3D printers are too small for printing whole buildings in O, but N scale!!!!

Very nice. I have a Creality CR-10 printer that has a 12 by 12 by 15 inch print envelope. You can get some pretty big parts from that one. Can be had for about $400. I'm printing Standard Gauge trains with it.

Jim

I've got the prusa clone and a Tevo Tornado. I've done some upgrade parts for the printers and some flat car loads some Sherman tanks that came out not too bad. I have a stl file for a 55 ton hopper that I am going to try on the tornado It has a 12x12 by 15 inch build area like the cr-10. I've also designed some bridge girders to see if the pla bridge will hold up.

Very cool. I'm working on modeling my home towns historic train station.  I was able to get a copy of the original plans from the historical alliance that raised the money to save it from demolition.

I'm running the Creality CR10 also.  Are you guys using TinkerCad.com by any chance?  It's a free online CAD program that I used to design that warehouse among many other parts I've been printing.   

You can print O gauge buildings one wall at a time, or wall section.  But that's nice you got a whole N scale building done.

I've been using freecad, Its free and its a lot like solidworks which I have used at work but I haven't figured out how to get a brick or stone pattern on the walls.

The tevo tornado or the cr-10 could easily print a building 10 X 10 by at least 14 inches tall.

old_toymaker posted:

I've been using freecad, Its free and its a lot like solidworks which I have used at work but I haven't figured out how to get a brick or stone pattern on the walls.

I know how I'd do it in SolidWorks (I'd do a sketch of the brick seams and do a Cut Extrude as a Thin Feature for a small section and then do a Linear Pattern of the feature and cover the rest of the wall that way.), but I've never tried FreeCAD.  I'll have to check it out.

I have lost my copy of solidworks when my old computer died so I have to figure out how freecad works, It is very similar but it is a free program so there are a lot of things that are not going to be there or I just have to relearn the new program.

Update on buildings.  Walls assembled.