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83 | What about mystery-problem troubleshooting requests?
I feel like questions along the lines of, "my printer is crashing for no obvious reason, what should I do?" may be too broad and open-ended for this format. It's better handled by a forum where people can have running discussions to rule out a series of tests. What d... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.659546 | 2016-01-29T01:30:44 | {
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69 | FFF/FDM vs... everything else?
The questions so far are pretty strongly geared towards hobbyist/consumer FFF machines. That's not necessarily bad, since that's where most legit questions will come from. (Not much reason to ask questions about a plug-and-play industrial machine.) But it's a pretty important scope distin... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.659783 | 2016-01-20T19:59:36 | {
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88 | Are questions about 3d printer reccomendations on or off topic?
Many people find it's hard to get a good guide for 3d printing. Is a question about what printer a beginner should get on topic?
On-topic on http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
@kenorb And why does the scope of another site matter here?
@Zizouz212 I... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.660004 | 2016-01-31T14:36:08 | {
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246 | Adding a 'laser' tag?
Should we add a tag for 'laser' for those of us who are attaching laser cutters/burners to 3D printers to turn them into 3D CNC. Or is this drifting too far off topic from "3d printing"?
A good question. I'm currently using insights I obtained from mucking about with a 3D printer with Arduino Meg... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.660070 | 2017-08-25T00:16:34 | {
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249 | What causes delays in removing bad posts/answers?
This post has been up for 4-5 days now. I flagged it originally when it was first posted and that flag aged away, I have now flagged it again and it's still here. We have one user that shares part of the posters name but I am unsure if they are connected in any way or... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.660233 | 2017-09-25T20:13:15 | {
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281 | Could this Printing Material Recommendation Question be or shaped to be valid on 3D SE?
Common 3D printing materials/ methods to suitably replicate (w durability) this injection molded Polypropylene item?
Please advise. As I am new to 3D Printing and SE Rules can get pretty restrictive on whats allowed or not and would... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.660378 | 2018-06-22T11:21:52 | {
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324 | What community guidelines have I messed when I asked the linked question?
Yesterday, I was reading 3dprinting.meta and read a suggestion that (which I rephrase as) we should ask questions for the purpose of bringing answers inside our tent.
I spent some time thinking about questions I have been asked by friends who pur... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.660649 | 2018-08-24T15:11:52 | {
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404 | Is laser etching, specifically a question linked below, considered to be on topic?
I found this question, laser is engraving the negative space in the close queue this morning as being off topic. I was about to respond, and through I'd look at the community view on meta. I found this question and answer: FDM printer ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.661179 | 2019-05-28T15:44:00 | {
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394 | Where to find others with Prusa3D i3m3s/MMU2s printer?
I don't want to ask off-topic and opinion questions here, but I would like to find a cadre of others dialing in their devices.
Any ideas?
Try Facebook groups. For example: https://www.facebook.com/groups/prusacommunity/
HI, I migrated the question to meta, I hope... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.661917 | 2019-04-22T21:06:47 | {
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526 | Is there a group for CNC routing?
I'm asking this on Meta because it clearly is off-topic for 3D printing, but there is enough in common someone here may know.
What is the SE group for CNC routers, such as the multitude of 4060, 4040, and 3018 routers on Amazon and eBay? I'd like to find a community and find some guid... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662076 | 2021-08-06T02:36:21 | {
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480 | New tag: first-layer
Several questions are related to first layer calibration or issues: I found 43 of them with "first layer" in the title alone, 150 with "first layer" anywhere (no duplicates).
I propose adding a "first-layer" tag to more easily retrieve said questions.
I already applied it to my latest question with... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662170 | 2020-04-03T16:59:03 | {
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451 | How to deal with a mistake in a question after answers were provided?
I asked How to theoretically calculate the maximum acceleration? but I noticed that I made a mistake in the formula.
The question (body, not title) was only about one aspect, which has been answered properly, but now a second one arose.
How should I ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662323 | 2019-11-21T08:28:52 | {
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478 | Are questions about how I can help in the COVID19 crisis on topic?
There's been a bit in the news about persons 3d printing parts to help in the COVID19 pandemic, but as mentioned in this Forbes article,
Community response is high, but also in short supply is often the knowledge of exactly what will help, and how and ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662436 | 2020-03-30T14:02:32 | {
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321 | Which is it - CURA or Cura?
I see a number of people writing "CURA", when I have always called it "Cura". So I started to wonder if CURA was a capitalised acronym, like LiDAR or NATO (but not like radar or laser).
I had a look and the Wikipedia entry, Cura (software) doesn't appear to suggest that.
So I wondered if it ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662553 | 2018-08-19T10:09:55 | {
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274 | Hotend question posted as a answer
This answer, from a new user, to the question, Anet A8 reading 739°C from the extruder thermistor!, quite clearly should have been posted as a question and referred back to the OPs question. The answer appears to have been provided by Toonis, in a comment.
Any idea as to how an answe... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662727 | 2018-06-10T19:06:26 | {
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307 | Do we have a chatroom?
Other Stack Exchange sites have a chatroom where people can ask simple queries, exchange technical ideas, raise concerns about SE posts, clarify points (where comments are not sufficient), or just for an informal chat.
Do we have such a chat room?
Yes, in fact there are two public chatrooms:
On... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.662930 | 2018-07-30T12:03:05 | {
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311 | All of my favourites look the same!
If you use the favourites function and have accumulated a number of favourites, I am sure that, over time, you will look back and think, "Why on earth did I favourite that question?" This is obviously because there is no functionality to add a comment.
Apart from either having a piec... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663027 | 2018-08-01T15:11:14 | {
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533 | Late Answers Review - manually flag posts for deletion - the "Recommend Deletion" button is broken
TL;DR
If you thought, as I did, that the Recommend Deletion button, in the Late Answers review, deletes posts... well, it doesn't.
If an answer merits deletion, then, in addition to selecting the Recommend Deletion radio ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663148 | 2021-11-21T11:27:07 | {
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406 | Use of change filament tag
I have just written a usage guidance for change-filament.
I assume that the tag is for, and only for, methods to change filament during a print. Not for questions which ask whether someone should change from using one type of filament to another type, between completed prints..?
If that assu... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663236 | 2019-05-31T02:06:22 | {
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407 | Why don't we delete technically incorrect answers?
Should I flag an answer that is incorrect (in the hope that it will get deleted)?
For example, a post that has tried to answer the question, but the poster is clearly wrong and giving bad, or technically inaccurate, advice.
No, is the short answer.
It should not be ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663303 | 2019-06-06T08:44:22 | {
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401 | Editing of recently closed questions
We don't have many problems with that here admittedly, but I thought that I would share this with you all.
From SuperUser - Editing of recently closed questions:
This post is basically to share something I came across on Meta Unix &
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363 | Wouldn't the filament tag alone suffice for this question?
This question, Hold torque during pause to change filament, has two unique tags:
change-colour
change-filament
No other questions are tagged this way, so the tags won't really help it in a search.
Isn't the question just related to filament, so a solitary fil... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663743 | 2018-10-23T13:19:53 | {
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365 | Printer settings: Screenshot or text - which is best?
Just a random thought, and if I wasn't asking the question myself I'd probably down vote it, but... are screenshots the best way to show printer settings, or would a text version be better?
Ok, yes, a screenshot is probably easier to do and post, and will show a f... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.663860 | 2018-11-02T14:32:32 | {
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504 | On-topic page is finally finished (again...)
This is a quick note to say that the (yawn!) on-topic page has been fixed up and made to look like the on-topic pages of other SE sites, rather than a jumbled beta mess (which was entirely my fault after my previous patch, I must admit). As we aren't really a beta-beta site ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.664224 | 2021-01-17T17:24:36 | {
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529 | Flag "link only" answers as "Not an answer"
How should a reviewer flag a link-only answer? Hint, the answer is in the title.
However... whilst it is obvious (to most people) which flags apply to which answers - when those answers are really just comments and those answers that are just gibberish - I've never totally an... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.664421 | 2021-08-21T17:11:09 | {
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242 | Why was this flag on a 'thanks' reply to a deleted +1 comment declined?
I've just had one recent comment flag declined on a noisy comment.
This comment was a reply to a deleted '+1' comment, and said, simply:
@FrankL Thanks!
When you go to post a comment, you see this:
Use comments to ask for more information or su... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.664788 | 2017-07-24T11:55:02 | {
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212 | Is 3D Printing SE appropriate for getting feedback on feasibility of a model?
As a newbie to 3D printing, I would like to get some feedback on a model I have created before sending it off to get printed. I don't yet own a printer, and I have never sent anything out to get printed before. I am interested in feedback abo... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.664890 | 2017-01-19T02:20:42 | {
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464 | Should we have a PID tag?
There are quite some questions on PID tuning or PID tuning related questions.
Should we have a pid to make this more visible?
Or, should we tag such questions by adding the heat-management?
if we add it to the core of heat-management, we should alias pid to heat-management.
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286 | Tagging for printer specific brand and type
If you look at the existing tags there are tags for printer brands/types and tags for mechanical 3D printer types (e.g. Delta or Prusa, which actually is a brand and a mechanical type...).
Do we need to create tags for every printer out there or list them by type?
My reasoni... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.665344 | 2018-07-06T11:49:56 | {
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165 | Are Questions about Online 3-D printing services allowed?
Are questions about online 3-d printing services allowed? For example, if someone needs a prototype and is not so concerned with the actual process of 3-D printing, and the question is around the 'best' online service or recommendations of which company could cr... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.665593 | 2016-06-12T18:03:56 | {
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103 | Is a novice question on a specific printer allowed?
I was curious if the da Vinci 1.0 AiO printer could print very small objects, like insects, nuts, or any other small object without a flat surface and additionally, if it could print the entire top and bottom of the object. I would not think I would be able to print t... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.665771 | 2016-02-13T01:15:00 | {
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150 | Tag for MatterControl app
As we got tags for other applications like cura | slic3r | meshmixer etc. I vote to add new tag mattercontrol for MatterControl application. There could be also synonym matter-control.
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7 | Close votes review cue hangs - bug
When attempting to access the review cue for close votes,the cue hangs and errors out.
The error states - An error occurred when loading the review item, please try again.
I am able to open review cues on other sites.
It gives 500 Internal Server Error at http://3dprinting.stackexch... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.666042 | 2016-01-12T20:33:56 | {
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360 | Deletion of the tag [flashforge-adventure-3]
The tag flashforge-adventure-3 was created due to a mis-spelled tag in a question which has since been corrected. Can this tag be deleted?
(bad) Alternatively, can it be added as a synonym for the flashforge-adventurer-3 (the correct tag has an extra r)
Lastly, As I (thankfu... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.666304 | 2018-10-23T12:27:06 | {
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349 | Is it possible to expand the scope of this site?
As some people probably know, this is the 3rd iteration of a SE site proposal whose scope covers 3D printers. The first 2 were Personal Manufacturing(before my time) and Digital Fabrication(I tried and failed).
Now I am faced with a situation where I want to ask a questi... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.666380 | 2018-10-15T06:36:59 | {
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118 | Increasing Activity
I see there was already a meta question regarding this but it was back during the private beta. The site is now in the public beta and still not very healthy with only 2.1 questions per day and a very low 219 visits per day compared to the recommended 1,500...
I'm not sure what happens once the bet... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.666628 | 2016-03-29T15:48:03 | {
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141 | Are questions from people who lack knowledge of 3D printing looking to discover how to have something printed on-topic?
Context: I have absolutely no knowledge of 3D printing other than you need a computer, a printer, some software, and a design. That is literally the extent of my knowledge on 3D printing.
However, I h... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.667003 | 2016-05-03T21:17:01 | {
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494 | What is the best method to thank a new user for a question? Is it permitted to welcome a user to 3D Printing SE in an answer?
I've been here for a little while. I am still a low-reputation of SE, with most of my involvement being here. I know that each SE has it's own personality, somewhat derived from the charter, s... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.667277 | 2020-09-13T19:05:49 | {
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368 | Multiple questions in one post
We have this question where it was flagged that the question has too many questions in it. I am not seeing anywhere that states that it is not allowed. Other than risking making the question too broad. I thought it was an interesting topic so I am moving the discussion out of comments and... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.667607 | 2018-11-13T20:43:46 | {
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170 | Advanced Search filter error?
I don't know if this is by design or just a special case, but when applying the following search filters score:0 is:answer closed:no the closed:no causes the results to show only questions, despite the is:answer.
Like I said, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm misinterpreting some of ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.667790 | 2016-06-29T15:24:04 | {
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604 | Should I delete and repost in another community?
I asked https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/23074/can-i-add-tmc-stepsticks-in-parallel-with-existing-a4988 but it seems this community lacks the electronics knowledge to answer it.
Would it be fine to delete and repost in the community Electronics? or somehow ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.667880 | 2024-02-21T10:48:27 | {
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172 | Is a question about software to create models on-topic?
I would like to ask how to convert photos of some object to 3D model, and eventually how to treat the object before taking the photos to increase accuracy of the result (see How to optimally make a 3D model of an object using photos?).
Is this ok here?
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595 | "slicer" tag: unneeded duplicate or unclear meaning?
I was checking tags and I saw that "slicer" has only 6 questions, and no clear use case since there is already "slicing".
There are some options now:
reclassify those 6 questions into "slicing" and then set the two tags as synonyms
clarify the purpose of each tag wh... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.668199 | 2024-02-09T09:43:11 | {
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447 | Why was this (stepper motor selection) question deemed "off topic"?
About Friday, this question was transferred to 3D Printing Beta: Which NEMA 17 Stepper Motor for Titan?. I left work for the day without clicking send on my comment, or my answer, and found today that it had closed, locked, and rejected. A comment sai... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.669510 | 2019-11-18T14:17:59 | {
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418 | Why do I have a 'User was removed' entry on my reputation change sheet?
This is actually an odd question for me, so let me explain it as best I can...
After logging back into the Stack Exchange Network after some time, I got a notification stating that my 3D Printing Stack Exchange Profile has had 10 reputation deducte... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.669881 | 2019-06-19T14:58:43 | {
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134 | Post Closing Issues
The amount of posts being voted to closed is getting ridiculous. The last two posts have been printing related, one looking for information and the other a design question for 3D printing yet both have been voted to be closed.
Yes, I have read the other Meta post about how closing is not permanen... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.670037 | 2016-05-03T12:21:58 | {
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92 | 3d printer filament type question
How to choose a right 3D printer filament type?
I have also made an edit to this question. I would like to know the difference. So, if it is still too broad, can someone suggest an edit for it?
The question is still very broad and can be opinion based. Someone left a comment below you... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.670927 | 2016-02-03T09:39:26 | {
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213 | Why don't people Accept Answers?
I'll start off on a good note and congratulate everyone in the community for continually supporting each other. We have maintained a great answer rate here on 3D Printing SE with a answer rate of 96%. I believe this rate has been maintained since day one and it's hard to keep up, especi... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.671052 | 2017-01-28T16:58:09 | {
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403 | Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: 3D Printing Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on July 1 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange. The timeline:
Starting on July 1, users can nominate themselves. Users can... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.671688 | 2019-05-17T00:06:27 | {
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32 | Are questions involving legal issues and 3D printing on-topic?
This site may attract questions such as
Is it legal to sell 3D printed objects from a model repository?
Are 3D printed guns legal in my jurisdiction?
If my custom-built printer sets my house on fire, does the insurance cover it?
Are such questions allowed... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.671814 | 2016-01-13T06:58:49 | {
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266 | Tag required for "object removal from print bed"
With respect to this question, How can you both reliably print and remove your item without breaking it when detatching it?, the OP rightly states the following:
ps. I didn't find (and I can't make one), for what I think would be, the correct tag(s) for this post. Pleas... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.672267 | 2018-06-04T10:45:41 | {
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270 | What is the difference between post-production and post-processing?
What is the difference between post-production and post-processing, or are they synonyms? Should they be merged?1
post-production has no description whatsoever.
After looking at What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?, We can make post... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.672431 | 2018-06-06T14:32:50 | {
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284 | Merge diy and diy-3d-printer tags?
diy and diy-3d-printer - These seem very similar to me, but I may be wrong.
diy has 7 questions
diy-3d-printer has 77 questions
All questions under diy could easily be tagged diy-3d-printer and still make sense.
Merge diy into diy-3d-printer or not? Delete diy?
diy has no usage desc... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.672613 | 2018-07-05T21:20:54 | {
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297 | Don't forget the space!
Should there be a space between a quantity and its (SI) units?
For example:
1.56mm
or
1.56 mm
Which is correct?
I've been fixing posts for a while for many different editorial reasons, but one of the main issues is the lack of a non-breaking space between the amount and the units.
Today howe... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.672684 | 2018-07-11T16:37:03 | {
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291 | Which SE sites should we target with community ads?
In the interest of upping our visits and regular users, and with respect to this meta post, Community Ads! Let's make 2d ads for ourselves!, we have these suggestions for advertising SE.3D Printing, so far:
SE.Arduino
SE.Raspberry Pi
SE.Engineering - Not accepting ad... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.672913 | 2018-07-06T20:17:04 | {
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331 | What are machanics?
Whilst looking at the list of synonyms I see that machanics is a synonym of mechanics.
Is machanics a thing, or a typo? If the latter then surely that tag should be deleted, as we shouldn't attempt to accommodate typos (common or otherwise) with synonyms.
It looks to me like it was a typo.
Done an... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.673136 | 2018-09-03T22:23:18 | {
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301 | A guide to moderating 3dprinting.SE yourself - close voting
We have an awesome guide on close voting posted by Ninefingers for crypto.SE. I'll just copy it to our meta-faq, with a few tweaks.
Rationale: why do we close questions?
There are really two ways to do moderation. If you've been on any of the .moderated newsg... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.673201 | 2018-07-18T23:26:49 | {
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222 | An invisible modification
This question may require migration to Meta.SE, as it could be a site-wide "bug", but I thought that I would test the waters here, to see if there is an obvious explanation.
I noticed that a question of mine had been modified, on April 16, by "Song Khmer" in the unanswered questions list, when... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.673751 | 2017-05-10T17:05:36 | {
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519 | Does this 3D Printing site want only three votes to close (or should we stick with five)?
I've just noticed this Meta post, Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites and I wondered whether we should employ it here, and what do other people think?
We are a smallish site, with a smallish number of active us... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.674061 | 2021-05-14T02:49:36 | {
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562 | The automatic bed leveling tag is spelt incorrectly
This tag, automaticbedlevling, is rather ugly, and has at least three issues:
Mis-spelt - missing an "e"
It is almost illegible (i.e. difficult to read)
No hyphens - shouldn't it be hyphenated, like this: [automatic-bed-leveling]?
It only has two questions tagged wi... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.674723 | 2023-04-07T20:06:24 | {
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558 | Where can questions that are purely about 3D modelling, or CAD, software be asked?
The on-topic page states that CAD, or 3D software, questions can be asked on SE.3DP, only if they have some eventual relevance to 3D printing.
However, if the question is purely about how to draw/design something, without it needing to b... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.674946 | 2022-11-14T13:25:19 | {
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575 | Are "Where can I find XXX?" questions on-topic?
Are questions that ask for a link to a specific type of model, STL file, or object file, such as this example, Where can I find an object file ir mesh file for a cilantro plant with thick exagerated cartoonish leaves?, on-topic?
IMHO, whilst I am not against such question... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.675118 | 2023-06-19T09:28:41 | {
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514 | Moderating comments on Github/Gitlab
Related to Do we have Standardised Comments?, I happened to stumble upon this link on Github, Benjol/SE-AutoReviewComments, whilst reading this comment from this question on AskUbuntu's meta site, Is it acceptable to copy other user's common, moderation-related comments?.
As yet, I ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.675303 | 2021-02-21T09:29:40 | {
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530 | Frankenstein's synonym
Related to the recent question, How to determine the firmware and firmware version of a Frankensbox fx-800? and given that:
The Frankensbox FX-800 is a rebranded Dedibot DF3;
The support for the Frankenbox appears to be, to say the least, somewhat lacking in the useful department;
There is sligh... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.675392 | 2021-09-28T03:29:23 | {
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511 | New users aren't posting their own questions - are we scaring them off?
This question now has two questions-posted-as-answers from new users. When this happens, we delete the answer but also leave a comment asking the new user to post their own question:
Hi and welcome to SE.3DP! Unfortunately, your answer does not an... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.675701 | 2021-01-25T16:59:06 | {
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380 | Why is our moderation queue order different from the other sites I have access to?
Below are the review queues for ELU, ELL, and 3DP:
Is there some reason that the order here is not the same across sites?
honestly? No idea... Bug?
Davo, it might be a good idea to mark Glorfindel's answer as the accepted one... :-)... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.676390 | 2019-01-08T12:31:49 | {
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412 | Closing questions about knock-off printers
Should we really close this question: 3d printer part clones from china - legality..?
Are legal questions on topic? We have a legal section in the Game plan - What is on-topic? and a legal tag.
My perspective is this is more of a "is it illegal to buy illegal things" is not... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.676555 | 2019-06-07T20:09:21 | {
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413 | On-topic has been updated - finally!
Our topics page has been sorely lacking for a few years now, and in need of an update, in order to reflect what the site has become, and to take into account what people has been asking for. Note that, the core concept is still the same - 3D Printing. However, the scope has been wid... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.676811 | 2019-06-08T18:22:26 | {
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264 | What does it take to get out of Beta stage?
I can't find an answer to this question on the "mother" meta website; hope this is not related to my choice of words in the search box.
The statistics of the 3D Printing on Area51 show that only few items (questions and visits per day) are not up to par and need work. Do tho... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.677264 | 2018-05-25T07:45:52 | {
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244 | Featuring select Meta Posts so general users see them
A user from SE Meta recommended that we "feature" posts from our Meta that need more general user visibility and possibly draw more users into Meta.
Some recent examples might be:
Why are there so few votes
Accepting Answers
Thanks for bringing this up! I'm still... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.678113 | 2017-07-31T20:05:59 | {
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239 | What is your opinion on SE Meta post regarding questions that cross Community lines?
Recently I have seen several questions that sit on the fence between staying in the Community and being Migrated because another Community might be able to better help. I recently put a proposal on SE Meta to provide another alternati... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.678262 | 2017-07-04T22:44:03 | {
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571 | AI generated content is problematic
In the last weeks, I have seen about half a dozen answers that do not answer the questions properly and just read strange. I ran them through writer's AI content checker and for the worst ones got scores of 19% to 45% Human generated text. Copyleaks AI checker scored the same texts t... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.678504 | 2023-05-12T16:44:29 | {
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255 | Request to add a [bed leveling] tag
There are currently about 50 questions containing the words “leveling” or “levelling”. I think it would be helpful to unify them with a tag, but I can't find an appropriate one. Further, several of these questions are tagged with [heated-bed] without being about heating, which is som... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.678866 | 2018-02-12T09:55:17 | {
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260 | Are questions about availability of 3D models on-topic?
I recently asked a question (Is there any public and reasonably accurate 3D scan from a Cray-2 computer?) about where to find (if there is any, because I tried and there seems not to be) a 3D model of a specific object I could use as a starting point for printable... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.679040 | 2018-04-20T10:06:17 | {
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224 | Flagging a question for migration
On reviewing the question, How can I solve syntax error for the following code in Python 2.7?, it seemed to myself, and others, that it should be migrated to StackOverflow.
When flagging a question to be off topic because it belongs to another Stack Exchange, you can only choose the 3D... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.679146 | 2017-05-28T23:03:46 | {
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516 | Do we have / what is our policy for discussing firmware?
This question about tweaking G-code to change Z-offset attracted this answer.
I left a comment linking to the G-code list on the site for Marlin firmware as a further resource.
The author, a moderator, responded:
It would be better to point people to the RepRap ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.679455 | 2021-04-07T17:14:37 | {
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317 | Encouraging more answers per question
I'm seeing a current trend towards many questions only receiving a single answer, and according the the Area 51 stats, we ought to have an average closer to 2.5. Granted that some questions are really only in need of a single (obvious) answer, I think we're missing something here.
... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.679651 | 2018-08-15T16:12:32 | {
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332 | Support materials and structures
There was a previous question suggesting that the support and support-materials tags should be merged, and at the time the only response was to keep them distinct. 2 years later, I think it is time to disagree.
I've already found questions which talk about support material in the abstra... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.680289 | 2018-09-03T22:47:48 | {
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337 | Rescuing 'less than perfect' questions
As seen in this meta question, the OP, who is not exactly an inexperienced SE user, didn't realise that editing of questions to improve them was
either an option, or a suggested path
Yet the whole basis behind making all posts on SE cc by-sa 3.0 is to make it easy and clear that ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.680801 | 2018-09-04T12:59:51 | {
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340 | 3D Printing Stack Exchange question checklist
Here is a short list of questions to check after you've written a question (and to think about before you write the question):
Have asked a practical, answerable question based on an actual problem that you face?
Have you done some research before asking the question? 1
Ha... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.681037 | 2018-09-05T11:33:26 | {
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596 | Please vote: Do we want an AI warning banner?
This could be considered to be a follow-up of AI generated content is problematic
Can I draw your attention to this post on SE.Meta, Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content.
In short:
There are two banners is one banner ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.681263 | 2024-02-10T23:57:25 | {
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303 | Do we have Standardised Comments?
There are times when certain standardised comments are called for.
Here are some examples (the links go to the various sections below, under the Answers):
General comments
Prompting user to accept an answer - in order to clear the unanswered question list
Problems with comments
Answe... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.681452 | 2018-07-19T11:39:44 | {
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489 | Do we need a "marlin-2.0" tag?
Recently a question got tagged with the marlin-2.0 tag which I changed to marlin.
Should we allow a new tag for Marlin 2.0 since this firmware branch is significantly different from version 1.1.x?
I'm inclined to not add the marlin-2.0 tag, else we have to create a new tag for every vers... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.682980 | 2020-05-19T19:49:24 | {
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298 | Should we have specific "fan" tags?
At the moment there are two tags related to fans:
print-fan
fans
If you look at the topics there is no distinction which fans are meant, this must be read in the questions.
Should we create separate tags for specific fan applications?
Ok, I see what you mean... If both tags have j... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.683066 | 2018-07-16T13:26:21 | {
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371 | Is linking (temporary) to external content a no-go at 3D Printing.SE?
For those who did not know, linking to off-site content in answers is a no-go at SE sites unless you provide context. From help:
Provide context for linksLinks to external resources are encouraged,
but please add context around the link so your fe... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.683723 | 2018-12-06T14:52:09 | {
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379 | Should we add a [homing] tag?
There are quite a few questions that are centered around homing or problems with homing. Currently we have no tag in place to identify such questions. You see that people choose the y-axis or axis instead (note that the x-axis also does not exist), to me this is too generic. A homing in co... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.683940 | 2019-01-08T07:57:02 | {
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534 | We're graduating!
3DPrinting Stack Exchange is leaving Beta in mid-December.
What is Beta?
As the (somewhat out of date) Help Center article says:
“Beta” means that the site is still being defined and constructed.
We as a community have done pretty well at this. We've got over 5000 visits per day of which 2000 are new ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.684064 | 2021-11-22T18:30:10 | {
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397 | Pirated software screenshots in question; what is SE policy?
Copyright is a delicate subject. SE has a strict policy regarding copy pasting other people's text. Correctly citing parts or rephrasing in your own words mitigates this.
What is SE policy for questions containing screenshots of pirated software? What should ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.684287 | 2019-05-02T20:29:02 | {
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466 | Should we merge tag "bed" and "build-plate"?
As the question states, should bed and build-plate be merged? Basically, both tags refer to the same part of the printer; bed should be a synonym for build-plate.
For discussions: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/103247/should-we-merge-tag-bed-and-build-plate
It should... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.684429 | 2020-01-04T22:37:11 | {
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524 | 3DPrinting.SE site logo, can it be changed?
Our site has the default Stack Exchange logo (text balloon with text 3D), is it possible to change this logo?
I was thinking of something like this:
or
If it is possible, we could try to write out a competition and vote! E.g. instead of the lines, the printed image of 3D
T... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.684853 | 2021-07-08T13:11:44 | {
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453 | Tag Maintenance Winter 2019
Half a year passed since Tag Maintenance Summer 2019. A lot was done, some wasn't, so cleanup and rinse and repeat: Let's do some tag maintenance, especially regarding printers to make them easier to read. Use an answer to propose a change, merge or split. Discussions for each change should ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.685174 | 2019-12-08T10:24:03 | {
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501 | CAD Questions - Review
Currently, pure CAD questions are out of scope of our Stack, but we have quite some cases that edge, where the question about the CAD is about how to make a model printable or design principles or such.
Where do we draw the line in the sand? This was once discussed in 2016, but no conclusive answ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.685559 | 2021-01-16T15:38:49 | {
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100 | Is there a way to manually add tags?
Looking at some of the meta questions (Should the specification of printer technology be mandatory?
,FFF/FDM vs… everything else?
) and having asked myself the questions about proper tagging, is there way that we can add/edit tags in mass quantities?
I'd be willing to go ahead and a... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.685875 | 2016-02-09T16:42:12 | {
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97 | Do we want MathJax support on 3D Printing?
MathJax support allows questions and answers to contain pretty mathematical formulae, easy subscripts & superscripts, fractions, roots and greek letters etc. all using LaTeX syntax.
I have seen at least one answer so far which included an equation, so might have benefited from... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.686012 | 2016-02-09T00:03:17 | {
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196 | Remember to vote!
In past few months, there are a devastatingly few number of users that cast up votes, and many of users aren't coming back to site, and existing users don't have so much reputation, because no one is voting up great questions / answers.
So... let me start like this..
THIS IS REALLY DEVASTATING
We all ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.686193 | 2016-12-05T15:28:35 | {
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30 | Vote early, Vote often
A big shout out to all of us for a successful graduation into private beta.
Let's make it a success now, and make sure we graduate into a full-fledged site.
So, this is one post which every user of a private beta site should read and act accordingly.
This is a reproduction of a moderator's (Ric... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.686909 | 2016-01-13T06:06:45 | {
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241 | Why don't members like our questions and answers?
I have noticed very few people up-vote questions or answers in our community.
Why?
There are lots of metrics on how well a group is doing
Visits per day
Questions per day
Answers per question
These are all traffic dependent and hard to fix on out own; but, one we can ... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.687595 | 2017-07-22T03:42:46 | {
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314 | Can we get MathJax enabled?
Our site is dealing with electronics and practical engineering, so we use formulas in questions and answers on occasion, most usually when we have to figure out electronic ratings.
When we talk about the design or function of printers more than "rule of thumb", we need complex math. When we... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.687783 | 2018-08-03T20:27:00 | {
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276 | Game plan - What is on-topic?
Please note; Due to its very nature, this post is very subjective and is not intended to be a definitive list of categories. It is merely an attempt to offer one perspective of what has been suggested, and to ask "How should we move forward?"
Sometimes it is a bit hard to see the wood for... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.688068 | 2018-06-13T12:15:56 | {
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500 | Useful things to check for when cleaning up posts
Following up from some comments1 left on this question, here is a brief list (quick braindump) of common things to keep an eye out for, when making an edit to tidy up a post:
Obvious mistakes
Typos
Spelling:
commonly used 3d -> 3D;
proper capitalizing:
printer/electr... | Stack Exchange | 2025-03-21T12:54:35.689268 | 2021-01-04T08:54:29 | {
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