finalarbiter

The precision of the part cooling fan is largely a function of the ducting, not the fan. For that reason, this is a commonly redesigned part and findable on thingiverse/printables for most standard tool heads.

Alternatively, you are halfway to reinventing a CPAP (yes, like the sleep apnea machine). This is fairly common on high-end Ratrig and Voron builds. They were designed for enclosed printers where the air that a traditional part fan would use is already hot, so the fan gets moved outside to get cooler air and pumps it through a tube to hit the part.

It was funny watching them desperately try to swoop and acquire markforged and desktop metal before stratasys could finish the deal. Nano dimension was already struggling at that point and was pretty obviously (imo) not well-positioned to make any acquisitions but I guess they thought one of these companies would be a lifeline back to profitability. So much for that lol.

Edit: fixed a typo

Totally. I prefer to have a little cure time to get things set and aligned properly, for some reason it nakes me feel panic-y when the set time is super quick lol.

Cyanoacrylate, aka CA glue or superglue, is the best adhesive for PLA. After applying the glue, fixture or clamp together the parts you are planning to adhere and then leave them alone while the glue cures.

Onshape is nice and I enjoy using it, but the free tier has some really absurd caveats that anyone considering the platform should be aware of:

Free users are restricted from commercial use and all designs are publicly-available.

Additionally, while free users technically continue to own the IP they create, they lose control of licensing rights. Section 1.7.2.2 Your content - Intellectual Property of the Terms of Use states

For any Public Document owned by a Free Plan User created on or after August 7, 2018, or any Public Document created prior to that date without a LICENSE tab, Customer grants a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to any End User or third party accessing the Public Document to use the intellectual property contained in Customer’s Public Document without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Document, and to permit persons to whom the Document is made available to do the same.

In theory, this means that while free users cannot monetize designs they made on the platform, paid users can take those files and monetize them without the consent of the creator(s).

I think they’re referring to the 2025 reboot

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2300120/Painkiller/

Well, it will work… until it suddenly doesn’t.