Repper's delight

Recently I designed a few 3D printed accessories for my car.
I knew that PLA won't be a good material due to the hot temperatures that are reached inside my car during summer.
But I decided to print them using PLA anyway (because I have quiet a few rolls) just to check that my designs were correct, and to see by myself how they will react during hot summer days.
Check out the result !

Recently Frenchy Pilou (no need to introduce) told me about MagicaVoxel, a free voxel modeler. I was curious so I had a look.
There are people making incredible stuff out of it !

But how does it behave with R3F ?
Can it be useful in the modeling process and how to go from one software to the other ?

I recently tried Rocket3F (a sudivision modeler) and loved it right away !
As it says, it's "Fast, Fun and Friendly" to use.

In this post I will tell you a bit more about it...

I know that I haven't published much these days (months... year).
Because most of the time I have nothing to say or just nothing enough exciting to share (IMHO). Or just because (and most probably) because I'm just too lazy to publish my experiments...

But then I felt in love !
And my new lover's name is Neobarok...

Lors de nos premiers essais de motorisation de l'épaule gauche, Mad s'est rendu compte que les moteurs ne tournaient pas toujours à la même vitesse en fonction de la position des potentiomètres.

Il s'est alors dit qu'il y avait peut être quelque chose à faire avec çà et qu'il serait éventuellement envisageable de programmer des accélérations et des décélérations...

Il a donc embarqué l'épaule chez lui afin de procéder à des essais et voici ses conclusions.

De son coté Gilou a mené ses propres tests avec le "doigt tutorial", une Arduino Uno et un Raspberry Pi.
Et voici ce qu'il m'a envoyé...

Merci Gilou !

DS Mechanical lacks some important tools that his big brother Spaceclaim has.
One of them is the ability to create text and annotations.

Someone on the forum asked about how to carve text in a model in DS Mechanical.
Having a look at the answers given there I was just amazed at how complex the different solutions were...

While it's so simple when using the SketchUp "Text" tool !

This is a great news for all SketchUp lovers like me !

Since Monday 16 September we, the 3D community, have a new and free (but not open-source) 3D software to play with : DesignSpark Mechanical.

And it works especially well with SketchUp models !

Lors de ma dernière "étude" j'ai réfléchi à l'utilisation de structures en nid d'abeille pour la fabrication des supports.

Et comme aujourd'hui j'ai le bourdon, je suis retourné à mes nids d'abeille (honey comb) pour cette fois-ci explorer les possibilités de "renforts".

The UP! software doesn't allow for raft smaller than 2mm. But you can still disable it.

Compared to other slicers I have used (Kisslicer, Skeinforge) the UP! raft is very thick !

The UP! raft structure is made of tunnels and so far it has proved to be efficient. But making such a thick raft is a big waste of material ! (could it be a commercial strategy ?)

Let's see how to print with just a single layer raft...