Max Funkner

Woohoo, the Carverall X1Pro hands-on testing article is live: https://3dwithus.com/carverall-x1pro-review-testing

New scanner arrived. Teddy has already completed the initial packaging quality inspection. 🐶✅ Creality Pika hands-on testing starts soon.

To learn the Ender 3, I’d start on YouTube and search for “original Ender 3 setup” or “Ender 3 beginner guide.” CHEP and Teaching Tech both have many older Ender 3 videos that are still useful. For an electrician, getting to grips with 3D printing should be pretty straightforward. Good luck with the machine!

Hi Roger, welcome to the forum! On the original Ender 3, those two metal ends of the belt normally don’t connect to each other. Each end hooks into the carriage, with the belt running around the motor pulley and idler. If you’re completely new to 3D printing, though, I wouldn’t recommend trying to repair a machine that may also have an electrical fault. It may be safer and less frustrating to return it if possible, or sell it as faulty/for parts on eBay and buy a working printer to learn on.

Today I took the @Revopoint3d Trackit SR on a field trip. 😎 Big kudos to our local Thorpe Bay Marine jet ski store for letting me scan one of their Sea-Doos. Had to explain to the 🚕 driver that what’s inside this very cool case is perfectly legal. 😅#3dscanning https://www.thorpe-bay-marine.co.uk/

Here are the latest Trackit SR testing developments. I briefly turned my living room into a 3D Scanning studio. Scanning all day is a physical job- everything hurts, like if I were in the gym. Testing the Trackit SR on something bigger this time. Apparently 3D scanning furniture is a thing. I can see why.

Power of tradeshows. Every little kick towards collaboration helps. The first part of our eSUN collaboration has arrived: a box full of filament. Teddy is definitely not amused that I forced him to work again 🐾 Earlier this year I visited the eSUN booth at TCT3Sixty. They had an impressive range of materials available. My original post on X: https://x.com/MaxFunkner/status/2092605001990332899

After an unlucky transportation attempt, all I could do was perform a final autopsy on the iconic machine that made me believe in #3Dprinting. Bye-bye, my friend. It was a great journey! 🫡 My original Prusa i3 MK2.5S retired, but definitely not forgotten. https://3dwithus.com/original-prusa-i3-mk2-mk25s-upgrade

Creality’s 3D scanner lineup is interesting. From the tiny new Pika to the standalone Sermoon P1 and more. Still waiting for Pika to arrive. Here is the first look: https://3dwithus.com/creality-new-3d-scanners

Interesting development. SLS PEBA for footwear is definitely one of the more practical AM applications, especially for midsoles and performance testing. The durability numbers are worth watching, as long-term compression and fatigue are still key questions for 3D printed footwear.

Printed the Guardian figurine/tool holder using 12 colors + 2 mixed shades on the Snapmaker U1. Color mixing would work better if I scaled the model up. Very happy with this segmentation experiment.

Testing Tripo AI for 3D printing. Text-to-3D, photo-to-3D, Refine, Segmentation, Blender cleanup, 3D printing... I went a bit deeper than planned. Full review: https://3dwithus.com/tripo-ai-review-3d-printing Please share your own Tripo AI results and prints

🐶 'Daddy cmon - do it already' 🐾 The Revopoint Trackit SR has arrived. All in one big box. Size-wise, I can feel the difference straight away, as the original Trackit came in two big, heavy-duty cases. Hands-on testing soon...

Your business card looks awesome! Great design. And the QR code works very well. 👍

Nice 2-spool holder. I use my X4 nonstop. I dry my desiccant dehumidifier sachets there as well. If you want to write a review about it, it would be great. Here are a few examples: https://3dwithus.com/filament-dryer-boxes-and-diy-solutions

3DMakerpro just launched the world's first modular 3D scanner: Turtle. Building on the standalone Toucan, Turtle introduces interchangeable S, M, and L scanning modules. https://3dwithus.com/3dmakerpro-new-3d-scanners#turtle

People were surprised that I didn’t need to recreate the threads. I didn’t. The original threads were scanned accurately. The key was placing the markers correctly to make marker alignment work reliably.

After several weeks of hands-on testing, my Creality Sermoon P1 review is now live. https://3dwithus.com/creality-sermoon-p1-review I evaluated the scanner across real-world projects including reverse engineering metal parts, standalone and PC workflows, outdoor infrared scanning, and complete scan-to-print examples. I'd be interested in hearing about and seeing other people's projects.

Nice! Thank you for sharing. Good luck on the setup. We changed the title to Carverall JL9 Discussion, since it is sort of a working thread. We will link to it from the main article and vice versa.

10 years of playing with 3D printers, and I still get a kick out of fixing something around the house 👠 My wife’s shoe rack used telescopic rails that kept falling down, so I quickly designed and printed proper supports.

Great milestone! Congratz. Christmas trees are interesting techniques. I remember a similar hairy print craze ten years ago. I wrote an article about it: https://3dwithus.com/hairy-3d-prints. I need to update it at some point. I would definitely link it to your Christmas Tree! Nice glitch benchy print!

Here is the link to your first guide - Congratz! 🎉🥳 https://3dwithus.com/honeycomb-storage-wall-guide-3d-printed-tool-organization

From broken RC boat parts to functional replacements. The biggest lesson from this project wasn't just the scanner. It was the workflow. 3D scanning → Blender → 3D printing, with a little AI help. Full article: https://3dwithus.com/revopoint-metroy-ultra-review-blue-laser-3d-scanner Have this scanner? Please share your results.

I had a blast 3D scanning and repairing RC boat parts with the @Revopoint3d MetroY Ultra. I think I’ve just unlocked Level 2 of 3D scanning… thanks to a few tricks. 😄 Full article next week.

That's a very helpful post, Marcidy. Thanks. I wish we could cover more about specific printer mods.