Also good for composting and making room in your recycling bin

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STL files available on Thangs

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This would work with regular shaped blades, right? Like this? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GIZ9164/

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Yes any standard sized utility knife blades should fit. I tested a bunch of different brands from my local hardware store.

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FYI those are stupid expensive. Your can get 50-75 for that price at your local hardware store.

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Kickass 3d print man

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Looks like the specific design in this video is being sold here, but if you’d prefer something that isn’t behind a pay wall there’s a few options (like this one).

Side rant: I’m all for people getting compensation for creative work but I feel like it’s wrong to put the source file behind a waywall instead of simply selling the actual print directly to people that don’t have access to a printer, that seems much more fair imo

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Selling the actual print is more work than selling the STL.

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Oh definitely, I just think it’s easier to justify paying for a physical product than it is paying for a single file if you still need to manufacture it yourself. Still a valid business practice, I’m just biased toward “information should be free” and all that.

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It’s $3 which is well worth the time saved by not having to design it from scratch.

Someone had to use their skills to create it, do you think they should work for free?

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But it’s not just information, someone sat in front of their computer and put the work in to design it, then print it and iterate.

You’re paying for that process, and for the time and effort the person took to acquire the necessary skills.

However, there should be a noticeable price difference due to the easy scaling / replicatibility when distributing digital goods.

I’m with you insofar as the final product feels like it should be 3 bucks, not the file.

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I mean, buying things like clothes patterns and carpentry plans is definitely a thing. An stl is really no different.

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So much more. It’s not even in the same ballpark.

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I tried to buy the model from an artist recently for personal use(friend wanted some Mickey ears of a specific style). Person told me no and quoted me $130 with a 3 week wait time for a physical product that was something I could print in about an hour myself. For a Disney product they were already infringing on themselves.

Went elsewhere and found someone selling the model for $7. Figured that was fair for the effort to transform it into a model file.

Turned out I was wrong - only took me 20 minutes to print.

Some of these artists are ridiculous…

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I’ve made a few things. One, Mickey shaped cabinet hardware I put up for free because I didn’t want to deal with Disney. Though I might put the raw print up on Etsy or something just because.

Another is a frame to turn a Disney name tag into an ornament. I’m selling the completed product rather than releasing the design because I wanted to really offer it to people who didn’t have 3d printers and wanted to ensure that it met my standards. And I didn’t want competition. That said, it takes quite a lot of time to print, prep, sand, and paint. I spend a couple hours in finishing each and sell it at a price that… Totally doesn’t make it worth it.

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Awesome! Is that a real device that’s available for sale? Those would be good school or scout projects to donate to animal shelters.

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I have the STL files on Thangs for 3D printing.

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I’ve been thinking about getting a 3D printer. Well, yesterday I decided I need a 3D printer. I know nothing at all. What should I get?

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Don’t get an ender unless you want your hobby to be working on the printer. That’s fine, but it’s not the same as having something ready to go when you unbox it.

Prusa printers are quality and open source; very much worth supporting if you have the money. Your hobby will be printing things for other things if you get one.

Bambu printers are cheap, but not open source. However, you will spend most of your time actually making stuff instead of fixing the printer.

Cheap, reliable, open source/modifiable. Pick two.

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I have an AnkerMake M5 and it’s gloriously painless. There are intrinsic unavoidable challenges to 3D printing, but this thing has been incredible for casual creation.

https://www.ankermake.com/

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I have a 3D printer buyer’s guide on my website that lists a few. I mostly use and would recommend any Bambu printer, there’s a few that can suit any price range. Elegoo also make good printers too which won’t break the bank

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Ender 3 is pretty good introductory model and does nice prints with little effort.

If you’re a buy once, cry once sort of person, Prusa makes good stuff that has a lot of community support.

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I own an Ender 3, 5, and a Prusa Mini. The mini is by far my most reliable printer, but both enders have had a lot of work done to them to get them where they are… and not quite click to print yet.

At one of my jobs I maintained some 35 Prusa Mk3s, about a dozen Elegoo’s, and witnessed their graveyard of Anycubics and some other brands. The Prusa’s generally only needed to be unclogged or have their nozzle changed less than once a month, with only a couple failures per week max, the room also was not temperature controlled and they had some… questionable engineering practices.

The elego’s were like pulling teeth, needing glue to keep it adhered, frequent clogs and skips, thermistors needing replacement after under 100 print hours, blobbing would get into the part coolig fans. Small leveling knobs. Prusa’s IMO were designed to be serviceable, but seem to need it way less.

Especially at a business, the premium on Prusa printers over say bambu labs is well worth their customer support. Ive never used a Bambu so I cant necessarily recommended or not, and I do wish I had an MMU on the cheap as you’d get with their mini, but Im most pleased with my Prusa mini

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A lot of libraries offer 3D printing for about the cost of materials.

It’s worth trying out before dropping huge cash if it’s possible near you.

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Bambu Labs A1 Mini

Cheap, high quality device, high quality prints, out of the box and printing in 25 minutes with no fiddling required.

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I have used something like that. The blade dulls pretty quickly and it is a lot of work. I got 2 or 3 usable cat scratchers out of one blade.

Given that one cat scratcher cost something like 2,50€, it simply wasnt worth it for me.

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While you studied the catch scratcher, I studied the blade.

I was able to get 4 or 5 usable cat scratchers out of one blade.

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