Adventures in Printing 1 - 'That doesn't line up'

[cweiss]

After what I thought was a spectacularly easy build (only 1 trip to the parts store and no blood sacrifice - a bad sign, to be sure)...

I should have figured something was wrong when I finished my first print of the shroud.
[img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ApcK ... 092816.jpg[/img]
"Gee, that notch doesn't line up with the wires"
"Oh well, maybe they changed fan vendors after the model was made and the new fans are wired on the other side. Nothing an X-Acto can't fix.."

The real tip off was my 2nd print, a case for a Beaglebone Black (to run OctoPi)
[img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Qyle ... 092154.jpg[/img]
"Heeeey, that doesn't look right. Is it supposed to be mounted upside-down??"


Thankfully, I'd spent the extra time carefully labeling the servos, rails, and top end X, Y, and Z axis. I flipped back through the PDF to find a drawing that showed which was supposed to go where and sure enough, I'd somehow managed to swap the Y and Z axis in the build.

[geneb]

Ok, now THAT is funny.

g.

[johnoly99]

Wherre's the thumbs up button, i loved it!

No worries man, at least you found it. I was gonna say you could always 'mirror' your prints in x/y too in the software, hehe