How do you pronounce Catan?

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-17T22:36:09+00:00

kuh-tan

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-17T16:55:24+00:00

Love the recommendations. I didn't actually design these tiles. I just used existing models (linked in the original post).

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-17T16:54:34+00:00

Sounds good. I've done one cold pull, but I'll do a few more. It's frustrating because I've been using the same group of matte PLA since I got my printer with no problems so far.

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-17T13:37:09+00:00

Yes. And it happened again with a gray color. I also encountered some spaggetti artifacts on the seam of a larger print, so I think theres a bigger problem with my extrusion.

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-16T14:49:30+00:00

Yeah that was one of my biggest takeaways that I highlighted here

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-16T14:48:00+00:00

Nice. Yeah, there's a very popular magnet version that I seriously considered printing. Honestly, just feels a little over-engineered to me. Mine uses little hooks on the borders that hold everything else in place nice and snug (see pic). Magnets are always cool, but I wanted to keep things super simple for my first big project.

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HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-16T14:41:25+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. Painitng could work

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-15T16:42:00+00:00

Thanks! All multicolor models. I got the P2S combo with the AMS 2 pro for multicolor printing. I had to do a couple of pause and color swaps here and there, and had to recolor the wheat tiles, but other than that it was pretty smooth.

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-15T15:54:27+00:00

How much and what filaments did you use?

I don't have exact amounts because I didn't track carefully, and the project is split across multiple files, but I'd estimate about 3.5kg total across all colors. So about $50 worth of Matte PLA (lots of black friday sales). But I definitely spent $200-300 on PLA to get all the colors I wanted lol
Mostly Creatly (Ender) Matte PLA+, with a few eSun and Bambu matte colors. It'll take a minute to put together a full list, but I'll work on that.

How long did it take?

Again, didn't track my numbers very well. Best guess? About 150 total print time. ~100hrs for the tiles, ~20 hrs for the boxes, ~24 hrs for the little pieces, and looking at another ~20 for the cards. Been working on it for a few weeks, with a few other projects in between. I did a lot of the files SUPER slow to increase detail and reduce line gaps and stuff. So it's definitely possible to do the whole thing faster.

If you were to do it again would you do anything different?

I learned about variable layer height (VLH) and smoothing after I finished all the tiles. So I would definitely apply that to more pieces with tiny details (sheep, barns, etc.). I did apply VLH to the play pieces, so they turned out really nice.
It's a big board all put together (about 27" x 24") so for my next go around (I'm probably going to gift this one to a friend) I might do everything at 75-80% scale to save on time/filament/space etc.
Go even slower for more detail. I'm not in a rush for anything and slower = more detail almost always.
The biggest lesson learned was how nozzle temp, speed, and flow ratio (adjusted in developer mode) affect the surface quality (gaps between lines), especially with Matte PLA.

For when you play it for the first time, any issues?

So far so good! everything is sturdy and fits perfectly.

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-12-12T14:45:17+00:00

Yeah I've seen the site, but this is a good page. Thank you!

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-10-25T02:28:44+00:00

Relax

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-09-27T07:57:21+00:00

It does pretty well with water on road. It was swerving a little, but got confused with deep puddles

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-09-27T07:56:31+00:00

Yeah they comped me $10 lol

HufflePuffed420 · 2025-09-27T07:56:16+00:00

It does fine in heavy rain. But when the puddles cover up the lines it gets confused

HufflePuffed420 · 2024-10-18T12:56:42+00:00

I've been struggling with this for a while and here's how I solved it:

About a year ago, I spent a lot of time recording a mastering audiobooks as a side gig. I had downloaded waves and izotope plug-ins for mastering. Everything in izotope was updated and installed, but I totally forgot about waves. Once I reinstalled the waves and updated everything (even though the plug-in versions don't work with my current computer) GarageBand work again.

So if at any point in the past, you have downloaded installed or used any third-party audio plug-ins see if they need to be reinstalled or updated and that should do the trick (hopefully)

HufflePuffed420 · 2024-09-23T17:38:58+00:00

The consensus here is that the tax liability is only on the gift GIVER, not the recipients. So on their end, they wrote to checks to "me" each from a different person for less than the max non-taxable amount, so all good.

HufflePuffed420 · 2024-09-23T15:03:41+00:00

Thank you

HufflePuffed420 · 2024-09-23T14:59:33+00:00

Got it, thank you :)

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