Calibrate your 3D printer to print parts to fit
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( Just in case the text formatting were jerked up, the article in PDF format is available at http://www.thingiverse.com/download:2091544 )
I have my Thing-O-Matic for a year now. From time to time, I tried to calibrate it to print parts to fit. Finally, I got it done (See http://youtube.com/watch?v=lQbvfiZAm-c). It turns out I just had the edge width and the scaling wrong. If you also have the problem to print parts to fit, read this article. It might work for you too. Here are the symptoms of the problem I'm trying to fix.
1) A printed plug is impossible to fit into its printed hole.
2) Small parts (around <i>1 cm</i> size) are too big, while larger parts (around <i>10 cm</i> size) are too small.
<h1>Instructions</h1>
Okay okay, let's see what our 3D printers should be offering first (if configured correctly). See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQbvfiZAm-c . The video shows two parts, an S-Shape hole and an S-Shape plug http://www.thingiverse.com/download:141737 . The plug and the hole are edge to edge touching each other in the STL file. As show in the video, I can actually plug them together just by pushing real hard with bare hands, no tolerance compensations in the design, no drilling or filing, they just fit. The S-Shape is chosen deliberately as it shares a lot of common features with interlocking designs. Designing is fun with interlocking designs. ( A more fancy result, same premise, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dJsjv-8vA )
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