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Had 3 semesters of drawing as an undergrad (93-94)... 2 on paper drafting, 1 on Autocad 2d. Taught myself basic solid modeling on ProE my sophomore summer at my dad’s office (he ran the design department for a division of tata steel). Clearly I’ve forgotten most of it.
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Also kicked the tires on the online library stuff. Downloaded and printed this cat cookie cutter from thngiverse
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I give up. I’ve tried icing it, a spatula, swabbing isopropyl alcohol around edge, hammering gently from the side...
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At this point I’m considering drilling a small hole so I can insert a rod and try to pride the damn thing off. It’s either that or give up on this build plate and get a new one.
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Dammit. Drilling a hole and trying to lever it off didn’t work. Simply ripped the top off. This is with super draft low-fill setting
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Okay. Got it off. I slipped a box cutter under one edge just enough to get spatula under it, and that was enough leverage to get it off. Done building directly on build plate. Gonna try either blue tape or kapton tape.
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i like to just use one strip of blue tape on a corner, basically to give myself somewhere i can then easily work my spatula into. but i also use rafts so the slight un-evenness isnt an issue
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over time it gets kinda messy with some tape being real hard to remove - wound up pulling off a chunk of that black plate coating from the metal, trying to remove some stubborn tape once! so now i try to use as little as i can.
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