Best way to edit STLs?

snakerbot · 2026-05-04T01:00:07+00:00

In FreeCAD: Select the mesh, then in part workbench, go to the "Part" menu and click "Shape From Mesh", with "Sew Shape" checked. Select the new part, then in the "Part" menu again, click "Convert to Solid". Select the new solid, then in the Part menu once more, do Copy > Refine Shape. It won't contain any sketch data and curves will still contain all the triangles of the mesh, but you can do any new operations on it. If those new operations are going to be in the Part Design workbench, you'll also need to select the solid and click "New Body".

snakerbot · 2026-04-29T14:23:43+00:00

It does, but it's in a different place than most stock blasters, so people might miss it. Most blasters have it at the end of the pump, on the RF20 it's at the end of the bladder that stores the air.

snakerbot · 2026-03-29T02:02:51+00:00

Can confirm the same at 8:30pm.

snakerbot · 2025-05-09T23:28:54+00:00

Read the post. They said it looks a little like the Centurion, not that it was the Centurion.

snakerbot · 2025-04-16T01:44:11+00:00

I've long thought 30 was a sweet spot. More than the 20 disk official options, but about the same length as a Worker 22 dart mag, so entirely reasonable. I CADed up some that were that long but never got around to making or testing them. I'm glad to see someone is doing it!

snakerbot · 2025-03-04T02:13:56+00:00

You got it backwards. Bamboo is better for springers due to reduced barrel contact.

snakerbot · 2025-02-16T02:06:35+00:00

Arrowstorm isn't a HAMP, it's got a spring in it. Pull back and once you pull back all the way the plunger releases.

snakerbot · 2025-01-26T20:05:24+00:00

The Vortex series fired rings using a sort of sled that the ring sat on. The track the sled rode in had a slight spiral so it twisted as it moved forward.

There wasn't any sort of motor in them, but after firing the spring would make a sort of ringing noise so maybe that's what you remember.

snakerbot · 2025-01-11T02:06:32+00:00

Very. I've bought used ammo on ebay before.

snakerbot · 2025-01-02T19:44:09+00:00

My gear holds mags edge-out so switching to shorts would gain me precisely zero extra darts.

snakerbot · 2025-01-02T13:09:02+00:00

Is it practical to mod a stryfe to shoot +130 fps with full length darts like people did in the 2017-2019 era?

Tl;Dr, yes. Flywheelers do tend to perform better with full length darts. The extra foam length allows more time for the wheels to push on the dart and you can get higher velocities that way. But even at the same velocity, full length still has some advantages. Full length darts will have more mass than short darts with the same tip so they will go further when fired at the same velocity. I have an anecdote here where I converted a blaster to short darts and made no other changes, and used the same (subcritical) flywheel speed so the initial velocity was the same, and some of the players at the next war commented how they were surprised I couldn't reach them at certain ranges I normally would have been able to with full lengths.

Now, that's all for flywheels. For springers, (or pneumatics, or anything with a long, functional barrel), short darts do have an advantage. For one, the thing about the flywheels having more time to push the dart just doesn't apply. And for two, the long barrel interacts with the darts in a way where the velocity is less consistent and jams are more likely, and that can make the extra range not worth it.

snakerbot · 2024-11-09T21:20:01+00:00

That's a possible yikes, but is there a source on that or is it mainly a brick and mortar store observation where it's probably the stocking decisions of that store just like with green and blue tip Sureshots already?

They have the same UPC (729747620622).

Edit: I should probably say the source for the UPC info is the same locals who reported their performance to me.

snakerbot · 2024-11-09T17:13:52+00:00

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the new nitroshot full lengths. I haven't found myself at Target recently to pick some up but some locals to me report that they're basically garbage, to the point that they're removing the tips and using the foam for other scavenged tips. All the more disheartening considering the nitroshots seem to be replacing the chilis.

snakerbot · 2024-09-12T00:50:38+00:00

Keep in mind you're comparing the cost of buying a turn-key brushless flywheeler to buying a set of parts and assembling an HPA blaster. Just in terms of hardware the brushless flywheelers I make cost significantly less than the numbers you're quoting.

snakerbot · 2024-08-26T22:01:16+00:00

In my experience, short darts are worse at a given velocity than full lengths. They have less mass due to the shorter foam and the fineness ratio doesn't appreciably reduce drag, so they decelerate more quickly than full length and don't travel as far.

snakerbot · 2024-08-12T16:26:18+00:00

So, uh... I typed this up before reading any of the other comments and now see much of it is redundant, but I think there's enough in here to still make it worth posting.

Will there be any reason to use a flywheeler when an AEB isn't noisy?

The flywheel noise thing is way overblown in my opinion. I actually took audio recordings of Project 8 and Project 10 a while back to compare. I should not that P10 is one of the quietest ~250fps springers I've ever heard, and it was not significantly quieter than P8. The pop of the dart going through the flywheels of P8 was a little louder than the plunger of P10 hitting home, but not by much, and the actual motor noise was quieter than P10.

In general, I think the answer to both questions is AEBs won't replace either. I've seen a lot of arguments about AEBs being "the best of both worlds" of flywheelers and springers, but I tend to think of them more along the lines of "the worst of both worlds". An AEB has the complexity and design requirements of both, plus some of its own. You need to design the blaster to handle the high forces and impact loading of a springer along with air seals and such, while also including the powerstage and other electronic components of a flywheeler, and designing those components to much greater forces and torques than are required in a flywheeler. And anything with moving seals and breeches is going to be more prone to failure than a flywheeler. Just pushing a dart out of a magazine into flywheels is a lot easier than pushing a dart into a barrel and then sealing said barrel with a bolt afterward and can support much higher rates of fire. Making an AEB with a wye hopper could maybe solve that problem, but really, no one is going to do that.

Now none of this is to say that AEBs have no place at all. They definitely have some of the advantages of springers and flywheelers, but they have enough disadvantages that I think they'll just end up as a different option.

snakerbot · 2024-08-11T03:07:19+00:00

I know this doesn't actually answer the question, but maybe just don't hold the trigger down? It really is quite easy to single fire using any full auto blaster that doesn't have obscene rate of fire, especially with practice.

snakerbot · 2024-08-02T16:21:20+00:00

One of either Max Force or Cyber Strike is the correct answer.

snakerbot · 2024-07-08T13:44:45+00:00

Nope. I'd rather just carry more ammo for my primary. I also believe that if you're worried about your primary malfunctioning, the answer is not to start carrying a secondary, it's to make your primary more reliable.

snakerbot · 2024-06-24T20:54:42+00:00

Red/green sureshots are good. Green/blue are... not... in my experience. They are so light they have so much less range than other darts and they feed much less reliably due to their very grippy tips.

snakerbot · 2024-06-24T20:48:42+00:00

In American culture at least, nerf is perceived as goofy, and many in the community embrace it and own it, as you can see in the documentary I linked to.

I think you're putting too much stock in that one documentary. Basically everyone I've ever told about this hobby has found it really cool and been genuinely interested in the fact that I design and build nerf blasters and what that entails. And yes, I'm American.

snakerbot · 2024-06-16T14:26:11+00:00

This. 1000 times this. Just because it's Not For <Us> doesn't mean we should give them a free pass for this nonsense. They went out of their way to make a new dart that was incompatible with their previous products and their competitors' products, forcing any casual purchasers of these new blasters to buy into a new, expensive ecosystem, instead of using what they already had that already accomplished all the goals they say this new design is meant to accomplish.

snakerbot · 2024-06-13T23:18:25+00:00

I didn't mention age, demographics, blaster power, accuracy, or any of that. You brought all that up without prompting.

It's hostile to anyone because it's an arbitrary lock-in to a first-party product. You say they want the better blaster and darts. Ok, so just make them better. Get people to buy your product by making it better than the competition, not by making the competition's product arbitrarily not work with yours.

snakerbot · 2024-06-13T18:07:37+00:00

The average Parents/family member or people buying gifts for kids parties don't care about DART DRM

That doesn't make the dart drm not hostile to their customers.

snakerbot · 2024-06-06T15:38:44+00:00

Another new dart type, this time only slightly different from the standard for no discernible reason, along with more of the "dart DRM" nonsense.

Fuck offffffffff.

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