I’m over my little panic from yesterday thanks very much, and am surprised that when all was said and done, thanks to hanging around with you lot and listening to conversations comprising of nothing but acronyms and number sequences, I have absorbed almost enough knowledge to be dangerous, but not so much that I think I can do it without you watching on!
Now something I CAN do:-
I am often horrified to see YouTube “experts” hold up a bucket of prototype parts that they’d generated in order to come up with one that finally fitted/worked/looked OK. I have been surprised also in the past at the reaction of people when I suggest that this is an awful waste of time and plastic; I’m not saying don’t prototype, but you don’t have to reprint the entire part just to test a small area.
Just slice whatever bit you need and do a quick, fast mockup to check only the area of concern. If I need a lid to fit something or a pipe fitting, I usually just print a three or four layer slice - or enough to make it firm enough to do the job.
My apologies to those of you for whom this is obvious. Here’s my final check fit of the “other side” fender which is printing now.
