3D Printing best forum - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: sairfan1
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2021, 08:50:21 pm
content: Can someone advise, which is the best known forum to discuss 3D Printing related issues.

author: XFabricate
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 27, 2021, 08:05:23 am
content: Reddit has a few boards that are pretty active, I'd give that a shot.

author: Lindley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2021, 09:27:36 am
content: Are you just looking for 3D forums in general or a specific make ?Ytube has lots of good information, example - the CHEP ones which mostly cover the Creality Ender printersQuote

author: sairfan1
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 31, 2021, 02:13:21 pm
content: QuoteI'm looking for 3D forums in general, you are right there are a lot of videos on youtube regarding 3d printing, but problem with video is that you have to watch whole video and then you reach to a conclusion if issues i was looking for were discussed or not.I'm new to 3d printing, I want to discuss 3d printer issues and cad/slicer software related things too.

author: Lindley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 01, 2021, 10:37:00 am
content: Quote from: sairfan1 on August 31, 2021, 02:13:21 pm

author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 05, 2021, 06:44:10 am
content: Unfortunately some of the talking heads and manufacturers promoted farcebook for printer assistance and discussion. IT SUCKS DOGS .......It searches and index's terribly before you even get to the content if you can.Fairly certain Tom wound his forum up?With CAD fusion is my weapon of choicehttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/mechanical-engineering/fusion-360-mechanical-design-tips-tweaks-and-discussion-(not-eagle)/and there is a bunch of youtube resources in the opening post. With CAD there is others ranging from painfully simple to painful to use from zero cost open source to multi k/year. Starting with the hobby/free version of Fusion is reasonably painless and offers a simple save as style to generate STL's for slicing. The built in slicer in fusion is best avoided at this stage IMO.For slicing software getting a result is possible in a lot of cases just using the defaults for basic models so learning on the fly with a little nudge as needed is fairly painless these days. Prusa Slicer, Cura and a few others are all fairly simple unless you have crazy overhangs or really complex models.

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2021, 02:39:43 am
content: Quote from: beanflying on September 05, 2021, 06:44:10 amCould you possibly be talking about Creality? Maybe!QuoteAs of very recently, Fusion now allows you to "3D print to" the 3MF format. I read through some of the discussion of 3MF vs STL and it seems like 3MF is the way to go.

author: hagster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2021, 05:21:09 am
content: https://groups.google.com/g/3d-printing-tips--tricks3d printing tips and tricks is ok.

author: artag
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2021, 10:46:13 am
content: If you mean forum in a generic sense of a place to discuss things rather than an interface like the one on eevblog, I'd recommend #reprap on IRC (liberachat)

author: Infraviolet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2021, 11:40:45 pm
content: I wish there was a good forum about 3d printing, but mostly it seems split between some reddit channels, where there is very rarely anything like a conversation or detaield discussion of a matter, and some half dead forums (the first google results) where most posts don't get replied to and the latest activity is usually several weeks old.

author: Lindley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2021, 03:32:45 pm
content: Quote from: Infraviolet on September 27, 2021, 11:40:45 pmYes , strange isn't it ?Such a popular subject but so little on the typical web forums.As mentioned earlier have been told that Facebook and the like have lots of 3d content, though we do not use SM sites.Thankful we came across an established Ender 3D printer user in another non technical forum who has given us invaluable advice on setting up the hardware and how to get going with the software.

author: Adrian_Arg.
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2022, 12:23:16 am
content: I use telegram, the answers are faster