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Re: easy flow design hot end concept it works, give a try! - 11 years ago
Just a small addition to this design. It's quite good but you must remember that the plastic expands upon entry in the first hot area. This needs to be large enough to accomodate that beyond the liner which is slippery enough to contain and funnel it. 1.75mm filament needs a melt chamber of 2mm and 3mm filament requires 3.4mm to avoid breaking against the walls. Try it and you will see your feeby KreAture - General
Feature idea: Volumetric extrusion speed limit - 11 years ago
I notice often that slic3r will produce code that can choke my hotend. I have to carefully limit it's extrusion width on different parts like initial layer, and calculate that with it's first layer height and speed to make sure my hotend can handle it. Currently my hotend will handle PLA at 660mm^3/min (11 mm^3/sec) which is fast, but not faster than my printer can move... It does ABS faster thouby KreAture - Slic3r
Feature idea: Detect possible bridges and not use support material! - 11 years ago
The support material now detects overhangs based on angles. If it could also see if the area to be supported is itself supported and the stretches are within some settable parameter, it could decide to not use support material within simple cutouts/holes but still have it enabled for demanding build overhangs in free-space and such. Not sure if this is simple to do, but I know slic3r already detby KreAture - Slic3r
Re: What causes these ripple-looking lines - 11 years ago
TopherMan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whoops, somehow missed your comment that you > changed accel already. Did you try playing with > jerk? I think that may work similarly, since it > would slow down to lower speeds around corners, > and hopefully mean you'd have less violent > direction changes without having to lower > acceleration to aby KreAture - General
Re: Why Rostock? - 11 years ago
alj_rprp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dark Alchemist Wrote: > > > Don't have the money for an ACME screw setup, or > a > > ball screw setup? Then use a thread rod with > two > > nuts and a spring inbetween them with a harness > > holding the two nuts. The spring keeps the > nuts > > up againt the edges of the thrby KreAture - General