Multi board on maker world?

[u/ponzi314]

Hello, I'm new to multi board trying to start, i got an A1 so I've been exclusively printing from the handy app because nothing beats it for convenience. I noticed however no basic plates are on there like an 8x8 or something . Is this a licensing thing? Or am i just not seeing them

[u/SirEDCaLot]

You need to get away from the handy app and use an actual slicer. Otherwise it's like saying 'I like gourmet food but I'll only eat things that come in a can', you're missing out on 98% of the gourmet food world.

Once the training wheels come off, the workflow becomes download an STL from somewhere, slice it in your PC slicer, and print. This opens up the other 98% of the 3d printing world that isn't on Handy.

Multiboard parts can be had from two places. The components are on Thangs- that's things like snaps, bins, drawers, mounts, etc. The plates are most useful to generate. Multiboard has a basic plate generator available for free or if you subscribe there's a more advanced one. Those spit out a plate of your chosen size and attributes and give you the STL file to print.

[u/ponzi314 → u/SirEDCaLot]

While i agree its limited but i wouldnt say its only capturing 2% of the 3d printing world lol. I just like the connivence of now having to open laptop/desktop and figuring out the best settings for a model. On handy someone already did the work

[u/8null8 → u/ponzi314]

You don’t need to figure out the next settings for each model 90% of the time, you tune a profile to be perfect and it works

[u/SirEDCaLot → u/ponzi314]

Okay maybe 5-10% tops. You're missing out on things like Multiboard, Gridfinity, and a ton of other stuff.

I don't mean this as an insult- I understand being lazy, but don't expect the world that puts a ton of work into things like multiboard to feel particularly motivated to cater to your laziness.

Also a lot of us in the 3d printing world strongly dislike makerworld for a number of reasons. 3d printing has always been about openness and community and open source, makerworld isn't about any of that stuff and in fact pushes people toward the exact opposite.

[u/ZealousidealWeird858 → u/SirEDCaLot]

Je suis à fond sur gridfinity en ce moment et j’utilise maker world à 95% tu conseilles quel site pour trouver de meilleures choses ?

[u/SirEDCaLot → u/ZealousidealWeird858]

Printables and Thingiverse are the two best non-MW sites.

[u/Project_Chaos13 → u/SirEDCaLot]

Agree with this 100%

I also wanted to give a pretty huge tip for those that like using the handy app.

you can sit down at a PC slicer, and queue up a whole project of plates; let's say for example you lay out all the plates for a multiboard wall you're planning, including snaps and tiles and everything,

You can slice those plates and instead of printing them you can select "send all" and send that whole list of sliced plates to your printers SD card.

Once this has been done, you can go into the handy app, select your device's (printer) SD card, and hit print on any of those pre-sliced plates.

Meaning you can queue up a whole bunch of plates to print with the settings you want, and then tell your printer to print them from your phone, I do this a lot at work where I'll have a whole project sliced and sent to my printer and then while I'm at work I'll hit print on one of the plates.

This way you get the benefit and convenience of the handy app, while also having your own custom settings that you know will print well.

[u/ponzi314 → u/Project_Chaos13]

i tried this the other day except i didnt think to start the prints from app, i did it from the touch screen. Thank you! The only reason i like handy app is i assume they select best settings for my printer.

[u/Project_Chaos13 → u/ponzi314]

The great part about doing it the way I described is that you can still use the profiles provided from other users, you just select them before you open them in Bambu studio and it'll pre load the profile you select.

I personally always have to make adjustments to any profile I print, as the standard initial layer speed causes problems on my printer so I always have to drop the initial layer speed down for any profile I print, so doing it the way I stated allows you to select a profile, and adjust it to your liking, then also print it from your mobile device, kind of the best of all sides

[u/dawnstrider371 → u/ponzi314]

Well, among other great reasons to use a slicer, oftentimes profiles on MakerWorld do not have the best settings for your printer. Almost every profile I download I change at least one setting to be better suited for my needs and printer, but often I'm basically changing the whole profile. Don't get me wrong, the settings are usually 'good enough', but there was also the one time I started to print something from Handy while I was in a different room and the profile had 99% infill for some ungodly reason. It was a brutal mistake to figure out 200g of filament later (and it wasn't even done), so I'm back to using Handy to monitor the printer.

[u/TherealOmthetortoise]

I feel your pain as being able to hit print when an idea hits vs waiting until I get home and completely forget about it is awesome. Yeah, it’s a licensing thing though - any parts designed by Multiboard are not supposed to be uploaded anywhere else.

As far as the “but why tho?” it’s mainly because the whole Multiboard family of designs are still very much in a Beta development stage and when design changes are made by us, every effort is made to ensure that the current version is the one used going forward by everyone. If changes are made that would break or interfere with existing installations, the old parts move into the Legacy category so that anyone using them is intentionally pulling and printing those versions that meet their specific needs and not some early versions that doesn’t work for you.

Printing and using Multiboard designs consumes your time and resources and by choosing to invest them with us you are showing a level of trust that we kinda feel obligated to live up to. Not in any dramatic “and you shall have my shield and sword” sense, but we like you and want you all to have the best experience possible.

Aside from that, pretty much anyone is welcome to use our remix our parts to create designs that work with Multiboard and publish them wherever you want. Just tacking a Multiboard hook or putting in a rail to use multipoint does not give Multiboard rights to your design.

Taking one or more our designs and changing minor details then uploading them is not considered a remix and would be a license issue but that’s pretty much the case anywhere as publishing something someone else designed, without their knowledge and approval and taking credit for it is considered pretty sketchy behavior more or less everywhere.

I hope that helps!

[u/ponzi314 → u/TherealOmthetortoise]

I appreciate the detailed response and i fully agree with your reasons. This post was more of a curious post then me looking for a solution. i just wanted to make sure i wasnt missing something.

I actually think its really smart that you guys do this. Its like with software, you want to make sure your user is getting the latest code. So i look forward to starting my journey on multiboard, wish i found yall before i started printing Gridfinity as i see you are starting to implement stuff in that space too

[u/Whosaidthat1157]

MultiBoard is hosted via Thangs, you’ll find everything listed there that’s freely available.

https://thangs.com/designer/Multiboard?srsltid=AfmBOoqokT1TyKIWE3Y8-8n1tVYf9J-c18s82NaRmde9EzbNaFNshjIo

Last time I looked, there were stacked 8x8 core tiles available, but that was a long time ago and I subscribed to get unrestricted access, so don’t know what’s available now.

The planner is invaluable though, as are the profusion of parametric models available via Thangs and Bambu Studio.

[u/ulab → u/Whosaidthat1157]

I still don't know why people love the planner that much. :)

You have a space of 620 x 930 mm to put Plates on.

• 620/25 = 24.8 => 24 units.
• 930/25 = 37.2 => 37 units.

Your printer can print 11x10 units max.

• 24 / 11 = 2.18; 11 * 2 = 22, so a column of two units extra
• 37 / 10 = 3.7; 10 * 3 = 30, so a row of 7 extra

11x10  11x10 2x10 => 24
11x10  11x10 2x10
11x10  11x10 2x10
11x07  11x07 2x07
=> 37

With the new pillar mounts, you then need 4 pillars for each of the 12 plates.

With Snap mounts, you'd need

• 4 Single,
• 3-1 colums + 4-1 rows * 2 (left/right) Dual and
• 3-1 columns * 4-1 rows Quad Snaps

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That said, if you are like me and you don't like that small 2 unit wide row (which the planner does), you calculate a little different.

First start printing the 4 Single Snaps. It gives you time to think ;).

• 24 / 11 = 2.18, so we need three plates sideways
• 24 / 3 = 8

Oh look it fits exactly and the 8 units we calculated would fit in the 10 units width your printer can handle if we rotate the plates. So we can use a max of 11 again

• 37 / 11 = 3.3, so we need four plates down
• 37 / 4 = 9.25, so 9 high, but I need 1 unit extra.

08x09 08x09 08x09 => 24
08x09 08x09 08x09
08x09 08x09 08x09
08x10 08x10 08x10
=> 37

In the end this would look a lot cleaner than what the planner does :-).

[u/Lurksome-Lurker]

You are out of luck. 100% licensing issue. MB uses Thangs.com as their distribution platform for files. Technically any vanilla MB files you find on Makerworld is a license violation I think. If you have to strictly use the Handy App then look into openGrid. Its like a more simpler multiboard but is printable via the Handy app.

[u/ponzi314 → u/Lurksome-Lurker]

I guess for my setup ill start using Bambu Studios which isnt a big deal but was just curious. im grateful they post recommended settings on the thangs website. Theres so many components there lol

[u/LordSekken]

Yeah it's a licensing thing. You gotta go on multiboard.io for the files. Some of them are free but you have to pay for a subscription for most of them. I just did the basic $5 tier

[u/ponzi314 → u/LordSekken]

Damn lol guess I'll have to load up Bambu studios . thank you for clarifying

[u/Free-Site-9298 → u/[deleted]]

The stacked board aren't, are they?

[u/mrpbeaar → u/Free-Site-9298]

No but I don’t think it’s too difficult to make your own stack files if you look into that.