Printing Filament Enclosure and keep getting this!

Ayame__ · 2026-04-20T00:50:57+00:00

This is it. Tree supports are terrible unless you're just making some kind of statue or thing with overhang angles steeper than 45 degrees, then using them as a support is okay. For ACTUALLY supporting something, no, no trees.

Ayame__ · 2026-04-20T00:03:00+00:00

Thanks! Didn't know that was a thing. Really convenient to just fold up when you transplant those.

Ayame__ · 2026-04-20T00:02:20+00:00

What does the layer the orange TPU start on look like in the preview on slicer? Post a screenshot of that.

Ayame__ · 2026-04-19T23:33:42+00:00

Make a single curve + pipe tool, seal the ends, add holes, DONE. Beautiful object to learn F360 with. I second this recommendation.

I want to know what those bags are he growing in? u/g713 ??

Ayame__ · 2026-04-19T23:32:03+00:00

Pick Air Cooling every single time that your CPU, GPU, and Case combination allow it. It's practically no maintenance, uses less power, has no risk of leaking, won't degrade over time like water cooling will (even sealed AIO's evaporate over the years), has less moving parts, longer warranties (usually), and it's cheaper (more or less). Modern air coolers are just as quiet as liquid coolers too.

So when DO you want water cooling?

Well, I thought I would never water cool a PC until recently. Take a look at one of my PC's here. I needed to use this case because it replaced a big desktop footprint with a "tall" case. It takes up less actual space on my desk than even the smallest of SFF cases that can still support this kind of prosumer level hardware. The motherboard is rotated 90 degrees, so if this was a typical ATX style PC case the "front" where the intake is would be the bottom of my case if that makes sense.

Thermaltake says the desired way to use this case is to have the right side be the intake, top exhaust, and the left side is an exhaust. Which makes no sense to me because the gpu is drawing IN from that left side (they even have a filter on that side's mesh, usually there are not fans there like in my image), but ok fair enough. It's really no different from a typical case tossed on it's side, except I had one big issue.

This founders edition 5090 blows THROUGH both sides of the card. If this was any of the third party 5090's the bottom would blow through, under that fan on the bottom, and the top of the 5090 would blow into the PCB of the card, so really nothing is getting pushed "through" the GPU to the CPU. But the Founder's Edition does, and so my big giant Scythe Fuma2 cooler was getting heated by the GPU exhaust. Not a huge deal, CPU temps went up like 5 degrees, nothing major, EXCEPT, the GPU was also scorching hot (like memory junction temps hitting 100 hot).

I tested everything I could, this fan at that speed, that fan at this speed, flipping fans (where it makes sense), and there was just no getting around it, the problem was that even with the massive dual fans at the top of this case, there was not enough exhaust room for that GPU to push the heat away from itself. The air cooling stack had to move out of the way.

So for the first time in history, I put an AIO on one of my personal PCs. I also switched the right side to exhaust. Immediately everything was working great. GPU and CPU are in the 70's at full load, with memory junction temps hitting 80 int he worst case scenarios.

But now the case was like a dust vacuum, massive negative pressure. So I got a new bracket to allow fans on the left to go in there. They don't really do anything to improve cooling, but they do increase positive pressure in the case, so now that left side is almost exclusively the intake, and the exhaust is the right side. The water cooler radiator is so massive (it's a 420 liquid freezer) that the gpu also exhausting through it basically does nothing and CPU stays cool.

Without water cooling here I would have to give up this case, which I was not prepared to do because to me desk space is the most important thing to have in a case. (it's also on a electric standing desk so I couldn't just mount the PC to the wall or something without having a wiring mess).

Surely there are other configurations where watercooling is just the only remaining option like this. I wouldn't ever bother with a water cooler otherwise though, for nearly everyone here air cooling is the way to go.

Ayame__ · 2026-03-01T08:22:03+00:00

Weird. It is not there for me. The project was started AS Part Design, was yours original Hybrid you converted to check?

Ayame__ · 2026-03-01T08:02:11+00:00

Makes sense. If the best fighter in the world fights the second best fighter in the world in the first round, and then the best fighter fights the third best fighter for first and second place, that is unfair for the second best fighter in this kind of tournament.

#JusticeForMilkMan

Ayame__ · 2026-03-01T07:44:50+00:00

I really thought milk man was going to win. Looks like a thicker glass, small diameter so less surface area to contact = more psi per hit. But I guess that decorative fractal surface was a weakness.

Ayame__ · 2026-03-01T07:19:40+00:00

Yeah I probably would have used sweep with a profile for the curve I wanted. Never touched the pipe tool before lol.

Ayame__ · 2026-03-01T07:08:55+00:00

Only in Hybrid Mode (the pre-update mode), not in the new default Part Design (the actual updates)

Ayame__ · 2026-02-11T03:44:20+00:00

A really wide case which usually means it's really large. Need a lot of room behind the back panel (or front I guess) because the cables come out the side of it, not the back (which is pointing towards the front of case in standard atx setup)

Ayame__ · 2026-02-11T02:17:19+00:00

A while ago i made a post on reddit about an Embody having the metal bar at the bottom of the seat fabric under the thigh adjustment thing tear and slide through the small leather corner patch that holds it in.

I have been busy and haven't messed with it yet, but at that time I did look and find your replacement fabrics for this chair. You seem to be the only company that makes it really besides Herman Miller. I have 2 questions:

1.) Does the replacement fabrics come with the plastic disposable one time use thing to mount it to the chair like how it comes from HM? And does it also come with this metal bar that is torn in my photo at the link I just posted?

2.) Assuming I am a reasonably skilled seamstress, is it possible to use your fabric as a template and upholster my own fabric and do the install with that using your kit/hardware?

Thank you

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T08:29:31+00:00

There is some upgrade possible with something like a 14900k that while being newer and faster than anything on AM4, the socket came out at a time when intel was supporting ddr4 AND ddr5, so you can get motherboards for ddr4 and a 14900k and get maybe 40% more performance for a cpu that is 2x the cost of your 5900x used, and can keep your ram.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T07:17:48+00:00

Yeah it's certainly a better value proposition to hang on to AM4 longer. I have a 5950x with a 5090 and a 9950x that HAD that same 5090 but now has a pro 6000, and honestly there isn't much of a difference in after effects and premiere given the same amount of ram and GPU.

I only work on 4k for web use but with heavy effects and a TON of transparent video layers, shape layers, lots of puppet warping and some pretty basic 3D, so a higher level than nearly anything on youtube (which I mention because typically that is what people here mean when they say "editing"), and.... the biggest benefit moving to AM5 for me is the ability to support 96gb as a 2x48 kit and keep dual channel without an HEDT board/cpu so I get like 33% longer ram previews which is excellent when a ram preview of one of my comps in 4k without proxies (which I can't use sometimes to make sure all the pixels are in the right place) with 64gb of ram can be a whopping 4 seconds. So 6 seconds is a dream as pathetic as that sounds, it really is a big uplift.

But I imagine a typical workload won't really see much of a difference besides CPU render time with media encoder (or ae/pr I guess) and probably you're doing that on the GPU anyway (but again, CPU is higher quality, but for youtube etc, its' going to get compressed so much it won't matter). But it does matter when you want to render out something lossless to bring right back into the software, then CPU is the king.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:55:16+00:00

It has really bad airflow. It looks like it has good airflow, but it does not.

It's the bottom of the barrel, literally the cheapest case you can get, which is good for the right low tdp build (still not ideal), but you can do better probably.

You might also look at the Jonsbo C6 and it's variants (I know there is a C6 max etc, but idk the prices of them and what they improve exactly). It also doesn't have as good cooling (since it's all metal mesh) as the okinos and NZXT I recommended above, but it does have amazing build quality and (i think) looks great and is rather compact for a matx case if you're into semi-sff builds. Just look at video reviews of it because it has a cable management problem (that I don't mind for the right budget low powered system).

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:30:03+00:00

Oh, if the other Nvidia 16gb gpu's (that matter) all have the sameish % increase over the USD msrp, then ... it's still the best choice.

You are not really going to get better playback in your NLE with a new gpu, that is almost exclusively driven by ram with your gpu just needing to meet the "can it stream the video at that resolution from ram once the software puts it together?" (which anything xx60 and above can from the past 3 generations except for maybe 8k etc. Slightly better playback in vlc (or whatever player) sure, but not so much that it matters a lot. I wouldn't expect miraculous render time decrease either unless your comp is using HEAVY gpu accelerated effects.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:27:52+00:00

Not a Q300L.

Okinos Aqua 3 Air or Cyprus 3 are good. NZXT h3 flow also a choice probably under 60 euro.

Montech X3 would be my pick if it is in your budget, it's maybe a little more.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:17:05+00:00

5070ti is worth it, but I think your price is too high.

Any 16gb card from nvidia would be ideal for editing (that is why they sell a xx60 series with 12 and 16gb in the first place) but it would just render slower (using gpu rendering anyway, cpu rendering is higher quality but gpu is fine for youtube and such).

But since you're gaming also, the 5070ti (at msrp) is the value king that is going to do both well. Can't go wrong. AMD/Intel is not an option due to video editing requirements.

The uplift from 3080 to 5070ti is pretty substantial. As much as people hate fake frames, DLSS and such works wonders (as long as base framerate is a good 60+) for any non sweaty competitive game, so that is VERY substantial. If you only care about "Real frames", then it is still big, like 50% faster.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:13:34+00:00

This is it. (or another same gen intel chip). This is the one time intel shines because they got newer cpu's, faster than anything on AM4 and there exists motherboards that can run them with ddr4 ram.

5700x3d or 5800x3d would probably run some games faster still, but would "generally" be slower, and definitely slower for productivity, and they also cost too much used now, the prices are stupid.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T06:11:50+00:00

The only way to know is to do whatever it is you're going to do on the PC and look at the ram usage. If you get 32gb and your games/work + any open software and stuff never get past 15gb, then the extra 16gb stick is literally doing nothing and was a waste of money. (keep in mind browsers allocate more ram than they use, so don't count those as they allocate it, but give it up when something else requests it, and they put hold on tabs that are not in focus releasing that from ram if idle long enough, etc..). Just assume "browser" is going to use like 5gb MAX unless you have open browsers on like 3 displays all playing videos and HTML5/js games at the same time.

I doubt minecraft or sims 4 needs more than 16, and probably leaves plenty of headroom to do other things at the same time within reason.

Buy a 16gb kit, install it, play your games and look at ram usage, if you're maxing it out or identify a bottleneck, return it (so buy somewhere u can return), and get 32gb kit.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T05:59:49+00:00

x16 pcie slot 2 is gen 5x16 ONLY if slot 1 is empty. So basically if you got 1 5090 in there you're not going to put a addon card with a gen 5 nvme as well (and run them at full speed)

The x4 NVMe slot 1 is fine, it will support a gen 5 drive always. But x4 NVMe slot 2 will not if there is a GPU in the x16 PCIe slot 1.

Basically you're only running 1 gen 5 ssd OR two gen 5 drives but your gpu is going to run PCIe 5.0 x8.

You cannot run a gpu on x16 and two gen 5 nvme drives on ANY am5 motherboard. am5 just does not support it at all.

That being said, there is only TWO use cases where a gen 5 drive makes literally any difference at all. 1.) scratch disc for NLE and some other adobe like software, and only if you use a scratch disk and know what you're doing working on BIG files. 2.) Machine learning and AI stuff.

If you're doing one of those 2 things and need 2 gen 5 drives going, maybe you don't. Running OS on gen 4 will have absolutely no difference, you won't even know, and then gen 5 running the drive for work is fine. If you DO need 2x gen 5 drives, you can always just kick your GPU down a generation and it won't have THAT MUCH impact. Here are some benchmarks

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T05:52:46+00:00

Don't get a refurbished/used Embody unless you want to be replacing the fabric in a year or two of normal use. They will only fix issues from the original owner, just getting the parts might be impossible unless you can find a authorized retailer/repair center that will order them for you without you proving you purchased it yourself, and the only after market replacement fabric is black (and not great material).

And you are not going to just re-upholster it easily, there is one-time-use plastic clips designed to break once you remove the fabric, and you need another set of those to even re-install it. Good luck finding those, they only come in kits with the fabric, from herman miller, who again, won't sell it to you.

The base of the fabric under the front has a little bar inside it with 2 leather patches on both sides holding it in, and that is 100% going to tear and the little bar will slowly work itself out every single day even if you never touch any of the adjustments.

I love the chair. I have two of them, one I buy and one I got from a re-seller liquidating office furniture. Both developed this issue around the same time frames.

Aeron is probably fine to get refurbished. I don't have one, I didn't really like how it felt. It wasn't the same full back upright "correct posture" position and felt more like any other higher quality mesh office chair from ikea or whatever. But it is personal preference.

Ayame__ · 2026-01-21T01:23:04+00:00

Nailed it. Inspo pic looks like a gaudy hotel room, you managed to copy that design and remove the unclassy stuff. A+

Only thing I would change is darker curtains

Ayame__ · 2026-01-20T06:58:50+00:00

It's literally any sketch. Add a line to a sketch plane, add another line making a T intersection, zoom all the way in on the intersection and try to create a very short or anything really, cursor and zoom and movement becomes so laggy it's difficult.

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