My Favorite Designs from 6 Years of 3D Printing!

3d printing is a magical technology and I've been running the makers mused YouTube channel is 3d printing as its heart for many years now and I've 3d printed hundreds of incredible models but often when I work on a project and I print it and then I make a video about it it just kind of gets put aside and forgotten but I want to make a video today to showcase some of my favorite models that I've ever printed on the channel whether they're models I've designed myself or ones I've gotten from incredible members of the community and show them in this video in case you've missed them so maybe I can help inspire you to create something awesome let's get started so let's start at the beginning with this print this is a file I pulled from a game called chivalry medieval warfare a game I used to play almost non-stop and it formed the basis for my first ever I suppose breakthrough video on the makers muse YouTube channel you see I made a tutorial on how to pull these game assets from the game and 3d print them and this is the mall from fillory and that video got picked up by hackaday actually and that sort of helped propel my channel up on a trajectory where it started to grow Angus Davison the creator of the 3d printing video channel makers muse has posted a video to demonstrate how to extract 3d models from the video game chivalry medieval warfare I was really passionate about this process of ripping files and 3d printing like digital assets that I decided to make that tutorial and that's kind of where it all started the next three point I want to show is one that I haven't really shown the channel by used to use all the time in my in-person 3d printing classes and that is this a ball in a little contained grid and if you know how to really printing works it's not that impressive but just picture this when he shows to someone who doesn't know how to technology works they kind of look at it puzzled how did the ball get inside it and you explain well the ball and the grid that's keeping in place was printed layer by layer at the same time so this little print proved invaluable during my training classes to demonstrate 3d print technology and just how powerful it is in terms of printing really unusual geometries and I've used this concept of having intersecting bodies that can freely move after prints complete many times since this humble beginning the next print I just have to talk about is the humble make a coin now I've printed hundreds of these I've given out hundreds at trade shows and events I've been to but the whole basis behind this make a coin this little 3d print was that I was reviewing filament samples and I needed a small reliable print that I could print the samples on to benchmark against and that's where the idea of the mecca coin came from it's like a 3d printer swatch and from there the community just took hold of it and it sort of formed a life of its own and creating a maker coin sort of became like a an initiation into your first steps into 3d designer 3d printing it's an easy file to design I've done several tutorials on making her and make a coin and it's a quick file to print so it's a great thing to print and hand out to spread this awareness of this incredible technology and actually have a few really interesting examples of different technologies of my maker coins so first is a PLA make a coin it's what most people will be familiar with PLA polylactic acid is a bio plastic made from starch either corn starch or sugar beets you know it really easy to print with usually a great beginner plastic and then I have this which is a resin making coin this is printed on the PIO poly moai and it's a UV curable resin so it's got this really crazy neon green look to it semi transparent translucent absolutely crazy the benefit of resin 3d printers is you can get incredible detail compared to FD m / FFF 3d printers but the other two on this chain really interesting this is SLS and this is sintered nylon powder so SLS sense of selective laser sintering and this is actually solid nylon well scented solid nylon so it's not completely solid still a little bit porous but you can get crazy geometries sls because the powder that isn't centered supports the part you don't need support material but the most crazy one out of the lot on this entire thing is this make a coin so I was lucky enough to visit China back in 2016 and I went to Hangzhou which is where shining 3d were and they invited me and they had a metal 3d printer and I like hang us do you want us to print something on a metal 3d printer like heck yes but it has to be really challenging so I went back to the hotel room with mesh mixer and imesh mixed this crazy make a coin variation and it's got lattices it's very difficult to print anyway a few weeks later they sent me one I even met a quick video about it because I was so blown away by this and this is made with stainless steel powder that's actually melted together layer by layer similar to the SLS nylon but actually metal real metal but the thing about this and I didn't know at that time is you still need support structures with metal s LM selective laser melting and it's not so much that you need support structures because of overcoming gravity but it's because the parts actually change density as they get melted together and you also need to dissipate heat so you need structures to help keep the part in place in the powder bed and so shifting or deforming to the heat which is why they've carefully gone through and picked out the support structures but in some small areas you can kind of still see them so I do not envy the poor person you had to clean up this print because it's so delicate but this little group of prints is just it's one of my favorite demonstrations of 3d print technology when people ask me I'm like this is what you can do it's just an umbrella term for many different technologies but let's go back to this Brown make a coin now unfortunately YouTube hasn't invented olfactory sense vision yet but this make a coin I can tell you right now has a incredible strong odor of chocolate I'm not even kidding a few years ago actually 2017 a startup was trying to work on a filament that head smell and the first prototype filament was chocolate they sent it to me and at this time people like oh yeah okay that's interesting but how long will it last I can tell you now years later this still is overpoweringly chocolate scented and it was real interesting as a cellulose based filament not PLA I really wish the company succeeded but the campaign failed really sad to see because it's an incredibly unique filament and if you put on if I put on the table for example it's a little bit softer than the PLA right really interesting filaments so I'm glad I kept hold of that because I haven't come across a scented filament since so that's the make a coin out of the way now let's talk about the torture lattice cube again this is something I designed back in 2016 to test the limits of 3d printing technology it's incredibly difficult to print on our standard filament based 3d printers so I designed it back then and again it kind of took on a life of its own so this is one that's printed in resin this is on the pier polymer I again and we sort of discovered that resin 3d printers can print lattices really easily and the reason why they print easily but filament based machines print it have difficulty with it is because with resin you're not so much having to worry about a extrusion path it's more the cross-sectional area that's challenging the lower cross-sectional area you have the easier the parts can separate from that film at the bottom of the resin bat and move up and down so printing small cross-sectional things like this lattice is really easy but printing like a block is much more challenging surprisingly enough but here's where it gets interesting so design this another company who had a top-down SLA go in touch and I can't remember the name on top my head I'll put it here the guy's name was Arthur great guy I hope this still going sent me this a tiny lettuce but then it got insane and he also sent me this this tiny lattice I've kept safe over the years and it still looks great I've managed to keep it so it's delicate but the power of resin 3d printers to resolve detail is out of this world but what's really interesting is because lattice prints look impressive companies start using them as their demo prints so here I have the any cubic photon demo print look familiar they took the concept of the lattice and use it as their demo because it looks impressive but actually really if you know a little bit about resin printing it's actually easier for them to print like lattices and it is for them to print solid blocky objects so that's really interesting the lattice prints and bladder caps on these on hands and I've printed so many of these testing other 3d printers so one of the other things I love to 3d print is mechanisms you've seen countless mechanism the channel and this is one of my favorites that I didn't design this is from Thingiverse and it's Nautilus gears I'll put a link here to the Creator and the original download link and it's crazy because the gear ratio changes gradually and then as it comes around the spiral ends and it goes back to the beginning and it prints beautifully it's a fantastic show showcase of 3d print technology to create a complicated geometry like it's not complicated in a 3d sense but it's very complicated a 2d sense to design and make this so using 3d modeling and 3d printing capabilities anyone can now print these really fascinating gears I don't know what they'd be useful for but man are they beautiful one of my favorite mechanisms that you can download and print I also really enjoy looking at weird geometric objects and this one here is an object of constant width so the concept behind it is it's basically as it rolls around no matter what angle orientation that's at the top and bottom contact surfaces are always the same distance when I discovered these I was blown away instantly fastener and I've done a few videos based on them they they roll if if you have like three of them and you put up hard service over the top of them they roll as if there's balls underneath there's like you know standard spheres but they're not spheres the only thing about these shapes is they don't roll themselves because the center of mass is not actually in the middle of the object so they do have that sort of interesting property of like self stopping spheres almost but they do have a constant height so constant width there's various different types of this object and I'm still to this day fascinated by them I was also fascinated by this image my dad found me of an ancient lock design where they had these pins that went in and pushed the the lock pins out of way and then you would pull it back so the actual he looks almost like a toothbrush and I was so interested I went ahead and designed one so this is my version of the ancient Assyrian pin lock and the key looks like this weird toothbrush II thing it goes in aligns with the pins and then the actual lock bolt can be removed and you can open whatever you're trying to open and then again you put in place remove the key that locks in place this is a great model to test I did a simple version this is the more complicated version and I went to the history behind it and I just absolutely loved the dichotomy of combining ancient history with modern manufacturing technologies and here I have another lock designer stumble across this one was a Russian lock design that I've seen used in sheds and things and storage containers that aren't exactly high-security but they're designed by the looks of what my research was to survive the harsh winters in Russia and surrounding areas the key it looks really interesting really strange look but it goes into the object and then pushes these parts out the way through a side sliding motion and the spacing between these slots determines the actual keying of the object in to give you a degree of security now it's not gonna be in a high-security lock as I said the whole principle behind it from I can see is they're easy to manufacture and they're absolutely bulletproof when it comes to incredibly harsh conditions when a normal look like a normal tumbler lock whatever would usually like freeze up or something in similar situations puzzles are also a fantastic candidate for 3d printing and this is a puzzle I designed where the parts actually slide into place with a rotary rotating motion and there's only four of them but if you undo the puzzle they have these really weird geometries and figuring out how they go together is much harder said than done I had great fun designing the puzzle because the actual process isn't too difficult it's using a suite in fusion 360 and you give that sweep a twist angle and it twists that cut through the object to create these really interesting very alien looking objects and a actual puzzle that's actually kind of challenging to put together even what to do several times another awesome puzzle I came across was this this is actually a classic woodworking puzzle this is known as the impossible dovetail looking at it it does indeed look like it's got four dovetails that like how did it go together how did they assemble this but like with all good puzzles if you know the right place to line up and tap then the top part slides open and when you get it open you can see inside there's a chamber where you can hide whatever you like then put it back together and then give it a good tap there we go and it's locked ready to go but to create all of these intricate models you really need to know how well tuned your 3d printer actually is which is why I designed the maker's news clearance gauge this is designed to show you what your print is capable of it goes from 0.5 all the way down to zero point one five millimeter gaps between walls which means the 0.15 there's a total of 0.3 plate total but between each surface its 0.15 and if your printers capable of getting down at this point one five and it's still movable and it can go to unlocked then your 3d printer is more than capable of printing any of the models I've designed certainly and many others on the internet and it's well tuned if you're going down to 0.3 or maybe only 0.4 you have a little bit of a way to go to making a 3d printer a little bit more accurate to print more complicated models that fit together which is why this gauge is one of my most downloaded models of all time so this is just a little collection of some of my most favorite and most influential and important models from the past few years on the maker's news channel but as many of you have these try for a long time know this is not even close to all of them and unfortunately not all of them are still with us so I'd like to take a moment to remember so my favorite 3d prints that unfortunately I don't have anymore [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so thank you so much for watching everyone I hope you found this video inspiring you can 3d design and 3d print anyone can do it the little bit of training a little bit of perseverance and all the videos I and files that I've mentioned here a link below this video if you'd like to go check out for example the Assyrian old lock or the Russian lock or the puzzle they've all got videos I've been doing it for a while so if you're interested in any of them you find it below thank you so much for watching and I'll see you again very shortly here on makers news catch you later bye

Channel: Maker's Muse

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Length: 17min 11sec (1031 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020