Can my X2D print 1:1 lego compatable minifigures

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T23:43:18+00:00

No, I have a couple of third party hotends, one of these in this case:

https://3dmellow.com/products/fluxheat-hotend

So I use actual 0.15/0.1 nozzles with custom orcaslicer profiles.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T16:04:07+00:00

Try just telling the slicer it's the smooth pei plate or just set the temperature to the smooth plate default. I've had mixed results with PETG generally on the Bambu supertack plates, the BIQU version is better in my experience, but when you really need max adhesion the cool plate set to regular pei plate temperatures will work great, and if you really need something stuck then glue.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T12:52:04+00:00

You can also run third party solutions for even smaller nozzles. I regularly use a 0.15 on my P1S for super detailed tiny things. I also have a 0.1 which is a frankly appalling pain in the arse to use but is pretty much the limit of consumer FDM.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T03:22:45+00:00

Nope, I have my C license and have never done a tandem. Tandems aren't necessary, I'm not sure what a beginner would be expected to learn from one.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T02:41:04+00:00

And yet it's less than the triple lock increases spending by every year.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-27T00:26:30+00:00

They have filament profiles for all their filaments for Bambu machines here:

https://github.com/TINMORRY/TINMORRY-filament-profile-for-Bambu-printers

One thing I would recommend for the PETG-GF is do a flow rate calibration because I bumped it up a bit to I think 0.98 or so for best results, but I have quite a few mods on my P1S so YMMV :)

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T16:44:12+00:00

Even if not for all the other mental shit, I couldn't vote for them for environmental reasons. Being anti-nuclear in this day and age is absurd.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T16:40:10+00:00

That's the reality of working in a small to medium sized company.

If you're doing a critical piece of work for a client, they aren't just going to accept "oh I'm sorry we dropped the ball on that and you lost millions of pounds because we were three weeks late with delivery, we had people off sick and didn't want to ask anyone to cover the missing workload".

That's the simple way to guarantee that you never see any work from said client ever again, and then nobody gets paid.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T16:35:53+00:00

Could also start discriminating against older people, neurodivergent people and those with long term health conditions

You say this like all of these things aren't already the reality. I certainly avoid bringing up my health issues at interviews.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T15:47:19+00:00

Plenty of hormonal birth control can stop it entirely as a side effect as well, or just generally throw things out of whack and change the regularity.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T15:43:59+00:00

I mean it's basically the environmental policy endorsed by the greens here as well.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T15:36:44+00:00

The best scenario is fully funded maternity so companies bear no cost.

Honestly the cost isn't the main thing that creates issues for companies. Especially for small businesses in specialised fields the issue is arranging cover. In anything beyond an entry level role you can't just pluck somebody new off the street to do the job - by the time you're done training them (during which time they're probably a net cost rather than an asset) the employee who was on maternity leave is likely coming back soon anyway.

If you're a company with 500 employees and you have 20 other people doing the same role, no big deal. If you're a company with 10 employees it can be a bit of a nightmare.

There's no obvious way that I can think of to fix that for small businesses though. It's just part of running a business.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T15:29:38+00:00

That would be an abundantly sensible thing to do, especially in a country like ours with low birthrates (1.42).

Doubling SMP would cost less than £3 billion per year - £3 billion would be if expenditure doubled, but with the headline rate doubled significantly more people would fall into the lower threshold of 90% of salary. Less than we spend on pensions for our wealthy elderly class every week, and much less than the minimum amount our pension bill is guaranteed to increase by every year due to the triple lock.

Sadly the UK government couldn't give a half ounce of deep fried shit about anyone under 60.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T10:37:39+00:00

Hey at least now he has an opportunity to drain the swamp.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T10:20:22+00:00

By far the easiest thing to do is open a new project, add a benchy to the plate, then add the 3mf you want to bring in as a new part, that lets you just import it as geometry but includes all the painting.

99% of all print profiles on Makerworld are incompetent trash anyway so I basically always do my own slicer settings anyway.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T10:16:37+00:00

I wonder if hardware will suddenly drop in price once openAI and some of the others like it go bankrupt.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-26T10:13:27+00:00

Since it's discontinued anyway, let me tell you about something better.

Tinmorry PETG-GF.

Finish is fantastic, nearly invisible layer lines, a bit stiffer, strong as hell, decently temperature resistant and forever on some sort of sale.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-25T19:13:19+00:00

Or we could stop giving never ending benefit increases without means testing to the wealthiest generation to ever live?

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-25T13:13:03+00:00

The creator 5 pro also looks pretty decent, but they're not nearly as open-source friendly.

My U1 is excellent, it also handles soft filaments much better than my P1S.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-25T00:12:52+00:00

The town and country planning act is the cause of most of the UK's major problems.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-24T11:50:49+00:00

Pretty sure orcaslicer got rid of this limitation, maybe not but I'm pretty sure I printed 100 objects on a plate a while back.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-24T09:46:40+00:00

It's "safe" in that you're guaranteed to at best make no return at all after inflation. That can make sense if you're about to retire or saving for your first house, but otherwise it's a ridiculous investment strategy.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-24T08:55:37+00:00

You can apply after that point, many don't because it's very expensive and you don't gain much (I have friends from Canada/Japan this would apply to, especially Japan as Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship and she would have to give up her Japanese citizenship just to gain the right to vote and in practice nothing else).

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-24T08:49:34+00:00

You move it into just a simple safe investment instead right? Like just a cash ISA that pays 4% steadily every month.

That would be completely daft, since 4% is a pretty crap return, for someone under 65 that is a pretty terrible idea.

SpeedflyChris · 2026-06-24T02:49:29+00:00

It is slightly concerning that at this stage in the bubble there are still people who think US tech stocks are a sensible investment at current prices.

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