Found this while cruising Thingiverse and thought it would be perfect for my diorama. Amazing print quality, everything fit, no boogers, almost no trimming.

My question would be, why do you have to print parts and assemble it? Couldn't you just print it as a complete unit?

BTW, your dioramas look great, very realistic!

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Originally posted by architect:
My question would be, why do you have to print parts and assemble it? Couldn't you just print it as a complete unit?

BTW, your dioramas look great, very realistic!

It would be possible with a resin style printer, but the supports needed to print it with a filament printer would be a real pain - if not impossible - to remove cleanly at 1:64 scale. About a 5 minute job to snap it together anyway.

Sweet! Thanks for the link.

I know practically nothing about 3-D printing, and have a question. Can you scale the size of the printed objects? Seems as though that would be feasible.

Hey, Paul, what kind of printer are you using?

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I know practically nothing about 3-D printing, and have a question. Can you scale the size of the printed objects? Seems as though that would be feasible.

In a word, yes. You can scale the STL file (either up or down) after it's brought into your slicer software and go from there.

We got a new printer from Bambu Labs at work. It came with a spool of green filament, so naturally I figured the first thing we should print would be Godzilla. The model I downloaded was "yuge," so I had to scale it down in order to print within the 10" cube available. Easy, breezy!

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Originally posted by vthoky:
Hey, Paul, what kind of printer are you using?

A Creality Ender 3 Pro. Inexpensive and relatively old technology. Prints using various filaments. I use PLA.

And yup, you can scale in the "slicing" software that converts the CAD language used to draw the object to 3 dimensional positioning language for the printer.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
A Creality Ender 3 Pro. Inexpensive and relatively old technology.

I'm familiar with it! (Got an Ender 5 here....)

I learned quickly that PLA won't stand up to in-car temperatures in the summer.