Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks

NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fragile part is easily fixed by changing the print material and/or infill percentage. You’re right on all other points though.

  You can make it clunky, but then it’s not appealing any more. That’s why I said that it’s a trade-off between clunky and not interesting on the one side and fragile and not durable on the other side.

  infill percentage

  Btw, perimeters do a huge amount more for stability than infill.

  3d Printing can lose it’s luster over time if you don’t make the effort of learning 3d CAD software and making new designs. -This is my current struggle as FreeCAD is a painful piece of software to use.

  I’ve been 3D printing since 7 years now, and I mostly design the things I print myself. For functional parts and prototyping, 3D printing is amazing. I am specifically talking about toys here.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can make it clunky, but then it’s not appealing any more.

    Using pctg and more infill doesn’t make a 3d printed object clunky. It only makes it stronger.

    For example a benchy in pctg is so strong that it’s physically impossible to break anything but the smokestack with your bare hands. Print in TPU and it’s completely indestructible to bare hands.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Infill doesn’t really improve strenght that much, perimeters work far better.

      But any 3D printed object that has that much space for more infil/perimeters is already clunky.

      Compare a benchy to an average toy figurine. The benchy is super clunky compared to most non-toddler toys my kids have.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Infill doesn’t improve strength linearly but it does improve it.

        Compare a benchy to an average toy figurine.

        I don’t know what figurines you are printing. Could you link to one?

        And TPU makes anything indestructible.

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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fair enough. I guess I can’t relate to that.

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