Good luck getting consistent cuts while you’re freehanding. The idea is to make the nice flat cat scratching pad, and also being able to make the tool with the tool printer you have at home
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SirDerpy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’ve designed a niche solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Use a box knife. Or, for a more versatile tool, get a Morakniv Companion.
PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 days ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, you could make a jig to use a box cutter to make consistent width strips very easily with three pieces of scrap wood. But this commenter coming in here for the express purpose of trying to shit on 3D printer hobbyists was a stupid move on his part.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 day ago
make a jig
You mean like the handheld jig seen in the demo?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I meant without printing anything, for anyone without access to a 3D printer. This was in response to the parent comment of “just do it with a Morakniv or whatever.”
To use an ordinary box cutter for this purpose all you need is something to use as an endstop and something to use as a fence, and they have to be parallel to each other.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Or a ruler. And make the strips the width of the ruler. The only “extra” needed is a cutting surface. This plastic gizmo simply eliminates the need for a work surface, nothing else.
kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I mean that’s kinda the whole deal with 3d printing, it’s useful for really niche applications where you can just add a small amount of convenience to your life.
Someone else commented about this being good for school kids so they can safely make cat scratchers to donate to animal shelters, and as a cat owner with a constant pile of recycling I can see this being actually useful if I wanna avoid spending $20-$40 on one of those fancier cardboard cat scratchers from Target or whatever.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean that’s kinda the whole deal with 3d printing, it’s useful for really niche applications where you can just add a small amount of convenience to your life.
Is it? All I ever request to be printed is the proprietary part that prematurely broke as it was designed to do.
Someone else commented about this being good for school kids
Instead of teaching them to use scissors? We’re raising a generation that can’t think or do for themselves. They’re reliant upon consumption.
as a cat owner with a constant pile of recycling I can see this being actually useful
As an adult you think it’s more useful than a box knife? It’s not even going to be faster than a box knife with straight edge. And, why do you need a product to pet your cat?
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cutting carboard with scissors? It can be done, but it’s a chore amd the results are poor. I wouldn’t wish it on school children.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cutting carboard with scissors? It can be done, but it’s a chore amd the results are poor. I wouldn’t wish it on school children.
Your tools probably suck.
Any knife and straight edge is faster and easier. Any warehouse worker knows this. Any compost bin is better than cat scratchers. Any environmentalist knows this.
For scissors I recommend Fiskars titanium nitride. Just yesterday they gave me a nice curve in 1/16th aluminum. Cardboard cuts like a hot knife through butter. And, I bet they cost less than the materials used in the tool in the OP.
Box knife reco: any metal housing without an auto-retract safety feature but with a retractable blade
Knife reco: Morakniv Companion: cheap, sharp, extremely versatile.
Aviation snips reco: Klein J1102S will take 12" cheater bars and be fine
Fence: use a metal level instead of a metal ruler to prevent mistakes
Learn how to make a jig for speed and accuracy in any repetive cutting task.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Boomer posting
“Kids today!!!”
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a boomer and it’s not just kids. My suburban neighbors are calling plumbers to fix toilets and fix light switches. They just mindlessly consume resources, as they’ve been instructed. They’re choosing fiscal slavery, like lemmings off a cliff.
Today@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I work with kids with significant disabilities who we keep in public school until they’re age 22. They do unskilled jobs and volunteer ‘work’ and safety is a big concern. If there are five students and one teacher at a table, a plastic device that automatically measures and has a hidden blade is going to be much better for them than scissors or box knives. Yes, we do need to teach children to safely use everyday items and for most kids that’s fine, but there are some for whom ‘just do it my way’ doesn’t work. Your life experience may not be the same as that of other people. Teach generally, but make space for the individual.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s great. Use this thing. It’s what I’d give my developmentally disabled 55 year old uncle as well.
But, it’s definitely not what I’d teach my child or the vast majority of other children. A typical child only needs a couple of safety accommodations relative an adult: an auto-reteact safety knife and a double fence.
Steve@startrek.website 2 days ago
I hope you only drink room temperature tap water. Any flavor makes you a hypocrite.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Your reasoning is so obscure very few will follow. CONSUME!
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This looks a lot like trolling. The community here certainly doesn’t seem to care for it.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t like what you’ve said so you’re a troll. We don’t serve your kind around here.
SMRT.
Linsensuppe@feddit.org 2 days ago
Welcome to the world of 3d printing
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If I don’t design and print something I could buy I might be tempted to do more mods for my printer.
Things like this give us… balance. Luckily I have a new project… building a Voron so it’s both something new AND printing printer parts.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Otherwise known as, “Justification for ownership of printer.”
Look, I totally didn’t just buy this thing as a hobby to make more parts for itself! See, I actually do occasionally make useful things with it!!!
That’s what I tell myself, anyway…
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Exactly… this printer is useful honey.
I can make parts for the printer, accessories for filament management for the printer.
Halloween decorations… once I get the printer back online when I have this mod finished.
Parts for another printer.
Mounts for the brooms… when more filament comes in since I used the last of it for the parts for the new printer.
Save 450 on a unique appliance part they’re not making anymore which now justifies the thousands I’ve spent on this thing.
Seriously though. It is a fun hobby and if you want to just print and make things and not tinker there are plenty of good options out there. Me? I like tinkering. It’s a blast.