Hah, well I’m not far away from getting rid of this car. It has about 320000km mileage and the issues here and there are getting worse. Perhaps it’s still worth something to someone.

FreeCAD is great. Sure it’s not perfect but I greatly prefer that over corporate crapware that gets worse with every update. FreeCAD gets better instead.

I’ve made it out of PETG so a hot summer day shouldn’t be an issue.

Hmmm. I have 3D printed gears and PLA gears have outlasted my expectations but I would never ever trust a 3D printed gear in a car or anything else that involves human safety.

Is the power consumption really that much more? I guess there is a significant difference but it might still not cost much.

In a desktop you use the powerful GPU all the time.

In my use case the laptop is always attached to a charger.

Regulated? In the Netherlands I can’t tell.

Wow it really went full circle.

That is very likely to be my next laptop.

FreeCAD has improved drastically with the 1.0 update. There’s no need to tolerate this corporate BS.

Time to make the mother of all omelettes. Can’t fret over every egg!

I have different subfolders per project for it’s components.

Project/KiCAD

Project/FreeCAD/Model1

Project/FreeCAD/Model2

Etc.

Each project has it’s own set so it’s easy to find. I think it’s better than having all 3D printing related things together and then having to sort which project it belongs to.

Less chaotic huh? Geez.

Yet the top level is the one shitting down.

I’ve been using Prusaslicer for a while and am quite happy with it. Why would I move to Orcaslicer?

Iirc this show actually got finished and is really good.

So did I until reading this post. Thanks!

OBEY

CONSUME

If it’s PLA or PETG it’s probably still usable. PLA can get brittle if it’s wet though but drying should make it usable again.

I use a cheap food dehydrator to dry filament.

Well. I’m not sure I fully understand it. The way I calibrated e steps was to tell it to extrude 100mm of filament and then measures how much filament was pushed through the nozzle. This resulted in a value of about 680 steps/mm.

This always overextrudes and setting it down to 640 steps/mm made it much better.

Setting flow rate in the slicer does not seem to have the same effect.

Lowering e-steps gave the result I wanted but with a lower value than was calibrated for.

Sounds good. I’ll definitely give those a try to further calibrate it.

I have the issue that the nozzle hits infill during travel motions and it probably has to do with minor overextrusion.

Hmm. I bought it a few years ago when there weren’t many all metal hotends. It’s never caused any issues.

Back then it cost me about 80 euros which was a bit steep but acceptable.

Back then my reasoning was that I didn’t want any PTFE close to the hotend, fearing offgassing and limiting my options for filament types.