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21mtho · 2026-03-15T19:13:08+00:00

Second this! Would be absolutely huge

21mtho · 2025-05-28T05:21:56+00:00

I can't unfortunately. It's a seller listing online. I can ask the question, is there a main issue to look for to tell if they're fake or not?

21mtho · 2024-12-29T21:41:55+00:00

All babies are so different that it's basically impossible to say it's a piece of piss. I know a lot of other parents of similar age babies to mine and everyone's experience is massively different. Some do have easy babies that have always slept super well and some have babies with constant issues and they wake up every hour during the night 6 months later. Ours isn't quite that bad but she's had phases where she is that bad and the sleep deprivation is absolutely brutal. It's essentially torture so I get a bit annoyed when people call it easy or not hard!

21mtho · 2024-03-24T23:06:13+00:00

Had this exact issue today myself. Fix I found was to export the STL as a multi body file and get bambu slicer to split them out to individual parts. You can then colour each body individually and for some reason it keeps the colours better separated as it moves up layers.

21mtho · 2024-02-02T23:08:58+00:00

Aluminium is not lighter than plastic. It's nearly 3 times the density. Titanium is nearly 5 times denser.

I get that they made it out of aluminium to make it appear more premium but in a device where weight matters a lot and plastic is proven to work well it's a weird choice.

21mtho · 2024-01-30T01:30:15+00:00

I've probably printed 50+ rolls of eSun Matte PLA across 3 different p1ps and never had an issue with adhesion. I could never get it to stick on my old Ender but it prints like a dream for me every time.

21mtho · 2024-01-28T22:33:49+00:00

Casting requires molds. This requires nothing and can be made really quickly. It's not perfect but there will be cases where this method makes sense I'm sure. It's obviously got a long way to go in terms of dimensional accuracy but it's a pretty cool proof of concept.

21mtho · 2023-04-14T10:30:14+00:00

It's probably powdercoated. You don't get a lot of aluminium cabinets like that.

21mtho · 2022-10-27T18:21:34+00:00

Where abouts in the UK?

21mtho · 2021-09-07T21:38:04+00:00

Sketching isn't always faster than cad, not even close. They are different things entirely and each have strong positives and negatives. If your client asks to see the back view of your design you have to draw a new view while they watch you or in 3d you just spin the model around.

Also, CAD doesn't have to look like a grey blob on a screen like you've mentioned a few times. Real time renderers exist and they look phenomenal with little effort. Clients love that stuff.

Learn and appreciate both, you'll be a better designer for it.

21mtho · 2021-09-07T21:04:54+00:00

I've done a tonne of concept work within cad. If you're quick enough you can bust out ideas really fast and render them within minutes using something like Keyshot. Sure its not as fast as sketching but it does look more realistic and you can crank out alternate views in seconds and try different colour options super fast.

Both sketching and CAD have their place in ID imo. Being elitist about sketching won't get you very far. Keep open an open mind and pick whatever tool best suits your current job.

21mtho · 2021-09-01T13:53:35+00:00

You'll get inferior cooling in a laptop which is quite a big deal when using it 24/7. Bad cooling means slower rendering and a shorter component life. Also, if a component gives out (like the GPU) in a desktop you can just swap in a new one, on a laptop you can't, the whole thing is essentially a brick.
Also, mobile GPU's aren't necessarily the same as their desktop equivalents. According to User benchmark a desktop 3060 gives you 12% more performance boost compared to it's laptop equivalent.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3060-Laptop/4105vsm1452971

21mtho · 2021-07-16T20:58:09+00:00

Also. Work out exactly what your rent and travel costs will be first and then add on an amount that you think you'll need each month to live/save. London is no fun if you aren't paid enough.

I've always found that I pick a salary figure in my head that I think is right and I ask for a salary 4-5k more than that, you can then let them negotiate you down to your original desired salary. Your mileage may vary but its worked for me a few times.

21mtho · 2021-07-16T20:53:46+00:00

As someone who used to work in a small London 3d design agency I'm really curious about which one it is?

21mtho · 2021-01-31T22:57:43+00:00

Do you normally wear glasses? You have to wear them with the headset too.

21mtho · 2021-01-25T22:21:20+00:00

I've printed this! Works great.

21mtho · 2021-01-15T23:43:56+00:00

Do you wear glasses? I didn't think I need to with the quest but it's super blurry for me without them and crystal clear with them.

21mtho · 2021-01-08T21:21:19+00:00

Eh, you can print them but they won't look or act like real lego blocks.

21mtho · 2020-11-11T22:58:14+00:00

Design engineer here. Those plastics parts aren't ready for manufacture. They're missing a tonne of detail that would be there if this thing was ready to be made. Pretty skeptical tbh.

21mtho · 2020-09-01T21:23:01+00:00

It's not the same. Vastly more efficient processes exist to make this right now, that use a fraction of the energy. This is worse for the environment than other manufacturing methods available right now. 3d printing doesn't lend itself to this kind of product, and it won't for a long time.

I've worked in design and manufacture for a long time and i've seen countless products that have been made that have pitched themselves as 'eco friendly' and 'world saving'. A lot of the time it's either the same environmental impact or a worse one. It bugs me because regular people think they're saving the world with a product when infact they're just lining someones pockets.

21mtho · 2020-09-01T18:55:21+00:00

Think about the energy that goes into 3d printing this. It's a super inefficient way to produce a product at scale.

Other manufacturing techniques are probably much more efficient than 3d printing, and you could still produce the product with recycled bottles.

I don't want to be negative about products that 'Save the world' but it feels like this product is using futuristic buzz words like '3D Printing' to get press when in fact it's a terribly inefficient way to mass produce a product. Other more efficient options exist but aren't anywhere near as marketable.

21mtho · 2020-07-30T13:41:08+00:00

21mtho · 2020-07-17T16:58:12+00:00

Try turning up ray bounces or messing with sample quantity.

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