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A partner and myself have been working on 3D printed mods and the frustrations involved with doing so, or at least that we have found. Between the printers changing print orientation, bad initial checks of print files that they make to sounds as our fault I'm getting more than a little confused.
I have to take blame in some of my partners frustration as I tend to be a particularly matriculates person feeling I can't have anything produced for someone I wouldn't use myself and my designs tend to get rather intricate with exacting measurements. I dabble in machining metals, woods and plastics with tools I have purchased such as a mill, lathe, ect. and exacting measurements are often required for a fit and finish I'd find sale able for the best explanation of my nature mentioned.
I'm very curious to know expected tolerances from various 3D printing companies and if you have found adherence to the companies claims of these tolerances? The reason I ask this is even prints done in the same orientation as previously printed from the same company seem to vary multiple thousands of inches in the finished print and it's very frustrating making parts fit with set dimensions to altering prints as I've seen.
Would I be too demanding of 3D printing to be within 10/1000ths of an inch? I imagine I'd be correct in thinking ambient temperatures and moisture in the air could alter the outcome of the prints as I have been seeing because it's the only justification I can find in the sloppy tolerances I have seen?
In the colder months of the year I've seen the tolerances from the print company my partner and myself are using very applicable to our first design. Now as the weather warms are previously suitable design has shrank making parts previously used to tight for proper fitment. I'm guessing this is because the plastic cooled quicker in potentially cooler environment shrinking less in the process of cooling? With this happening the kits we have on file become more complicated for builders and more likely to get bad reviews from customers.
To me this design isn't all that complex, would you consider it to be too much for 3D printing companies to produce accurately? It's a modular so it can be altered to suit the customers preference as far as how many batteries are preferred, which circuit board would be preferred....
A partner and myself have been working on 3D printed mods and the frustrations involved with doing so, or at least that we have found. Between the printers changing print orientation, bad initial checks of print files that they make to sounds as our fault I'm getting more than a little confused.
I have to take blame in some of my partners frustration as I tend to be a particularly matriculates person feeling I can't have anything produced for someone I wouldn't use myself and my designs tend to get rather intricate with exacting measurements. I dabble in machining metals, woods and plastics with tools I have purchased such as a mill, lathe, ect. and exacting measurements are often required for a fit and finish I'd find sale able for the best explanation of my nature mentioned.
I'm very curious to know expected tolerances from various 3D printing companies and if you have found adherence to the companies claims of these tolerances? The reason I ask this is even prints done in the same orientation as previously printed from the same company seem to vary multiple thousands of inches in the finished print and it's very frustrating making parts fit with set dimensions to altering prints as I've seen.
Would I be too demanding of 3D printing to be within 10/1000ths of an inch? I imagine I'd be correct in thinking ambient temperatures and moisture in the air could alter the outcome of the prints as I have been seeing because it's the only justification I can find in the sloppy tolerances I have seen?
In the colder months of the year I've seen the tolerances from the print company my partner and myself are using very applicable to our first design. Now as the weather warms are previously suitable design has shrank making parts previously used to tight for proper fitment. I'm guessing this is because the plastic cooled quicker in potentially cooler environment shrinking less in the process of cooling? With this happening the kits we have on file become more complicated for builders and more likely to get bad reviews from customers.
To me this design isn't all that complex, would you consider it to be too much for 3D printing companies to produce accurately? It's a modular so it can be altered to suit the customers preference as far as how many batteries are preferred, which circuit board would be preferred....
