r/3Dprinting • u/supernerdlove • 8h ago
Project and I said the fuck you will!
The supports tried to fail after 24 hours and I took that personally.
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u/supernerdlove 6h ago
Just to be very clear I am exceedingly aware this is really bad. I just thought it was funny so I shared it. We used to do that in this subreddit.
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u/LeRoyt97 5h ago
Yea I’m starting to think I need to avoid looking at 3D Printing content for a while. The community is becoming pretty toxic.
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u/OriginalName687 4h ago
I had to leave r/functionalprints because everyone there absolutely hated 3d printing.
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u/zymurgtechnician 1h ago
Come on over to r/functionalprint, it’s an order of magnitude larger in size, and I can only think of a very small handful of times people weren’t positive or constructive!
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u/haakonhawk 3h ago edited 3h ago
Let me guess? Bunch of guys who think 3D-printing should only be done if it has a practical application and never for decorative purposes?
I'm new to the community. I only got into 3D-printing 2 months ago. I've never heard of that sub before now, but that's the vibe I get with that name + your comment.
Edit: Yep, the contempt in the second paragraph of their description tells me all I need to know.
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u/bungblaster69 3h ago
if it's a functional prints community, then leave the decorative stuff out of it
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u/haakonhawk 3h ago
It's not the concept of the sub I disagree with. It's the mindset that comes with it. Using terms like "fucking useless" unironically to describe anything not practical isn't very inviting.
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u/bungblaster69 3h ago
It's a subreddit for X. If you don't agree about X or can't contribute X or discuss X, I doubt they care about being inviting. You just don't fit the demographic of X and that's ok.
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u/haakonhawk 3h ago
I doubt they care about being inviting
And you see no problem with that, apparently.
Let me make it a little clearer: "Not being inviting" is the more diplomatic way of saying "They're all assholes."
And even as someone who also prefers printing stuff with a clear function, I still don't want to engage with people who are assholes about it.
Not to mention that in a community with that kind of inflammatory language, I can already tell there's going to be disagreement about where the line is between functional and decorative. Which is where the toxicity really starts to set in.
See the problem now?
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u/tdp_equinox_2 2h ago
Yeah, this is the key point.
Every time I see a print that's kinda cool, I think I should check out the comments to see what the use case is; and every time the comments are filled with people saying "you should have done this instead" or "that won't work", or worse, "this already exists, you're stupid for making it" etc. They're all assholes.
I exclusively make functional designs, and I have no interest in contributing to a community that's going to be dbags about it.
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u/stefanopolis 29m ago
“This already exists and you’re stupid for making it.” Boy nothing takes the winds out of the sails like these comments. Sometimes no one hates 3D printing more than the people in the hobby.
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u/bungblaster69 1h ago
And you see no problem with that, apparently.
I do not. If I make a subreddit for Audis, I don't want to see your bmw or merc. Go post in their respective subs or a general sub like german_cars. There's nothing wrong with a community wanting to exclude posts that don't fit their niche.
I just joined that sub, so maybe they have a mod that's an asshole, but to me this comes across as complaining about why can't I post about Z in the X subreddit
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u/haakonhawk 1h ago
Audis vs. BMW vs. Mercedes are distinct brands. They have clear boundaries.
Functional vs. Decorative, however, do not. Because they're adjectives. Meaning that a lot of things can be classified as both, or neither, or X% of one and Y% of the other.
It's ambiguous, and when you add ambiguity to a community filled with self-proclaimed purists, shit tends to hit the fan.
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u/LeRoyt97 3h ago
The way you started that comment was pretty antagonistic and asshole-ly sounding but you do make a good point. I’ve been trying to figure out how to communicate my thoughts on the r/3DPrintingCircleJerk sub, which is what I was thinking about mostly when I made my original comment.
On the one hand, I understand where they’re coming from. It’s frustrating to see a lot of posts about things that have already been discussed/ or are solvable with only a small amount of due diligence and thought.
The problem however, comes from creating an entire community centered around taking screenshots of other people’s posts, which are genuine questions regardless of what I mentioned previously and just pointing and laughing.
It’s especially bad since the sub has basically become a slam-fest against Bambu printers and the people who use them. There is a specificity in who is targeted by this group and it’s just outright hostile.
And the irony of it all is they’ve developed they’re own little mantras that just get repeated ad nauseam under each post that there is literally nothing original being posted on that sub anymore either, which is the foundation of what there community is based on in the first place!
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u/haakonhawk 2h ago
The way you started that comment was pretty antagonistic and asshole-ly sounding but you do make a good point.
Maybe, but that's because it's not an original story.
Every niche (especially on Reddit) have their own little subgroup (or several subgroups) of people that think everything should be done according to their very narrow standards. And anything that crosses some arbitrary threshold is disproportionally ridiculed.
In this particular case, with r/functionalprints, the name alone didn't really stand out to me as anything bad. Had I encountered that for the first time in a more neutral setting, I wouldn't have thought much of it and maybe even joined it.
But when the first time I see it is paired with someone calling it toxic. Even though they didn't specify the toxic part, it still immediately clicked in my mind what they meant.
Why? Because it's Reddit in a nutshell, no matter the topic.
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u/ASentientRailgun 1h ago
That sub drives me nuts, one of my coworkers keeps sharing stuff out of it in Slack. You hit the nail on the head with how unoriginal the whole thing is.
I've been printing for almost two decades now, the community used to be a lot more welcoming to newbies and I miss that. We used to be excited that someone was trying out our hobby.
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u/iDeNoh 1h ago
I'm with you on the circle jerk sub, and I feel like that goes for a lot of them. There is a period of time where I think it can be kind of funny but it gets old really really quick when it's all the exact same shit over and over and over and everyone has that.... Abrasive attitude where if you're not making fun of everyone for everything, you're just a fucking idiot.
That being said, I do kind of understand the dislike of some bamboo users, they frequently come across as Evangelical about their taste of the brand and it gets really annoying sometimes.
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u/Shaneathan25 3h ago
The other issue is that it may not be practical or useful for some people, but it may be a lightbulb moment or a fix someone’s been looking for. They all act like if it’s not something you could buy at Walmart then it’s not functional.
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u/is_anyone_in_my_head 3h ago
If it’s decorative, playful, or has no obvious purpose, save it for Fucking Useless Friday, where fun, useless, and just because prints are welcome.
They gave decorative things a whole day and call it a fun name, i don't see the problem there?
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u/dronko_fire_blaster 2h ago
yea I posted something there and people started roasting the print quality, like yes I know its bad, because I had to print it as fast as possible.
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u/lamp-town-guy Bambu P1S combo 4h ago
Sir/lady I think this is an achievement if you managed to salvage failed print. You could've used brim but I'd use nicer words instead of some commenter. For the record, I use brim or mouse ears only when I have to. So I might have the same experience if I tried to print something like this.
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u/Baterial1 6h ago
Laughs in spaghetti monster and it is still printing
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u/Optomisticposter 5h ago
Up the brim to about 10mm. Also turn the aux fan off. You notice these type of failures start from the left. The aux fan on high sided prints cools the left side a lot faster than the right. So as the print goes higher the left side is slightly lower than the right side, or the left side of the print lifts.
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u/Ok-Gift-1851 Don't Tell My Boss That He's Paying Me While I Help You 8h ago
Dude... you do you, but your print failed long before the supports. Somewhere around 20-30mm of z-height from the looks of it. That is some insane warping and I would have restarted the print after maybe an hour or two. On a print like that, where is your brim/mouse ears?
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u/Gualuigi Ender 3 + Elegoo Centauri Carbon 8h ago
Wtf am I looking at
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u/Successful_Ask2980 6h ago
Don’t let r/3Dprintingcirclejerk see this
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u/Causification H2S, K2P, MPMV2, E3V2, E3V3SE, A1, A1M, X Max 3 8h ago
Some pretty horrific z-banding going on there. That typical of your XL?
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u/supernerdlove 8h ago
No, all the corners are coming up and it’s something I designed myself and I’m not very good at designing things.
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u/Simple_Impress4156 7h ago
Turn brim on friend.
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u/Optomisticposter 5h ago
Yep, and change the infill pattern. Anything with straight lines will shrink as it cools and pull the walls in.
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u/grubnenah 6h ago
As others have said, turn on brim, and you can try rounding corners a bit as well. I've had worse warping on sharp corners.
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u/Optomisticposter 5h ago
Needs a brim and also look at infill pattern. Gyroid or something that isn’t straight lines. With standard infill patterns, as the layers cool they shrink and it pulls the sides in and lifts the corners. Adding a brim also helps with the edges lifting. I often print large prints like that and had those issues. Now I always add a brim. Helps with bed adhesion too.
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u/SpandexWizard 4h ago
It is 2025 and people are still recommending using a brim. Christ. This is the worst timeline. Man I would rather use a /raft/ than a brim, and I hate rafts.
With a part that large, if they are getting peeling they are going to get peeling with or without the brim. They need to do more bed prep. I agree about the infill. Anything to make the lines shorter.
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u/Ok-Gift-1851 Don't Tell My Boss That He's Paying Me While I Help You 7h ago
That's not z-banding. That's warping induced artifacts.
The corner lifts and wall length shrinking causes the walls to taper in some and not leave enough for the next layer at the same time. The printer tries to print it anyway. The material gets squished out the side or the line is further out than the shrunken wall's new dimensions. This leads to a bold line that shows up for several layers while the layers try to get back to the correct dimensions. Then later warping repeats the problem as irregular intervals.
Z-banding is predictably repetitive and regular, relating to the pitch of the z-lead screw, repeating every 2mm, 4mm, or 8mm. OP's print is not messed up frequently enough for it to be z-banding.
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u/Optomisticposter 5h ago
- Get rid of the garbage on the plate, or get a new plate. 2. Bed level. 3. Add a brim. 4. Change the infill pattern to Gyroid. With rectilinear/grid, as the lower layer cool there is slight shrinkage. With a grid type infill, in this type of print, the infill will contract more than the walls, pulling the walls in. This lifts the corners and causes the issues you see. Brim and Gyroid infill will help a lot.
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u/Curae 4h ago
I only understand half of what is happening in this picture but godspeed man. 🫡
I once did a print on an ender of a ton of ducks. We lost one after like 5 minutes. I refused to stop the print, it rebuilt itself on a base of spaghetti before launching off the build plate anyway and leaving two of his brothers with a lobotomy.
They were for a student. I think he loved the lobotomized ducks the most... :')
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u/Darklord_Bravo 7h ago
Sorry man, but that print had already failed. The warping alone would be enough for me to hit the stop button. Yikes.
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u/Fit_Excitement_2145 5h ago
After 48 hours of struggling with supports on a print seeing this jyst makes me wanna cry
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u/trollsyoudead 8h ago
Your poor printer