My wife rarely asks me to 3D print anything but she asked me for this,
the mandalorian armorer helmet for halloween. So in order to print this
I ended up splitting it in two and printing it on the cr-10 v2. So I'll show you how I
split it how I sliced it and obviously how it came out on today's Filmament Friday.
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Here's the model that my wife found. It's an stl file you can get it for $15 from etsy. I'll put a
link to this in the description below. This thing was actually too big to print on an Ender 3 and
a lot of people ask me what's a good upgrade to the Ender 3 and this is probably the most logical
upgrade. And this is the CR10 v2. And the new ones come with silent driver. This is an older model.
The new ones have silent drivers. They now have available adjusters for the belts just like an
Ender 3 v2. It's got a glass bed like an Ender 3 v2 and if you want direct drive there's a version
three, a v3, for a little more money you get a direct drive unit. So you've got a lot of options
plus the bigger bed and good print quality. So this is definitely a good upgrade to ender 3.
I brought the helmet into cura 4.7.1 cr-10 bed and I still had to angle it a slight bit to fit.
Six days and 23 minutes at my CHEP 0.2 layer height profile. Way too long and way too much
plastic. Look at all this support material when I enabled support. I don't want to do that so I'm
going to split it in two and what I did was bring it into Tinkercad and then I adjusted the angle
so I had it level with the bed right at a seam that's on this helmet. So it's kind of a natural
split point. From there I duplicated the helmet so now I got one for the bottom and one for the top
and then I brought in a hole block and this just takes away material.
So I made it big enough and then high enough so it lined up where I wanted to split it.
Then I took the work plane and put it right on top of that and then duplicated that hole
block and then lowered it down to zero so they're perfectly right on top of each other.
Then slid it over to the other helmet so now I'm going to take away the bottom and the top so I
group the left one together and I end up with the top of the helmet. Then I group the right
one together and I ended up at the bottom of the helmet but at the exact same point. Now I can
take these two models and I can export them as individual STL files. So grab the top, exporter
STL, then I'll grab the bottom exporter the STL. Now I can bring these in separately into cura.
I brought the bottom in and I flipped it upside down this way I'm going to use far less support.
But I did have support at these two points. I've showed this in previous videos you select
the model and you come over here to this menu item and place a block and then you can adjust the size
you can move it around but then you go and select print as support. And now it'll be an individual
support. Now I'm not going to leave that one there but I just wanted to show you how to do it.
And you don't click generate support. That's the one thing you don't do I'm going to use the 0.2
layer height 25 infill 50 millimeters per second and this is just under two days, so perfect.
And here it is in preview mode you can see the supports that it's going to print. Other than that
the helmet is just the helmet there's no other extra material so I'm saving plastic, saving time,
in just under two days it was done on my cr-10 v2. Now I needed to print the top and this needed
support and I wanted to print it this way so the top would be smooth. I use my 0.2 profile,
enabled support, 60 degree overhang is what I selected and five percent infill density.
Two days two hours is what it said. I put it in preview mode you can see there's a lot of
support that gets printed but because I use five percent it should break away pretty easy
so i sent the file to the cr-10 v2 and it printed beautifully and it actually printed in shorter
time. It said one day 23 hours so it saved like three hours. Now I needed to remove the supports.
These supports here on the helmet practically broke away. They really weren't touching that
much. This one I had to wiggle a little bit but those came right out. The top of the helmet, that
was a different story. I had to dig at and dig at it and this is what I end up with. A big mess.
I finally got a big chunk of it to come off the top of the helmet but there's still some at the
top I didn't get the settings right. That stuck pretty well. So I'm going to scrape that away.
Here's a close-up of the two pieces on top of each other to form the full helmet.
There's definitely some cleanup to do but overall the print quality of this machine was really good.
I'm happy with the results and so was she. So here it is altogether I just used double-sided tape at
these points right here because she's going to want to take it apart and sand it and do all the
magic that she does. She's pretty artistic but I just had to put it together to see what would fit.
And it does. Fits kind of nicely. Now for her head we'll probably have to put some padding or
something inside but overall I like the way it turned out. And for four days of printing with
no failures, didn't run out of filament. No uh problems with the thing lifting off the bed. I'm
really surprised how well this did. I didn't give this printer a great review the first time I used
it way back, I don't know last year or whatever, but it's been one of the more reliable printers
in my print farm. And this thing, it printed it beautifully. Obviously, I'll put a link to this,
the v3 and all the accessories I mentioned in the description below. If you use those links
it does help the channel so if you are looking to upgrade from an ender 3 to a bigger printer,
"this is the way".... come on you saw that coming right? I had to do it. So if you like
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