A weekee-greeting to all Hivers!! Today I was contemplating models in the Maker World 3D printing website and fell in love with this masterpiece, this Voronoi-style Charizard sculpture over here.
It was made by the so talented Clean Studio who have created many other Pokemon in this sculpting style as well, really true artists, they deserve a lot of support <3
As a Pokemon fan and as a Charmander trainer every single time, I obviously wanted this beauty in my bedroom hehe >:D
It told me it was going to take 8 hours, using 0.12mm layer height for good quality.
So I patiently waited as it emerged from the plate.
Went to check and take a pic every once in a while.
I was home alone that day and there wasn't noise at all inside the apartment, just me vibing to some music while working at the pc.
Suddenly, I heard a crack 8 meters away.
I sprinted all the way to the terrace to check the print. It was at 66%... the whole head support just broke apart, it was drifting away and rolling sideways on the plate T-T
As a reaction, I emitted the total opposite of a disarming voice (Pokemon reference yea) but in a scream way. Neighbors probably worried.
I had a new mission now: to save the print. My first attempt was to stick the support with superglue to the part of the other support it was hanging previously from. For 30 minutes it stood afloat without issues, I considered myself a superhuman until the headtool kicked it out again, this time broke it even more...
I didn't want to throw that away, it was a worthy amount of grams...
I stopped the print and started thinking of a way to solve everything.
I shamefully looked at the layer number in the screen.
It read layer 529 out of 862.
Layer 529...
My brain clicked 💡!
I took a pic with the camera and sprinted all the way to my bedroom to check the project. I cut the model in two pieces exactly on that layer. It had some floating parts that it didn't get to be printed as you see, aside from the head and most of the wings.
Here is all of the support wasted material... it was more than the print itself tbh
The probability of failure here was low, but despite everything it wasn't zero. The small parts were too uncomfortable to stick in the wings and one wing tip broke because of another drifted support...
Definitely not my day, nor my printer's either. But the cut was perfectly done, and the wing thing didn't end up as a bigger problem. I sticked the big parts and...
... Ta-da! Looking almost seamlessly :3
I was really happy I managed to save it after all that trouble! I know this will become a normal thing in the future but I wanted to share this experience anyways, bet I was not the only one who got super excited to manage to save a print this way xD
Happy also to have found some 3D printing communities here on Hive, thanks to @cherokee4life for recommendations!
Hope to read from you soon and to share more of my kinda newbie experiences with this!
All pictures belong to me.
