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For a sense of scale \u2013 here is the hull after a little over 6 solid weeks of round the clock printing.\u00a0The two nose pieces were printed on a small Cartesian 3D printer, while the rest of the hull was printing on our custom large delta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If that sounds like a long time \u2013 the box of failed prints made to get here contains another 5-6 weeks worth of printing and learning. Embarrassingly it took two failures caused by brownouts 5-7 days into a print to realize that a UPS was mandatory during hull printing. Most of the rest of the failures\/time were spent dialing in supports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Update: To anyone printing hulls \u2013 save yourself a lot of pain and use a slicing program that allows you to manually specify where you want supports. Especially in regions where supports are going to be used in cavities that need to be cleaned later.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The current Blacktip hull was designed to be printed in sections. The thinking was that a multi-part design could have the pieces printed in parallel, greatly speeding up the time to create a custom hull. As a result, the current hull design consists of 12 large sections. A large format, heavily modified, delta 3D printer was … <\/p>\n