:
Welcome to the wonderful world of making more random plastic stuff than your storage solutions can handle


This thrown in is the best advice you will hear on this thread. By buying a 3d printer you are in danger of deepening the rabbit hole you are tumbling down as a gamer. You don't need to buy stuff to add to a pile of shame anymore, you can instead just download the files and press print. They can then just add to the tax on your living space.
You will also now have a digital pile of shame taking up space on your hard disk, or virtual files you will never get to print. Let alone then paint. These will not take up much space but have the same mental burden.

I am not saying either of these are true problems, but something to be mindful of.


What is likely to be the second best advice you will find on the thread is this:

So, what should I print up first?


The answer is simple. Accessories for your printer.
1. You need a spool holder so that when spools of filament get low the spool doesn't have to steep and angle between spool and extruder pipe.

2. Tool holder is useful.

Possibly a bed leveller tool, and other things of use.
I cant link these as I don't know your printers model, but if its anything like the Ender 3 there are a lot of useful add ons to print.



This one auto-levels, has a built in tool tray, and all ready has a spool holder.
   
Made in gb
Leader of the Sept







Yeah, but you can make your own better spool holder my prusa came with a cheap looking t shaped thing that you could hang two spools on. So I got some skateboard wheel bearings and printed a much more elegant one. And a filament control hoop thingy to stop my spools falling off the spool holders ecause the elegant ones weren’t as robustly effective as the cheap looking one

If you want to go mental you can get IKEA boxes and print attachments to turn them into moisture controlled spool boxes… for… reasons…

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2021/12/05 14:38:10


Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
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Denison, Iowa

 Ouze wrote:
 Orlanth wrote:
There is a similar printable for the Ender 3. I am yet to print that, because I didn't really knew what it did.





Essentially, it distributes the moving stress along the whole cable. The I3 Mega (and I suspect the Vyper) are cable tied at the solder point to the bed, and without a drag chain, the wire flexes back and forth right at that one pinch point. Eventually some of the internal wiring stays to break, the voltage stays the same so the wiring gets hotter, the internal wiring frays internally more and more, and eventually the last few strands become less of a wire and more of a light bulb filament, melting and burning the sheathing. I can't quite find it but I have a picture somewhere of a bunch of melted scorched wiring on my printer when this happened pre-chain.

You can technically print all the links to make your own drag chain but oh boy that seems like a hell of a lot of labor to save a lousy $11.


This link you provided has two sizes of chain. Is that 7mm or 10mm in that video?
   
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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

7x7. That being said, Orlanth did touch on that you need to make an interface for the chain that fits the bed and the printer body.

I don't see one for the Vyper on Thingiverse, so check out the ones for the I3 Mega and see if the interface pieces for the printer body and bed fit; they seem pretty similar.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=i3+mega+drag+chain&type=things&sort=relevant


edit: I lied, I found 2 for the Vyper: https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=vyper+cable+chain&type=things&sort=relevant

Read the comments since the Vyper has had a redesign recently.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

Is 3d printing effected by ambient temperature. My rig is in the conservatory right now and it is getting quite chilly in there (that is England chilly not Canada chilly).

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Leader of the Sept







Yes. FDM relies on heated beds and melting stuff, so if its too cold for the printer to reach the required temperatures quality will be affected.

For resin printing, the viscosity of the resin can have a big impact on the print success and quality. You can counter this to a degree by slowing down the speed of the print bed retraction and allowing more "light off" time to allow the resin to stabilise between exposures.

I'm not really qualified to go into any more details, but these are the key points I have experienced/read about go experiment!

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
Made in us
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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

I have the unfortunate combination of owning a FDM printer, a resin printer and a seasonally cold room they are stored in. Can confirm printing is much more difficult for both in cold weather.

PLA isn't quite as affected as other filaments. You can counter by hair spray or glue sticking the bed a little.

I don't have a great fix for resin other than what Flinty said. At some point I'm going to buy a little tent for it to add my tiny little personal space heater to, but I'm printing a lot less right now so keep pushing that back.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
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 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
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Denison, Iowa

I'm beginning to get a bit frustrated by the good people at Anycubic. I placed my order on November 26 with 3-5 day shipping. They didn't print out a shipping label until December 5, and it wasn't given to Fedex until today.

Now, I understand there is a bit of a shipping backlog this year, and Black Friday bloat didn't help. That being said, waiting over 3 weeks seems a bit slow. Perhaps I'm just getting anxious to print my new plastic crack.
   
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Leader of the Sept







That’s disappointing, but with a bit of luck it will arrive for the holidays so you can get some quality time on your new toy

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

Terranwing - w3;d1;l1
51st Dunedinw2;d0;l0
Cadre Coronal Afterglow w1;d0;l0 
   
 
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