Anyone here using a 3D printer? ? on DS export settings

daveso

I bought an Ender 3 3D printer a few weeks ago. Slow going, have yet to print anything cool . Wondering who has one here and what the results are? 

One thing I've noticed, the DAZ models export pretty small..at least the way I've been doing it .. I'm not sure what to use as settings to get maybe a 6-8 inch figure...or even a 3 inch figure. exporting as .obj file, which I then import into my slicer program Cura 4.0.0
 

WendyLuvsCatz

You usually resize the model to fit the volumne of your printer in your slicing software 

I have one but it was a bad choice with DRM filament cartridges that get flagged as fake even though I paid for the overpriced genuine ones.

Its been gathering dust for 3 years 

XYZ Da Vinci stay way from that brand

your model needs to be watertight too without unsupported overhanging bits as built from base up

unless you make it in bits to glue together afterwards 

my thread with my 3D prints got locked sadly 

 

Richard Haseltine

Bump post removed. Don't bump.

daveso

SadKitty_Carrara said:

You usually resize the model to fit the volumne of your printer in your slicing software 

I have one but it was a bad choice with DRM filament cartridges that get flagged as fake even though I paid for the overpriced genuine ones.

Its been gathering dust for 3 years 

XYZ Da Vinci stay way from that brand

your model needs to be watertight too without unsupported overhanging bits as built from base up

unless you make it in bits to glue together afterwards 

my thread with my 3D prints got locked sadly 

 

thanks ..bumme ron the thread being locked. I managed to print one item from DS ... but it lacking detail, partly from printer set up[ but also the export settings. They're really tiny going into slicer ... sometimes barely to be seen. 10,000x enlargement to create 2.5 inch character

entiresia

Yes, I print lots of DS models on my Creality CR-10S. This is my third attempt at posting a reply here but for some reason they are not showing up. 

richardandtracy

Unless you are wanting large statues, the resolution of a filament printer is not really very good. With small prints, .05mm is reasonable and will need a minimum of post work. That, at the moment, can only be achieved with a UV cure liquid resin printer. Maybe it can be achieved in a few years with a filament printer, but not yet. The filament printer at work gives about 10x that resolution and looks pretty poor in comparison to the liquid resin prints I have at home.

As for the exact feed & head speed, all I can suggest is that you experiment in your conditions - cold, heat and humidity will all affect the print.

entiresia

richardandtracy_e725004c1a said:

Unless you are wanting large statues, the resolution of a filament printer is not really very good. With small prints, .05mm is reasonable and will need a minimum of post work. That, at the moment, can only be achieved with a UV cure liquid resin printer. Maybe it can be achieved in a few years with a filament printer, but not yet. The filament printer at work gives about 10x that resolution and looks pretty poor in comparison to the liquid resin prints I have at home.

As for the exact feed & head speed, all I can suggest is that you experiment in your conditions - cold, heat and humidity will all affect the print.

I have to disagree. Of course, the output of a resin printer is far higher than that of an FDM printer but that does not mean that some perfectly acceptable prints can’t be achieved on a cheap printer like the Ender 3. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into learning how to converting the exported OBJ file into a single mesh, watertight STL file than be printed successfully without confusing the slicer software. I have documented the process in a blog at 3dprintednudes.blogspot.com

Here is a sanitised photo of one of my recent prints (hopefully naked hands and feet won’t offend) which does show the level of detail I routinely get. The rectangular blocks are experimental support pillars I am trying out to prevent the scarring on the surface of the model caused by default support material. The hair was sculpted in Blender by me and prints very nicely. 

 

entiresia

Oh, and one of my prints got featured by a major 3D printing filament manufacturer (albeit with a little censorship to make it more widely acceptable!)

It got top billing at https://fillamentum.com/blogs/news/best-3d-prints-15 in July last year.

richgain

daveso said:

One thing I've noticed, the DAZ models export pretty small..at least the way I've been doing it .. I'm not sure what to use as settings to get maybe a 6-8 inch figure...or even a 3 inch figure. exporting as .obj file, which I then import into my slicer program Cura 4.0.0
 

I don't import OBJs into my slicer. I always preprocess in Blender. Here are my DazStudio export settings and my Blender Import settings.

I have found that setting Blender units to 0.001, i.e. 1000 times smaller than normal, my models come out at about 10 cm tall.