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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳 
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks someday im gonna 3d print so much nylon and about 90% of it will be alpakka 1.0 shells
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@coolbean i could actually use conductive filament too for this print lmao. But couldn't find any conductive/esd nylon
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks conductive filament is a bitch to source most ppl making alpakkas just use the screw mod i think
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks i mean whats your keycap mounting solution cause i think a friction fit like mx could just be too tight dimensionally
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@coolbean i use kailh choc keycaps, that's also friction fit. With how shit these nylon prints are i'm like half a mm off and the rest of the slider also has glaring issues 
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks and after that i guess get your slicer settings dialed in
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks ngl youd have a much more interesting stream
this is actually something i considered doing. set up a webcam in my shed and do irl tinkering streams so ppl can criticise my soldering
this is actually something i considered doing. set up a webcam in my shed and do irl tinkering streams so ppl can criticise my soldering
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@coolbean the cad work would've been a really interesting stream tbh. But i only realized after i was 90% done
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks id love to watch a cad stream if only so i can learn how to cad because i have no idea. i want to make a pizzabox style computer case but i dont know how to accurately set the constraints i have exact defined dimensions i need to input for the motherboard ram cpu cooler and so on
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@coolbean i use freecad. There you usually just do sketches, extrude them some way, put a sketch on some face of the volume, rinse and repeat and do boolean operations with the resulting volumes
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks yea but i couldnt figure out how to accurately place the constraints in the sketches so i was always like half a milimeter off. idk scale just felt weird
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@coolbean i always try to keep everything centered on the origin of my whole project so i can put constraints to that, but i can see how a really assymetric thing like what you did would be a pain. Idk if there's a way to relate to features of another sketch but that would prob help
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toebeans ch. 🇨🇳
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks i was just trying to make a 244mmx244mm matx motherboard shape to work around
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@coolbean @snacks It's all mostly 2D sketches that turn 3D with some operation. Draw how something should approximately look from a perspective and it will be like that after some operation. Nobody sets constraints and dimensions correctly the first time, it's an iterative process all the way to the end.
A computer case is probably one of the harder things to design as someone starting out though. Mostly because of all the standards and dependencies on various dimensions. A RasPi case is a better thing to start with while keeping it computer related. And even that requires some measuring, tolerances and whatnot. I started with shafts, bolts and mounting brackets for example.
A computer case is probably one of the harder things to design as someone starting out though. Mostly because of all the standards and dependencies on various dimensions. A RasPi case is a better thing to start with while keeping it computer related. And even that requires some measuring, tolerances and whatnot. I started with shafts, bolts and mounting brackets for example.
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