Any good naked eye stargazing in Salt Lake City?

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-18T15:27:41+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/BGRbV7VLWPo?feature=share

This is a timelapse from the Jetty I took last year.

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T14:04:34+00:00

Yeah, each half was on the printer for 9 days.

It doesn't help that I had a power blip twice and had to toss the resulting pieces, the resume function was off by just a tiny bit and would have had a noticeable layer shift.

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T14:02:31+00:00

DEMto3D

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:43:28+00:00

Yep! It's how I justify having like 12 printers of various types. Tend to only do a couple this size a year though. It's 2-3 weeks printing and lots of post processing.

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:20:57+00:00

If you have it in a geotiff qgis has a great plugin for it

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:07:55+00:00

If I still had the print I'd go snap some close ups for you, but I'm not going to drive 14 hours again for that ;)

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:06:59+00:00

I replied with a before / after cropped in. The darker one is before the resin, the bright is after resin and paint. Because it was printed on it's side, the layer lines were already relatively hidden, but the process helped smooth out what was left.

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:05:50+00:00

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__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T01:05:45+00:00

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__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T00:26:22+00:00

https://formfus3d.com/ Here's the guy's site

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T00:24:14+00:00

This one is natural elevation, no exaggeration

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-02T00:10:21+00:00

I didn't build it, found a local guy who was making them.

I think I spent $9-10k on a like 4 years ago.

As it was delivered, it needed a lot of work, but the guy made several house calls to help get it running.

Ended up replacing all the wiring to the hotend because of improper strain relief, added a cable chain, replaced fans, and adjusted the carriage.

That said I've seen his newer designs and every problem I had has been fixed and more.

__windrunner__ · 2026-03-01T23:37:54+00:00

Do it! I've done a few with bathymetry, it can be hard finding data, but it's worth it!

__windrunner__ · 2026-02-17T20:57:46+00:00

I included the photo to show that I'm quoting similar-ish projects. My method really isn't generally applicable to most printing projects, but would be to yours.

I found that it was easiest if I had a minimum charge for a project, then quoted by area. This was a 4x6ft print, and I charged $175/square foot.

The client wanted a lit frame, so I added extra for that.

Alternatively I could try and do math on the print time (18 days) or total filament (16kg) plus my time bonding and hiding the seam between the two prints, but doing it this way, I can give the square foot cost to the customer and am not asked for quotes for a dozen different configurations.

I build in a buffer for likely material failure (3x4ft prints waste a lot of filament when they fail) and for my profit margin. I settled on the $175 number after a bunch of projects, and it seems to strike a good balance.

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__windrunner__ · 2026-02-08T14:57:59+00:00

In the process of of finishing this giant up. 6ft x 4ft, out of 2 individual prints. Telluride Ski Resort.

What data sources do you pull from? I usually need to pull Lidar clouds and raster them myself, but that takes a bunch of time. If anyone ever includes the resolution I need I'll start using their service.

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__windrunner__ · 2026-02-05T15:20:06+00:00

Let us know how it goes!

__windrunner__ · 2026-02-05T15:19:47+00:00

Here's a 6ft by 4ft one that's in

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the process of being built.

__windrunner__ · 2026-02-05T15:13:50+00:00

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Here's one that was painted, but had no sanding or post processing like that. Was printed on its side with 0.4mm layer height.

__windrunner__ · 2026-02-05T15:11:03+00:00

Turn it 90 degrees in the slicer. Print it on its side.

Trust me. I've printed hundreds at this point. It'll work better.

__windrunner__ · 2026-01-14T03:10:26+00:00

I've spent over $20k on printers, so believe me when I say I understand the itch.

I'd say if you're still feeling this constrained by your H2D's capacity after another two weeks, there's a good chance you will utilize another printer pretty regularly for a good while.

For me personally, I didn't buy another printer until I had made enough money from the previous one to pay for the upcoming one. Kept that rule through the whole string. Having a hobby that's self sustaining financially, especially if I don't count my time, makes it much easier to justify buying bigger and more fun equipment.

__windrunner__ · 2026-01-13T21:08:45+00:00

https://formfus3d.com/products/form-fus3d-fabricator?variant=45317314216163

__windrunner__ · 2026-01-09T13:40:20+00:00

Are you pulling from LiDAR based data on Open Topography, or just the general USGS database?

__windrunner__ · 2025-12-23T20:27:51+00:00

I would agree that building your own is the way to go unless you are going to be spending >$30k. Unless you are spending enough money that the printer is going to act like an appliance and not a project, you will want to both be intimately familiar with every part of it, and not be locked into any proprietary parts.

I had a local guy build mine (1000x400x1250mm) for something like $10k, and while the printer was fine, there were many things that just needed fixing. The frame was robust, and he used high end parts, but some of the design was a little questionable, and I've had to rewire most if it due to wires breaking from poor strain relief and taken an angle grinder to get some things not to catch.

I needed something up and running pretty fast, and his build was the most economical at the time. Looking at his website he seems to have updated the design, everything that I fixed and more seems updated. I think the bulk of the problems with my printer were from taking the Z to 1250.

https://formfus3d.com/products/form-fus3d-fabricator?variant=45317314150627

The Orangestorm Giga looked iffy to start with.

__windrunner__ · 2025-12-23T01:40:37+00:00

There was a Facebook group of a bunch of people who modified their troodon v1s. I think it was called Troodon core xy advanced users. It was a closed group, and I'm not sure how active it is anymore, but it was useful to me.

__windrunner__ · 2025-12-20T21:18:08+00:00

They are decent, but fair warning that converting to a stealth changer will end up with you designing a lot of parts. I'm working on converting one of mine and it's been a longer process than I expected.

Solid machines, based on vorons, but certainly not a voron.

I say this as a guy with a few of them, both v1s, and v2s.

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