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BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 16, 2017, 01:23:27 pm ---when I start printing stuff out for my car it would be nice to have a smooth surface, or at least a uniform one.

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When I first got my printer I thought I could pull off a nice smooth surface on the side facing the print surface.
I have since given up. I can get it pretty smooth, but you can still see the path the printer took.
Getting something finished looking enough for a car interior without finishing in some other way is a pretty tall order.

When I had an 83 TransAm, I would cut panels out of textured ABS, clamp a guide across the corners and file the surface of the corners down until they looked like the factory panels. If your Camaro interior looks the same, you'll understand what I mean.

So make anything cooler than a cube yet?

Howard_Casto:
Well the idea was to cook each flat side on a hot plate for a second or two to melt everything flat and maybe use a torch for curves, but I think I'll experiment on reject parts first. If all else fails spraying it with some filler primer and painting isn't a big deal.

In previous cup holders I've used the excess of a midway 27" crt bezel from happ. The stuff is a dead ringer for the plastic texture on the center console, but I think I'm about out of it.

I've printed a bunch of stuff, but not much for fun yet. I printed out a cover for the pcb and some bushings for the Z axis. I designed a couple of tool holders for the included kit that snap to the top. I also printed off a spool holder that mounts to the top from thingiverse, but it kind of sucks so I might make a new one. Other than that, I printed the Nintendo logo (small test size for a HUGE sign) and I made a little mounting box for a wifi extender that doesn't get good service unless I mount it in the window.

I saw a Shao Kahn model from mk9 on thingiverse... I want to print that and paint it. I had this idea to print out control panels for candy cab buttons/sticks. I did some tests and with a 100% solid print it's probably stronger than most plastic madcatz sticks.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah so I've been experimenting a little.

I found a plotter attachment on thingiverse for the i3 in which you had to remove the cooling fan. I modified it so that it bolts behind the fan instead. Sorry I should have taken more pics, but here is the first test before I dialed all the settings in. As of now it has the accuracy of a black and white printer for the most part. I'm still trying to keep the pen from dragging when it first starts printing, but other than that, it works. The key to doing this is to save an additional machine profile in cura and change all the settings for the plotter. Then switching back and forth is as easy as loading profiles.

The next step is to modify the plate to make it a universal mount. A dremel extension and vinyl cutting drag knife can work via the same principal for 2d cutting.

BadMouth:
Some cool things done with a drawing machine:
(contains some profanity)

Howard_Casto:
I saw that one. I guess our youtube suggestions are similar. ;)

The more I play with this printer the more I think it could probably handle light-duty cnc milling. The only weak point is the y axis portion of the frame and as it's only two screw rods attached to flat lexan, it could be modified and made sturdy.

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