Yet another K-cup dispenser.
I finally got it published.
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Congratulations, your first upload! Awesome. May I offer some constructive advice?
All these paragraphs are not really needed:
No supports are required assuming you print everything in the proper orientation. The tubes should be printed with the point of the teardrop shaped window facing upward.
I used SUNLU brand standard PLA. I had never used it before and I don’t know of anything special about it. So you can probably use anything you like.
My temps were 220/55 for all layers.
I currently print with the Bambu Lab PS1 and the A1 Mini with textured PEI plates. I used the PS1 for this project, and I used mostly default settings. I did increase the quality setting from 0.20mm Standard to 0.16mm High Quality because I was in no hurry and thought the print would be better. I’m happy with the result.
Be sure to turn on the brim when printing the tubes.
You have provided a print profile which should already contain all these things, so writing them all out is a bit redundant. It’s not wrong per se, as people who don’t use your print profile or don’t have a BBL printer may want to have this information, but by and large it is just a wall of text that drowns out the important parts like your assembly instructions.
Also it’s always nice to specify what kind of infill you have used in your profile. I see you have used gyroid, which is perfect. A lot of people find it helpful when you actually put that in the title or description of your print profile, so they can avoid profiles with the dreaded grid infill.
Oh, and lastly, you speak of the necessity of turning on brims, but your print profile has them turned off. 
I moved your post to the correct category
- Other Topics > Share Your Prints
I am going to recommend you clean up your presentation by having actual paragraphs that have line breaks visibly separating them.
I also strongly recommend using bullets and numbered lists when they are required, as I said last time.
See how much more readable it becomes. The top sections needs actual paragraphs not blocks of run on text. Don’t add bullets or numbers there as they are irrelevant to that content.
Everything above here is written in a simple, easy to read way and in visibly obvious paragraphs.
Example
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FLAVOR BADGE CUP PROCEDURE
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Use a clear plastic produce container and scissors to make some lenses.
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Hold the lens template against the lens material and trim around it with scissors (one for each flavor).
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With an X-Acto knife, cut the labels off of the four used K-cups you intend to stock.
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Press the cups onto the square projections on the mid-section frame. This is a very tight fit.
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Press the labels into the cups flattening them so you don’t see the puncture.
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Press the lens over the label.
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Then press in a badge lens retainer ring to hold the lens in place. (The rings can be pried out later with a pocket knife to change flavor labels.)
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The mid-section frame and top-section frame use the same joint plate. So print two of them.
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Printing the teardrop shaped holes may leave some excess plastic inside the tube. I used a pocket knife to scrape it away where necessary so the K-cups wouldn’t snag on it. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
ASSEMBLY
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Join the three frames together. The top and mid-section frame use the short joint plates. You may have to tap them together with a hammer and block of wood.
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After the base-section halves have been joined together, push the lower tubes in place. It’s a pretty tight fit and you may want to remove and replace them a few times to make sure they are properly seated. Don’t worry too much about alignment as the mid-section frame will pull it all together.
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Attach the mid-section frame onto the lower tubes making sure the splines on the tubes line up with the slots in the mid-section frame. Some light tapping with a hammer and block of wood brings it all together.
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Now insert the upper tubes into the top-section frame (not the mid-section frame). Each upper tube has one spline and the top-section frame has one slot per hole.
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Now insert the upper tubes into the mid-section frame.
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Attach the dispenser and fill it up with beverages of your choice.
I love constructive criticism! Absolutely! Thanks for taking the time to do it.
I too, thought that a lot of my instructions were superfluous. As I was typing them out, I wondered why I would need to mention heat settings and brim settings and so forth. Wouldn’t my profile already have those things baked in?
That was a source of confusion for me. And even now-- you suggest infill tips which is already dialed it. Do you see where I’m going with this. I already mentioned to 01makes my frustration about the brims. As far as I could tell, “The Profile” wouldn’t let me set brims for only the plates that needed them. So I just had to hope that the tubes didn’t fall over. I had to turn brims on or off for the whole project. Surely that’s not the case, but I was never able to target that setting to just the plates with the tall tubes.
Who can move posts? Are you admin? Please throw up a link to “share your prints”. Thanks
We spoke about this before when I did the same thing the last time you promoted your design.
I am not an admin, I am one of a few granted a higher trust level and it comes with certain capabilities. One is correcting title and category assignments of posts if they require it.
When you created your post, you had the option of placing it into a main category, you Chose MakerWorld, there was a better one specifically for promoting your work.
It doesn’t take anything away, it adds the ability for others to see your model in the forum when they explore other people’s work in the promoted category.
@JonRaymond is the moderator (forum god).
“Regular” forum members can move posts and rename topics. I’m grateful for their contributions to help keep the forum organized.
Just to be clear I’m not a forum Admin, I only have Moderation abilities.
Fixed.
You are still the forum god though!
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I’m trying to understand why MakerWorld wouldn’t be the appropriate place to post it. Where did you put it? Did you constrain it to a certain printer, like the P1S? I’m just trying to learn.
Whilst moved is the correct word, you may not understand it in the context.
It is not constrained to a specific printer. Please, do not panic, you gain, you do not lose.
I will reword it so it makes more sense.
In the screenshot above you can see Other topics & Share your prints, they are the category.
You chose the category Makerworld.
I changed the category from Makerworld to Other topics > Share your prints.
I did this because that is exactly what the topic is about, you wrote a post with the express aim (based entirely on your own words) to show the MW community about something you have made. Sharing is good and welcomed.
Assigning it to the general Makerword category means it will not be found when anyone looks through other models users have shared when they go through the Other topics > Share your prints category specifically.
Your post does not get hidden, it is on the identical list all other posts appear on.
It gains something. Did you know you can click on the category name on posts?
When you do that, you see all the posts within that category.
For illustration only, think of the forum as a giant filing cabinet. This filing cabinet contains every post ever written. On the outside of the filing cabinet is an always updating list of the most recently changed files. This is excellent when something is new and fresh as it means you can spot something of interest and grab that file (post).
After time passes, the post hasn’t been updated and it is so far down that list it will not easily be found.
Along comes someone who wants to see all the files (posts) that contain examples of the designs other people have shared.
You put yours in the massive Makerworld section, which contains a significant number of files (posts) that have nothing to do with promoting your work, that person is looking in the section specifically for promoting work and they see them all, except yours as they didn’t even consider it would not be filed in the correct location.
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I deleted my previous post, because in trying to be helpful I was misunderstanding something else. Still getting my feet wet here.
Is it accurate to say that the Makerworld category is for talking about the operations of the MakerWorld platform itself, and not for design work published on it? If so, perhaps the category description could be edited to say as much.
Thanks Malc. I didn’t know that one could be more precise than to click MakerWorld as a place to post about his prints. I thought that was the exclusive purpose of MW. Hmmm
If I understand your post, I think you’re thinking what I was thinking, that MW was precisely for posting your prints.
No, I was thinking that the Makerworld category is for talking about the platform, not for prints. If that’s correct, I’m suggesting that the category description be edited to reflect that.
I’m new here, but I’m a regular in another Discord forum. We often get the same sort of confusion over categories.