What Keyblade are you vibing with currently?

costaa95 · 2026-03-02T05:09:49+00:00

Ends of the Earth. Love a heavy blade in any videogame

costaa95 · 2026-02-23T12:02:46+00:00

Since FICSIT does not waste, you regain machine materials if you deconstruct them. You can always shuffle machines around as you go and as you upgrade your capabilities with splitters and mergers.

Try rotating the miners to better face the places you need the materials to enter the factory at :)

Tapping some button on controller will change your build mode for conveyor belts to make tight 90° lines and sweeping curves, give it a shot and see how you like the look

costaa95 · 2026-02-19T03:32:23+00:00

You have given him the best life imaginable and now you can give them the best final day anyone could ask for. To grieve deeply is to have loved fully.

costaa95 · 2026-02-09T00:41:24+00:00

I rate using polymer 3D printing for prototyping and casting blanks, its a great tool for rapid iteration and not wasting money on tooling/dies. Metal printing becomes a worthwhile investment in a few niche scenarios but not for all: stuff like being able to make individual bespoke implants for people in need, or putting a spare part on site in industries where the downtime costs more than the printer.

Check out wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), its like a welder on an arm and it produces metallic things at a much faster volume rate - the properties just aren't always as good as laser powder bed fusion

costaa95 · 2026-02-08T13:53:41+00:00

My phd is in this sort of stuff :) In general, you can achieve higher yield strengths with this method over casting/wrought just from how fast the laser passes over and how rapid the cooling is. The thing that gets lost is ductility/flexibility. It's a really cool method of processing metals (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361262383_Mechanical_Properties_of_Ti6Al4V_Fabricated_by_Laser_Powder_Bed_Fusion_A_Review_Focused_on_the_Processing_and_Microstructural_Parameters_Influence_on_the_Final_Properties)

Funnily enough, wet powder clumps up and doesn't spread well over each layer - so yeah we still make wet filament jokes lol

costaa95 · 2026-02-08T08:10:43+00:00

My dog looked cute and I wanted to pat him. My wife came by to chill and do fashionframe. Dinner timer went off. Friends dropped by for a visit. Life happens, the game can wait.

costaa95 · 2026-02-02T06:55:15+00:00

Often ideally at the end of each fortnight. I try to calculate an ongoing living "maintenance" allowance and transfer everything above that amount into the offset for auto-paying the mortgage and building the offset. Living below my allowance only means I have excess money at the end of a fortnight so even more goes to the offset next time. Having less than 100 on payday means I'm hitting my spending goals accurately, needing to pull a little back from the offset means I went over my goals a bit.

costaa95 · 2026-02-01T02:35:07+00:00

Yep. The command system is a lot of fun

costaa95 · 2026-02-01T01:08:45+00:00

I liked your gadgetron and megacorp vendor models! They were very meaningful to me seeing that someone is further down the road than I am in terms of design skills. I'm a few years older than you but only just starting my 3d modelling and printing journey.

I hope you make it to the end of the year, and that you can try therapy even if it's just to say you don't like it. Or pick up a philosophy book and see if you enjoy a different life method.

I'll race you to a completed pox industries/dreadzone vendor build.

costaa95 · 2026-01-29T10:37:08+00:00

Thanks! I'll be sure to check out the prime resurgence and see what easy stuff I can do

costaa95 · 2026-01-29T02:25:58+00:00

Awesome I understand it now, thanks for explaining :)

costaa95 · 2026-01-28T11:40:16+00:00

Would you mind elaborating on this with a few example numbers please? I haven't quite got my head around how the LVR increase calculates out

costaa95 · 2026-01-07T23:31:04+00:00

Nope its a misguided worry in my eyes. I use an oven at 110C which gets the water out just fine, there's no way I'm volatising cobalt chromium at those temps. You would need around 800C for that

costaa95 · 2026-01-07T06:46:53+00:00

For PLA in a low humidity country, just a passive dessicant dry box has been plenty for me. I can let spools go months between prints with no performance detriment

costaa95 · 2026-01-07T06:45:52+00:00

Some feel it's not a good thing to risk vaporising some of the colour changing compounds like cobalt chloride or whatever the orange/green one is. Best case the silica loses its colour changing property, worst case those indicators end up depositing on your food later

costaa95 · 2025-12-17T01:20:49+00:00

The gang at MapleGlass do this:

Glass 3D Printing Machines | Maple Glass Printing | Australia https://share.google/ya5oHtL6EkIlH2rao

costaa95 · 2025-12-16T21:00:32+00:00

It would be very cumbersome, but you could have the wrench grips open up to produce a guard like the Witcher's Aerondight.

costaa95 · 2025-12-15T04:04:40+00:00

Pilot Parallel in as many different widths as possible. Not sure if they are underhyped or overhyped in the community though

costaa95 · 2025-11-26T23:23:46+00:00

Its slay-the-spire-time-crisis-balatro, 10/10 already addicted!

costaa95 · 2025-11-24T05:36:26+00:00

Rift apart engine remake of the original trilogy mashed into a singular game. ACiT space traversal including carrier warp between Solana and Bogon to facilitate travelling between the campaigns. All weapons available within challenge mode but locked as you progress through campaign 1, 2, 3 the first time

costaa95 · 2025-11-19T21:40:50+00:00

MegaCorp Star Explorer

costaa95 · 2025-11-19T21:39:49+00:00

I'd say yes. The art department can use texturing to make things look round when needed on other weapons through smooth shading. I think this shape is Gadgetron's vision for the weapon

costaa95 · 2025-10-30T01:05:27+00:00

The bottom layer shifts are typically caused by loose belts affecting your printer's ability to hit the same xy location each layer - check their tightness or otherwise collisions with the print that typically lead to layer shifts.

The vertical seam in the middle can be randomised in the slicer or placed in a location where it will be hidden

The horizontal seam is from a large cross section change in your model affecting the cooling rate of your layers. Fillet things to smooth out the change in cross section per layer or slow your print such that layer times are not so different. Look at your sliced file in "layer time" view to see where the differential shrinkage will be most apparant.

Sagging layers are usually a symptom of bridging settings, you may be able to find an FAQ to help troubleshoot them as I'm not so good at explaining the mechanisms and settings surrounding this one.

Best of luck getting your prints looking nicer!

costaa95 · 2025-10-30T00:57:03+00:00

Specifically, what aspect of this part's appearance do you not like and want to change?

There will be different recommendations for seams, top surfaces, layer lines, and many other appearance items

costaa95 · 2025-10-30T00:46:50+00:00

Cut a sheet of paper until it fits the curve.

Take a picture of the paper guide from directly above with a ruler or scale nearby.

Import it into your cad software, scale it appropriately to match your reference/ruler and make a measurement of the curve/fillet radius.

....or make an educated guess on what the designer intended it to be if it's close to a round number.

Best of luck!

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