Great news. I have already printed 6 gliders completely in PLA-LW with my Ender 3 pro. Super strong and above all very fast. In the meantime I have already completely destroyed a few of them. Just my own fault. I like to fly crazy. My thing is just flying into the danger zone. To the moon. From June this year I purchased a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon. Super 3D printer. Now thanks to your information I can also use it for this. And what's even better, the Bambu Slicer also supports Ender 3 Pro. Thx, Greetings from the small country of Belgium
Thanks for the update, printed many planes in cure from many designers using LW without problems. but I had disastrous impressions when I printed your wings (igneous). I don't think cure or old printers are the problems, I think they are design problems. As a suggestion you should improve the aileron and flap hinge system, they are very basic and break easily with use. Greetings
Did you try the suggested "silicone hinge" method for these? Light/Thin layer of silicone RTV on both sides of hinge line. Yes, the hinge cracks with some material more than others, the silicone support these very well. I have been testing new geometry with better result (coming update), but it is still the same design... I like it and I'm my biggest customer. Clear 100% silicone bath and kitchen, 40-100% elongation, $5-9 tube available at most hardware stores, 1 tube is good for 30+ planes. I have tried other planes and designs... they are different, but I don't like them... buying a roll of TPU and getting it to print right... having those hinges break, diggout the pieces, print again... or hinge eyelets with a full length wire... printed hinge pins are terrible... Most use way too many parts, damage easily, and difficult to repair. Mine are tested to 100+ mph and yes they crack and break off sometime, usually when I crash, but I have easily repaired them if the plane is still flyable with the silicone method. If you have a better solution lets hear it.
how do you shell the wing in cad? i always get an error when i try to do that. i have the cleanest spline you can imagine for the airfoil, using my BezierAirfoilDesigner, but the shell command still doesn't work. do you loft additional inner surfaces, too?
I use SolidWorks... surface loft and thicken, but you can only thicken it outward, and my complicated wing plan lofts make it worse. Inward surfaces would always fail. Outward would end up changing the airfoil too much... too puffed for what I wanted. Had to do all kinds of CAD ju-jitsu to get the solids I wanted just the way I wanted. I probably made it overly complicated, but it has been working for what I want. This "vase mode" style is sooo much easier, but very limited if you want to do complex structures.
Hallo, ich habe schon einige Jets mit Polylight von 3dPrint auf meinem Bambulab gedruckt , nie Probleme. Bei deinem Design gibt es katastropahle oberflächen, bei gleicher einstellung. Schade um die 20 Euro...
Yes, and yes, and you could print it with LW-PLA before, it was just not as good as it is now. And print it fast with the new generation of printers. Throw your Cura out... it is obsolete.
Great news. I have already printed 6 gliders completely in PLA-LW with my Ender 3 pro. Super strong and above all very fast. In the meantime I have already completely destroyed a few of them. Just my own fault. I like to fly crazy. My thing is just flying into the danger zone. To the moon.
From June this year I purchased a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon. Super 3D printer. Now thanks to your information I can also use it for this.
And what's even better, the Bambu Slicer also supports Ender 3 Pro.
Thx, Greetings from the small country of Belgium
Very nice! Glad to see this update! Will try it out soon.
Thanks for the update! I’ve flown my juicy ds on the dark side and it handled awesome! My guess is I pushed past 140mph on some of my laps
Nice work! If you can get verified speeds (radar gun) you would have the current record.
Thanks for the update, printed many planes in cure from many designers using LW without problems. but I had disastrous impressions when I printed your wings (igneous). I don't think cure or old printers are the problems, I think they are design problems. As a suggestion you should improve the aileron and flap hinge system, they are very basic and break easily with use.
Greetings
Did you try the suggested "silicone hinge" method for these? Light/Thin layer of silicone RTV on both sides of hinge line. Yes, the hinge cracks with some material more than others, the silicone support these very well.
I have been testing new geometry with better result (coming update), but it is still the same design... I like it and I'm my biggest customer. Clear 100% silicone bath and kitchen, 40-100% elongation, $5-9 tube available at most hardware stores, 1 tube is good for 30+ planes.
I have tried other planes and designs... they are different, but I don't like them... buying a roll of TPU and getting it to print right... having those hinges break, diggout the pieces, print again... or hinge eyelets with a full length wire... printed hinge pins are terrible... Most use way too many parts, damage easily, and difficult to repair. Mine are tested to 100+ mph and yes they crack and break off sometime, usually when I crash, but I have easily repaired them if the plane is still flyable with the silicone method.
If you have a better solution lets hear it.
Have you tried the Bambu labs asa aero? I ordered some, just curious if you have tried it.
how do you shell the wing in cad?
i always get an error when i try to do that. i have the cleanest spline you can imagine for the airfoil, using my BezierAirfoilDesigner, but the shell command still doesn't work. do you loft additional inner surfaces, too?
I use SolidWorks... surface loft and thicken, but you can only thicken it outward, and my complicated wing plan lofts make it worse. Inward surfaces would always fail. Outward would end up changing the airfoil too much... too puffed for what I wanted. Had to do all kinds of CAD ju-jitsu to get the solids I wanted just the way I wanted. I probably made it overly complicated, but it has been working for what I want.
This "vase mode" style is sooo much easier, but very limited if you want to do complex structures.
Hallo, ich habe schon einige Jets mit Polylight von 3dPrint auf meinem Bambulab gedruckt , nie Probleme. Bei deinem Design gibt es katastropahle oberflächen, bei gleicher einstellung.
Schade um die 20 Euro...
Do you mean now we can print your gliders fully with lw pla ? Is it strong enough ?
Yes, and yes, and you could print it with LW-PLA before, it was just not as good as it is now. And print it fast with the new generation of printers. Throw your Cura out... it is obsolete.
I never liked Cura, I always had better results with S3D 😁
🎉 'Promo SM'