Forum Ideas?

Perhaps a community hints & tips section with practical hints and tips for printing several types of parts. For instance; printing cylindrical parts (which tend to be more difficult to print), or extremely small parts (just examples).

I know there is a support page on the Formlabs.com page which is very explicit and absolutely usefull. However, These are more general tips for succesful printing. There are a lot of experienced users on this forum which have come up with different methods for their prints to succeed (mostly by trial and error). Right now these tips and guidelines are scattered throughout the forum and can be found by using the search button. Gathering all these information sheets and tips from the more experienced users and posting them as different threads to help out the members who have just bought a Form1+ or are having trouble with a part they’re printing would help them without posting a new topic which might have been discussed multiple times). The members could go through these topics first to help them on their way before asking help which might not be neccessary. Furthermore these topics could contain certain handy STL files which community members have uploaded and can be used without permission.

A good example for me would be different types of STL files that can be used to join several parts because the original model is too large to print for the Form1+. I’ve recently asked this question in a different topic right now and have had several replies (still need to check them). If there are different solutions for joining parts, perhaps these solutions and files could be shared so you can copy/paste and attach the file to the model you are creating yourself. This helps members not having to create parts over and over again.

To summarize; it could be a troubleshooting guide which is specified on certain types of models/aspects rather than the more general support page you have right now!

Alex

P.s. The forum should be “closed” for easy moderating. If members have tips/tricks they can send a pm to a moderator asking him/her to post this topic in that section on his/her behalf. That way it’ll be a clean section without topics that don’t belong there. Another advantage is that the moderator can ensure that the tips which are given are true.

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