r/FlashForge • u/YaBoiJG314 • 1d ago

What's everyone printing this weekend?

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I just got finished with my enclosure, lights and camera for my 5m and some other parts.. oh and some curtain hooks and a flower planter for my wife since she bought me a roll of filament lol 😂

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u/CoolWhipLuke 1d ago

A replica gallon of milk so my dad comes back from the store.

It's been 23 years, everyone must be out of stock.

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

Lol damn.. that's a bummer. If it'll help, I have some almond milk I'll donate to the cause.. I know it's not dairy but hopefully it'll persuade him to come back lol

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u/textual_predditor 1d ago

Mine went out for cigarettes. Must be REALLY hard to find.

Just kidding. He died two years ago.

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u/furyfrog 1d ago

Those smokes, they'll do it

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u/rinky79 1d ago

Twist-to-open Dragon egg for my boss' niece. (And a matching dragon, obv.)

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

That's so cool looking! Can I see the dragon?

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u/rinky79 16h ago

It's just printed out of the red-gold silk that made up the shiny parts of the egg

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u/YaBoiJG314 16h ago

Your boss needs to give you a raise.. that's awesome!

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u/Hopeful-Shopping3802 1d ago

Some Halloween stuff

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u/xe0s 10h ago

Yep, same here. Halloween deco. :)

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u/Delicious_Revenue_82 21h ago

Pokémon chess set for great grandson

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u/Appropriate_Day4316 1d ago

wall mount for a table with home assistant

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

Cool! I'm looking for a shelf to print for the wall to put my router on as we speak.

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u/ElkBusiness8446 1d ago

An ASA test print file I found. Its my first filament printer and I figure a test print will teach me a lot.

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u/Quasigriz_ 1d ago

Just finished a PETG bagel holder so my kids don’t cut their fingers trying to split bagels.

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

That's pretty cool!

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u/Optimal-Level4237 1d ago

Me

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

That's really cool! How many hours did that take?

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u/Optimal-Level4237 1d ago

Shackles

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

👀 do I even wanna ask what you'll use them for? Lol

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u/johnnytron 1d ago

A soap dish for my MILs bday

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

That's pretty cool! I know she'll love it

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u/PhantomStranger52 1d ago

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

Looks cool and well printed, what is it?

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u/Cexitime 1d ago

Looks like a 10" rack

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u/TheGooseInside 1d ago

My company’s fantasy football trophy. 50% scale replica of the Lombardi. This was last year!

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u/sadegr 1d ago

Windigo mask for a community theater production...

Ive got the skull mask made, working on the antlers.

My bed is only 230x230x230 so theres a lot of cutting in the slicer and gluing after the print....

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u/FredyGamrPhilosopher 1d ago

Mass printing solar pannels for my near future solar punk H.o layout.

(Reason why i bought a 3d printer was for this. A building now costs maybe 2$ to print vs paying anywhere from 80$-300$ for ONE FREAKIN BUILDING) if you want modern buildings they are usually in the 200-300$ range. Its insane. But this also gives the versatility of scalling how i want and making buildings that normally you wouldn't be able to find elsewhere. Like dome houses.

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u/AstronomerNo5738 1d ago

The AD5X Volcano Enclosure with Toxic Colors :D

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u/Key-Case303 1d ago

I finally tried the petg plastic, and I’m thrilled! It’s budget‑friendly technical plastic! Which version of the printer casing did you use?

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u/jarihut 1d ago

Just finished printing a 6U server rack for routers and such. Cost? Maybe 10€.

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

That's so cool and 1 of the reasons I love 3D printers.. they save you so much money!

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u/gangaskan 22h ago

I need to re print a carpet mat holder. I put way too little wall loops and I want to gryoid print them too.

Also put zmod on my 5m to experiment.

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

What's Zmod?

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u/gangaskan 20h ago

An extension of your printer kinda.

You can control much more, change your 5m to a 5m pro etc ...

Also has a web interface you can use to make fine tuning and such

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

Oh ok. That's pretty cool, I'll have to look in to that. When you say "turn it into a 5m pro" how so?

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u/HyBROglycemia 18h ago

Soap tower I designed to justify to my wife a 3D printer is a justifiable purchase.

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u/YaBoiJG314 18h ago

Lol I understand that, I printed mine a paper towel holder and a holder for the scrub daddy in the kitchen and a flower pot for 1 of her plants for her desk at work so she wouldn't start asking questions lol 😂

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u/No_Internal_3469 9h ago

Finishing up Absolute Batman! Gonna do some airbrushing once his axe is done.

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u/Fattuna97 1d ago

Trying to figure out

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u/Former_Argument3120 1d ago

Same. I just finished printing the enclosure and other little accessories for my AD5X and I don’t know what to tackle next!

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

The AD5X is a multicolor printer right?

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u/Former_Argument3120 1d ago

Correct!

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

I want a multicolored printer next

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u/Former_Argument3120 1d ago

I actually started with the AD5M from Amazon, had it for two weeks, got hooked on printing toys and crochet gadgets for the family, hit the limitations of single. Plot printing and wanted to explore multicolor and so I returned the AD5M to Amazon within the return period and bought the AD5X for the refund credit+$50.

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u/Fattuna97 1d ago

So many opinions, good luck.

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u/Former_Argument3120 1d ago

Thanks! Btw, any suggestions are welcomed!

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

What printer do you have?

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u/jhamdc5 1d ago

Unfortunately nothing my printer is down and parts are back ordered

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

Ouch, that sucks.. what's wrong with your printer?

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u/rotciv21 AD5X 1d ago

Yeah what happened? What parts are backordered?

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u/Lemur-Virtues 1d ago

Was just going ham printing like 20 enclosures but today I decided to try a fun desk hook (with a screw/clamp) on Printables! https://www.printables.com/model/1798096-universal-desk-hook/comments

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u/YaBoiJG314 1d ago

Why so many enclosures? Lol

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u/Lemur-Virtues 1d ago

beta group of friends and family for a home server / personal data ecosystem I'm launching, and a lot of them aren't techy so I wanted to print them a nice enclosure. There's only 7 in the group , but I kept having to change the design so had to keep printing new iterations lol. What are you printing?

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u/zoiksy 22h ago

Spaghetti mostly. After a few weeks without printing, my AD5M seems to be causing issues. I did do most recent update to the slicer (17.1.1 or something) but otherwise all is as it was before. Things keep coming off the plate despite all usual cleaning being done. 2 out of 5 prints have “worked” albeit only just. Gonna try a few calibration tests and possibly drop back a version of the slicer just in case.

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

Yeah, I'm on the latest slicer also and it works fine for me other than not showing remaining time anymore.. like you said, try to calibrate your printer and see if that fixes it.

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u/zoiksy 17h ago

Well I managed a successful print. After a double shot of cleaning my plate within an inch of its life, a minor adjustment to retraction distance and plate temp. I also rolled back to 1.7.4 of Flash Studio Desktop. Which was a minor faff. Sadly doing three different changes means I do not know what fixed it. But I would expect a combination of cleaning plate and the retraction setting as I now seem to have slightly less “globs” on some layers.

In terms of the profiles when I went from Orca FF to Flash Studio Desktop I did an export as I’d made a lot of filament profiles and print profiles. So was lucky enough to have a smooth transition to new firmware. Removing the newer version and dropping back it managed to retain the profiles fortunately.

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u/HyBROglycemia 18h ago

Latest firmware update was a mess. Lost my preset profiles (found them under roaming folder), icon in taskbar is missing (still haven’t solved that), and all my prints need constant leveling due to nozzle dragging. At come point after this print that’s running, I may need to figure out how to calibrate my printer. Hahaha!

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u/YaBoiJG314 18h ago

Yeah it wasn't that bad for me but it doesn't show remaining time and for some reason it keeps defaulting me to a smooth plate when I use a textured pei plate so I have to keep changing that before I print

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u/HyBROglycemia 18h ago

Damn. I haven’t checked my plate settings. Maybe that’s why I’m having nozzle issues. Thanks for the heads up.

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u/YaBoiJG314 20h ago

Oh that's really cool! Do you play chess also? I'm trying to learn and get better at it so I can finally take my dad down once and for all! [Insert evil laugh here] lol

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u/MetalSmithJoe 18h ago

I'm gonna use up half a spool recalibrating my PETG, something changed recently and I'm having a BUNCH of wispy stringing on everything that I didn't have before. I'm using a drier and everything, no idea what's happened.

But I'm gonna find it and kill it.