3D printers

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I got pretty into 3D printing in 2022. Here are some things I've learned. Be aware that the industry moves very quickly, and this information is likely to go out of data within a few years. You'll see the word "fusion" a lot, but despite my earnest prayers it never means nuclear fusion.

3D printing is incredible technology capable of shifting one's personal paradigm. When it all works out, you feel like a god, willing material and matter into configurations of your own desire. Other times, you go to sleep with a fourteen hour print queued up. Fifteen minutes later, the nascent print is uprooted from the print bed, and begins to move along with the extruder. Twenty minutes after that, the growing nest of crap rotating around the print bed reaches up to the nozzle like so much thermoplastic diarrhea, and the nozzle jams. Yet the print must go on, and the extruder continues to unspool your filament. Perhaps a Roomba will catch it, and they'll clash for the title of Most Infuriating Product.

3D printing is incredible technology capable of shifting one's personal paradigm. When it all works out, you feel like a god, willing material and matter into configurations of your own desire. Other times, you go to sleep with a fourteen hour print queued up. Fifteen minutes later, the nascent print is uprooted from the print bed, and begins to move along with the extruder. Twenty minutes after that, the growing nest of crap rotating around the print bed reaches up to the nozzle like so much thermoplastic diarrhea, and the nozzle jams. Yet the print must go on, and the extruder continues to unspool your [[Filaments|filament]]. Perhaps a Roomba will catch it, and they'll clash for the title of Most Infuriating Product.

==3D printing methodologies==

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===Which one is right for me?===

Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked. Accept that going in.

Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked, and anyone telling you otherwise is a goddamned liar. Accept that going in.

Your choices are primarily FDM or MSLA. Well-known FDM options include Prusa, Ultimaker, Creality, Anycubic, and about four thousand other operations, including the ultra-hip Voron (a kit-only design for which you spend a few weeks sourcing parts, then more-or-less assemble over the course of several increasingly unhappy days). MSLA has only more recently arrived on the mass market, with Elegoo, Phrozen, Formlabs, and some of the FDM folks leading the way. You can acquire an entry-level FDM or MSLA printer for a few hundred dollars (FDM printers are now sometimes available at the $100 mark), with significant improvements available near $1000. At the professional level, choices begin at several thousand dollars, and go up pretty much without bound. I don't know anything about that world.

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===Selecting an MSLA===

MSLA printers are great gifts for enemies~~, because~~ they fail almost as often as FDM printers, but can also poison you. They're a lot like cigarettes in that the worst part is the cancer. Just lifting the top off an SLA printer fills the room with the baleful stink of modern technical death, materials not known at Creation diffusing through your body, binding to various activation sites, inviting proteins into strange and exotic configurations, heralding a mephitic end that leaves your corpse too toxic to be burnt. Hah, just kidding, they're fine!

MSLA printers are great gifts for enemies: they fail almost as often as FDM printers, but can also poison you. They're a lot like cigarettes in that the worst part is the cancer. Just lifting the top off an SLA printer fills the room with the baleful stink of modern technical death, materials not known at Creation diffusing through your body, binding to various activation sites, inviting proteins into strange and exotic configurations, heralding a mephitic end that leaves your corpse too toxic to be burnt. Hah, just kidding, they're fine!

====Resins====

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==MSLA operation==

[[CATEGORY: 3D ~~printing~~]]

[[CATEGORY: 3D Printing]]

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 I got pretty into 3D printing in 2022. Here are some things I've learned. Be aware that the industry moves very quickly, and this information is likely to go out of data within a few years. You'll see the word "fusion" a lot, but despite my earnest prayers it never means nuclear fusion.
-D printing is incredible technology capable of shifting one's personal paradigm. When it all works out, you feel like a god, willing material and matter into configurations of your own desire. Other times, you go to sleep with a fourteen hour print queued up. Fifteen minutes later, the nascent print is uprooted from the print bed, and begins to move along with the extruder. Twenty minutes after that, the growing nest of crap rotating around the print bed reaches up to the nozzle like so much thermoplastic diarrhea, and the nozzle jams. Yet the print must go on, and the extruder continues to unspool your filament. Perhaps a Roomba will catch it, and they'll clash for the title of Most Infuriating Product.
+D printing is incredible technology capable of shifting one's personal paradigm. When it all works out, you feel like a god, willing material and matter into configurations of your own desire. Other times, you go to sleep with a fourteen hour print queued up. Fifteen minutes later, the nascent print is uprooted from the print bed, and begins to move along with the extruder. Twenty minutes after that, the growing nest of crap rotating around the print bed reaches up to the nozzle like so much thermoplastic diarrhea, and the nozzle jams. Yet the print must go on, and the extruder continues to unspool your [[Filaments|filament]]. Perhaps a Roomba will catch it, and they'll clash for the title of Most Infuriating Product.
 ==3D printing methodologies==
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 ===Which one is right for me?===
-Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked. Accept that going in.
+Honestly? None. No matter which type of printer you use, it's likely to be semi-regularly fucked, and anyone telling you otherwise is a goddamned liar. Accept that going in.
 Your choices are primarily FDM or MSLA. Well-known FDM options include Prusa, Ultimaker, Creality, Anycubic, and about four thousand other operations, including the ultra-hip Voron (a kit-only design for which you spend a few weeks sourcing parts, then more-or-less assemble over the course of several increasingly unhappy days). MSLA has only more recently arrived on the mass market, with Elegoo, Phrozen, Formlabs, and some of the FDM folks leading the way. You can acquire an entry-level FDM or MSLA printer for a few hundred dollars (FDM printers are now sometimes available at the $100 mark), with significant improvements available near $1000. At the professional level, choices begin at several thousand dollars, and go up pretty much without bound. I don't know anything about that world.
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 ===Selecting an MSLA===
-MSLA printers are great gifts for enemies, because they fail almost as often as FDM printers, but can also poison you. They're a lot like cigarettes in that the worst part is the cancer. Just lifting the top off an SLA printer fills the room with the baleful stink of modern technical death, materials not known at Creation diffusing through your body, binding to various activation sites, inviting proteins into strange and exotic configurations, heralding a mephitic end that leaves your corpse too toxic to be burnt. Hah, just kidding, they're fine!
+MSLA printers are great gifts for enemies: they fail almost as often as FDM printers, but can also poison you. They're a lot like cigarettes in that the worst part is the cancer. Just lifting the top off an SLA printer fills the room with the baleful stink of modern technical death, materials not known at Creation diffusing through your body, binding to various activation sites, inviting proteins into strange and exotic configurations, heralding a mephitic end that leaves your corpse too toxic to be burnt. Hah, just kidding, they're fine!
 ====Resins====
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 ==MSLA operation==
-[[CATEGORY: 3D printing]]
+[[CATEGORY: 3D Printing]]