The Official 3D Printing Discussion Thread

[stitchdup]

with the shape of the truck body, and lack of detail on the front, i'd be tempted to tilt it forward rather than back. it would open up space for supports on the back wall and more around the wheel arch. i tend to print most bodies with med supports for everything (using lychee)

[Mike Slapattack]

4 hours ago, stitchdup said:

with the shape of the truck body, and lack of detail on the front, i'd be tempted to tilt it forward rather than back. it would open up space for supports on the back wall and more around the wheel arch. i tend to print most bodies with med supports for everything (using lychee)

Thank you for the idea, I flipped it to have the back up high instead. Let's see if it works!

 

 

5 hours ago, MrObsessive said:

I'd try putting supports on the inside of the body on the sides. For whatever reason, Chitubox only wants to place them mostly in a vertical direction, leaving IMO voids along the sides that can be supported. Putting them on the insides along the sides of the cab will also keep print shifting at bay, which in a convertible for instance is important, since you don't have the real estate of a roof to place supports.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for the suggestion! I added those into the next test print which I'm running now, along with the back angled up as another suggested.

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

Has anyone printed anything from the designer hora80? He has thousands of designs but the images on cults3d don't look too appealing. I'd like to see some of their designs printed.  Thanks 

[stitchdup]

47 minutes ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Has anyone printed anything from the designer hora80? He has thousands of designs but the images on cults3d don't look too appealing. I'd like to see some of their designs printed.  Thanks 

I've printed a couple of his audis. for the cost they are decent but i wouldn't pay more for them. they all need the door shuts redone. sometimes its the only game in town for some stuff 

[carsntrucks4you]

On 4/15/2025 at 1:09 AM, Mike Slapattack said:

Hey everyone. I am having some issues trying to print my first body. It's a Ranger cab that I designed myself. Consistantly it's coming out with the ends of the rockers curved up, and I don't know why. In my model they are straight, and that's what I'm shooting for.

I am using an Elegoo Saturn 2 with the Elegoo 8K standard resin, using all of the specified settings for that resin. Here are pictures of the issue and my Chitubox setup. The supporting is done with light supports spaced at 3.5mm with heavy supports placed in here and there at key points along the bottom edges.

Any advice whatsoever would be appreciated, this is very frustrating! Thanks.

- Mike

 

Great That is what I looking for. I had a 1990 Ranger as my frist pickup

[V8tiger]

Has anyone used the app KIRI Engine to scan and actually printed anything with it? 

[V8tiger]

Has anyone actually used KIRI engine and printed something? 

[peteski]

Being a bit impatient?  I notified the admins to put this in the proper place.

[V8tiger]

3 hours ago, peteski said:

Being a bit impatient?  I notified the admins to put this in the proper place.

Not impatient… just a little duh…sorry I didn’t  mean to post this twice. In fact there wasn’t an hour between posts. It was about 3 minutes because I thought I’d messed up. Thanks for helping to put this where it should go. 👍

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

On 7/24/2025 at 3:23 PM, stitchdup said:

 for the cost they are decent but i wouldn't pay more for them. 

Yeah, that's what I figured. Any pics?

Thanks

[stitchdup]

4 minutes ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Yeah, that's what I figured. Any pics?

Thanks

I've only got pics of the audi a5. the bodykit came from elsewhere. this was printed at 0.03 layer height

 

 

[Perspect Scale Modelworks]

2 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

I've only got pics of the audi a5. the bodykit came from elsewhere. this was printed at 0.03 layer height

 

 

Nice print but I see what you mean. If nothing else, it's the headlights and molded in side mirrors that are deal breakers for me.

Thanks 

[stitchdup]

1 minute ago, Perspect Scale Modelworks said:

Nice print but I see what you mean. If nothing else, it's the headlights and molded in side mirrors that are deal breakers for me.

Thanks 

some of his bodies do actually have the inner arts of the light behind the solid lenses. I opened up the lights on one but it was just playing to see what could be done with it and i never did lenses for it but the inners were there. I think some of their newer bodies might have seperate lenses now