Hard to believe it is already a year since the puzzle egg came out. It still sits on my desk and I play with it most days while thinking big thoughts. Thanks Angus
Here is an Idea, Litho eggs. You could put pics of things they like, or them, or family on them, and have a little stand with leds to put them on after.
i have no idea why anyone would unlike this. thanks for opening my eyes to this amazing resource. Been wanting to add texture to my models since forever and that's not easy in CAD...
Very Clever Egg designs. Thank You for the detailed utilization of the Textures feature - Thank You for giving back to the community - definitely going to give some of those egg designs a try.
Ordering my first 3d printer in a few days (planning on an Artillery Sidewinder X1) and just wanted to say thanks for all of your videos. Been watching a ton of your stuff in the run-up to making the order. I have a background with parametric 3d modeling as well as G-code (CNC) so I'm looking forward to have something to mess with around the house, and your videos have been invaluable, thank you Angus!
Sticky screw thread on the one which looks like a traditional chocolate egg - run it under the tap and twist/untwist the halves several times to get them to smooth out, then wipe the threads with some kitchen towel to remove any particles and try again. It's how I smoothed out the threads on some containers I designed + printed to hold silica gel beads to keep my filaments dry (the top+bottom of the containers have lots of little holes).
MVP comment right here. Just finished a print and the screw was tight. I was worried the kid I was going to give it to wouldn't be able to open it. Tried this trick and now it opens and closes fine.
Angus you should restart making accessible combat robot guides and videos, I really think people would be interested in it if they knew how they worked.
@@MakersMuse It be great to see you apply new 3d printing materials and techniques into combat robots again! If you ever build an ant or beetle, there are always competitions in SA you can come and fight at!
IceSL has the ability to do this and much more, you should check it out. I would love to see this little known gem of a slicer get the attention it deserves.
Very useful. Thanks. IdeaMaker is so powerful. Seeing your little four wheel vehicle gave me an idea. I am now looking forward to a future video in which you 3D print a fully functioning robot mower. Now there's a challenge for you.
Thank you so much for this info, I think i'm switching from Prusa slicer over to Ideamaker just because it's so much more intuitive and better laid out over all! Keep up the good work and spreading the knowledge!
Your execution felt like an Adobe Photoshop "thing" where I say "dude is so easy just A B C D E and of course F, and Z y N W T W, and you're Done! So easy!" ... But I didn't know this program could do what you showed, I'll experiment on my printer so thank for the inspiration.
Good thing I didn’t watch this video more than a couple of days before Easter it I would being ordering a lot more filament! Thanks for another great video!
Great idea! Thanks for showing it to us! But by the way, you don't need any retraction to print these eggs, just make sure there are no travel moves across the inner volume (OK, maybe that's a limiation in IdeaMaker, I have not tried it yet... shame on me...) Well, if it is possible to avoid travel moves across the inner free volume, than you can avoid retracts at all and that would give you a very clean surface. You don't need a retraction just to move up one layer, because that movement up one layer is way quicker than the retraction, so whenever it is possible, it's better to print without retractions at all :-) Just watch the preview carefully and make the traval moves visible and make sure that the travel moves do not cross any open space, because that would give you massive stringing without retractions.
Very cool idea! The green egg looked especially cool as it was all aligned. How would you go about aligning or matching up the textures on upper and lower part?
@Maker's Muse You've mentioned filament getting brittle in the bowden tube. Just a random thought, my guess is that traces of moisture is cooking out in the hot end and staying in the tube to be re absorbed later. Imagine the trace moisture from several meters of filament mostly ending up concentrated back into a few inches of filament left in the tube.
The weird wheeled car video was fun when first uploaded, but now with this appearance it's quickly growing on me, I think it needs some recurring appearances.
I actually have been using ideamaker since hearing of this feature and I think I may leave simplify3d. Someone was able to make an amazing profile for my sidewinder x1 and I'm not really missing anything. Pretty cool stuff coming out for free!
I have a suggestion for you on what you can do next with your cockatoo. 3D print "gumball machine" type thing. Instead of gumballs it gives out a specific amount of seed. Leave every type of coinage your country has. Train it to put the coins into the machine to get seed. Once trained your cockatoo will always be looking for dropped change on sidewalks and in parks. After a while other cockatoos will see this and eventually you will have a bunch of birds all collecting change for you. I'll accept 10% idea fee for the first 2 years of you doing this. Lol
Fun trick - you can download Voxelizer for free and then take your gcode and create an STL which you can then use in the slicer of your choosing. Whether it's for using output from IdeaMaker or just any gcode you want to recreate an STL from. Comes in handy.
Great video, Angus! I've been looking for something exactly like this for weeks to print some eggs for the kids in my son's preschool. I wish the beta version was more stable (it crashes every time I use the Move feature) but I can work around that in a pinch.
Hi, Angus! Yeah, IdeaMaker is cool! But I like more the traditional 3d approach where you use UV Unwrap function and then project a texture on a mesh. The cylindrical wrapping shows uneven mapping that causes texture stretching (vertical compression). It's not noticeable on the first look of course :) P.S. Anyway I like the video, it's a cool idea!
Don´t forget to remove the textures on the other thread on the bottom side of the upper egg part !!! I used a small cylindric-modifier for that. Printed it today. Amazing job! Don´t do the same mistake like me, or your thread won´t work : _ (
10:55 just a little information. The setting 1 group is not necessary. If you select in the profile, that the texture will be only on the outer side, you can say for setting 2 the start and end point with disabled texture.
Hay Angus, I'm new to 3d printing, and have followed all your videos with gratitude for your work. I was following step by step, installed ideaMaker, very excited to be doing this, but then, (and I know it is probably obvious to everyone else, ) but "Where the heck did you grab that cube from?"
Hi Angus, I just saw this one video done by Makers Mashup regarding this plugin called arc welder in cura and octoprint. It converts lines that are normally generated by slicers into arcs and helps to significantly reduce the amount of gcode sent to the printer and improves print quality. I'd be very interested in you also doing a video on this plugin. Also, love the easter eggs. Probably going to by trying to print some of these soon for the family easter egg hunt.
So this is like the third video I've seen about this topic in the past week (textures from Idea Maker). Is this a sponsored video or is it just coincidence that you all decided to cover it this exact week?
Hey Angus, cool video! What 3D printer would you recommend? I am looking for a big build volume, it shouldn't cost more than ~1000€ and maybe have a multi material or dual extrusion upgrade available.. I am currently deciding between the ender 5 plus and the creality cr-6 max. You sadly don't have any reviews on both of them.
I know this isn't a printer review video but I have watched a bunch of yours and they have really given me some insight on the 3D printers available. My wife started a crafting business with the Silhouette Cameo 4 and when I bought it for her I noticed that they had a 3D printer called the Silhouette Alta+. Very curious I bought one and even though it has a small build space it does an amazing job with its default high quality settings. I was able to print a 4 inche tall version of King Kong and Godzilla and the details are astounding from a less than 300.00 printer. However after I showed my wife how to use it she started trying to print earrings for her business and these are quite thin, just over a 16th of an inch thick. No matter what changes I make to the settings I keep getting holes in the print. I was wondering if you might have any advice or maybe even be willing to review the printer? Let me know if you have a chance and thank you for your very informative videos.
It's a great slicer. It is more complex is Cora, because I can so many things. I started with Cora, switched to Idearmaker for the constant quality. And ended with PrusaSlicer. Still using the Idearmaker slicer on the job thou.
Hi Angus. Love this video. I may have missed it, but how did you use the modifier to suppress the texture on the top half of the egg, where you would want texture on the outside surface, but not inside, where the thread is. Using the modifier to suppress it on the bottom half of the egg made perfect sense. Thanks.
I started with 3D printing about two years ago. Used Cura for a short time then quickly changed to Idea Maker. Not many use it, but I like it. I really like the structure of the print settings. As far as I can tell it has everything a slicer needs
Hello Angus. Thanks for your hard work and every new video you upload. I watched a lot, learned a lot and it helped me greatly in work. I've got a bit of a chameful favor to ask. "What do you think about the creality cr-3040 industrial grade 3D printer ?". I'm opening my own place and i need as printer that can work around the clock for a really long time. Again thanks for the hard work. Really appreciate it.
Can you upload the STL of the textured eggs? I don't really want to learn a new software at the moment but I would love to print the Celtic gold one in silk white.
This looks great seems ideal for adding a stone texture quickly and easily to basic shapes in order to make dungeon walls for a tabletop game
Hard to believe it is already a year since the puzzle egg came out. It still sits on my desk and I play with it most days while thinking big thoughts.
Thanks Angus
Yeah... what a time! Glad to hear it's good for fiddling with, that's what I do with mine too.
Grabbed the files from your site. My grandkids (that we've not seen since Xmas but live 30km away) will love these. Thanks.
That little wobble car is just absolutely adorable, and the egg holder on top is clever indeed!
Scrambled egg remote controlled toy car.
is it tho
@@zh9664 bruh
Here is an Idea, Litho eggs. You could put pics of things they like, or them, or family on them, and have a little stand with leds to put them on after.
I had no idea i needid this
Eggcellent, you seem to have really cracked this.
i have no idea why anyone would unlike this. thanks for opening my eyes to this amazing resource. Been wanting to add texture to my models since forever and that's not easy in CAD...
Very Clever Egg designs. Thank You for the detailed utilization of the Textures feature - Thank You for giving back to the community - definitely going to give some of those egg designs a try.
This is great! I've never really got interested in 3d printing until I came to this channel and saw what it could do! Keep up with the great content!
A gem of a post. Thank you. An idea, it's perfect for all kinds of handles and grips, using the daimond texture or whatever.
The texture "embossing" is actually what i searched for last weekend :D
I even wanted to make easter eggs ^^
Ordering my first 3d printer in a few days (planning on an Artillery Sidewinder X1) and just wanted to say thanks for all of your videos. Been watching a ton of your stuff in the run-up to making the order. I have a background with parametric 3d modeling as well as G-code (CNC) so I'm looking forward to have something to mess with around the house, and your videos have been invaluable, thank you Angus!
Sticky screw thread on the one which looks like a traditional chocolate egg - run it under the tap and twist/untwist the halves several times to get them to smooth out, then wipe the threads with some kitchen towel to remove any particles and try again. It's how I smoothed out the threads on some containers I designed + printed to hold silica gel beads to keep my filaments dry (the top+bottom of the containers have lots of little holes).
MVP comment right here. Just finished a print and the screw was tight. I was worried the kid I was going to give it to wouldn't be able to open it. Tried this trick and now it opens and closes fine.
Angus you should restart making accessible combat robot guides and videos, I really think people would be interested in it if they knew how they worked.
I'm working on the build guide for this platform, but yes I'd love to revisit combat robotics!
@@MakersMuse I love hearing that!
It seems that robot combat is gaining popularity so now might be a great time to revisit making videos for them :)
@@ManIkWeet It makes me think of Big Hero 6 ...
@@MakersMuse It be great to see you apply new 3d printing materials and techniques into combat robots again!
If you ever build an ant or beetle, there are always competitions in SA you can come and fight at!
Yes!
IceSL has the ability to do this and much more, you should check it out. I would love to see this little known gem of a slicer get the attention it deserves.
Angus, you have way too much fun. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for making me discover IdeaMaker and its texture abilities.
this channel is really underrated.. i hope the best for you!! keep doing what you like!! and LOVE YOUR DESIGN!!! AWESOME
Thanks Angus, great incentive to explore Ideamaker and take a break from simple "fuzzy skin" texturing in Cura. Happy Easter to all Down Under!
Finally using ideamker, i am using almost 3 years and for me its the best so far.
AMAzing video was always
Very useful. Thanks. IdeaMaker is so powerful.
Seeing your little four wheel vehicle gave me an idea. I am now looking forward to a future video in which you 3D print a fully functioning robot mower. Now there's a challenge for you.
ruumba for the garden?
Fantastic add-on on a good slicer.
Great video as always
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
Thank you so much for this info, I think i'm switching from Prusa slicer over to Ideamaker just because it's so much more intuitive and better laid out over all! Keep up the good work and spreading the knowledge!
Very well explained, I really want to test it.
Only so few days to Easter holidays and so many eggs to print and fill 🤣
WOW, very cool ideas and as usual, perfection! Thank you so much for sharing with all of us! You are the best!
Your execution felt like an Adobe Photoshop "thing" where I say "dude is so easy just A B C D E and of course F, and Z y N W T W, and you're Done! So easy!" ... But I didn't know this program could do what you showed, I'll experiment on my printer so thank for the inspiration.
Awesome stuff as usual. Printed one with a crazy pattern for my grandson. He’s going to love it.
That whole intro made me smile real big. The music, edits, framing, and throwback to the wobble car are just so well done. 🥰
As always a great tutorial Angus!
Good thing I didn’t watch this video more than a couple of days before Easter it I would being ordering a lot more filament! Thanks for another great video!
here we go, the Easter craze started... now whole youtube will be filled with eggs content...
I don't know if you have kids, if you don't, when you will have kids they WILL LOVE YOU !!! Seriously !!!
Cool designs and clear instructions. Thanks!
Better instructions than even Raise3d had
I like the way he says 'they open them up and they are full of delicious chocolate', and there's ONE!!!! 😂😂😂
I love this!! Beautiful man!
I know i said that before - but Angus you are a genius! Thanks for sharing that awesome software with us.
Still making all the music for your channel yourself?
That was a nice little intro.
Yeah :)
@@MakersMuse how is Popeye doing?
@Ema Fougner what?
Great video as always and I still kept a kick out of the wobbly wheels!
Wow the modifier tool here looks really easy! It's a lot like making a collider trigger in unity.
and thank you Angus, I really appreciate you and your videos. I always enjoy your videos.
Thank you, Angus.
Awesome, thanks Angus great easter idea, really easy to do (by the looks of it)
Great idea! Thanks for showing it to us!
But by the way, you don't need any retraction to print these eggs, just make sure there are no travel moves across the inner volume (OK, maybe that's a limiation in IdeaMaker, I have not tried it yet... shame on me...)
Well, if it is possible to avoid travel moves across the inner free volume, than you can avoid retracts at all and that would give you a very clean surface.
You don't need a retraction just to move up one layer, because that movement up one layer is way quicker than the retraction, so whenever it is possible, it's better to print without retractions at all :-) Just watch the preview carefully and make the traval moves visible and make sure that the travel moves do not cross any open space, because that would give you massive stringing without retractions.
Very, very cool. Now I wish I would have thought of this before now. No way I'll get enough eggs printed before Easter!
I love those egg/cone candies, eated them on new year.
Love the intro music!
damn, dat some nice egg. I would love to try this, just got my two ender 3's. Great video m8 :) happy easter!
So, robot arm for the wobble car next?
Very cool idea! The green egg looked especially cool as it was all aligned. How would you go about aligning or matching up the textures on upper and lower part?
@Maker's Muse You've mentioned filament getting brittle in the bowden tube. Just a random thought, my guess is that traces of moisture is cooking out in the hot end and staying in the tube to be re absorbed later. Imagine the trace moisture from several meters of filament mostly ending up concentrated back into a few inches of filament left in the tube.
My horror loving ass immediately went straight to Critter eggs lol.
If the texture only works on the sides, you slice the model, export it then import it, rotate it and reapply the texture
Nice eggs.
The weird wheeled car video was fun when first uploaded, but now with this appearance it's quickly growing on me, I think it needs some recurring appearances.
Not gonna lie, busted out laughin when I saw the hobblin' wobblin' rover picking up eggs
Congrats on 800k
sounds like something you can do with a pumpkin design for halloween!
Great intro!
How To Basic: I will take your entire stocks
I actually have been using ideamaker since hearing of this feature and I think I may leave simplify3d. Someone was able to make an amazing profile for my sidewinder x1 and I'm not really missing anything. Pretty cool stuff coming out for free!
Really good ideas
I have a suggestion for you on what you can do next with your cockatoo. 3D print "gumball machine" type thing. Instead of gumballs it gives out a specific amount of seed. Leave every type of coinage your country has. Train it to put the coins into the machine to get seed. Once trained your cockatoo will always be looking for dropped change on sidewalks and in parks. After a while other cockatoos will see this and eventually you will have a bunch of birds all collecting change for you. I'll accept 10% idea fee for the first 2 years of you doing this. Lol
Fun trick - you can download Voxelizer for free and then take your gcode and create an STL which you can then use in the slicer of your choosing. Whether it's for using output from IdeaMaker or just any gcode you want to recreate an STL from. Comes in handy.
Great video, Angus! I've been looking for something exactly like this for weeks to print some eggs for the kids in my son's preschool. I wish the beta version was more stable (it crashes every time I use the Move feature) but I can work around that in a pinch.
Hi, Angus! Yeah, IdeaMaker is cool!
But I like more the traditional 3d approach where you use UV Unwrap function and then project a texture on a mesh. The cylindrical wrapping shows uneven mapping that causes texture stretching (vertical compression). It's not noticeable on the first look of course :)
P.S. Anyway I like the video, it's a cool idea!
Don´t forget to remove the textures on the other thread on the bottom side of the upper egg part !!!
I used a small cylindric-modifier for that.
Printed it today. Amazing job!
Don´t do the same mistake like me, or your thread won´t work : _ (
How long did your print take?
@@wolverine31416 6.5 hours
Pog
10:55 just a little information. The setting 1 group is not necessary. If you select in the profile, that the texture will be only on the outer side, you can say for setting 2 the start and end point with disabled texture.
great work
Eggcellent!
These are so cool
Great video! Thanks.
Hay Angus, I'm new to 3d printing, and have followed all your videos with gratitude for your work. I was following step by step, installed ideaMaker, very excited to be doing this, but then, (and I know it is probably obvious to everyone else, ) but "Where the heck did you grab that cube from?"
Hi Angus, I just saw this one video done by Makers Mashup regarding this plugin called arc welder in cura and octoprint. It converts lines that are normally generated by slicers into arcs and helps to significantly reduce the amount of gcode sent to the printer and improves print quality. I'd be very interested in you also doing a video on this plugin.
Also, love the easter eggs. Probably going to by trying to print some of these soon for the family easter egg hunt.
So this is like the third video I've seen about this topic in the past week (textures from Idea Maker). Is this a sponsored video or is it just coincidence that you all decided to cover it this exact week?
Angus, I'd like an unlockable egg puzzle to make my midgets work for the chocolate 😁
jummy!!! I would love some choclate!
Dude!!! Great Intro!!!
Hey Angus, cool video! What 3D printer would you recommend? I am looking for a big build volume, it shouldn't cost more than ~1000€ and maybe have a multi material or dual extrusion upgrade available.. I am currently deciding between the ender 5 plus and the creality cr-6 max. You sadly don't have any reviews on both of them.
Alien space egg grenades, yeah!
I know this isn't a printer review video but I have watched a bunch of yours and they have really given me some insight on the 3D printers available. My wife started a crafting business with the Silhouette Cameo 4 and when I bought it for her I noticed that they had a 3D printer called the Silhouette Alta+. Very curious I bought one and even though it has a small build space it does an amazing job with its default high quality settings. I was able to print a 4 inche tall version of King Kong and Godzilla and the details are astounding from a less than 300.00 printer. However after I showed my wife how to use it she started trying to print earrings for her business and these are quite thin, just over a 16th of an inch thick. No matter what changes I make to the settings I keep getting holes in the print. I was wondering if you might have any advice or maybe even be willing to review the printer? Let me know if you have a chance and thank you for your very informative videos.
Great job 👏 thanks
Hey mate, love the videos! Got some of the Nightshade Elixer but cant seem to get good layer adhesion... Would you mind posting your settings for me?
Gotta bump temperature up to 215-220 and go a little slower :)
@@MakersMuse thanks! I'll try slowing it down more, running at 230 currently, lol.
This is the first I have heard of ideamaker. Curious about how it does as a slicer in general
It's a great slicer. It is more complex is Cora, because I can so many things.
I started with Cora, switched to Idearmaker for the constant quality. And ended with PrusaSlicer.
Still using the Idearmaker slicer on the job thou.
Better than cheap ones
I like your hair in this video Angus. Much better than the shaggy look. ;-P
Hi Angus. Love this video. I may have missed it, but how did you use the modifier to suppress the texture on the top half of the egg, where you would want texture on the outside surface, but not inside, where the thread is. Using the modifier to suppress it on the bottom half of the egg made perfect sense. Thanks.
IdeaMaker? Haven’t heard about this slicer. How does it perform otherwise? Have you done other videos about it?
I started with 3D printing about two years ago. Used Cura for a short time then quickly changed to Idea Maker. Not many use it, but I like it. I really like the structure of the print settings. As far as I can tell it has everything a slicer needs
I have printed some cool corner shelves... This would be awesome to add some detail to the upper section of these
Great video Angus! Gonna give Ideamaker a try ! Wonder if the texture mapping would be good for lithophanes ?
Hello Angus.
Thanks for your hard work and every new video you upload. I watched a lot, learned a lot and it helped me greatly in work.
I've got a bit of a chameful favor to ask.
"What do you think about the creality cr-3040 industrial grade 3D printer ?". I'm opening my own place and i need as printer that can work around the clock for a really long time.
Again thanks for the hard work. Really appreciate it.
The 8-pronged wheel saying to the others: "come on guys, I'm doing all the work here"
Thank you!
very cool dude
It's all really nice, but how to print that little "inserts" for the big eggs? Do you need some special filament for that? ;)
You should try using Brave Browser for your browser
I honestly should...
Have you tried aligning the patterns?
The polyalchemy elixir filament would be perfect for a Precursor Orb.
I would assume you can play with texture placement in all axis to get stuff like logos to match the upper and lower part of the egg?
Can you upload the STL of the textured eggs? I don't really want to learn a new software at the moment but I would love to print the Celtic gold one in silk white.
Sadly not, it won't export the texture as an stl