3D printing, entry level prints and ideas

Picked up an Ender 3 Pro recently. I hope to have some filament in a few days. Was interested to see if anyone had advice on beginner prints, how to test that its setup appropriately, and where to go from here. Any ideas are greatly appreciated as I am new to 3D printing, thank you!

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The “benchy” is probably the most common “hello world” kind of model. :slightly_smiling_face:

If you can print one of those without a lot of slicer artifacts and whatnot then the printer is probably good to go for most other reasonable print jobs. Or you could just print some simple shelf brackets or something and see how things go.

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I’ll definitely start with that. I’ll probably also begin keeping a list of bigger projects I want to work towards and figure out what difficulties to anticipate and “practice” first

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Similarly there are usually mods available for the printer itself that you could print.

Eg. for the Ender 5 Pro:

I’d imagine there’s similarly available upgrades for the Ender 3 Pro (or any other, I’d imagine)

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This is a very good idea, I’ll need to look into it more! Thank you

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First thing I ever printed myself were some 5.25 to 3.5 bay adapters, try printing stuff you’ll use

I’ve been looking into organizational things to start with. I figure small projects like ethernet clips to cable manage would be beneficial. Anything to solve my cable management nightmare.

Get a smoke detector and a fire extinguisher.
Don’t apply hair spray on the bed while the printer is on.
Don’t leave the printer running unsupervised.

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Double width cases like O11 Dynamic and Corsair crystal is the only solution unfortunately

Raspberry Pi cases are a good beginner project also if you’ve got any of those around.

Bigass scratch on the 1+ because of keys in pocket
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

More so the cable management around my desk, inside the case is “hidden” well enough

There are these neat things that go in corners but if it’s already by and outlet maybe not so useful

https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/ Can be useful for getting help from a community to help you troubleshoot problems.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TeachingTech/search?query=ender3 Watch most of those.

https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html More advanced stuff for when you learn basics.

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The benchy even has its own website for the model and how to interpret its print quality.

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I should expect to print a few of these I take it?

Print a test dog from SD card first. If that comes out fine then print xyz cube since it prints so much faster than benchy. if cube is fine the print benchy.

Just make sure to dial your print setting to the filament you are using. If you are using cheap filament, you should print a temperature tower to see where your filament performs best.

This could’ve saved me a lot of Headache with my Tevo Tornado.

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Someone needs to make a benchy version with Russel Crowe on it, I’m just sayin’…

Oooh, temperature tower, hadn’t heard about that yet. Thanks!

Might help me figure out the stringing issue I’m having. Though I’m not using cheap filament (figured I’d start wit a known quantity as a rookie…)