Even the World's Best 3D-Printable Toys can give you troubles if your 3D printer doesn't seem to want to play along. To help you achieve your best 3D printer settings, we'd like to share these two blog posts, written by our friends at Pinshape. We hope they save you some time and filament, and that you get better results.
10 Advanced 3D Slicer Settings That Will Save Your Prints!
3D Slicer Settings for Beginners – 8 Things You Need to Know
Here at 3DKToys, to print our prototypes, we use a MakerBot Replicator 2 with standard settings and MeltInk3D PLA filament.
These are the standard settings that we use for our 3D printer.
Infill: 10%
Layer Height: .2mm
Number of Shells: 2
Extruder Temp: 215 degrees C
It's important to note that 3D printers vary greatly, which is why we wanted to share Pinshape's blog posts for finding your printer's best settings. Post a review with the 3DKToys product you've printed to let others know what kind of a printer and filament you're using, along with your settings and print time.
We don't do any post-print finishing (i.e. sanding or painting) on our prototypes.
Sometimes we do insert felt into joints to tighten them if we have a model that is going to be played with a lot, for instance at a Maker Faire, or if we scale a model up and the joints are to loose to pose the model.
We wish you happy printing. We hope this helps you get better prints!
Chris,
You may be interested in my experience
I produced an NIQ that was man size. (e.g. the shoes/feet were as big as my own size 7.5 UK)
It was some years ago now and at the time I think I used the MatterControl slicing software from MatterHacker to scale and print it .
I used a large Delta printer, based on DC’s design.
Also an ED3 Vocano 0.6/0.8mm nozzle and a well known open source 3D printed geared extruder.
It took over 5 × 1Kg of filament and over 120 hours print time.
The main issue was that i did not allow for the fact that upsizing would affect the size of the mating components,
and needed to be allowed for in the size of all the pins.
If you send me you email address I will send you lots of photos. Or there is a facebook page of mine with them on.
Maurice
Is it possible that you could produce a kit for Niq at 1/4 scale please.