The handles themselves freeze down and won’t pop up to allow someone to actually open the door. Freezing rain and sleet and prevent even traditional style handles are known to freeze up and stop working.

You sound like you are looking for the justification to buy a new printer. If your current machine is preventing you from making the things you want, get something that will allow you to make those things.

You want recommendations? Prusa, what you get beyond the initial price is worth it. Bambu, the Apple of the 3d printing world, lock in included at no extra cost. Qidi, a cheaper printer with features that make printing more difficult engineering filaments easier.

You do need a cheap accelerometer to use it though. They are cheap, but still an added cost.

That’s a question that the C-Suite needs to answer for. But the point is, if those switches are installed -for whatever reason- they do need to work correctly. And if they do not, that’s an indication of a failing management.

Neither one of which is all that common compared to the rest of the population.

If the installation of the circuit was done correctly in the first place, all 3 switches will turn the light on and off.

If they do not, there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. If you don’t fix the issue, you have a major underlying problem in your company. And you are not worth my time.

Says the person who has never contributed anything…

I am willing to teach and have taught others. I have stood in front of a classroom of high school students and even elementary students as young 9 years old and taught them how to turn their ideas into real world things. And I did it for free. Can you say the same?

The realistic one. I have tried the YouTube beginners lesson almost every time Blender has a new release. I just cannot do it.

Yeah, as an old toolmaker, we have it pounded into us that time is money and seconds have a cost. Plus it also tends to eliminate the riff raff. If you are willing to pay for something I designed, then you are far less likely to ask for freebies, (If I had a nickle for every time). Also there is the years of learning and development of skills involved that has value.

I used to upload free designs, but I got tired of all the clowns that wanted me to do this “little” change here or there for free, (I would release CAD files also). Or they complained about how their poorly calibrated and operated printer couldn’t hit the tolerances of +/-.1mm and I was a bad person and should be shunned.

I got tired of it all and pulled all my designs down. Now everything I design will never see that light of day. If you want it, do it yourself. I did…

It’s OK to not rush in to learning a design program of any kind. Take your time if you want. There are millions of things to print at the click of a button.

And when you are ready to learn something new and extra, you will know when you are ready and then you can start learning. And it will be a fun process, not a chore because ‘you have to learn this.’ This is a journey, not a job for you

I’ve been trying to make that damnable doughnut in Blender for 15 years. And I STILL fail at it somehow. But I can make that stupid doughnut in FreeCAD, OnShape, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and (shudders) Fusion.

I evidently have a mental block with Blender that doesn’t exist with any CAD I’ve used. So, one has to use the tools that work for you.

It’s more that stainless steel is cheaper than brass these days.

Oh sure, now you tell me…At least the glitter in it was good fiber I guess.

I have an intense dislike for gummie bears. So I gave them away. The free full kilo of Galaxy silver filament that came in the box had my full attention though.

That is the sad part. When I got my Prusa Mk3s kit way back during covid, it not only came with a users manual, but a hefty large assembly manual. Both books printed on glossy paper and full page color pictures with circles and arrows on them.

I still have both books and I still use that Mk3s.

I think only Prusa still ships a real, honest to god printed manual anymore. Most printers come with just a pamphlet to setup and plug it in.

Paper costs money to print and to ship.

I got an old Nitro 5 with a rickity old 500gig hard drive. Will a Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD be a good Christmas present for it?

Probably should get something while prices are somewhat more reasonable.

Yeah Blender might be the better choice here.

To me it looks AI generated and the “designer” never tried to actually print it. I would consider this model to be unprintable as presented. Because to actually print it, it would need to be seriously redesigned with pre built supports.

Shouldn’t be hard for anyone from Europe. The EU already wants to monitor all the social media anyway. Plus age restrictions. The Aussie’s aren’t far behind either. And they have age restrictions now.