I have dabbled in designing stuff in 3D CAD apps for many years, and I definitely would never, ever have described it as "fundamentally not hard". It's something that is fundamentally not hard to make, and doing the CAD myself will allow me to tailor it and the way it prints to the printer for overall better results. Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote: I've 3d printed some star wars stuff, but I make any cad file I might use myself, and I wouldn't buy a cad file for it from somebody else. Of course, I'd still sooner buy a plastic kit than 3d print things, I've consistently been disappointed with the quality of 3d printed stuff, mostly because a printer of sufficient quality to get acceptable detail is also just beyond my ability to acquire or buy time on.
I've 3d printed some star wars stuff, but I make any cad file I might use myself, and I wouldn't buy a cad file for it from somebody else. Needs and option for "I can use a 3d Printer, but I wouldn't buy an STL" So is anyone else paying good hard money for 3d printing files? I'm doing a Patreon right now for a dude who's making Arbites-like models, a Kickstarter for Arbites terrain and bought a bunch of STLs from Heroforge to make um. Kid_Kyoto wrote: So living in the dreaded 'Rest of the World' I see there is interest in modeling, but obviously no easy way to get models, paints, etc.īut I wonder if 3D printing can/will change this. Literally nothing I said was relevant to someone printing 28mm minis, but this was my experience as someone who has bought dozens, maybe a hundred, STLs. I have printed very large things but the better vendors chop the models up for you (gambody). So it might be more accurate to say I can't print them at the correct scale currently. So it wasn't a total loss, I just couldn't print any of the truly large 1-piece buildings - they would be larger than 220 mm at 100% scale.Īnd of course if I ever do get the Chiron (a very large FDM printer), then I can print them.
One of the churches was so big that at 100% of 28mm, it was a 341mm print - most FDM printers only have a bed of 200-250mm or so.Īnd even THEN, plenty of the models from that project still worked fine. The only one that wasn't, wasn't because of a technical issue - it was because the guy running the indiegogo had misrepresented the scale, and a good percentage of the models were simply too large to print at 100% - and scaling them down is very easy obviously, but then the prints (terrain) are no longer fit for purpose as they are not appropriately scaled. I've also designed some of my own stuff, but I'm not really good with organic designs - I'm not a very good 3D artist.Īlmost all of them have been good experiences. I've bought tons of STLs and printed them - I own 3 printers.
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