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Reply To: Open gaming mini license

December 12, 2020 at 4:07 pm #1589510

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@torros – we’re almost there. Almost every miniature creator on Patreon, for example, is offering supported minis as part of their monthly release. There’s hardly an .stl-based Kickstarter now that *doesn’t* include supported minis.

@sundancer – I think maybe even as little as 18 months ago you might have been onto something (and those of us who have been involved with 3d printing for ten years or more know the headaches and heartaches that came with it).

But as a trial, I recently printed some supported minis from Cyber Forge.

Normally, I support myself, slice, double-check, remove islands etc. I can easily lose an hour or two before printing because I too have been super-wary of poorly supported models etc. Even just 12 months ago, it was a problem. But now? Yesterday I dropped eight minis onto Chitubox, hit slice and put the usb stick into my printer.

Four hours later – eight new minis were hanging upside down, waiting to be cleaned and cured.

Yes, it’s a *little bit more effort* than printing on an inkjet. But then again, if you want to print a really nice photo, you still do a little touching up and make it look it’s best, before printing – you *can* just hit print and accept what comes out, and it’s the same with 3d resin printing; it’s really getting very close to being so simple. In fact, I’d dare to suggest it already meets @torros ‘ criteria!