3D Printing vs Real LEGO - A Simple Comparison

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How to 3D Print LEGO Bricks

[notbuffy]

Your videos are surprisingly high quality for a small channel

[BatistaInvests]

Lego exclusive is no longer valid. Do not let their fallacies scare you.

[skraegorn]

Oddly enough Lego was an early adopter of 3d printing for their prototypes. A lot of the Bionicle prototypes from the early 2000’s had parts made with powder-based 3d printing. Bionicle fans have especially embraced 3D printing for custom and replacement parts.

[eduardocrivellari]

In some countries lego is extremely super priced. The cost is a big point for me on 3rd world

[gta]

I honestly would only print lego for the pieces lego doesnt even make/sell anymore. Like for example monorail tracks or some lego Minifigure parts they just refuse to make in other colors...(looking at you lego Minifigure genie tail and your 2 blues and one kinda purplish and one green and one red colors...)

[NotWlort]

i tried to print lego once but, as i dont have high end printers like bambulab and ect. printing compatible bricks would not be so accurate in compatibility in normal mode, i would reccomend using high quality slicer settings in cura for users with normal 3d printer

[deatheater]

why not import lego bricks from bricklink studio into blender then export them as a .obj file

[ANormalCoconut]

You can make injection molded peices at home look at the video from cnc kitchen and you can make the abs still. If you are a designer you can add small fillets to your design to make it less sharp. I have a a1 and can perfectly print legos it is much more worth it especially since I have cad skills.

[smthnew]

I actually think about printing some resin molds to make my own injection sets. 😂

[MattEliteStorm]

I don't care about cost. I would just like to make my own custom LEGO figures, & custom pieces that wouldn't exist otherwise.

[tomassicouly]

What about the connection or the assembly quality of the printed parts? Do they get together and remain that way as lego pieces do?

[Maple-Leaf-fire]

Hi I really like your Lego 3D printed and I think having a 3D printer would be cool

[EmberLakely]

2:43 how about we make it bigger, a life size lego shed would be cool

[songsfromtheheartbyfrieda]

My friend would like a small Lego urn for her son who passed away
Where would I find an STL file for this please?

[Loy_Otterton]

For a printer that runs at 100 watts you really aren't spending much per hour. it would still be under the lego price per brick. power is really only important for large scale printing operations as that will certainly add up very quickly. like most gaming pcs cost way more and you are still only talking about might cost around $5 a day at 800 watts, but that really depends on what games and for how long you play of course. This comes from my USA centric pov, so electricity is very affordable in my case.

[Jerry_is_hydrated]

just out of ciuriosity what has happened to your left hand, this question is not in reqiurement of an anwser beacause i understand that that maybe a sensetive subject which you dont want to szhare on the internet, but was it an accident or something else

[AMEDD]

I made some lego custom minifigure that some people actually interest to see it in real life !
So i though about turning those custom minifigure into real lego
You said it's not fit or might be bad but what if it was minifigure pieces more ?

[luiralovileira]

there is a simple way to solve the lego copyright problem modified the block like this in times of circuses on top modified to be square too .

[Joedex]

lego doesnt have any sets that I like so I dont care costs I just want to print the cool stuff

[buffchicken]

Since there are quite a downsides to printing Lego. I don’t think I would consider doing it, and I would rather just buy a Lego set