If you've not heard of it, the Benchy is a popular model of a little ship that's designed to help diagnose problems with prints. It has unsupported angles and arches, and an inscription on the bottom to help show your bed adhesion. There are dozens of walk-throughs on how to use the Benchy to edit pretty much everything about your print! For the layers being visible, sometimes the heating makes a huge difference. Make sure your bed is heating fully before the print and that there's not too much/too little airflow from a ceiling fan or something similar. Your print speed may also need lowered depending on environment and the other print settings. Also you mentioned you've printed resin but if you're completely new to plastic printing, make sure you don't print near small pets like birds, reptiles, or rodents! The vocs put off by the plastic and the extruder aren't really bad for us, but they can kill small animals. In that same vein if you find yourself wanting to print higher temperature prints, make sure you look into the extruder itself. Some extruders can safely go super high, but most in this price range also put off chemicals that are actually toxic to humans with enough exposure in an unventilated room.
Technically yes. But in my opinion, that is not a good way to print something. As you saw in the video, the file that was on there was prepared in such a way that I could really just press start and it printed. And that was awesome, because it just worked right out of the box. Also it is possible to download files that are ready to go. But in order to make the prints better and not crash your printer, you really want to control the print parameters. And that's where you use a software (called slicer) to prepare the machine code. Like this you can specify and see what the printer is going to do before you start printing, which is really helpful and prevents many problems and mistakes. Thats why I would recommend to always use a slicing program like cura, orcaslicer, prusaslicer etc. And then the workflow is: Find a model you want to print -> download it. Open it in a slicer, and prepare it for printing (set the temperatures, speed etc.) -> save to SD Card or USB and then start the print. Once you are a bit comfortable, it will take just five minutes from downloading the model until the printer starts printing :)
If you've not heard of it, the Benchy is a popular model of a little ship that's designed to help diagnose problems with prints. It has unsupported angles and arches, and an inscription on the bottom to help show your bed adhesion. There are dozens of walk-throughs on how to use the Benchy to edit pretty much everything about your print!
For the layers being visible, sometimes the heating makes a huge difference. Make sure your bed is heating fully before the print and that there's not too much/too little airflow from a ceiling fan or something similar. Your print speed may also need lowered depending on environment and the other print settings.
Also you mentioned you've printed resin but if you're completely new to plastic printing, make sure you don't print near small pets like birds, reptiles, or rodents! The vocs put off by the plastic and the extruder aren't really bad for us, but they can kill small animals.
In that same vein if you find yourself wanting to print higher temperature prints, make sure you look into the extruder itself. Some extruders can safely go super high, but most in this price range also put off chemicals that are actually toxic to humans with enough exposure in an unventilated room.
never seen an 3d Printer in Space-> here you go. nice edit !
So you can print something without a program from a computer?
Technically yes. But in my opinion, that is not a good way to print something.
As you saw in the video, the file that was on there was prepared in such a way that I could really just press start and it printed. And that was awesome, because it just worked right out of the box. Also it is possible to download files that are ready to go.
But in order to make the prints better and not crash your printer, you really want to control the print parameters. And that's where you use a software (called slicer) to prepare the machine code. Like this you can specify and see what the printer is going to do before you start printing, which is really helpful and prevents many problems and mistakes. Thats why I would recommend to always use a slicing program like cura, orcaslicer, prusaslicer etc.
And then the workflow is: Find a model you want to print -> download it. Open it in a slicer, and prepare it for printing (set the temperatures, speed etc.) -> save to SD Card or USB and then start the print. Once you are a bit comfortable, it will take just five minutes from downloading the model until the printer starts printing :)