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> I’ll probably stick to figurines instead of sex toys though That sounds painful.
Everything's a dildo when you're brave enough
Counterexample: bowling ball
3D Printing Sex Toys
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#53> So traditionally you'd have to print a blank and smooth it (with loads of manual sanding and buffing), and then cast a silicone mould around it, add a mold release ($$$) and THEN (finally!) cast your actual sex toy. The process is here to print the negative and then do a thin layer of beeswax inside to smooth the layer lines from the print. I haven’t done either method but would like to try it out soon. I’ll probab…
If you're planning to make figurines you're better off with a resin printer (as opposed to filament).
This is very true, I tried to print some figurines using filament, and it was a total disaster. I'm sure there are some figures and some settings of slicer and printer that work, but just grabbing a fig and printing it isn't the same as grabbing other things and printing them. My experience based on 5-7 spools of filament printed through a rather enhanced Ender 3 Pro (+BLTouch, MicroSwiss, new mobo, dual gear extruder, upgraded bed springs).
Though, as others here mentioned, resin may not be what you want either. I looked at them briefly when my son was interested in painting minifigs, and decided I didn't want to deal with resin and I DEFINITELY didn't want him working in resin, based on the messes he makes with cereal.
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#57I think 3D-printed silicone would be useful for making a condom-like sleeve with fluid channels, so that males can use a diaper more reliably.
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#58https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=re... >No results found for sex. Please try another search or upload your own design. Yeah, sure!
Try Thangs.com, their search engine actually works, and it also produces results for objects from other sites. I've completely given up on Thingiverse as of ~6 months ago.
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#59The core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler/smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I'm confused by some things: - the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard) - the description of the "traditional" method as printing a posit…
> Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth?
I think the problem with sanding a mold is that it would be very hard to sand both halves equally, so you'd end up with a step where the two halves meet.
Using the wax to smooth the mold when the two halves are already stuck together is quite ingenious, as the wax will also smooth the part where the halves meet.
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#60I have questions. If you're doing it all yourself why do you need to go to a silicone shop and "talk to the experts about your needs"? Why tell a beginner to use 3D Builder or Meshmixer when you could do it in ninety seconds in Tinkercad? Why would you slice it in Chitubox to get the volume when your original modeling program or regular slicer would give you that info? On what printer is 0.25mm a step-integer layer h…
Why not spend 90 seconds building it in TinkerCAD? My experience is that it took a year for me to get to the point where I could build it in TinkerCAD. Love it, but I really struggled at first. Now it's my go-to, and you can make some awesome stuff quickly, but I'm the only one in my house that can do, well, pretty much anything in 90 seconds in TinkerCAD. :-)
Why do this rather than clone a Willy? If your willy looks like the sex toy in this blog post, you'd probably better see a doctor.