{"id":1197,"date":"2020-02-19T02:24:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?page_id=1197"},"modified":"2024-04-29T08:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T12:50:37","slug":"first-3d-prints","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/first-3d-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"First 3d Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Original post: 3\/17\/2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the tale of my first 3D design & print efforts with my brand new XYZprinting Da Vinci Mini 3D printer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After getting my new 3D printer for Christmas 2017 (Thank you Anne!<\/em><\/strong>), I naturally wanted to make something. But not just any old thing, I didn’t want to waste filament on the stock objects that XYZprinting suggested. No, no, no! I wanted to print something I could use…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I downloaded the free XYZmaker software from XYZ’s site and for the next couple of days I tried to figure out how to use it. There are youTube intro video links on XYZ’s site and they are definitely helpful, but there’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty. I dove in and after a couple more days could easily make moderately complex objects. At this point I decided to try and print replacement Bofors for my Revell Helena, as I’ve never liked the kit’s stock parts, heck I wasn’t fond of the 5″ gun turrets in that kit either – and while on the model enhancement kick I figured, it would be nice to finally have some small AA guns for my Revell Yorktown, and who doesn’t love a cool radar array? – can’t have too many of them lying about. So I took to 3D designing these objects in XYZmaker, did a pretty fair job of it too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My objects complete, I next figured out how to scale them down to the size I needed: 1\/450. The fact that all the detail I lovingly poured into them was now stupendously under the minimum size the Da Vinci Mini could handle, didn’t worry me in the least. I figured the printer would do the best it could and all that extra information would be averaged into what it could handle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And these are my first two prints (that actually completed). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first was only on good quality – I wanted to see how fast it could print and what the loss in detail would be…
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Humm… Not what I expected, I’ll try excellent quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK, better for sure, but I wouldn’t be replacing those ugly Revell parts any time soon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next came several attempts to simplify the designs of my tiny WWII arsenal in the hopes that it would help – and it did, but not enough. Next I tried making my own supports for overhanging design elements and again things got better but were still not great. After about 4 different attempts at this, I’d reached the results below (Ya, I gave up on the radar arrays…)
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Definitely an improvement but still not better than the Revell parts.
Starting to get discouraged, I decided to work in a larger scale, thinking 1\/450 was just too tiny for the da Vinci Mini. I decided on 1\/48 and since I’d done a bunch of work on the 40mm Quad Bofors mount (that was wasted on 1\/450 scale) I decided to reuse and embellish that work for my large scale print project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voila! My first (mostly) excellent results!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US 40mm Bofor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\n\nThe rest is recent history \ud83d\ude42\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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