3D Printing Kind of Sucks

The Dragon Printed, But…

The dragon printed, which I guess is good since everything else failed. I save all these Amazon boxes so I can just slide the build plate in and let it sit to get as much resin off as possible.

3D Printer is 100% Jacked

Honestly, I’m just kind of over 3D printing. I’ve been printing almost daily for the last 2-3 years now, and I don’t know if it’s worth it anymore.

The Real Cost

I printed a ton of models. Definitely got my money’s worth. But in terms of time spent, it’s like a whole separate hobby.

If you’re printing every day, you could be spending 2 hours a day just messing with the printer—not even counting slicing or making files. There’s a huge time cost that at this stage of my life, I don’t know if it’s worth versus just buying models.

The Honest Assessment

When it’s good, it’s good. When the print is dialed in, when your settings are dialed in, when you know your resin, even when you’re printing the same files over and over again—it’s really good.

But as soon as you insert any kind of variability or changes, it’s very easy for it to go bad.

My Conclusion

I’ve definitely printed over a thousand models. There are tons of cool things that only exist as STLs. But even then, I think it’s probably better to know somebody who 3D prints than to do resin printing yourself.

3D printing resin yourself probably just kind of sucks.

Transcript

I think the dragon printed, which I guess if if everything else was Oh, something else printed back there. So, let’s see what we got. I save all these Amazon boxes so I can just I’ll just set the build plate in there and let it sit and try to get as much of the resin off it as possible. 3D printer is 100% jacked. Honestly, I’m just kind of over 3D printing.

I’ve been 3D printing almost daily for the last two or three years now and I I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s worth it. I mean, I printed a ton of models. I definitely got my money out of it. But in terms of like the amount of time that’s spent it’s like a whole separate hobby.

If you’re printing every day, you could be spending like not even counting slicing or making files like just messing with the printer could be like two hours a day. So, uh there’s a there’s a huge time cost to it that at this stage of my life, I don’t know if it’s worth the time investment versus buying models. And again, there’s a ton of cool things that only exist in STLs. But I even then, I think it’s probably it’s definitely better to know somebody who’s 3D printing and I think 3D printing resin yourself probably just kind of sucks. I probably printed I’ve definitely printed over 1,000 models.

Like when it’s good, it’s good. When the print is dialed in, when your settings are dialed in, when you know your resin, even like when you know your files and you’re printing the same files over and over again, it’s really good. But as soon as you like insert any kind of variability or changes, uh it’s very easy for it to get bad and I just don’t know if it’s worth the time investment.