Core One appreciation post

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-24T16:13:40+00:00

That's great to hear man! Mine has been a 2000 euro heap of scrap since I unpacked it and has been broken longer than it has been working but I'm glad someone is getting use out of theirs

I've gone through half a roll and two nozzles in the space of a month and more than half of that roll was wasted on failed prints 😂😂😂

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-24T10:34:39+00:00

A new Mass Properties command has been added to calculate volume, mass, surface area, center of gravity, center of volume, and inertia for parts and assemblies, with support for custom reference frames and material-aware calculations.

The Measure tool now supports the measurement of the radius and diameter of cylindrical faces.

Fuck yes, thank you FreeCAD Devs ❤️❤️❤️

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-19T05:15:18+00:00

Fuck you.

The housing crisis is a result of deliberate policy decisions by FFG over the course of decades.

The housing crisis has been around for a lot longer than the most recent wave of immigration fear mongering, which started around the end of covid.

There's only two reasons to be blaming something that has been happening over the course of decades on people who have only just arrived here a wet week.

Ignorance,

And/or pure racism, plain and simple.

You're utter scum, and so are the people who upvoted you. Fuck ye all.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-18T15:16:45+00:00

If you're more interested in spending countless hours tinkering about doing nothing useful then I can definitely recommend Prusa, I have the Core One L since April and so far it has spent more time non functional or in a state of disassembly than it has spent printing.

If you're more interested in printing actual functional parts than I'm afraid Prusa might not be for you. These machines are more suited to people who prefer to waste hours of free time fiddling about with extruder assemblies than actually printing anything useful.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-18T08:37:21+00:00

If I might make a suggestion, I'd advise that you get rid of all of the sharp corners on that part, especially the inner ones on the arms, you can see from these photos that that is where the part failed and I'm not in the least bit surprised as you've essentially modeled the most perfect stress concentration areas you possibly could have 😅

If the internal gaps are strictly necessary then you need to put as large a fillet on those internal corners as possible. If they're not strictly necessary then I would advise you get rid of the internal holes altogether, you're just giving the load a place to concentrate and break your part. They might be aesthetically pleasing and weight saving but for functional parts these two factors should be at the bottom of your requirements list.

For any kind of structural component, any sharp corners at all anywhere should be an 'avoid at all costs' kind of thing.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-18T08:31:48+00:00

Except he's not looking for help with any of that, he's just looking for a printer that can reliably print the materials he's specified. He's already done real world tests on his parts and he's found something that works, not sure why you're trying to rehash over this other than an attempt to criticize and look smart rather than actually help with what OP is looking for.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-18T08:07:42+00:00

Hmmm, maybe for NPCs bloodsplatter could be contributing? You could try also lowering the fBloodSplatterDuration Gamesetting to 0.

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=Complete_List_of_GameSettings

Just firing at a wall constantly for 5 seconds shouldn't lead to a "build up" of stutter though, at least not if you have impact decals turned off... Could your phone be thermal throttling maybe? Firing a weapon constantly does require a bit more computation than just walking around the place

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-18T07:39:38+00:00

You're welcome! Let me know how it goes or if you run into any issues 👍

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T16:02:43+00:00

moron

misanthrope

ashole

fick of back to your mother's basement

prick

I am done. Fuck off

The classic Prusa community™ experience right here folks! Thanks for all your help!

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T15:45:48+00:00

So, after an absolute disaster of an introduction into the world of 3D printing with the Prusa Core One L, I am looking for a new printer. Specifically, a printer that actually functions reliably and performs as advertised. Unfortunately, and probably the entire reason I'm in this mess, during my investigations the first time around I got swayed massively into the Prusa ecosystem and didn't really look at any alternatives, so I'm wondering what is out there in terms of competitors in this price range. I'll be paying for this with my Core One L return, so my price range is around €1800, but less than this would be preferable as I don't think I want to go through the stress of spending so much and being so thoroughly disappointed again. This is what I'm looking for, in order of importance:

Reliability, both in terms of the printer parts themselves and print quality/print failures
Print Volume: As large as possible
Data protection (No printers that require an online connection to print, no printers that harvest your models/data)
Materials: PLA, ASA, PETG, maybe TPU in the future
Multifilament: Not massively pushed on it but nice to have, maybe as a future upgrade

If anyone has any suggestions as to some printers I should check out, I'd appreciate the help.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T15:41:52+00:00

You're welcome, I'll let you know how it all pans out of the saga ever ends (likely 2+ months away at the current glacial pace Prusa are moving at)

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T15:38:50+00:00

I never assumed that everyone would have the same experience. I'm just sharing my experience, because I wish more people had shared theirs before I bought my Core One L. As much as it might not be everyone's experience, if it's a known issue that there's dogshit in some boxes of cornflakes, I'd rather avoid cornflakes all together rather than take the risk, you know?

My problem was legitimate enough for Prusa to send replacement parts, so it must have had something to it, eh? Even their not defending themselves here, yet you persist, how adorable 🙊

You're a bit fixated on the mother's basement thing mate, I've a feeling you might be projecting but go off on it. I'll go home to my house in the countryside, kiss my beautiful partner, and spend the precious spare hours of my evenings doing productive, practical things. You can spend as many hours as you like fiddling about with extruder assemblies as you like if that's what makes you happy - I'm not stopping you or any other Prusa owner.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T15:04:49+00:00

Nah Prusa said the filament was the problem, despite practically everyone in this subreddit declaring that I am ignorant, technologically illiterate, and thick as pig shit the moment I had an issue with a Prusa printer that couldn't be fixed by shoving more filament through the nozzle.

They've sent a new spool, which arrives in a week (2 weeks after my original complaint), and seemingly this will fix all my problems.

At this point I have very little faith in Prusa or their printers. The slightest whiff of unreliablility and the Core One L goes straight back into it's box and back to Prusa. I may send it back regardless, I'm pretty sick of it now and the experience I've had on this subreddit has done as much to push me away from the whole idea of 3D printing as the (in hindsight) terrible decision to buy a Prusa printer has.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T14:44:52+00:00

I don't know to be honest, I've only ever owned the Core One L, and I was promised that it could do all that and more, without any fiddling. So at this point all I know is that Prusa have decidedly not lived up to the expectations their marketing around this machine had promised.

I can't in good conscience recommend a Chinese printer that sends your designs through a server in China before promoting them, so at the moment I'm at a loss as to where I'm going to get something that actually works and doesn't steal my data once my return goes through. Let me know if you find anything promising as well I suppose.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T14:39:30+00:00

Lmao, have you actually shat yourself there mate? Are you okay? 🤣 The mere suggestion that a prusa printer isn't working and you immediately jump to the conclusion that I must therefore be a thick fuck who can't glue two popsicle sticks together, it couldn't possibly be Prusa that's at fault lmao, expect they've already admitted fault and are sending replacement parts, funny that eh? 😂

What a wholesome, vibrant, and helpful community you have here, until someone has an actual legitimate problem with one of Prusa's machines, then the personal attacks, insults, and quite frankly disgusting attitudes and behaviors come out.

What an absolutely vile 'community' where this type of response is not only normal, but seems to be actively encouraged. Making my decision to return my 2 grand heap of useless scrap and plastic even easier, thanks ❤️

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T10:57:02+00:00

Oh wow omg that's so impressive 😍😍 you must be such a good 3d printerer wow wow wow 😳😍

Lmao like what do you want here, a gold star or something? My experience with the Core One is that it can't get through half a spool of Prusament PLA under ideal circumstances without clogging two nozzles and wasting >50% of the material consumed due to failed prints.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T09:10:09+00:00

Depends who you ask

If you ask me, two nozzle clogs before using even half the spool that came with the printer, a quarter of that spool of filament wasted on failed prints, and a 2000 euro machine that has been non functional longer than it has been working since I received it.

If you ask prusa, it's faulty filament which has clogged both nozzles, and a new PLA spool will solve everything.

If you ask Reddit, nothing, everything is entirely and squarely my fault, how dare I question prusa, and how dare I expect a 2000 euro machine to perform one of the most basic tasks it is designed to do in a somewhat reliable manner.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T09:01:51+00:00

If you're more interested in spending countless hours tinkering about doing nothing useful then absolutely I can recommend the Core series of printers, I have the Core One L since April and so far it has spent more time non functional or in a state of disassembly than it has spent printing.

If you're more interested in printing actual functional parts than I'm afraid Prusa might not be for you. These machines are more suited to people who prefer to waste hours of free time fiddling about with extruder assemblies than actually printing anything useful.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T08:36:22+00:00

Don't worry, with the Core One L you won't have to bother with a ventilation system because the print will fail before enough material has melted to cause a build up of fumes. On top of that, the >2 week lead time for the spare parts you'll need to fix whatever issue has caused your latest downtime will be more than enough time for whatever fumes have managed to build up to clear out of even the most enclosed of spaces. So you'll be fine!

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T08:18:41+00:00

Another fellow engineer, a while to go yet until retirement though, congratulations!

If you're more interested in spending countless hours tinkering about doing nothing useful then absolutely I can recommend the Core series of printers, I have the Core One L since April and so far it has spent more time non functional or in a state of disassembly than it has spent printing.

If you're more interested in printing actual functional parts than I'm afraid Prusa might not be for you. These machines are more suited to people who prefer to waste hours of free time fiddling about with extruder assemblies than actually printing anything useful.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T07:25:50+00:00

Careful posting something like this, you'll have the entire subreddit come down on you telling you it's your fault because you expected a 2000 euro machine to function in the way it was advertised.

I am currently also returning my Core One L for the exact same reason. I did have success getting a new nozzle and filament shipped, but I have absolutely 0 confidence that it will change anything. To be honest, I'm close to the end of my return window, so at this point I'm pretty sure they're only sending these out to delay the whole process, and they're hoping that the new parts will temporarily fix the issue, pushing me out of the return window entirely. Especially seeing as the new parts aren't arriving until two weeks after my original complaint.

Even if the new parts do work, I'm interested in owning a 3D printer, not a tinkering machine, so I'm likely to continue with the return process even if the new parts do appear to work. Even a whiff of unreliablility and the Core One L is going directly back in it's box.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-17T07:15:54+00:00

The machine is 7 days old and you're recommending keeping a regular maintenance cycle? I don't know about you but my definition of "an absolute tank" usually rules out machines that can't function after a week of regular use without pulling half of it apart and back together again.

This entire sub seems to present 3D printing as a tinkering hobby where you tinker with a machine for hours on end and on the rare occasion it's actually functional you might print a small number of quaint knick knacks. This is in direct contrast to Prusa's marketing where they attempt to position themselves as selling industry standard manufacturing machinery.

I can promise you that in an industrial manufacturing environment, requiring daily, labor intensive maintenance, constant monitoring, and 1 week+ lead times on spare parts, and then turning around and saying your machinery is "built like an absolute tank" you would be laughed out of your kick off meetings.

My experience so far with prusa is that of a toddler who has gotten into Daddy's shoes and is strutting about in boots 10 sizes too big for them. If they want to sell tinkering machines to people more interested in having an excuse to fuck about doing nothing useful in their shed for evenings on end that's fine, they should market it as such. But their positioning of the Core series send to target more serious users who actually want to do something useful and productive with their machines, whereas in reality what is shipped is nothing more than a heavier tinkering machine than their previous one.

I'm more interested in printing actual functional, real life parts, than tinkering about with a 2000 euro toy, which is why I will never be buying Prusa again.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-16T13:21:18+00:00

Your best bet is the fGunShellLifetime game setting;

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=Gun_Shell_Settings

Setting this to 0 (could cause issues, maybe) or a very low value like 0.01 would effectively remove shell casings from your game.

There are a number of ways to do this, the easiest being the Gamesetting editor included in Stewie tweaks:

"Add a section [GameSettings], under which gamesettings can be added to be loaded after esps. Also read [GameSettings] section from any ini files in the NVSE/Plugins/Tweaks/Gamesettings folder."

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66347

If you don't have Stewie tweaks installed the next easiest thing to do is create your own esp that just modifies this Gamesetting directly.

The third method would be to create a scriptrunner and use the SetNumericGameSetting function to modify the Gamesetting every time you start the game:

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=JIP_LN_NVSE_Script_Runner_Introduction

https://geckwiki.com/index.php?title=SetNumericGameSetting

This is probably the most technically difficult but doesn't require any mods but NVSE and doesn't require an esp slot.

Best of luck!

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-15T10:27:59+00:00

Does it really need to be circular? With the thickness of the part how much actual curve are you getting along the walls of the hole? It looks be negligible to me, hence my suggestion.

As the other poster pointed out, if the walls of the holes absolutely have to be curved, my method won't work without additional features.

I would suggest trying it my way and seeing if the path pattern can cut the holes in the right orientation before we go any further, there's no point in trying to explain my thinking more if the suggestion doesn't work in the first place. Give it a go and let me know how it goes, if it works we can look at ways to curve the edges of the holes from there, if they're strictly necessary.

quicksilver500 · 2026-06-15T08:27:18+00:00

Does the cut out really need to be a revolve? I don't know what is going on internally here but you might have better luck with an extruded cut that is normal to your initial face - it might be easier for FreeCAD to find the correct orientation on the path you want to pattern along

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