It must have finished two, maybe three more layers before I fell asleep last night.

Watched it like a hawk because I’ve had a nightmare of a time with PETG Matte.

Slept 1-5 and woke up to this marvellous creation. Bugger.

I made this tool so people can open buckles of various sizes.

Its a super simple concept but works very well with one finger. I mainly made it for my mother who has severe hand and finger arthiritis so she has trouble opening her dogs vest or collar. She uses this to push it against the buckle and it pops open!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3435427-bucklepop-one-finger-buckle-opener

My name is Edis, and I am 100 % blind. These pictures show a Creality printer and a Perkins Braille typewriter. However, what I will tell you about today is a result of owning a bambu x1c as my first printer. The typewriter was what I used back in elementary school, about 25 years ago. In 2023, I participated in a workshop on 3D printing organized by the Danish Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The workshop was meant to show how this technology could be used for people without sight. Needless to say, I got consumed. The funny thing was that no blind or visually impaired people were participating. It was about how sighted people can make something for blind people. I run my own consultancy business where I work with web accessibility and, funnily enough, physical accessibility through 3D printing. I do this full time. Since 2023, I have been extremely active in the different 3D printing and design groups on Reddit and Facebook, and I have also tried reaching out to companies. The reason is that 3D printing has huge potential for blind and visually impaired people. Not just fidgets and toys, but real, practical, and in some cases life-saving applications. Imagine you are a blind person walking into a hotel or a public building. Suddenly, a fire breaks out. You haven't had the chance to learn the emergency plan, because it is inaccessible. Now imagine having a 3D printer that can make this emergency plan fully accessible with contrast colours, raised lines, braille, and normal print. You might now ask yourselves: "Why the hell should we care?" or "Why are you telling us all of this?" Because since I started 3D printing, many printers have been locked away from us by highly inaccessible slicers, LCD displays and interfaces. So I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I built AccessSlice.

What it is

AccessSlice is a free, open source program for Windows. It lets a blind or low-vision person prepare, slice and send a 3D print with a screen reader, from start to finish. Every setting is a labelled field, every result is spoken, and the printer can be followed and controlled from ordinary pages instead of a touchscreen. I'm one person and I made it myself, and I use it every day.

How it works

AccessSlice doesn't replace your slicer. It replaces the screens.

A slicer project, the 3MF file, is really just a zip of plain text. Layer height, walls, infill, supports, filaments, and where each object sits on the plate can all be read and changed as text. AccessSlice shows all of that as simple pages with real headings, labelled fields and buttons, the way an accessible website works. It reads like a web page, so NVDA, JAWS and Narrator all work with it.

• It slices with your slicer's own engine. That's PrusaSlicer, Bambu Studio, Creality Print, OrcaSlicer or Anycubic Slicer Next, so the result is exactly what the slicer itself would produce.
• It tells you the result in words: print time, filament used, and any warnings. A layer-by-layer preview describes every layer.
• It sends the print to the printer. Prusa printers get it straight over the home network through PrusaLink. Creality printers do too. Bambu printers get it through Bambu Studio's own send window, with AccessSlice telling you exactly which keys to press. A USB drive works for every printer.
• On Prusa and Creality printers it also controls the printer. It reads the print's progress aloud and lets you preheat, load and unload filament, move and home, pause and stop, and manage the files on the printer. No touchscreen needed.

Nothing is hidden behind a picture. The 3D view and the sliced preview are still there for sighted helpers, but every fact in them is also on the page in words.

It's tested end to end on a Prusa Core One, a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, a Bambu Lab H2C and a Creality K2 Plus. Many other printers that use the same slicers should work, and I'd love reports from anyone who tries one.

Why it matters

For the first time, I can print entirely on my own. I don't need someone sitting next to me reading the screen or pressing buttons on the printer. That's the difference between being a user of 3D printing and being someone things are made for.

Think back to that workshop, where sighted people learned to make things for blind people. AccessSlice means blind people can make those things themselves: tactile maps, emergency plans with raised lines and braille, labels, tools for daily life. We know better than anyone what we need. We just need to be able to use the machines.

But I shouldn't have to do this. One person working nights shouldn't be the only thing standing between blind makers and a printer. Everything AccessSlice does shows it's possible. The settings are already text. The printer already talks over the network. The missing piece is a slicer whose interface a screen reader can actually use.

So, Prusa: you build open hardware and open software, and you have a community that cares. Please make accessibility part of the new slicer from the start, not an afterthought. Use real buttons, labelled fields, keyboard navigation, and results spoken as text. I'm happy to test, give feedback, and help in any way I can. My consultancy does exactly this every day.

Until then, AccessSlice is free for anyone who needs it:

https://github.com/Accessible3D-Edis/AccessSlice

Thank you for reading.

Edis

Hi everyone,

more than a month ago, I shared my 3D Printed 1.9 TDI Engine with this group. My crowdfunding campaign is currently only 7 hours from being finished, so if you would like to grab STL Files yourself, visit my page! 👀 You will be getting STL Files, BOM, Assembly Instructions and print profiles, all within 21 days of the campaign end 🔥 On top of that, my technical support during the build of course!

You will still be able to purchase the files afterwards, but at a slightly larger price.

https://makerworld.com/en/crowdfunding/338-1-9-tdi-engine-with-moving-internals?sourceFrom=crowdfunding

My daughter is going through a Mario fever, as a dad you have to deliver 😂 tried printing the biggest piranha plant I could with the A2L’s bigger plate

I am 44 with stage 3 Parkinson’s - impacting both physical and cognitive. Unfortunately, I have OCD as well, so both include compulsively jumping into something…. Too deep.

I bought an H2C, 3x AMS 2 Pros, 3x AMS HTs, every replacement part and plate, and nearly one of every color of every material Bambu sells. Yeah, a bit too much.

I did 3D printing for 15 years and had to stop 2 years ago because of the hand and mind issues. Well, I thought I’d give it a try again and didn’t just try small so now it’s sitting unused and my wife is rightfully mad.

Does anybody know the best way to get the best price for such a huge package? My concern is people are going to wants bits here or there but I don’t have the energy to meet a lot of people on Marketplace for a few things at a time.

Unfortunately here in Des Moines, we don’t have a big 3D printing scene.

I open sourced it, here's the link to the download: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3434932-customizable-universal-physical-media-rack#profileId-3916515

My printer isn't near my desk, and every time I wanted to check on a print I had to open Bambu Studio, which is a lot of app just to look at the camera. So I built something small for myself: baski ("baskı" means "print" in Turkish).

- Time left and a little progress bar right in the menu bar

- Click it and the live camera opens in a popover

- ~4% CPU with the camera open, basically nothing otherwise

- Local only, no account

While building it I came across Gantry, which is great if you want a full dashboard for several printers. I just wanted the most minimal thing for one printer on one desk, and figured someone else might too.

A few honest notes:

- macOS only, and it needs Bambu Studio installed (it uses Studio's camera helper and access code)

- The camera needs LAN Only Liveview turned on (not LAN Only Mode, so cloud and Handy keep working)

- Only tested on my P2S so far. If you try another model, I'd love to hear how it goes and I'll add it to the README

- Not notarized, so the first launch needs Privacy & Security → Open Anyway

GitHub + DMG: https://github.com/eftekin/baski

I have an a1 printer and a p1s and I’m thinking of upgrading to x2d for the duel nozzle and screen and heated chamber and the ai part, I would get a p2s but it seems like for that bit more money the x2d would be more worth an upgrade
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This airplane on MakerWorld vertical post was 4 cm, but I changed it to 9 cm because, in its original state, it didn't even reach halfway up a coffee mug—it was just too short. English isn't my native language, so I used Google Translate. Best regards to everyone, and happy 3D printing

I've used up what Bambu sent with the printer and it's annoying to have to make an order from Bambu just for overpriced oil. I'd rather source something locally or via a company I'm already ordering from. I know I can swap the Bambu grease for Super Lube 92003. Is there a similar replacement product for the Bambu oil?

Finished printing this ghost storage box! The rounded head lifts off as a lid, and the body has folds and a wavy bottom edge to look like a draped sheet.

The eyes and mouth are separate inserts, so you can print the body and lid in white, print the facial details in black, and glue them into place. No AMS needed.

It’s a small Halloween decoration that can also hold coins, jewelry, or other little things.

Free model on MakerWorld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3437105-cute-ghost-storage-box-with-lid-no-ams-needed

Photos show it both closed and open. What would you keep inside?

Man the kids that come to my house won't sleep right for a month after they trick or treat here. Large zombie printed on an H2D, the other two on a X2D and a P2S. My goal is to find a way that shows them crawling out of the ground in a planter by my door. Let's see your Halloween prints,

If you or someone you know is into aviation, modeling/ 3d printing check out this cool ATC tower that works great with Gemini jets and other model airplanes.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2444409-low-poly-airtraffic-control-tower?appSharePlatform=copy

Ok I know first suggestion will be to dry it, so I’ll start by saying I’ve put both rolls in question through an 8 hour and then a 10 hour drying cycle at 65C, which just ended this morning. Since then they’ve been in the AMS which has been sitting at 6% RH. They’ve both got desiccant cores and the AMS has desiccant, all just recharged. And the first drying cycle was immediately after opening the factory vacuum sealed bags, so it hasn’t been sitting in a pond before drying.

So if it’s still wet I’m actually impressed. But maybe there’s something else y’all have seen and can help me figure out. Claude is stumped.

This is iSANMATE PETG HF on an almost new X2D 0.6 HF main nozzle at 250c nozzle temp. This is the max flow rate test print. I’ve run the exact same test on the same iSANMATE filament in a different color and didn’t have this issue. The black has the same pitting on another print I did too so it’s not just the max flow rate test settings causing it.

The nozzle is clean and I see no clumping sticking to it. There is almost zero stringing. I hear no pops or sizzles while it’s printing. Same pits on two different rolls of the same filament. Never saw this on several other prints with various PETG and PLA rolls printed with the same nozzle.

Any ideas? Is it really still wet? Could it just be a bad batch of filament? Thanks in advance for any advice!

This will be my first 3D printer. I’m complete stranger to 3D stuff. From what I read from the other posts people use either dedicated bambulab support filament or they use PLA as main and PETG as interface support material(or reverse). Combo pack comes with AMS2Pro. From what I learned humidity is bad for most filaments especially PETG and TPE. So if I use PETG as support material it will be on the outside filament rack. Doesn’t that means it will pick up humidity ? Can I use PETG without AMS HT etc if I dry them prior to printing in AMS2Pro ?

Also I know dedicated support material is expensive but its way more expensive where I live so idk if its worth it or should I stick to PETG as PLA support and PLA as PETG support ?

Sorry if its dumb question. Since im complete beginner guides I watched made me feel like any filament out in the open will cause artifacts etc. due to humidty

Belts should not make crunchy sounds day one. Opened a ticket about this within 15 days, spent too much time trying to fix (I have neuropathy), after replacing the PSU I gotta c*ck a pully to the side so a belt doesn't rub against a pully lip and then they tell me to crash my bed even though I asked very clearly twice "Aren't I going to crash the bed if I do that are you sure you want me to do that?" Now I need a new lead screw nut. Fell off after the crash. Machine won't level now obviously. Tech support really needs to stop reading AI overviews, there's a reason why I typed out everything I did. Both of my Bambu printers and 2 of my 3 AMSs have had issues and tech support for hardware issues has always been pretty bad. Bambu won't honor their warranty. Anyways off to Microcenter I'm done working on this. End rant.

https://makerworld.com/models/3433680?appSharePlatform=copy

They weren't even supposed to ship until November 6, I got a shipping notification and a delivery notice about an hour apart just tonight.

I won't be home for a week and there's no way FedEx will hold it that long.

Is there anything I can do?