3D Printing Helmets: Scaling Tips for a Perfect Fit Every Time!

Man it sux when you print a helmet or mask too big or too small, so I developed a technic to size it right. Love to hear some feedback if it works for you too.

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[Budwin]

Great video Brother. I added it to the models description.

[mariomonth]

Thanks for the video. I've seen this method before using the sizing heads but never thought to cut the helmet in half! That makes it so much easier to position the head and then scale the helmet. Thanks for that tip.

[abnpanzer]

Thank you for this tutorial. will be using it to size my 1st mask.

[TheCatFather]

Amazing work! Thank you so much for sharing your method, really cool! 💪🏽

[amp]

How to you get the magnets to work when you resize them?

Trying to make my kid a mask and going down in size.

Great video, thank you.

[liamparkes]

thanks alot for this brother ! very helpful - Chief

[crazyfroginsky]

100 times yes.. I dont have the free time to mask my head/ get it 3d scanned for work like this. Love it.

[Upper]

Thanks for this tutorial man, super helpful. About to d my first print, before i hit print I have a question, are there any issues with scaling increasing the size of magnet holes?

[Viper]

hi How do you get both the head and the deadpool helmet into the bambulab program slits to make measurements. what do I do if some of the four heads don't suit me, I just have to scale them up
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[danielroldan]

Great video! I have a question: are you using OrcaSlicer with your Kobra Neo? I noticed there isn't a default profile for it. If you are, could you share how you've set it up or pass along your settings? I tried using the Anycubic Kobra 2 profile, but I’m having trouble getting good prints with it.
Thax

[MrJmartinezorlando]

This is a great explanation. I appreciate this very much. I am a SUPER NEWBIE to 3D printing. Using an A1. I have a question. How do you know the size of the model? I know you can measure it, but most models don't have circumferences, so using the measuring tool is needed, but where would you actually measure? I would love to see a video on "How to measure a model" if possible. Thank you in advance and forgive my greeness on all of this.

[cosalmighty]

So I tried it with the full helmet the way you showed but now when I go to slicer it breaks the helmet separately how do I scale the other pieces to fit the helmet

[willrgt]

So after it's in half and all sized up what do I do afterwards? How do I put both sides back together to match up? You didn't mention that part. This was really helpful up until that point! 😅

[thatguy]

how do you apply the changes you made to all the plates since the file is split into different plates for printing

[kiry]

thanks but how much if you can teach me 1 session in how to cause its not working for me thanks in bamboo stuio

[Jquinny]

How do you download the full mask to measure together?

[yourashero]

Does anyone else's head disappear when they put in the 130 coordinates?

[stl_outlaw]

How would you do this if you are printing a helmet in multiple parts? Would you scale each part the same?

[jharres]

You repeatedly mentioned measuring from the front of your head to the back, and also side to side, but then never explained how to do it nor what you would do with that info. I mention this b/c in my following of your instructions, I find the latest mask doesn't fit well for the head model. It's too tall overall. But I don't know if it is for me, and neither do I know what I'd do to fix it. It seems like you could scale it in the appropriate dimensions, but that would both require everything be oriented on the build plates the same, and it would also distort the magnet holes.