Ultimate Duct Design Guide for 3D Printers | My Top 17 Secrets for Custom Cooling Ducts that WORK

This one goes out to all my homies on Discord. Hope you can read fast! This guide is, uh, information-dense, so STRAP IN.

I want to emphasize that nozzle design is sort of its own thing and an area I'm still learning. There are lots of ways to set up nozzles besides what you'll see here. This guide is mainly about getting as much airflow as possible at the point of outlet, less about the best way to use it. There probably isn't any one best way.

Duct CFD and fan adapter images used by permission of their respective owners. "Discord" chat sequences and users shown therein are fictionalized but I've been party to real instances of all these discussions on many occasions, the only difference being that the real people involved have generally been much less rude.

Trihorn cooling duct STLs shown sliced are from the VzBot github: https://github.com/VzBoT3D/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Is Duct Design Black Magic?
01:15 - This video teaches good duct design, NOT how to CAD
01:43 - What about CFD?
02:17 - SECRET 1: the Golden Rule
02:54 - SECRET 2: You Skip, You Fail
03:45 - CAD time and SECRET 3
04:34 - My duct design workflow steps
05:05 - SECRET 4
05:28 - SECRET 5: throwing shade =0
05:43 - SECRET 6
06:04 - SECRET 7
06:25 - SECRET 8
06:42 - SECRET 9
07:10 - SECRET 10
07:54 - SECRET 11
08:07 - SECRET 12: seriously this
08:29 - SECRET 13
08:44 - Secret 6 revisited in more detail
09:41 - SECRET 14: master this, master ducts
10:24 - SECRET 15
11:04 - SECRET 16: notes on aiming nozzles
11:30 - SECRET 17
11:53 - CAD design mostly done
12:28 - Outro and BONUS ADVICE

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