Cool, though I usually integrate a merge block into my design blueprints and put one on the printer so that I can detach it after the print. It's not really suitable for my 4000-block large grid frigate, though 🤔
This is very useful for the mid game on survival servers. You can make blueprints offline in creative mode to experiment, then use a printer like this to bring them into a survival server.
Good video, but since you have creative tools on, you don't need to add that many components in the cargo the welders only need the first component of each block in it to instantly weld. In complete survival mode, you would also need to slow down the pistons a lot more for this to work as fast, the welders do not insta-weld like with creative tools on. my first instinct would be at about 0.1m/s or even slower.
In regards to the hinge, I’m not sure many have noticed, the marker your using to set which way you place it also happens to be =45 degrees mark. There is a center line on the hinge part as well.
You know I'd estimated it was 45, well -45, but because you don't sort of watch it turning then stop it, it didn't seem that much use. Honestly I think it's a bad design. They could have had text on the side of the hinge like they do with rotors. Indicating positive and negative angles? But! As long as you remember which way is which, it's not so bad. I like the features of the hinge. It's extremely useful, but just not such a good design. What do you think about the hinge design Torrent? Or the projector design too? Ah and thanks for commenting. I always appreciate the feedback and chat.
@@TallmanBradGameplay I like your videos. I've been playing SE for over 1000 hrs, but I like some of the design ideas you've had. there is always room to learn new techniques, and I would rank your videos up there with splitsie's.
Thanks, TMB, for the clear, easy-to-understand video. My first question *was* - what about flying vehicles. If you grind off the attachment, they'll fall and crash. Then I realized one could use atmo thrusters and a battery or two; or use hydrogen thrusters, an O2/H2 generator, then manually add some ice before one grinds off the attachment. Either way should work. Again, thanks for the wonderful videos, and for your time. We appreciate it.
You're welcome Gary! Yeah I'd load up flyers before detaching. Could be a fun project to have a connector on a piston that slides into place after welding is complete. The flyer then pulling H2 or ice then? Loads of options! I appreciate the feedback as always Gary!
I'd like to know how they made the pistons extend and retract automatically during the welding process, as it seems that system would allow for larger ships or rovers to be built, that the range of a single welder wouldn't cover. I believe that's why they spin the ship around, to cover all sides of it while having the welders remain in a single line.
I'm not sure how they made the printer in the background cinematic. It looks impressive but it could be just setup to look good for the video? The version I've made her is extremely simple but could be expanded on with additional pistons in parallel to the existing one, either to the sides or below. This would allow bigger ship printing, with a little projector adjustment.
Oh you can spin the projection in my example no problem. The projector is attached to a rotor. It just wasn't necessary with the size it was making in the demo.
@@TallmanBradGameplay Yeah I don't really care much about the spinning part, I'd just like the welders to automatically detect when a block is built and continue backing up so that it doesn't collide with the ship. I'm thinking they did it with sensors but I'll have to figure those out. I'll scan your channel a bit for a tutorial on sensors, hope you've got one!
@@ZachTheInsaneOne Actually the block isnt detecting blocks being built and backing up so what you are assuming is happening is wrong. He just made it extend slowly and because of the size of the car is small it builds fast. If you rewatch it you can hear him when he sets up the piston is just set to extend and nothing special.
You can set up sensors to detect blocks and sorta have automatically retracting welder pistons. However, there is no option for sensors to know if the detected block is fully buil or not, so you'll have to have low enough piston speed that the welder can do its job
@@TallmanBradGameplay that’s only if you have it printed on a piston and the welders is on the floor, then the piston pulls the projection out of the floor welding it
Very nice video for a vanilla projection printer. I think this way is a bit obsolete as there are mods that highly improve the printing phase (BuildAndRepair System) which you mentioned.
Thank you for covering this and straight forward to follow. I want to set up a drone to send out as an advance scout (with camera and maybe an ore detector) to survey the ground ahead and to search for ores. If you've covered drones in this capacity already do you have a link to the video please?
I've covered autopilot, it's not really what you're after. I think the remote access video will be your best bet for controlling a vehicle with a camera. I'll attach a link. Let me know if it helps.
@@TallmanBradGameplay brilliant, thank you. I watched your video some months ago. Just re watched it and realise I completely forgot about the limited range (200m) on the suit antenna. Thanks again for the helpful videos.
No problem. I'm pleased your watching them and even better that they're helping! You can always use a laser antenna to extend the range if you're controlling it from your base. There's a video on that somewhere on my channel ;)
@@Paul_Bee You can also use a rotor to go from small grid to large to put a large grid ore detector on your small grid scout. It gets way more range than the small.
And here I made two big walls of welders that were initially closed like a trash compactor, and then slowly start to open revealing the ship, but hell that took a lot of work, should have done this instead
Walls, floors, ceilings all covered in welders. Or 1 on a stick! Haha. Yeah it's a simple, quick system but not as impressive as 20 welders all sparking away then revealing a ship after they finish opening. I'm pleased you like it Pepito. Thanks for commenting!
I'm sorry I haven't played SE for ages. Plus that printer is extremely complicated! I suspect it's mostly for show 😝 Sorry I can't help but I hope you're finding some of the videos a little bit useful at least.
Haha! Lots of pistons and welders! I'd probably go in reverse for that scale. Start printing at the far end and retract the pistons out of the way. Oh man I can't even picture a capital ship printer! Crazy!
@@kaygerry i dont get your point. what are you talking about ? we were talking about the mod or no mod thing. it is funny to hear someone speaking about a no mod build then immediatly use a mod to make it working....
Are you talking about the 'build vision' mod? If so, you know you don't need to use that to make the printer? The actual printer is completely vanilla. The point of the video was to demo how to make a printer that doesn't use any mods. Not that I don't use mods.
Check you've got the materials and your welder has access to where they're stored. You can set your system to manufacturers the components if they're not available. Sorry I can't help much more it's been a long time since I played SE and can't remember all the settings.
alt video tile, 2D printer.... this only moves on 2 planes... so 2d? :D Great simple design, basically the first automated printer anyone should try and build before going onto more advanced stuff
That's a shame as it's a fun little system. As I don't know anything about your setup there's not much I can do. Have you tried putting the mats straight in the welder? Sorry I can't be much help here.
If it's projecting the image, the piston is extending and it's networked to your containers will all the materials, then it should be working. I don't think servers will have any impact on this build unless they don't allow the use of projectors?
It's not even 3d printer, it is just a piston with welder, maximum i can call it manual one axis welding manipulator. 3d printer should be fully automatic, and all you need is to load a blueprint and push One button. Then it should build ANY project any size (within working table). For 20 minutes video i was expecting a nice Real 3d printer, but this ... just a waste of time.
Add a few timers and it'll run with 1 button press. Build a bigger "table" and add more welders and it'll weld bigger blueprints. This is a basic 3d printer. A tutorial showing one option to get you started. I'm sorry for wasting your time.
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Never noticed hinge orientation indicator. High value info right there.
Thank you sir!
You're welcome Lord!
Cool, though I usually integrate a merge block into my design blueprints and put one on the printer so that I can detach it after the print.
It's not really suitable for my 4000-block large grid frigate, though 🤔
This is very useful for the mid game on survival servers. You can make blueprints offline in creative mode to experiment, then use a printer like this to bring them into a survival server.
Absolutely. Very useful things. I'm pleased you enjoyed the video and thanks for letting me know! All the best Craig.
Good video, but since you have creative tools on, you don't need to add that many components in the cargo the welders only need the first component of each block in it to instantly weld. In complete survival mode, you would also need to slow down the pistons a lot more for this to work as fast, the welders do not insta-weld like with creative tools on. my first instinct would be at about 0.1m/s or even slower.
Anyone else annoyed with how simple this design is? There is no clang risk. Nothing that could ruin hours of hard gaming.
There is always room for clang!
In regards to the hinge, I’m not sure many have noticed, the marker your using to set which way you place it also happens to be =45 degrees mark. There is a center line on the hinge part as well.
You know I'd estimated it was 45, well -45, but because you don't sort of watch it turning then stop it, it didn't seem that much use. Honestly I think it's a bad design. They could have had text on the side of the hinge like they do with rotors. Indicating positive and negative angles? But! As long as you remember which way is which, it's not so bad. I like the features of the hinge. It's extremely useful, but just not such a good design. What do you think about the hinge design Torrent? Or the projector design too?
Ah and thanks for commenting. I always appreciate the feedback and chat.
@@TallmanBradGameplay I like your videos. I've been playing SE for over 1000 hrs, but I like some of the design ideas you've had. there is always room to learn new techniques, and I would rank your videos up there with splitsie's.
Torrent, thank you so much!
Very nice. Clear and concise. Perfect thank you!
Thanks, TMB, for the clear, easy-to-understand video. My first question *was* - what about flying vehicles. If you grind off the attachment, they'll fall and crash. Then I realized one could use atmo thrusters and a battery or two; or use hydrogen thrusters, an O2/H2 generator, then manually add some ice before one grinds off the attachment. Either way should work. Again, thanks for the wonderful videos, and for your time. We appreciate it.
You're welcome Gary! Yeah I'd load up flyers before detaching. Could be a fun project to have a connector on a piston that slides into place after welding is complete. The flyer then pulling H2 or ice then? Loads of options! I appreciate the feedback as always Gary!
Thanks man great vide
You're welcome Rawgaming. Thank you for the kind words. I'm pleased the video is still useful.
filled with lot of good info, thank you.
You're very welcome. Thank you for commenting Elkku
I'd like to know how they made the pistons extend and retract automatically during the welding process, as it seems that system would allow for larger ships or rovers to be built, that the range of a single welder wouldn't cover. I believe that's why they spin the ship around, to cover all sides of it while having the welders remain in a single line.
I'm not sure how they made the printer in the background cinematic. It looks impressive but it could be just setup to look good for the video? The version I've made her is extremely simple but could be expanded on with additional pistons in parallel to the existing one, either to the sides or below. This would allow bigger ship printing, with a little projector adjustment.
Oh you can spin the projection in my example no problem. The projector is attached to a rotor. It just wasn't necessary with the size it was making in the demo.
@@TallmanBradGameplay Yeah I don't really care much about the spinning part, I'd just like the welders to automatically detect when a block is built and continue backing up so that it doesn't collide with the ship. I'm thinking they did it with sensors but I'll have to figure those out. I'll scan your channel a bit for a tutorial on sensors, hope you've got one!
@@ZachTheInsaneOne Actually the block isnt detecting blocks being built and backing up so what you are assuming is happening is wrong. He just made it extend slowly and because of the size of the car is small it builds fast. If you rewatch it you can hear him when he sets up the piston is just set to extend and nothing special.
You can set up sensors to detect blocks and sorta have automatically retracting welder pistons. However, there is no option for sensors to know if the detected block is fully buil or not, so you'll have to have low enough piston speed that the welder can do its job
Such service! 10/10 would definitely order a tutorial here again.
Haha! Thanks game boy.
I usually made a big welding floor but this is way more efficent, thanks Tallman Brad o/
You're very welcome Assa
Could you just use landing gear or a magnetic plate at the top instead of the block? Then just push a button to detach the print
Possibly. I have a suspicion a landing gear won't grab the blueprint soon enough. If at all. Let me known if you try it out.
When we doing that cloab? I love 3D printers, IRL and SE, use glass or a thin block on top of welders for protection and decoration
That's a good idea. I bet the glass looks pretty good too.
@@TallmanBradGameplay that’s only if you have it printed on a piston and the welders is on the floor, then the piston pulls the projection out of the floor welding it
I see what you're saying. There are so many ways to do it.
Very nice video for a vanilla projection printer.
I think this way is a bit obsolete as there are mods that highly improve the printing phase (BuildAndRepair System) which you mentioned.
I agree but there are a lot of purists out there that would prefer vanilla. I still teased with Build vision though ;)
@@TallmanBradGameplay Seriously, good and clear video.
Thanks Oscar. I appreciate your support. Hit me with any suggestions for more if you like? Bare in mind I'm aiming at early/mid game players ;)
If you are playing on a server they may not have B&R installed. Always good to know the basics as a fallback.
Thank you for covering this and straight forward to follow. I want to set up a drone to send out as an advance scout (with camera and maybe an ore detector) to survey the ground ahead and to search for ores. If you've covered drones in this capacity already do you have a link to the video please?
I've covered autopilot, it's not really what you're after. I think the remote access video will be your best bet for controlling a vehicle with a camera. I'll attach a link. Let me know if it helps.
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@@TallmanBradGameplay brilliant, thank you. I watched your video some months ago. Just re watched it and realise I completely forgot about the limited range (200m) on the suit antenna. Thanks again for the helpful videos.
No problem. I'm pleased your watching them and even better that they're helping! You can always use a laser antenna to extend the range if you're controlling it from your base. There's a video on that somewhere on my channel ;)
@@Paul_Bee You can also use a rotor to go from small grid to large to put a large grid ore detector on your small grid scout. It gets way more range than the small.
And here I made two big walls of welders that were initially closed like a trash compactor, and then slowly start to open revealing the ship, but hell that took a lot of work, should have done this instead
Walls, floors, ceilings all covered in welders. Or 1 on a stick! Haha. Yeah it's a simple, quick system but not as impressive as 20 welders all sparking away then revealing a ship after they finish opening. I'm pleased you like it Pepito. Thanks for commenting!
very helpful thnx!
Would you be able to do a step by step guide on how to do the 3d printer from the loading screen?
I'm sorry I haven't played SE for ages. Plus that printer is extremely complicated! I suspect it's mostly for show 😝
Sorry I can't help but I hope you're finding some of the videos a little bit useful at least.
Your like the Bob Ross of Space Engineers
I am? I'm going to take that as a compliment ha ha! Thanks Caylon.
i LOVE your Voice. just..wow...
Thanks Locus
I must agree, reminds me of Bob Ross. 😃
@@ywainleonis2035 I'm happy with that haha. Thanks Ywain.
@@TallmanBradGameplay But Better!
okay now a machine that can print capital vessels please :D
Haha! Lots of pistons and welders! I'd probably go in reverse for that scale. Start printing at the far end and retract the pistons out of the way. Oh man I can't even picture a capital ship printer! Crazy!
"This is a simple printer with no mods because some of us don't use them" proceeds to immediately use a mod 😢
Yes, what a joke.
@jeckjeck6943 if you guys cant figure out how to manually change settings probably learn that before trying to make anything.
@@kaygerry i dont get your point. what are you talking about ? we were talking about the mod or no mod thing. it is funny to hear someone speaking about a no mod build then immediatly use a mod to make it working....
Are you talking about the 'build vision' mod? If so, you know you don't need to use that to make the printer? The actual printer is completely vanilla. The point of the video was to demo how to make a printer that doesn't use any mods. Not that I don't use mods.
Hello sir it won't well for me just sits there not welding
Check you've got the materials and your welder has access to where they're stored. You can set your system to manufacturers the components if they're not available. Sorry I can't help much more it's been a long time since I played SE and can't remember all the settings.
Thanks
Great video, thx
You're very welcome Michael!
alt video tile, 2D printer....
this only moves on 2 planes... so 2d? :D
Great simple design, basically the first automated printer anyone should try and build before going onto more advanced stuff
True it's only moving in 1 plane but it prints a 3d object. Either way it's a basic tutorial to get anyone started. Good to start with simplicity.
did this exactly and it wont print or pull mats
That's a shame as it's a fun little system. As I don't know anything about your setup there's not much I can do. Have you tried putting the mats straight in the welder? Sorry I can't be much help here.
I cant tell if my printer doesnt work or the servers just lagging
If it's projecting the image, the piston is extending and it's networked to your containers will all the materials, then it should be working. I don't think servers will have any impact on this build unless they don't allow the use of projectors?
make sure to set the pistons to the slowest speed possible so everything gets printed fully
It's not even 3d printer, it is just a piston with welder, maximum i can call it manual one axis welding manipulator. 3d printer should be fully automatic, and all you need is to load a blueprint and push One button. Then it should build ANY project any size (within working table). For 20 minutes video i was expecting a nice Real 3d printer, but this ... just a waste of time.
Add a few timers and it'll run with 1 button press. Build a bigger "table" and add more welders and it'll weld bigger blueprints.
This is a basic 3d printer. A tutorial showing one option to get you started. I'm sorry for wasting your time.