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Firstly, I would like to give my special thanks to Trevor Pages from Tesla Owners Online for the amazing review on YouTube about this model – very detail and informative! Please watch his video below if you want some more hints and tips to get this model printed successfully on your 3D printers! If you would like to subscribe to his YouTube channel, please click on this link.
Most of the STL files are really straight forward to print. All you need to do is load them into your slicer software (I use Cura), select your desirable settings (e.g. layer height, infill percentage, etc.) and slice the parts. I used 0.4mm nozzle (0.2mm layer height) to print most parts and 0.25mm nozzle (0.1mm layer height) to print small parts (e.g. pins, washers, links, etc.)
Please note: I already saved the STL for each part in the orientation I printed them on my FDM printer. Hence, when you load the STL in your slicer software, you don’t need to orientate them again, unless you want to try to print them in a different orientation.
Could you post a list of parts sorted by the correct filament colours? I’d like to layout and print all the grey, white, and black parts at once.
In Step 3, the floor… maybe move the slot for the monitor holder toward the center by a 0.5-1 millimeter or so. The wall there is quite thin and you can see the grey through the white. Not a big deal, but it would be a nice touch.
love this model 😀 i’m upgrading mine with interior astronauts and wil be connecting it to part of ISS