"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - Archimedes
"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - Archimedes
"...and filament. Lots of filament."
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The volume of Planet Earth is 108.321x10^10 km3.. Converted to std meters, that is 1.08321x10^21 m3.
A typical high flow 3d printer hotend (without getting insane) can hit around 25mm3/sec volumetric flow assuming no nozzle or acceleration restrictions. Converted to std meters, that is 2.5x10^-8 m3/sec.
If you ran that hotend continuously with no breaks, it would only take about 4.332x1028 seconds to print the planet Earth... or 1.374x1021 (1.4 sextillion!) years!
Gentlemen. We're going to need a bigger printer.
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Just set it to 5% infill in fast spaghetti mode and we can crank that baby out before the sun goes dark.
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I mean if you only print the side that is exposed to sun. Keep rotating that baby.
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That's why you start by printing more printers.
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Might need to bump up to 0.8mm
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Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)
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Archimedes was better known for bath thoughts.
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Lol imagine thinking you would print anything without youtube!
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Well unless you like miniatures in which case you're going to need resin
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Actually I printed a few decent ones with my Ender 3. A couple tests on my new A1 came out really nice.
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