I never played the video game, but I watched 3.5 hour YT critique on the matter.
I am printing parts for another project in BASF Ultrafuse 17-4 PH Metal Filament (its a grade of stainless steel below 316).
I have two Kg of the filament, came from US distributor, Matterhackers.
Matter Hackers BASF 17-4PH filament
See attached references for instructions and design recommendations
Process-Instructions-Ultrafuse-17-4-PH.pdf (43.7 KB)
Ultrafuse_17-4PH_TDS_EN_v1.1.pdf (221.0 KB)
Ultrafuse_metal_User_Guideline.pdf (4.6 MB)
printing on a Bambu x1C, engineering plate, filament is in an enclosed dry box/warmer at 50c.
room is warmed to 80c with a programable PTC space heater.
I am scaling parts to 120% on x and y an 124% on Z per manufacturer recs.
print settings. 100% infill with aligned rectilinear to avoid over extrusion
0.16mm Optimal @BBL X1C - for metal.json (780 Bytes)
filament settings.
metal based on petg.json (1.3 KB)
pics of sliced pinion and an unscaled pinion for general reference (yes, that pinion is 60gms and cost about 10$ in filament)
the printer and set up:
Critically, parts are limited to 100mm^3 in the green, unprocessed state. they will shrink. basically I can print parts with finished dimensions containted by an 80mm^3 envelope. keep your panties on, no one is printing trucks or wheel hubs (or pew pews) anytime soon.
expect a few more info dumps (largely as a reference for future me). ill conclude with results and lessons learned.
