In 2016, I 3D printed a replacement steering wheel for a toy tractor that I played with as a kid. We’re talking about a plastic toy that has survived for a little over 45 years. My nieces and nephews now play with it. The printed steering wheel broke recently, and now I have to make a new one. Looking at the original g-code file, it took 9h20min on my original 3D printer. I’m curious how much faster it will print on a modern printer? This edition will also be PETG instead of PLA. #3dprinting
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@chrishuck slicers have come a LONG way since 2016. That might be the bigger advance than even the mechanics of the printer. It would be very interesting to analyze the gcode differences!
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@linux_mclinuxface Totally. I feel like I’m changing a ton of variables. So, is it really an apples-to-apples comparison? At the very least, it will be interesting to see the differences.
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@chrishuck I suspect the final object will be very close dimensionally but how it gets there will be apples/oranges. Even the variable line width (arachne) is a game changer in the slicing.
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@linux_mclinuxface I’m also going to print it upside down to minimize supports, unlike last time, because I didn’t have a smooth PEI sheet to print on back then, and I wanted the top to be smooth.
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@chrishuck @linux_mclinuxface You can run it through the slicer in the original orientation and see what the estimated print time is, though. That would be slightly more comparable.
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