Tiny Planetary Gears / Week of June 23 - July 3, 2012

That is odd, I never had any issues with hole sizes being wrong. Holes being in-filled was an issue!

Check the Estep calibration in firmware again? you may just be over extruding?

Have you made a new config from scratch for Slic3r V0.8.4? there were a few issues with importing older issues of configs into new versions of Slic3r.

It could also be worth asking Sublime, he has done a lot with Slic3r and may well know why it's not correct for you.

The settings I used for the planets were exactly the same but using perimeters set to 10, that just forced Slic3r version 0.8.3 to NOT fill-in the middle section, it was the only way I could get them to print for me with that version.

With Version 0.8.4 they work with perimeter set to 1

And everything fits perfectly - apart from the main bolts are quite loose in the nuts, but are fine when tightened up.

For the big version I scales everything by 350% and it all fitted perfectly.

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richrap Wrote:
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> It could also be worth asking Sublime, he has done
> a lot with Slic3r and may well know why it's not
> correct for you.

0.8.4 has a bug that makes all objects 0.1mm larger by miscalculating the perimeter so that would cause the peg to not fit in the hole.

[github.com] It has been fixed in the Git version and will be in the next release.

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> Hi Andrew,
>
> Well done on the win, very nice print indeed. Were
> all the colours done in PLA or is it ABS?
> The yellow looks like PLA but I can't tell with
> the other ones.
>
> I would try to print the Quadcopter blade, but I
> usually hate Support structure, but then again
> this is a printing competition, so maybe we can
> all learn a thing or too about support.
>
> I would have cut it in half at the middle and
> printed it vertically to avoid support, then
> joined it back together.
>
> Let us know if that's the challenge.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich.

I used ABS for the parts.

I've decided to make the propeller blades as the challenge, since it seems support material is a sticky subject for many reprappers.

I'm a little concerned the propeller would fail if split in the middle given the high forces in flight. If you want to give it a shot that way, feel free.

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Double post,

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/2012 02:54PM by Andrew Diehl.

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Look, I know it's late and it's rubbish and it's only one stage and it doesn't work very well but...

I made it after weeks of trying.

It actually fitted together and just about turns.

And I'm really proud of it.><

Try not to laugh too much!

This was printed using slic3r 0.8.5dev and the new flow branch. 0.3 layer height with a 0.4mm J Head mk IVb. I use Pronterface and Sprinter firmware.

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Using ABSPrusa Mendel Zaphod with Pronterface and slic3r 1.3.0. Printing well with 3mm PLA and ABS through 2 x J Head Mk IV b and Wade Geared Exruders. Controlled using RAMPS1.4 board running Marlin_v1.1.9

Scrub the bits about being rubbish and not working. I worked out how to put it together!

Single stage sun and planet gear box.

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Using ABSPrusa Mendel Zaphod with Pronterface and slic3r 1.3.0. Printing well with 3mm PLA and ABS through 2 x J Head Mk IV b and Wade Geared Exruders. Controlled using RAMPS1.4 board running Marlin_v1.1.9

There's no stopping me now. Three stages and running like a dream!

Stationary

And in Motion

RichRap knows how to make a man feel inadequate!

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Using ABSPrusa Mendel Zaphod with Pronterface and slic3r 1.3.0. Printing well with 3mm PLA and ABS through 2 x J Head Mk IV b and Wade Geared Exruders. Controlled using RAMPS1.4 board running Marlin_v1.1.9