YmelleB OP t1_jd517ol wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:48 PM

Reply to comment by Luchin212 in Whoever was in charge of product photos has a sense of humor by YmelleB

I graduated MechE and we did have a 3D print lab. But I believe students would just submit their models and lab techs would print for them. For your situation, are students left unsupervised to just go use the printers?

Luchin212 t1_jd5xb9g wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:35 AM

For some reason, yes. The Freshmen don’t know how to best use a printer so they make so many stupid mistakes and don’t think as to why their print fails or try to fix it. For example, bed temperature is too often overlooked. The standard 50* is too cold and the bottom layers of the print WILL warp and bend. Placing prints on the least worn places(in the slicing program), orientation, and even designing their stuff to be able to be printed.

While they will never learn if they do not have access to the printers, they need to have one of the techs or a student like me overlook these settings to make sure they don’t damage a printer.