More 3D Printer Product Fun!!

Good work! I may have missed it but what unit did you get?

The one I got is the Elegoo Mars Pro, ordered through Amazon. Pretty fast delivery.

Rod

Rod

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

Steve

@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.

@Bob Delbridge posted:

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:

very nice work.  I have been looking for electric printed switch machines ( non functional ) that are found prototype railroads to add to my Ross switches as a detail.