This feels like a completely different conversation to me just wanting fries deep fried in beef tallow again. And that you can’t find these kind of things easily out there anymore as everyone argues about being healthy.

Yeah but I want the choice without having to cook for myself sometimes.

Can we all just collectively accept death is an inevitability and eat tasty food? This need for perfection in everything we touch is killing me.

Yeah. I will want to learn some more of this soon but part of it is picking one that doesn’t drive me batty and taking some time to work with it before trying to print something complex.

But as for now I found outer wall order and x/y home compensation worked for me really well to get the pieces together. Slicer settings brute forcing for the temp win.

Yeah I noticed that. Kinda feels like doing it in the slicer but with brighter colors.

All the best softwares are dead. I apparently used to use the Microsoft 3D builder app to do this but it’s been also removed from the Microsoft store.

But good to know that some of these can still be got somehow.

I have trouble remembering what key pans and what key rotates view and the thought of actually figuring out how to manipulate the 3D file in FreeCAD felt like it was gonna melt my brain.

But thank you for the recommendation. TinkerCAD made me feel like I was playing with children’s blocks but at least I understand them.

I also think I’m gonna try get started on learning something else after I brute force this stupid single print. And I think it will just be trying some of them out.

Amazing. You are incredible.

Oh my God the bastards at Microsoft killed the app!

I had used that before to fix files. It was great.

I can’t seem to redownload it without jumping through hoops but know this was the right answer for none coder fixes. Sigh.

Yeah I think people forget about print orientation and stuff like that with FDM.

I think the person said they printed with supports on but didn’t have great results and my thought is how they didn’t realize they made supports inside their part to get it to print that could have been solved with some mounting points for the bridging.

Which in theory sounds like something I could do… No animation…

But man slicer modifiers made me want to go insane and I barely managed to learn Photoshop, gimp, and the like.

But thanks. I’m noticing basically 2 camps for software and it helps at least narrow down what I’ll find support for using I guess.

I agree that we should know how to tinker or slightly modify files as well but I’d say pulling out a separate software with a huge learning curve is a step that’s hard to get people to swallow.

I think I really wanted to put emphasis on have to learn it, cause for things that feel simple to suddenly find it will take 30 hours of study and then several additional hours of fixing suddenly feels like a jump up in ask for making sure you can actually print a part successfully that’s been posted in a 3D printer file site.

I had experience with simple tools but they don’t seem to exist much anymore and the tools in the slicer software seem to exist to say they do which brings me back to the question of if I was missing something or had to learn a separate software.

But some of us aren’t professional software engineers. And modifying something turns into a bigger project.

TinkerCAD seems to be a popular answer and I hope simple enough cause I’d love to see stuff I helped design reality but not making money on it too means time needs to be spent keeping myself alive first and thus extended hobby space much further down.

So many CADs.

I grabbed FreeCAD but it made no sense to me.

I am down to learn. It’s why I asked but I will say there is a dozen softwares and forks out there and I am not in the right space to be able to spend large amounts of time learning the deep ins and outs. And I generally don’t feel a constant need to design new pieces for myself.

But thank you for the suggestions and the video suggestions as well.

Thanks that seems about right for my experiences but that seems like the info I need.

Yeah… Just STL files.

And I mean trying to add anything in orca slicer seems to be far worse. I got lucky with modifying a single piece in orca slicer via a million measurements and micro adjustments but it felt like pulling teeth from a shark.

Is that like their replacement for 3D paint? I used that once to add a hole to a model?

It’s insane that I feel like I can understand the rules of 3D printing just fine but need to potentially put hundreds of hours learning software to fix other models so I can do it past the easier fidget toys that seem to be designed by the modeling geniuses.

LOL the comments telling the Verge to shut it’s mouth.

Also man France loves piracy. I apparently need to learn French better.

We can not replace ground cover of plants with nothing but solar panels. The moisture difference alone would cause huge ecological issues nothing to say on the reduced plant matter.

Plus plants use sunlight to grow everything. That energy cost is way more massive than you think. It takes a fusion reactor in space to power it.
Trying to get the same effect from solar powering Leads will be far less efficient and take an area larger than the traditional farm to generate the power for a vertical farm and be less effective. Plus you would also need to run vertical water pumps which are difficult with the weight of water, air flow, and still need fertilizer and nutrients which would mostly be chemical synthetics for making sure it’s in the right concentrations.

Transportation costs are absolutely huge and more local transportation would be better but don’t mistake it for being much more efficient because of a single point that can be reduced.

Farming is a huge endeavor that works mostly cause it is free energy and resources that as we need to provide more becomes already worse. Trying to control that entire chain is extremely difficult and costly and should only be done as necessary.

It’s far easier to work on flat land that sprawls than vertical and the density would not even be in the favor of the vertical grow tower.

I am looking at total costs. It’s just not nearly a catch all solution because it’s far more intensive than people generally at a glance expect. And I’m for adopting it in specific situations and add more vertical grow to farm operations but it does not fix food to grow everything indoors.

Absolutely. Doesn’t change my point. Just brings up a different one.

Greenhouses are not vertical skyscraper farms.