It would be useful to have an “empty spool database” where people post a photo+weight of their empty spool, plus some fancy way to search by image.

Edit: https://github.com/jtrmal/spoolz looks like a partial solution.

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

Mediocre video. I sat through all the crude humor and still don’t know how the roller mechanism works.

Interesting, Cura does successfully avoid running into the part by default:

If I disable “Avoid Printed Parts When Traveling”, the result looks similar to PrusaSlicer.

STEP is at least marginally better than STL, because it can represent stuff like circles, instead of just a mesh.

It exports as F3D (probably readable by future versions of Fusion) and STEP (standard but with less fidelity) by default.

https://github.com/aconz2/Fusion360Exporter lets you bulk export all of your projects to local storage.

There is some good stuff in this release. Go to Preferences > GUI and check “Show sidebar collapse/expand button” + “Settings in non-modal window”. Now you can put the Preview and Print Settings windows side-by-side, and see the result of every change immediately. This also requires “Background processing”, but that’s been available for ages.

all the features you know and love from things up the tree

Did OrcaSlicer ever bring back the option to slice automatically when changing settings? It’s called “Background processing” in PrusaSlicer.

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PLA, but I’ve only used it for sanding small models so heat wasn’t an issue. PETG should be more heat resistant.

Yeah, but those sanding pads cost more than generic sandpaper.

Does mechanical error actually matter when using sandpaper? It seems like most of the error comes from holding the tool with your hands.

You could still fill a watertight gyroid lattice with resin, if both volumes are accessible.

Though the defects are probably useful for releasing air bubbles.

That DI-30 tape drive was a couple years older than the rest of the system. That’s why it’s half the size of the hard drive. It was a consumer-grade format with somewhat janky proprietary software.

Those songs were scavenged from the internet, as I never had the musical skill to make them.

I used https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/ to get MIDI working in modern browsers, though it seems less reliable than an adlib synth.

The floorists forgot to enable Linear Advance.

Pepperidge YouTube remembers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayOLECuygTQ

One day filament will come with DRM so you can’t print it backwards. Only a pirate would do that!