PRIORITY job today is to design and print the mounting system for the wooden audio point info panel I've been working on.
We take the panel and the angle measurement tool I 3D printed tot eh audio point and measure up...then back home to design the mounts. I start with the one for the top and when I;m happy, send it to the 3D printer.
It's gonna take about three hours to print so we go for a swim then home for lunch. Still some printing time to go so I start designing the side mounts which have some fine angles to take into account. I'm using Tinkercad as it's very simple and easy to use on the iPad...it's not feature-rich but it's intuitive for a newbie like me. That, along with Nomad sculpt are my two go-to 3D design tools.
My 3D printing has been 99% functional problem solving or creative since I got the wee Bambu A1 Mini almost a year ago. A £140 marvel of technology. So far I've made replacement toilet seat 'pads', the gasket and (almost!) mounting system for the audio point info panel from soft TPU filament; clothes drier ground cover, replacement section for a broken garden table leg, various tools and masters for casting a penguin paperweight and some jewelry ideas from the regular PLA filament. The only pre-made 'nonsense' I've printed is a fidget thing to clear out the PLA when changing filament.
So in. less than a year I've made enough stuff to more than cover the cost of the printer, filament and stuff plus – more importantly – learned a fair bit about 3D design and sculpting...and had some fun.
Margaret goes off to host a localomplace plan drop-in session at the village hall – after my afternoon guitar student leaves I take a walk to the hall and hang out for the last hour or so of the event. Nice to see some folks and catch up.
Back home we have dinner then Mikey arrives – he's making an impromptu overnight stay...
