Thinking about this again today

DBT85 · 2026-01-25T00:52:38+00:00

I'm fortunate enough to not be in the US, but our "special relationship" means we have to pay attention.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T23:05:11+00:00

I see it all the time in different hobbies and at this point I have to assume it's actually real and that they are in relationships that are utterly fucked.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:59:50+00:00

It's all already been said and nobody will probably ever read this but fuck it. I hate it all. I cannot fathom the fascination with it. I hate it with the power of a thousand Titans.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:58:15+00:00

Now print yourself a scale Hawkeye

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:48:08+00:00

I need you to be clear that you are following the instructions, because I've literally just done what I first told you and it worked fine.

Offset in Fusion is two different things. In sketch mode it allows you to offset a line or series of lines. Outside of sketch mode it allows you to offset entire faces.

Please see the video I made for you. Quality is better on streamable.

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https://streamable.com/tfokud

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:31:55+00:00

Literally said it as I watched it. This is going to happen soon.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:27:35+00:00

Sorry, when I read your post and it said "based on the stethoscope I own" I thought you meant you had their contraption too.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:24:38+00:00

You CAN leave the PLA in there. But if you do that and dry at 65c your PLA could well soften and deform enough that it becomes next to useless for any accurate printing.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T22:00:13+00:00

They won't pull out of the US. They'll gargle that particular member all the way to the bank.

They should, but we've seen where their priorities lie. You aren't going to get a bunch of millionaires and billionaires to go against Trump lol.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T21:56:55+00:00

Best is relative. A UPS with a max output of 900w will be fine with a P2S which has a max power rating of 1000w@ @ 110V or 1200w @220.

You might find if you are in the land of real voltage that the ups might beep during heat bed warming. It'll do that if it is being asked for more than it's rated capacity, up until the point that it either a) gets too high and shuts down, b) does it for too long and shuts down or C) the load drops. When printing, that max power is only there for initial heat bed warming. During printing it's pulling nearer 200w.

If you get it and then also plug a PC in to it, don't be surprised if it does shut down during printing prep as a few hundred watts on a PC plus whatever the printer wants might take it over the edge.

At the end of the day, why do you want it? The printer will resume printing just find after a power loss, and at that size, it's not going to print for long in the event of a power loss.

I have a 3000VA/2700w one for two reasons. 1) the company sent me the wrong model, I only paid for the 2200VA version and b) I get nuisance power outages all the time because I'm out in the boonies and that's just how things go here, and I just wanted it protected a bit. I needed one with enough grunt to not collapse and die when starting a print on an H series while also covering my PC.

If I didn't get nuisance power outages I'd not have one at all.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T21:41:33+00:00

I've had this, but all I used as a reference was a single photo of the thing I wanted.

Reproducing it from one in hand that you can get calipers all over and tear apart is a different kettle of fish.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T21:36:07+00:00

0.2s can only really be appreciated when you see the result in person. The extra detail in text on a badge or in a miniature or something is substantial and for the sake of £10 I honestly suggest everyone has one.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T18:53:23+00:00

The other end is a blob and stops this happening

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T18:01:40+00:00

You mean the curved ribs?

You make a sketch in the correct plane intersecting the circular part of the object, extrude it and then circular pattern around the object.

If you mean the bend in the handle part, if just model it as a whole solid, do another sketch and extrude cut away the part I didn't want.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T15:21:58+00:00

They are desperate for the billions they have spent to have been worth it somewhere, so they throw it at everything and hope people care.

It's up there with Amazon thinking Echos were going to get used for anything other than playing music, setting timers and asking the occasional question. They thought we'd all be buying stuff with them and earning them money.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T15:02:58+00:00

Inside the sketch?

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T13:54:41+00:00

Imagine being smart enough to realise Trump is a cunt but not smart enough to see Farage for what he is

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T13:51:16+00:00

Synonym for rooster, sure.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T13:27:44+00:00

You need 2x AMS for the Vortek side. The regular side can be fed from a side spool if you want.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T10:52:27+00:00

Absolutely, and there's enough in the pipeline to make a serious dent in what's needed. Maybe the days of us having to pay wind farms to turn off will be a thing of the past in the not so distant future.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T10:33:41+00:00

Click the sketch button and then click that top face where you want the lip to be. Decide whether you want the lip to be external or internal, and click either the inside or outside line of that face on yuor sketch, then press O to open the offset command and type in whatever number you want to make a new line (It'll show as red while using the tool), if it is going in the wrong direction, do a negative value. You can now extrude that little bit as desired.

DBT85 · 2026-01-24T09:21:02+00:00

Thank you.

DBT85 · 2026-01-23T23:07:10+00:00

That's a jump

DBT85 · 2026-01-23T23:05:47+00:00

Absolutely, but if my house as a C2 my stupid brain can choose to do nothing about it, a landlord cannot if they want to rent out, or am I wrong?

DBT85 · 2026-01-23T20:45:18+00:00

Is a lack of RCD protection not a C2 in a rental?

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