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Absolutely, we try to as much as possible! I haven’t tried with coding the supports into the model, but definitely going without supports as often as we can. Supports are always a pain but this is the best method I have found, by far!

Thank you, my friend! Appreciate the support - love your videos and the channel and I’m pumped to see how far you can go. Let’s do this! 💪🏼

A lot of the stuff we printed didn’t require supports. We printed a lot of small keychains and stuff when I taught middle school. My high schoolers had to suffer through this for a year when I switched before I dialed it in… feel bad for them mow

Yes sir! If you select both objects (shift + click), right click on either of the selected models and select “merge models” at the bottom, it should mesh them nicely together. You will have to change the color before you merge! Let me know if you have any other questions, sir!

Thanks for watching, my friend!

1:35 on should show you that part. Hope this helps, my friend! Thank you for watching!

That's definitely the way I am leaning. Would you suggest maybe using other people's designs to get some listings up, or solely focusing on building my own inventory?

Great call! I agree with you completely

Thank you very much, my friend! I appreciate you!

Making a lots o videos on UT about printing. But can't say my channel name.

Not a stupid comment at all! I mentioned that possibility in the video and have since moved my printer. It definitely isn't as stable as I need it to be, but I think putting some anchors in the wall will really help with that, just haven't gotten around to it yet!

Glad I could help, my friend! Thanks for watching!

I agree with you 100%. I did move it after the video because watching the print, it was shaking the desk pretty consistently. I am hoping that starts to make a difference!

@@KennedyDIY There's an official thing on MakerWorld that Bambu themselves made to mount the AMS Lite on top of an A1. In that package are a couple of supports (two parts and 4 screws needed on each side). I printed those for some stability. It can't hurt! Supports and a wall attachment for the table the printer is on would definitely make it stable, but if it's not visibly wobbly you probably won't need that.

Absolutely! The more support, the better. I also really like the idea of fastening it to the wall. Honestly hadn't thought of that and kicking myself. Thank you, my friend!

@@KennedyDIY The desk is about 60 KG, made of 1,8 mm wood al around, against te wall and also against a big closet. Doesn't move a mm. But I only use standard speed. The need for speed mode is always gone be a hit/miss scenario.

Ohhhhhh that's a really great point. I hadn't even considered that this could have been the issue. You're 100% right - thank you, my friend!

Oh, wow! I actually had no idea about that. You're 100% right, definitely another possible income stream, for sure!

I agree, that is certainly the next attempt. Yes sir, I run the auto calibrations before every print. I have the same school of thought that its certainly worth it. A lower likelihood of failure is certainly worth the added time.

I like that idea a lot! Definitely worth a try. Thank you for the tips on the .2 as well! Saves me the money buying it and the time wasted on the prints. Thank you for watching, my friend!

@@KennedyDIY I'm printing similar things with a .8mm hotend and getting good results. Some things look close enough to commercial quality. YMMV, stars need to align etc. .8mm is great for prototyping large objects too. Print much faster at .56mm layer size, dial in the general concept, shrink the layers for an actually nice print and maybe try .4 if you can't make it nice enough for the final product.

Great idea. Save a lot of prototyping time with a .8mm and refine from there. Great tip!

I have been in a lot of those as well! Glad to see that someone else is swinging for multiple fences. I agree with you there. Functional prints that you design yourself certainly seem like the way to go. I feel like the toy strategy is far too saturated to make an impact unless you have something brand new and crazy cool. Like you said, if you have a problem, chances are someone else, does too and they are looking to solve it easily. Love this thought process. Thanks for watching and hope to see you in the comments again soon!

That's a really cool idea, I might have to give that a go! Thank you, my friend!

Thank you, my friend, you’re definitely right. Find the right product through tinkering and designing and let the rest take care of itself. I love this, thank you!

@@KennedyDIY keep this in mind, we all get constantly attracted by tinkering cause it's a funnier solution most of the time, but it's short term and sometimes pointless when you unzoom

Great point! i am certainly guilty of the tinkering rabbit hole. If I am going to run this like a business, I have to be smarter than that. Thank you!

I’ve never heard of Nick before, but I’ll definitely check him out! Thanks for the tip and I’ll be skeptical of the rest, for sure, thank you!

@KennedyDIY never heard of him, right? EXACTLY! He's not a guru like other suckers. I made you save months or years just by telling you his name. You're welcome

I sure hope that's the case hahaha. Thank you, my friend!

Thank you, my friend! That means a lot! Actually just ordered a filament dryer yesterday. The stringing will be solved!

Agreed - the P1S is the ultimate goal, but the A1 is much more feasible price wise, at least for now

@@KennedyDIY yes of course, my point was to say you have to control the environment to get this problem really out

Ahhh yes, very true! The enclosures make life a lot easier. Does your P1S do well with sound control, as well?

@@KennedyDIY the A1 is more silent, but I run both of them plus 3 others in the room right next to my kid's bedroom, and he doesn't even care... Except on the P1S's starting. Then, in silent mode, it's fine

@@ArkatzMods Plexiglass, some strategic corner pieces printed and noise-cancelling headphones works too :P

Good knowledge! At least now I’m not going crazy trying to solve the issue haha. Thank you, my friend!

@@KennedyDIY this is mainly a design problem

Thank you very much, my friend! Would love to check out your videos, as well!

Thanks for hopping along on the journey! I appreciate the kind words - that’s certainly the vibe I’m going for! Glad you liked it, thanks for watching, and I hope to see you around in the comments again soon!

Great suggestions on both! Thank you so much and thanks for watching!

Great advice. I’m definitely tinkering with a bunch of stuff way too quickly. I need to learn my machine way better to start, that’s for sure! I appreciate all the helpful tips, my friend, and I’ll definitely follow up with those. Thanks for watching!

Just ordered a filament dryer! Let's see if that's the ticket. I will also definitely look into filament flow. Thank you, my friend!

As a printer farm guy too, yes this is the best first advice, the best. Dry your filament correctly, and calibrate it. You need to be about 0.025mm accurate here for your insert to be perfectly fitting. With this accuracy tho, please be kind to yourself, don't play with it. Design some locker instead of trying to be this accurate. I have to be 0.01mm accurate with my lead product (yes, 0.01, not 0.1), and I managed to do it but it costs days and days of tinkering when you want to get this accuracy for 90+ filaments. Make a design change to lock and unlock

Great advice, thank you very much!

Great idea, my friend! Thanks for the tip and thanks for watching!

@@KennedyDIY Yes, definitely try OrcaSlicer. I've never used BambuSlicer for my A1 exactly because every video I found recommended cutting out all possible frustration that way :) OrcaSlicer changes some terms, I think, as it's based on multiple slicers in the family. There are also some new options which may help you. Go through every option, look up the ones you don't know, change everything that looks helpful and run full calibration for your material. Sometimes it's the quality of the material - I had nearly perfect prints with little tweaking and some tips from various videos, and changing material got me closer to perfect. Give it a good drying cycle if you can, check that the filament isn't stuck to itself (maybe respool entirely) and check that it bends rather than breaks after all that.

Great tip! Orca slicer seems to make a ton of sense right now and instead of tinkering with settings and hoping, just running Orca on a generic profile and seeing if it helps could solve a lot of issues right there, and then I can hone in on perfect setting if it seems to be better. Thank you, sir!

Thank you very much! I completely agree with you, and if the X1C was attainable, that certainly would have been the choice. I think that at the beginning, I am simply testing the viability of the business. I certainly hear you on not tinkering, which is why I I think the Bambu lineup is definitely the way to go. Hopefully an X1C is in my future! Thanks for watching!

I appreciate the kind words and the recommendation! I've heard the t1pro is a crazy machine. Definitely looking at that for down the road. Thanks for watching!

Thank you for the kind words, my friend! A leap year subscriber has a great ring to it haha. Gotta be good luck for sure! I’ll definitely have to look at the Sunlu filament. I’ve heard good things and high speed is probably a good option with the speed of the bambus. You’re 100% right! Need to try a bunch of stuff and see what sticks. Best of luck to you in your endeavor, as well!

Thanks for watching, my friend!

Hahaha it’s a catchy jingle, that’s for sure!

Thank you! I’ll definitely run stock and see how that turns out, makes it super easy. Thanks for watching!

Happy to walk you through it, my friend! Send me an email - kennedydiy01@gmail.com

Thank you very much, my friend!

Unfortunately, I am not - I wish!

Glad to have you along for the ride, my friend!

Ask for 3D demand

They all don't have you and your 3D printer!! Love you l!! There is a damned. 3D Astro megazord. Print those files and let them bout it. :)

Thank you for all the super nice comments - just gotta keep pushing! You’re awesome!

Thank you so much!

Nope, it should keep the print the exact same size!

So I will push back a little on this in that too much volume can derail current plans. If an individual has a certain brand, a certain set of products that are doing well for them, a store that is growing, etc., the prospect of taking on work from another individual that would slow or completely halt that progress is probably difficult, especially with the fact that you could, in theory, pull your work from them at any point. It is certainly a big gamble for both parties, but my thought is that a combination of the above reasons, as well as some others, are why they might have said no. In all honesty, my goal is to get to the point of developing my own products and selling those. At the beginning, I would certainly not turn down any work that people are throwing my way, but I lean more towards the side of the above comments in terms of hoping to do my own thing eventually. Great conversation and good points on your end, these are just my thoughts on the situation

@ 🤔 Thanks for voicing that side of it. I wasn’t looking at it from the others perspective too clearly. So this is what I’ve noticed so far, like how it really goes. You can go around and waste your time bugging everyone with a sell sheet and hope, I stress hope that someone entertains your idea or product. Or you just go and grind it out, build a mini factory to start producing it. Once you get enough volume in sales then all the people you bugged will actually seek you out. It’s not fair that you make all the money, here let me help you. Yes, that’s your small check…maybe it will grow later. I mean look at Mod Podge for instance, what he did and had to go through. He’s not running out of the garage anymore. So to scale successfully I think is to actually have it eventually leave your hands so to speak. Just like everyone else had to do. They might have not voiced that but I see that’s what’s going on.

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it and thanks for watching!

My guess is your floor may be higher or lower than you anticipated. If you click on that floor, make sure it is set to whatever level you are trying to hide - if it is offset or tagged to a different level, you may still be able to see it!

Thank you, my friend!