3D Printing Today #586
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3D Printing Tips and Tricks
Oct 15, 2025, 3:45:57 PMOct 15
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Lego 3D Prints
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To plate or not to plate, Another Ikea lamp fix, Reliable Supports
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Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!
Oct 20, 2025, 7:03:48 AMOct 20
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Hey Guy - this is the podcast with the segment you were referring to - "To Plate or not to Plate".
-K
Kurt
Oct 20, 2025, 12:33:40 PMOct 20
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So - in regards to the segment "To Plate or not to Plate" - I wanted to follow up with my own experience.
When working at VisionMiner, people would call in and ask questions in regards to buying a VM IDEX printer. Of course, my job was to help sales pitch people and brag about the printer capabilities. For this particular customer - they were really pushing for being able to print a LOT of parts at one time. And, as some folks mentioned in the other thread - one use case for sequential printing is when you are doing a material like TPU - which would do a lot of stringing if you are going between multiple parts in a single print job. Obviously, printing sequential allows you to print Many parts - and avoid the stringing between parts.
In the case for this customer, requiring printing in high temp materials like Ultem and Glass Filled Ultem. But, keep in mind, as part of what Andy stated in the podcast - the printer must be HIGHLY Calibrated - as in, you won't want some areas of the build plate to be closer to nozzle - and other areas to be farther away. So - on the IDEX - there is a way to Tilt the plate - such that you can make left side go upwards - and right side going downwards. And, we then print a series of 3 squares. Centered front to back - then a square on the Left:
1 in the middle:
Then finally 1 on the right:
Once I have that truly dialed in - I could then print a whole sequence of parts. In the end - I was able to print 42 pieces in sequence - as you can see here:
In the end - that customer BOUGHT the printer!!!
-K
When working at VisionMiner, people would call in and ask questions in regards to buying a VM IDEX printer. Of course, my job was to help sales pitch people and brag about the printer capabilities. For this particular customer - they were really pushing for being able to print a LOT of parts at one time. And, as some folks mentioned in the other thread - one use case for sequential printing is when you are doing a material like TPU - which would do a lot of stringing if you are going between multiple parts in a single print job. Obviously, printing sequential allows you to print Many parts - and avoid the stringing between parts.
In the case for this customer, requiring printing in high temp materials like Ultem and Glass Filled Ultem. But, keep in mind, as part of what Andy stated in the podcast - the printer must be HIGHLY Calibrated - as in, you won't want some areas of the build plate to be closer to nozzle - and other areas to be farther away. So - on the IDEX - there is a way to Tilt the plate - such that you can make left side go upwards - and right side going downwards. And, we then print a series of 3 squares. Centered front to back - then a square on the Left:
1 in the middle:
Then finally 1 on the right:
Once I have that truly dialed in - I could then print a whole sequence of parts. In the end - I was able to print 42 pieces in sequence - as you can see here:
In the end - that customer BOUGHT the printer!!!
-K
On Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 3:45:57 PM UTC-4 3D Printing Tips and Tricks wrote:
Kurt Gluck
Oct 28, 2025, 10:35:50 PM (8 days ago) Oct 28
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Yep, I should have listened. My DIL requested 30 pokeballs for December twins 5th birthday party. So I had previously pricedhttps://www.printables.com/model/990970-lifesize-pokeball This model, and used it in creating Halloween necklaces for the twins (necklace on the pretzel container, pokeball to its left).
So the pokeball is made up of an uppershell a lowershell two inside shells and of course the button and ring. I go and plate 20 of the RED uppershells which is like a 2 day print. And of course it turns out poor bed adhesion and boom next morning I toss a pile of fillament. I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU! Anyway I am working my way up to full plates of stuff bit by bit as I increase the yield.
And of course now I have had to order MORE of that printed solid elixer ruby red fillament because I tossed so much.
Kurt-A
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