When you’re prototyping something and you use three year old PLA.
Simplify3D is now my go to piece of software for creating really great toolpaths for my Makerbot. Worth every penny.
Still continue to use my Makerbot Replicator 2 often in my work. It’s been used many times in commercial projects as well as my own projects like this new version of my Plastic Player. One of the best things I have in my studio.
I’ve also recently started to use Simplify3D to generate the toolpaths for the Makerbot as Makerbot themselves have pretty much abandoned support for this machine. Really impressed with the quality of Simplify3D.
Failures can often be beautiful. Though personally I prefer success.
Organic data objects printed in wood pla made from environmental data for appearance in forthcoming publication
My Makerbot is still an invaluable piece of kit, like when I used it recently to make these twelve printers for an installation for Airbnb. It worked pretty much flat out for a week and they all looked great in Faberdashery filament.
Loving the Lemon Drop PLA from Faberdashery.
Having a lot of fun learning Fusion 360 from Autodesk.
When you run out of PLA half-way through a print on the #makerbot just improvise and create a two colour print.