That struggle is so real... Although, once you start to learn paremetric modeling, you stop having as much plastic waste around and a whole bunch of slightly different prototypes of a desk organizer or toilet roll holder that result from not measuring properly the first time.

“RANDOM BULLSHIT PRINT!”

You miss all of the bullshit you don't print

~ Wayne "Not the one you're thinking of" Gretsky

You don't know me. Everything I've ever printed was critical.

I've pretty much settled on just printing flower pots and cute animals for my sister. Last one was this bulbapot

Me 5 years after buying a 3D printer: been working on CAD'ing that one project for well over a year with probably about as much time left before it's ready for its first prototype.

(And that doesn't include all the time I was distracted with other projects, many of which were not 3D-printing related at all.)

I'll dust my printer off when it's time for that first prototype.

I recently got a photo printer and the experience is surprisingly similar

I'm in this picture and I don't like it!

Almost all my prints these days are ones I've created or modified in freecad.

A person doesn't need so many benchies and effiel towers

I should learn how to use FreeCAD (or OpenSCAD) but unfortunately, my printer cannot print motivation...

Recently just started my 3d printer back up. Had 2 full spools still in the box, opened it and just started breaking. The filament just explodes when it gets old.

Had to buy a brand new spool of filament for a $0.20 part.

And it has no automatic bed leveling, so it took like 6 attempts to get it flat enough.

That was me in Skyrim hoarding Dwemer artifacts.

Sounds like someone needs a recycling extruder

I generally do functional prints or iterative prototyping. Friends and family like the tchotchkes though so I do print them from time to time.

Wait you qre printing stuff 2 weeks after getting a 3d printer?!! You yungsters have it so easy

In my time we had to build, then spend a whole spool just trying until we got something not horrible