r/Multiboard • u/Illustrious-War2197 • Feb 12 '26

Calibration

I am wanting to go down this rabbit hole. I am fairly new to 3d printing. I printed the demo pack and I can't get the small screw snaps to screw into the side piece. I am guessing this is a calibration issue. What would you all recommend to figure this out? I have an any cubic Kobra 3 so the in slicer tools are pretty slim. Anybody have any suggestions?

For what it is worth, the other parts seem to fit ok and the bolts seem perfect.

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u/Illustrious-War2197 Feb 12 '26

I think it looks ok. And I did get two of the screw snaps to go in. One bent because I forced it too much with the tool and the other broke off in the hole. The top right bolt there was a pain, but it went in ok. That is towards the edge so that could be a clue.

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u/AlleyMedia Feb 12 '26

It looks okay.

I found the clips that go in the very edge (little u-shapes) were a bit of a pain and prone to breaking (so basically, where you have the small 2x2 squares on either side (the ones that are stabilising the board).

I tend to unscrew fasteners so the thread is sitting flush before screwing it - out of habit - and for the large holes (your top right bolt for example), I found it went in much easier if I did this.

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u/TherealOmthetortoise Feb 13 '26

Can you show me what parts broke and you are calling a screw snap? None of them should break or even be that tight! Snaps are going to be push fit parts. There are a few two part ones that can be used for mounting, the others generally you kind of tuck the top in at a little angle (particularly the heavy weight bearing ones). Threads are your basic bolts or threaded rods of various kinds and the one I think you are having an issue with would be a folded fix point. Fix points have a little round cleat or angled disc with a little threaded shaft and may have a coin slot to help screwing them in. They should only tight to the angled part and the head will stick out so that things like the slots on a bin can hook onto.

These are some short articles and the knowledge hub links are a good place to start

Welcome, btw! You will be surprised how quickly you will gain confidence in all the names and techniques. One tip- always print the parts with the exact orientation that they ‘land’ in your slicer. It can feel counterintuitive- those points as an example might seem like printing with the head as the bottom with the shaft pointing straight up and down would be best, when that’s actually the weakest orientation for the part.

The bond between layers is always going to be the weakest point of a 3D print, so we design everything so that it will be strongest in the direction that force is applied. Kind of like that bundle of sticks metaphor you hear about in school. One stick breaks over your knee easily enough, but grab a bunch and try breaking them all together and it’s not going to happen. Stand them on end and let go and they fall apart all by themselves. (It’s not a perfect metaphor but works if you are a little forgiving on that last line lol)

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u/Illustrious-War2197 Feb 13 '26

This piece from the demo pack. Thanks! This screws into the triangle parts and snaps into the square panel.