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  • It's possible your original Blender design had an issue. Blender is not always kind to 3D printers.

    The first thing I would tell you is to stop using cubic infill, it is evil. It never always causes me failed prints, especially larger prints. Nozzles often tend to drag across the previous layers and can easily cause failed prints. I can even hear the nozzle hitting the infill as I print. I often recommend gyroid as a good all around infill pattern.

    How to think about this design problem.

    I look at it and I wonder, does the rolling pin need to be supported full length? A wooden rolling pin is ridged and only needs minimal support on the ends. So I might just design the cradle only at the very ends. And then design the middle to be a simple flat that connects the two end pieces. I might even skip the middle altogether and just print the ends. That saves the most material and time and still does the job perfectly.

    When it comes to slicing your print, orientation matters. How you support overhangs can be tricky and often compromises must be made. While I will use the auto supports as often as I can, sometimes you just need to use paint on supports to get what you needwhere you need it. Pay attention to the top zed support gap. The defaults are never right. I always open them up more. With a .40mm nozzle, I use a .265mm gap. For a .60mm nozzle, a .365mm gap.

    You might even need to print your parts at an angle. Often tipping the part at 30 to 45 degree angle can make those nasty over hangs completely printable without supports.

    And this is only a good beginning. How fast you might print an overhang matters, the amount of cooling fan can affect the over hang, lots of fine details that you will learn about as you keep doing this.

    Good Luck and never fear making a mistake!

  • A quick and dirty thing to try is to increase your first layer height, .1mm layer is a pretty fine layer line. Bumping the height up can give you a bit more contact area and increase adhesion some. And slow down. The default settings are NOT gospel and the HF doesn't mean you can or should print that fast. I find when using such fine nozzles I often need to reduce feed rates by 30 to 40% to get things to hold. And I even drop the acceleration rates by 10 to 15% to keep corners from not sticking well.

    Speed ain't everything.

  • An air fryer is an interesting idea if you happen to have one handy, it's clever and I like it. But even dedicated filament dryers are a bit cheaper to buy, let alone a used dehydrator. And few people are using expensive engineering filaments either to scratch build printers, though some do.

    Personally, I use PETG for phone holders and other items for use in my vehicles. But, where I live it doesn't hit the 80C required for a PETG phone holder to sag inside my vehicles, even in full sun. And half of the year temps are at freezing or below. PETG lasts for years just fine. So, choosing a filament requires understanding the environment it's going to get used in and how it gets used. But other places it might be over 100C inside a car. It is, like so much in this world, a YMMV situation. And understanding that, and many other considerations is what makes for good engineering design.

    The vast bulk of everything that gets printed involves PLA, PETG, or TPU. They are inexpensive and easily available filaments that are "good enough" for 90%+ of all the things most people print.

    *******I must apologize for bad spelling, punctuation, in possibly in comprehensible sentences. I seem to have an orange kitten that wants to have his a=say right now. I think I got things cleaned up.

  • PETG is tougher and in certain situations stronger than ABS. PETG also has better chemical and UV resistance. But PETG has a lower glass transition temperature, about 80C vs 100C.

    Both PETG and ABS/ASA benefit from enclosed and heated chamber printers but PETG is a lot easier to print with an open bed. Both of my printers are open bed and PETG is very easy to print.

    PETG is somewhat hygroscopic and will absorb moisture from the environment. Making the filament a pain to print and prone to nasty stringing. So it should be stored sealed in a dry bag/box. Having a way to dry filament is a good idea. You can do so with a cheap food dehydrator or a dedicated filament dry for the purpose.

    PETG has pretty much supplanted ABS in FDM printing. It's often cheaper than ABS these days too. Between PLA, PETG, and TPU, those 3 filaments should cover 90%+ of all your printing needs.

  • The concentration of more and more farmland and the attending supply chains into fewer and fewer hands will cause prices to rise. Because those few oligarchs that own the land will decide what, how much, and IF you eat.

    Monopolies are never good for the plebes.

  • You might well see a temporary drop in some prices. But as farmers go bankrupt and the land gets bought by larger and larger corporations, food prices will rise. As all food production sources narrow even more than it already has.

  • Nope. The cost of your tofu is going to rise because of this.

  • A ground blind is a very effective way to hunt vegetables. Though you really need to use fox urine to mask your scent.

    I personally prefer to bow hunt them due to the shorter ranges I encounter. Though some around here prefer using a revolver in heavier cover.

  • Put down your participation trophy for a minute. It's nice you feel the need to ride to the rescue, but sometimes the truth just sucks.

    OP openly claims to have poor math skills and lacks spatial awareness. If that's the case, he's not ever going to have an easy time. Those are 2 skills you need to have, at least to some degree, if you even want to start with designing things. And he naively expects,"free, easy, and professional" results NOW! Then lists his reasons on why he doesn't like any of the free versions of OnShape and Fusion and FreeCAD. And I doubt OP would do any better with SolidEdge either.

    OP wants something he cannot have-- instant skill without personal effort or aptitude, (again from his OWN words). Life don't work that way Buttercup.

  • I will be blunt. If you are as bad at math and spatial reasoning as you say, then CAD probably isn't for you. You will always find it difficult and unrewarding. Design and engineering require a mindset you might not have.

    As far as "cheap and easy and professional" CAD they ALL require effort to learn and money to gain entry for commercial versions. CAD is a skill and skills require effort to acquire. And it sounds as if you have no desire to put in very much effort.

    For a CAD program to meet your want of cheap and simple, (professional means a lot of money and takes more than a few minutes of effort), look at TinkerCAD. It's free and simple enough that I teach that to 5th and 6th grade students well enough for them to make simple objects. Ain't nothing wrong with starting there and learning how to think about design and CAD before you might try and step into more demanding software.

  • My Wife is notorious for boob dialing me.

  • Don't care, I'mma still use the flap to pee when I'm out in the yard.

  • I'll allow it. :) :)

  • Lots of pants out there that have pockets. They often choose not to buy them. And when they do, they put nothing in them.

    For what it's worth, according to my wife and 4 daughters it's because it's because if you put things in your pockets like guys do, it ruins the lines and look. And according to our oldest daughter, it's why cargo shorts and pants look bad on men. And should never be worn.

  • We had one that would hop on the bed in the middle of the night and do that. First couple of pokes were gentle. If you didn't wake up, he would add some claws to it. If you would pet him, he would purr...

  • De Minimus got dropped last Friday in the US. This means that goods valued at less than $800US can no longer be shipped duty free. And the rules of how to go about who assesses and collects the import taxes is not clear. So many postal services around the world are now refusing to ship to the US.

    And Australia is one. So you are now down to fucking yourself........

  • Perhaps dead so he can eat your face off.......

  • I don't and I do. Cinnamon is a better Gnome experience now.

  • It is hard to decide. But at some point you need to pays your money and takes your chances. No any one machine is the perfect design. They all have faults. So, perhaps you might want to consider which faults you are willing to live with and which ones you can't live with.

  • Do you think Bambu doesn't already have patents on their nozzle swap system? Open source is already a day late and dollar short.