This aspect of the hobby is still far from mature. But we are all different and each to their own, get as much information as you can, experiment and make up your own mind. Now I can’t even be bothered thinking about it, gluing is a better option for me.
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The 3DLabs support and this forum are waay better than many other options out there.īefore I started printing a full aircraft, I thought it would be good to combine parts in the slicer too (I have a CR10). Though to a complete newb, there may be some queries that you will need to ask about. The 3DLabPrints team have actually designed these parts to be printed as groups, but there is certainly no reason why you can’t add more parts to the bed to print more at once (there’s no real advantage to doing so though, if I was serious about cosmetics, I’d ‘finish’ the aircraft properly with filler and sanding before painting).Īnd yes, the user guides I’ve seen are very good at listing required parts, and the videos helpful at giving a general guide to assembly. There’s no real way to salvage a part-printed part, so smaller, quicker prints reduce the risk of failure. Taller parts are more likely to be knocked out of position or deform at the base under the weight of the part above during printing. Joining parts in slicer software is hard and any misalignment will introduce serious structural flaws in your plane. Most of these have already been mentioned: the glued parts are strong and easy to assemble. You asked a question has been answered before (although that is excusable, this forum is quite impossible to search, though Google manages it OK). The bigger a/c need specialist RC gear that is a higher spec and price point to most entry RC gear – you really need more than 8 channels to set them up. There was many hours of tuning and rejection prior, although this forum will cut that down for you. Printing these is quicker than conventional building, but still slow, especially with a CR10, my P-38 took over 6 solid days equivalent of printing for the parts we used. I’m talking about printing and flying the 3DLabs aircraft when I say they are not a cheap, easy or quick way to get flying.
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I’m not talking about the RC flying, flying a foamy trainer is a cinch if you’ve flown full size and spent a little time on a simulator. I certainly didn’t mean it to be condescending.