I'm pretty sure I'm going to die because of how good this print turned out.

More pics: [imgur.com]

I designed and built a custom Delta last year, using berrybot parts (shopspt.com) and misumi stuff as well as some chinese junk. I'm currently working on an even better printer, a cartesian, but I've got this one tuned pretty well.

80 micron layers, e3d v6, PLA, duet 0.8.5, 400 micron nozzle, PEI print surface, 94 hour print time (looking to improve with the new printer/push this printer to the limits)

I don't know about you, but I would say the only advantage SLA has over FDM is speed, and a very tiny miniscule advantage in surface quality that is being approached upon more and more by FDM machines.

Very, very nice! Congratulations and well done.

I wish I could trust my printer to run that long on a print!
Longest I have had is about 7 hours.

Thanks for the positive comments.

Why can't you trust your printer? I have admittedly had a few failures, but I've slowly figured out how to work out those wrinkles. The important part is being able to be near the printer for so long. I do go out on occasion, but only with a means of monitoring and stopping the printer, and when I'm confident it will not fail.

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Most of what I print is under 6 hours anyways but I just dont like leaving the house knowing that there is something humming along that can fail with nothing stopping it.
If I had a cam to monitor or something then I would feel better about it.

Pretty soon I would like to have a small print farm where I can employ people so that there is somebody "around" 24 hours during printing.

I'm not sure if that was spam, or an honest suggestion, but no thanks. I design and build my own printers. That's the fun part.

Wow! That's awesome, great job on the printer, scan and print job.

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80 micron layers, e3d v6, PLA, duet 0.8.5, 400 micron nozzle, PEI print surface, 94 hour print time (looking to improve with the new printer/push this printer to the limits)

If you are looking to increase the speed, then a change I made to RepRapFirmware yesterday will help maintain speed when printing irregular perimeters. it's not released yet but there is a preview at [dl.dropboxusercontent.com]. It's based on release 1.15b, so read the release notes for that before you install it.

What scanner did you use?

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Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

Actually, some changes you had already made a few weeks back allowed me to print this with only 58 or so underruns, which was good compared to the tests I did before updating the firmware. Right now, the limitation is not the firmware at all, but the mechanics of my delta (with the stepper on the effector). I could probably go higher, but things start to get hairy... That said, I might try the new firmware after I get some client prints out of the way.

I'm designing a cartesian that I think will be faster (while still having essentially zero ringing artifacts) although still slower than most printers. I think I'll use the 0.8.5 in the cartesian with a duex5 until the new duexn comes out.

The scanning was done by a professional company in a 100+ DSLR full body-scanning mobile rig. PixelLightEffects.com

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I am impressed man, good job!

What do you have in mind for your cartesian that would make it better then your Delta?

I am currently finishing my custom mendelmax 1.5 , need to take a new photo though, its no longer up to date.

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I am impressed man, good job!

What do you have in mind for your cartesian that would make it better then your Delta?

I am currently finishing my custom mendelmax 1.5 , need to take a new photo though, its no longer up to date.

Thank you! The main things for the new cartesian are: increased rigidity, increased resolution, linear resolution (vs the dynamic resolution of a delta), better components.

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I am impressed man, good job!

What do you have in mind for your cartesian that would make it better then your Delta?

I am currently finishing my custom mendelmax 1.5 , need to take a new photo though, its no longer up to date.

Thank you! The main things for the new cartesian are: increased rigidity, increased resolution, linear resolution (vs the dynamic resolution of a delta), better components.

I ordered some chrome rods to replace my current steel ones, who keep rusting, and im replacing all bearings in x and z to long ones, so there is only 1 bearing per rod.
Let's hope that makes the axis more smooth.

You will go for linear rails?

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Yes I will be using square profile linear guides from misumi for all my axes on the cartesian.

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Just out of curiosity, what size is the print? Is it 1:1 scale? Also, what size are the stl and gcode files?

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Just out of curiosity, what size is the print? Is it 1:1 scale? Also, what size are the stl and gcode files?

Yes, 1:1 scale. It's hard to measure the shape exactly, but the foot print in x/y was about 250mm total. The STL (OBJ actually) is 580 MB, the gcdoe file was just under 500 MB. I think I mentioned elsewhere that the gcdoe file was 1 GB, but that was when I sliced it at 40 micron layers. I never printed that one, as 80 micron seemed reasonable.

Holy expletive! I pulled up the image full res and I can barely see the layers. The pores in the skin on the other hand are well defined. I wouldn't have recognized that as fdm, nor have believed it was possible. Was there any surface finishing post-print?

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Holy expletive! I pulled up the image full res and I can barely see the layers. The pores in the skin on the other hand are well defined. I wouldn't have recognized that as fdm, nor have believed it was possible. Was there any surface finishing post-print?

All I did was break away the support material from the ears, not even a little bit of surface clean up, this is directly off the printer. I was also pretty amazed at the results. Thanks. I'm going to be getting another scan done, of myself this time, so I can make a mission impossible style silicone mask.

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they dont call them death masks for nothin....the end is nigh