Why can't printing bodies be easier? Arghh

[FJC_GUY]

So I started down this road of printing a CJ7 body and I've downloaded a couple other "ready to print" body files.

What I don't get is when people are slicing up the body to optimize printing why they don't add any sort of fixed attachment point? It's super simple to add a cylinder a few mm long with a hole through the center right in the middle of where you are going to cut it so you would have a fixed point to run a screw through for assembly.

I think I'm going to end up loading the entire set of files for the CJ7 body into Fusion, "assemble" it, add attachment points, and blow it apart again.

It's a free file so I'm not mad or anything, just seems like it would make it a lot simpler assembly process. It might bother me if I paid for a file, which there are a couple of body files on my shortlist.

 

[Greywolf74]

Most of the ppl creating those free files are amateurs

 

[FJC_GUY]

Most of the ppl creating those free files are amateurs

It's just funny to me because I'm pretty new to 3d printing but it wouldn't even occur to me to not have at least a locator pin or tab to help the assembly process.

 

[Doom!]

It seems obvious to me, maybe the people designing them have never actually tried putting one together, so it hasn't occurred to them.

 

[WickedFog]

Most people glue them.

 

[FJC_GUY]

Most people glue them.

I would still glue it, but much like the models I built when I was a kid locating pins of some sort would make the process much easier to make sure everything is lined up.

 

[2wdMod]

I get exactly what you are saying.. just a couple alignment pegs would make things go so much smoother in some cases.. former static modeler here also , so I SOOO get what you are saying!.. As others have said , a lot of the time, especially on T-verse, there are designs that have never been printed out etc.. I always look for makes.. if nobody has actually made it there is a reason.. Especially if its something with a high Cool factor..