

We sprayed off the printed gear belts and the build plate with 99% Bio Ethanol, observing the fantastic detail and accuracy of the parts produced by the using the “Liqcreate® Flexible-X” resin on the Bene4 Mono. Post-processing flexible 3D-printing resins and accuracy measurements. After loading the settings we derived into a resin profile for the Bene4 Mono in Lychee Slicer, we exported our gear belt at the highest resolution settings as an STL file, ran the result through standalone AutoDesk® NetFabb® Premium to repair any STL generation errors, and saved the repaired STL file.

Fortunately, they did have settings for two popular printers we have had sub-optimal experiences with in general that we overcame (nothing to do with Liqcreate® resins), and we derived characterization settings from experience with those together with our own experience of the capabilities of the Bene4 Mono. Liqcreate® had no suggested settings for any Nova3D printers at all, and there were few settings available other than “Preliminary settings” for some other brands. There are also the added difficulties of finding the correct exposure, layer heights, movement, and other technical settings for printing. However, this type of material is notoriously challenging to 3D print even according to the manufacturers of “high-end” 3D printers, and elastic materials are even more notorious for being difficult dimensionally. After some research, we came to the conclusion that the properties of “Liqcreate® Flexible-X” were a perfect match, in theory superior even to the original material used by Nerf®. Then we needed to characterize a proper elastic material to print the gear belts with. The first thing to be done was to take precise measurements, and design a replacement, while enhancing certain design elements that seemed flawed, using our CAD program, IronCAD® 2021 Mechanical. Bent too often or too far, this material will cleanly break, which is what happened. The gear belts were manufactured from some kind of material that was not very elastic, somewhat like a “tenacious” 3D printing resin, just a bit softer. Upon disassembly and inspection, it turned out that both rifles had the same failure point: a broken gear belt which is responsible for loading and firing the projectile darts. A pair of fully automatic “Nerf® Hyperfire Elite” electromechanical rifles had ceased being able to fire some time ago.
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One can easily understand how the following demonstration applies to professional situations. Most of our work is proprietary, but we can give a fun example which will show clearly just how good the combination of “Liqcreate® Flexible-X” 3D Printing Resin and a Bene4 Mono really is for making accurate and functional mechanical parts.
