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I have had my printer about 2 months now and have been having a blast with it. Here are some pics of stuff that it has made:

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The barrels and wooden crates in the first 2 pics is courtesy forum member gglozer for supplying the initial .stl file. I wound up making 3 barrel sizes (30 gal, 55 gal & 110 gal) as well as 3 sizes of crates (48", 36" & 24" square).

The rest of the files were downloaded mostly from the Thingiverse site. You have to re-size most of these files as they are usually HO, G or larger scales like 1:10 or so. But the printer's slicer program "chitubox" allows you to do all the necessary re-sizing. Pretty neat stuff.

I have also put together some resin printer user notes on basically what I have found works and what doesn't. If anyone is just starting out with 3d resin printing I would be happy to forward a copy in case it's of any help.

One day I am going to launch into a cad package like maybe Tinkercad and try my hand at doing a few of my own designs for other stuff I would like to be able to print.  That's it for now.

Rod

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@L.I.TRAIN posted:

Rod

Really nice details, Are you creating the print files/ or downloading them?

Steve

Steve so far i have been downloading files primarily from the Thingiverse site. Usually they are for HO or G scale, so they have to be resized for O, but that's pretty easy usually. My future plan is to play with a 3d design package such as Tinkercad and make a few things that I have not been able to find. All good.

Rod

Cool and good luckl!

I've been playing with FreeCad, thought I'd do that before I spent $$$ on a printer.  So far, I've drawn a box and a cylinder with a hole in it (and I was a draftsman back in the 70s).

Maybe if I had never been a pencil and paper type this would come to me easier, but so far this is kicking my butt.  I've watched multiple videos (numerous times) to no avail.  May be because I don't see myself wanting to sit in front of a computer all day trying to learn it at 69yrs old.

I haven't given up yet, hopefully the light bulb will come on before too long.

Cool and good luckl!

I've been playing with FreeCad, thought I'd do that before I spent $$$ on a printer.  So far, I've drawn a box and a cylinder with a hole in it (and I was a draftsman back in the 70s).

Maybe if I had never been a pencil and paper type this would come to me easier, but so far this is kicking my butt.  I've watched multiple videos (numerous times) to no avail.  May be because I don't see myself wanting to sit in front of a computer all day trying to learn it at 69yrs old.

I haven't given up yet, hopefully the light bulb will come on before too long.

FreeCad is a bit of a slog. It is buggy, constantly changing, and has some pretty dodgy UI elements. 

That said, I stuck with it and am glad I did. It is incredibly powerful, versatile, and  genuinely free. All the other "free" alternatives have pretty bad strings attached. It is nice to know that you actually own your work.

If there are more than just the two of us (or even if not), it would be nice to get a little self-help group of FreeCad/Train weenies together. 

I posted this once before, but here is an example of my most sophisticated FreeCad work so far. It is fully parameterized, so I can do any radius:

top2track back1Super-O 3D print - 13

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