Sorry, I completely didn’t read all of your comment. You’re right about resistance but then again the filament won’t need to touch the enclosing coil at a large surface. In the usual bowden tubes, you have a lot of contact surface between tube and filament but this would not need to be the case in the drying coil. In the end it would all depend on the application. I’m not interested in very high speed printing (yet) because my machines are all pretty slow :).

You “just” need a longer distance inside the drying chamber. This could be achieved by coiling up the space where the filament travels through and guide hot and dry air through that space, ideally from the outlet towards the inlet. That air could maybe be pulled from the hotend cooler.

Argh finally someone tries the obvious solution. I was already considering it but was demotivated since it seemed so obvious and nobody seemed to have done it before.

This device could also probably be printed in PLA. I can’t wait until I get my lab power supply so I can give this a try with a wire coil heater.

Edit: you could even mount some PTFE tubing mounted below a heated bed and pass air through it. That way you could potentially get away without a heating element and re-use some power usually lost.

Not only this. It’s also old news.

Full agree!! I use the dev version too!

The 1.0 release is around the corner. It’s only a matter of a few weeks. It has the toponaming problem fixed and a built in assembly toolbox!

I’m interested to hear how it turns out!

Welcome to Germany!

Great to hear, I’ll become a parent in a few months. It’s good to hear about how you feel since I used to feel pretty negative about having kids before we decided to have them.

I kind of agree. I’ve used blender on and off for at least 15 years now, so I know how to do many things now by heart. But, yeah if you have less experience or use it infrequently, it’s tough. The more “recent” releases are more self explanatory though.

There might actually be good freeform tools in FreeCAD that I haven’t tried yet.

This is one of the things you might be better off modeling in blender.

Thanks a lot for having taken time to respond so thoroughly. I must say I haven’t thought about things from this angle.

The part about the book and the mediocre comedian definitely rings a bell. Getting stuck in stupid local extrema (like in optimization) more often than necessary is definitely a thing with me.

What of many of the things you’re “supposed to do” are things you don’t actually want to do and therefore you don’t do? What if it’s external circumstances define what’s called a mental disorder?

Would you feel like you have a mental disorder if you lived in some completely different context?

I’m just wondering if we can call things a disorder that might mostly arise because society is built around working better for more neurotypical people (it at all).

Would you call it a disorder being tall if for some reason most people were short and all our infrastrucure were built for short people?

I’m not questioning the difficulties many people have with their lives. I’m wondering what to do about it and where the threshold is.

I often wonder as well. Then I think: is this not just the human condition. In any case I seem to score pretty high on those online questionnaires.

It’s not like there are no storage solutions available. They are not always very efficient, but if you have a surplus, whatever.

Nice work! What does the optics look like? Do you have a picture of the whole thing?

KDE Connect is amazing. Also works without KDE.

Not true about xmpp in general. There are modern clients out there.

What’s your problem with xmpp?

Nice. I like the idea of simple and small. I’ve had a look at Plan 9 some years ago and had the impression it was mostly dead. Nice to hear that there is some movement.