Using 3D Printer to Repair

 

A range of purchases have been made from our students during the course of the year.   Some are purchased locally at markets and events where there are typically someone selling 3D Prints.

We also have a number of students who have come to us with examples that they have purchased online.   In both cases we are really careful to ensure that we are respectful about the purchase but we typically see if we can locate the source of the original file and in particular a cost or price point of comparison.

We have also started to realise that we need to consider from time to time repairing prints that might end up worse for wear as not every print is a suitable toy or at times can be damaged by an accident or play.

Such was the case with this character from Roblox Cappuccino Assassin.   This figure had been purchased locally but as can be seen from the photo the legs and the arms do not have the strongest points of connection.  

While we couldn't repair the original foot (which had snapped at the connection point) we were able to have students source from the Bambu Labs online design forum the original print (in fact there were multiple versions of this character).

Included on this forum were the step by step printable parts for the character.   While we didn't have a point of origin with the shoes and were unsure of the printer that was used (other than the fact it was most likely a multi coloured Bambu) we were able to use our Bambu H2D machine with its colour matching to produce a copy of the shoes which in this case were two different colours, which just happened to be the filament that was available in the machine.  The student is now going to remove the other leg and then replace both of them with the new variation that we have printed.   The blue new shoes took twenty minutes to complete on the regular default settings.