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Fixing the filament tags
All filament used in 3D printing is thermoplastic filament, so plastic-filament and thermoplastic-filament are redundant.
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Fixing the filament tags
I see a form of hierarchy that could be used.
Depending on the question a higher level tag could be used or a more specific one for specific problems (or both tags even).
Filament
Plastic Filament
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Should the "quality" tag be disambiguated?
"print-quality" is a better (more specific) tag than "quality", but I don't think we should have a "printer-quality" tag. While discussions about print quality and how to improve it can be reasonably ...
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Questions about software and websites?
Absolutely! For any tool, software, or service that is an integral part of the 3D printing landscape, questions about how to use them should be on topic here. When folks go searching for answers about ...
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Should we add a [homing] tag?
Yes I do think we need such a tag (homing), homing is a specific action that should be identified as such. I've added the tag to a specific question on homing and will go through the questions to re-...
0scarMod
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Tag required for "object removal from print bed"
imho that could be a post-processing category/tag.
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Tag Request for 3D Printing: [Fusion360] tag
Write your question, and we can add a tag to it. Tags which have no questions associated with them become removed automatically.
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Merge [printing-powder] and [metal-powder] tags?
In my opinion it should not. There is a distinction. If someone said powder printing to me, I would think of powder + glue printers. Metal powder is pulverized metal that are bound with an insanely ...
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Why are there both [heatbed] and [heated-bed] tags?
I'm not sure, but I think they came about before anyone had the authority to suggest synonyms.
I went ahead and created a synonym for heatbed and heated-bed and merged the questions. I'll do the same ...
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Naming convention for tags with CamelCase or Pre-Fix
Looking at other SE sites, the most common approach seems to make everything lowercase (including names and trademarks) and using hyphens whenever there would be a space or hyphen in normal usage.
As ...
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Tag Rename: lcdscreen -> lcd-screen
For better readability, the tag has been updated to include a hyphen: lcd-screen.
0scarMod
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Tag for taking orders and selling prints
I'd suggest two different tags:
[monetization]: For selling, or profiting from printing, or from printing machines
[financing] (or [costs]): For calculating the cost of materials and machines, ...
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Fixing the filament tags
I bump this and propose the radical method:
We only need ONE filament tag and then any tags for specific material (e.g.pla abs petg pva tpu pc) groups that have specific properties (e.g. flexible-...
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Why do the [3d-printer] and [3d-printing] tags exist?
This tag has been removed from the system and made intrinsic.
Please cleanup the questions that now have no tags...
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Naming convention for tags with CamelCase or Pre-Fix
Based on the answers already posted, I am changing postproduction to post-production, I have only just seen this and it immediately looked odd.
Also, what is the difference between post-production ...
GreenonlineMod
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DIY-3d-printers & specific model of printer kits disjunction!
To me, the dividing line between "DIY" and "not DIY" is who you deal with if a part is defective when you get it.
If you're contacting different vendors for a jammed bearing, a miswired stepper motor,...
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Deletion of the tag [flashforge-adventure-3]
Spelling error, so rename is fine. Synonym is not necessary, tag may be deleted IMHO.
0scarMod
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Renaming the tag [folgertechft-5] to separate company from model
Most of our other tags have a similar naming schedule: aneta8, aneta6, aneta2. Once you fix that for 1, you need to do all. I do not think that will be necessary.
Furthermore, you can find the tag by ...
0scarMod
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Can we create a filament tag for flexibles? (TPE/TPU)
From What is the difference between TPE and TPU Flexible Filament?
TPE = ThermoPlastic Elastomer
TPU = Thermoplastic PolyUrethane, which is a type of ThermoPlastic Elastomer
which is as 0scar has ...
GreenonlineMod
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Can we create a filament tag for flexibles? (TPE/TPU)
flexible could be used together with the filament to indicate the question is about flexible filament, but I understand that it may be beneficial to have separate TPE/TPU tags (it saves a tag). ...
0scarMod
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Request to add a [bed leveling] tag
There is no tag created for leveling (or levelling, or bed-leveling for that matter). So, I would recommend taking some of your top search results for leveling, of your results, if any have available ...
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Should we merge tag "bed" and "build-plate"?
It should not be about merging of tags, rather we should come up with a proper terminology to identify the correct parts of the "build platform".
Basically, every printer consists of a frame ...
0scarMod
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Do we need a "marlin-2.0" tag?
I'm inclined to not add the marlin-2.0 tag, else we have to create a new tag for every version that may come. From the question it should be made clear for which version the problem arises.
Also, ...
0scarMod
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Frankenstein's synonym
A synonym is a solution to let people choose the tag they think is the correct one (the synonym), but gets converted to another tag (the target).
From 3D Printing Stack Exchange -> Help center ->...
0scarMod
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Should we merge tag "bed" and "build-plate"?
Edit: I like Trish's suggestion best.
I vote no. Our (Hyrel) printers have, on some models, a thick aluminum bed that can reach 200C, but we expect users to mount different build-plates on it, ...
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Wouldn't the filament tag alone suffice for this question?
Having 2 change tags seem a bit over-redundant.
Tags I'd like to see for such a question are: filament and pause. The question is about pausing the machine (in which he changes the filament).
In ...
0scarMod
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Support materials and structures
I object to merging the two, my reasoning having been explained in chat several times, and brought to point by tbm115:
Tbm0115 - "support-material" should define the material-type (ie. PLA, ...
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What are machanics?
Done and deleted machanics (nothing was tagged by it anyway)
GreenonlineMod
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DIY-3d-printers & specific model of printer kits disjunction!
It got too long to fit in a comment:
That does seem sort of reasonable. A DIY printer should be one that has been sourced from various parts. Or should that also include (or be exclusively) DIY ...
GreenonlineMod
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Difference between material and print-material tags
I agree, there's not much difference inherently between these two tags. However, we could try to direct the use of material to more general (not necessarily 3D printed material) vs the obviously ...
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