06-22-2026, 06:44 AM
Adding to my original post after printing a few more useful things:
Things I've printed that actually get used daily:
On print settings: for functional parts I've mostly switched from 15% infill to 30-40% with 3 walls. The difference in strength is significant and filament cost is minimal. For decorative stuff 15% + 2 walls is fine.
Multicolour without an AMS: if you have a single-extruder printer, Orca Slicer has a colour change pause feature. You pause at a specific layer, swap filament manually, continue. Tedious for many colours but fine for a single accent colour.
Anyone using Bambu Studio or Orca Slicer? Orca is the fork I use now - it has more calibration tools built in.
Things I've printed that actually get used daily:
- A monitor stand riser with integrated cable channels - no more cables draped over the desk edge
- Raspberry Pi case with integrated fan mount and GPIO access
- Custom keycap puller that doesn't scratch the keycaps (a problem with the wire tools)
- A mount to hold my lamp arm to the VESA mount bracket
On print settings: for functional parts I've mostly switched from 15% infill to 30-40% with 3 walls. The difference in strength is significant and filament cost is minimal. For decorative stuff 15% + 2 walls is fine.
Multicolour without an AMS: if you have a single-extruder printer, Orca Slicer has a colour change pause feature. You pause at a specific layer, swap filament manually, continue. Tedious for many colours but fine for a single accent colour.
Anyone using Bambu Studio or Orca Slicer? Orca is the fork I use now - it has more calibration tools built in.