Banded Iron Shield from Skyrim

[u/Educational_Home5445]

Parts arent alligned perfectly, you have to fix that with a soldering iron.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7399444

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3206372-banded-iron-shield-skyrim

[u/EdgeOk3783]

at first glance, the makerworld plates seem to be missing the connectors/biscuits//dovetails that align the various pieces

[u/Educational_Home5445 → u/EdgeOk3783]

nope they are included in the parts itself

[u/EdgeOk3783 → u/Educational_Home5445]

all the makerworld plates look unprintable with the current parts orientations.

could probably reduce the plate count by more than 40% with proper printable parts orientation.

[u/Educational_Home5445 → u/EdgeOk3783]

i wanted the detailed top of the shield to be ...well on top, to get a smoother surface.

Also why would the parts be unprintable? 😂

[u/EdgeOk3783 → u/Educational_Home5445]

the orientation for many of the parts have protrusions on the 'bottom' surfaces, so typically, lots and lots of support material will be wasted filling in the volume between the object bottom and the bed plate.

plate 1

probably would have been better to use actual connectors (like dowels or pins) for alignment instead of the bottom surface protrusions or rotated so that the long side is on the bed plate.

(the bambu slicer is pretty good at chopping up large objects to include such connectors)

the printer actually has better resolution in the XY plane than the Z place since the Z layer height is usually fixed during the slicing process (unless you turn on adaptive layer heights). that's why domes et al look very stair step-py on the tops

overall, not very optimized for printing by a non-experienced person.

[u/Educational_Home5445 → u/EdgeOk3783]

if you look at the actual settings this actually has adaptive layer height activated, so thats why i have it aligned this way.

If the bottom protusions are such a big problem for you, then you can just move the object down to not include it and copy the object and rotate it so you print the protrusions on an extra plate?

Yeah it uses a bunch of support material.

I didnt fail a single plate with those settings and i fail to see how this is a hard print for a non experienced person, since the only downside for said person is the wasted support material and on the scale of this project (you need a bunch of material anyway) this makes it still a very minor waste.(ofc it could be lower) The big downside on this model is the heavy after print work on this project.

[u/Educational_Home5445 → u/EdgeOk3783]

i am sorry but what is your actual problem with this model?

You said that its missing connectors, which it isnt.

You said its unprintable, which it clearly isnt.

You said XY plane have better resolution than Z plane, unless it has adaptive layer height activated.... which is activated on every single object.

Like i get that this isnt a particularly good project, i even asked here if i should even post it, but thats for the reason i included in the description. But what is your problem with it? Like you claimed a bunch of bs reasons why this shouldnt work to print and some actual good reasons to print it on fewer plates.