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3D printing has a learning curve and mine collapses because I forgot to enable supports

Gosh darn, I was fiddling with some settings earlier to try a different cooling profile from the default one and I gotta say, even finding the right settings menu was not really intuitive for someone not used to tinkering that kinda stuff...

Plus, the Orca slicer wiki is weird, it has a bunch of information, NONE of it related to how to use it through the UI, it gives info relative to program functions but that's it and looking stuff up about how to use the software was surprisingly unhelpful too, thank gosh for the good folks of the Orca discord at least, I learned a bunch through them, especially about "bridging" which is drawing filament between two points mid-air without support; it literally lets you print unto nowhere (given certain conditions) which saves both plastic and time, requires a little bit of tinkering but quite doable and well enough too!


After printing my GeekCube's first prototype (I'll make another post about how fucking good -for a first time- it turned out tomorrow) I went and printed... Paris' center! A 2km diameter cutaway of the core area of Paris, which includes the portion of La Seine river, Île de la Cité in the middle of it, which is home to Notre-Dame de Paris & amongst the many buildings pictured, the Halles from the Châtelet district, housing the train hub of the same name!

Thinking about making those and selling them out based on size + shipping cost, as a keyring or something, certainly would help fund more spools of different colors & materials down the line :P

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