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I loaded it into Solidworks, resaved it as an STL, and Solidworks said that it cannot save it as an STL because the geometry type is not STL compatible. I think there is something wrong with your STL file.
By the way, Slic3r 0.99 also showed 1/2 a lower cutout.
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rsilvers
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Slic3r
A few things. You said "No one wants to leave their oven on for 10 hours."
Why not? I left my Nylon in overnight at 180F and when I woke up, the oven had turned itself off. It seems to time out after maybe 16 hours. Ovens work by cycling on and off and so will have a very low duty cycle at just 180F considering it is insulated. In fact, your hair dryer was perhaps 1200 watts and just 120 volts,
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General
How does this compare to Repetier server, considering that I like Repetier Host and use that already?
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General
Fablicator looks really nice and rigid. That is important to me. I find it strange how designs that nice don't get made when there are so many feeble machines out there.
Fablicator build area is 7x7x7 though. Too small for me.
This is both large and rigid:
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rsilvers
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General
Are those miniguns something you printed or the ones printed on the Type-A Machine?
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rsilvers
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General
I think dual extruders will be standard by the end of the year - mostly for the purpose of dissolvable support, so might as well design them in.
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rsilvers
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Developers
I think the next thing everyone needs are dual heads - use PLA as a support material for ABS. You can dissolve the PLA in a heated ultrasonic tank (60C) with 120 grams of sodium hydroxide per liter of water.
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rsilvers
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General
ABS is much better for sanding and also the acetone works well. It also paints better than PLA.
PLA dust is bad enough that you need a respirator to sand it. You should read the MSDS for it.
In general, if you want to do post-processing, then use ABS.
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rsilvers
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General
This is the best looking Delta machine I have so far seen, and the precision is convincing. It would be great to mass produce it - perhaps with the moving parts as low-mass as possible. That is my lingering concern about these machines - high moments.
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You said: "The processes can include air hardening, oil hardening and water hardening" and "Water hardening drill rod (the most basic) is just fine for Reprap builds."
They may be just fine for certain projects, but they are not hardened. Only material specifically marketed as pre-hardened is hardened, and it is only air-hardened - not oil or water.
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rsilvers
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vegasloki Wrote:
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> rsilvers Wrote:
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> > Drill rod is not hardened.
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> That's not correct. Drill rod is indeed hardened
> by using a hardening processe. The processes can
> include air hardening, oil hardening and water
> hardening. Dril rod is extru
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General
I think you can make the helmet in the RPM model, as it will fit, and then post-process it with acetone to make it smooth and glossy, and then paint.
You can do a lot with paint. This was printed on an Up! I think and then painted:
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rsilvers
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General
Go here:
Note that none of these are very hard. They can be hardened - but may want to skip it to save the money.
Make sure to only get the precision ground.
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rsilvers
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General
Drill rod is not hardened.
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General
Tekwizard Wrote:
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> Monsanto won a patent for the genetic code for
> common corn simply because nobody had applied
> before. They didn't invent that particualar
> strain, it developed over millenia by natural
> means, but now they own a patent on it...
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> Some laws are just stupid...
I know people say stuff like that o
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They are not patenting 3D printing over a network.
They are applying for a patent on network printing where the monitoring of the printer is shared on Facebook or other social media. Then they are applying for a patent where you have a UI where can drag 3D objects into icons representing various printers.
I am not aware of anyone doing either of those before, nor do I particularly care if thos
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Yes, the only way really cheap printers are a sustainable business is by selling proprietary media - like Cube does - though Cube forgot to sell it cheap (they charge a good amount for both the printer - and the media is 9x the price per KG (yes, I calculated it from someone posting the weight of a full and empty cartridge)) of filament on Amazon). I don't think I will ever be interested in one t
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I have one of these on order. Here are some models of the machine:
Here are some images of the machine parts and output:
Here are prints from it (not the helmet). The red monster model has no infill at all - it is just a shell:
And a video of it working:
Here are some photos from QU-BD showing components that they are about to assemble:
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General
I set up this question and some other polls here today. In fact I set up the entire forum today so it will look sparse for a while:
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georgeflug Wrote:
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> Is it possible to completely eliminate backlash
> without software?
> Thanks!
You don't need to completely eliminate backlash. You just need to reduce it enough so that it is not significant. If you can get it down to about 0.15mm or 0.005 inches, that is probably good enough for machines of this type.
I think
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rsilvers
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Skeinforge
I have been getting bits of support that are inside cutouts but don't seem to be connecting. Is that normal or a problem?
And this one from another file is even stranger:
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rsilvers
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Slic3r
I installed the PC version and it worked no problem. This is only a problem on the Mac version.
Man the PC version UI and rendering looked terrible on my PC compared to how nice the Mac version looks.
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Repetier
This is sweet. I just happend to have a large heated ultrasonic cleaner. Now I don't need to buy PVA as support - as that is more than twice the price of PLA.
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General
Check this out - you can use PLA as dissolvable support for ABS!
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General
Ok on the shell having thin lines.
What is confusing me is that it was fully dense two layers lower, so it is making wider passes - but it must be deliberate.
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Repetier
It does it on purpose to get a smoother finish?
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Repetier
Mac version:
Dual extruders - 0.35mm for perimeter and 0.60mm for infill. Three top layers.
Layers are 0.10mm.
The first image shows the third from the top later (the first solid layer. This looks correct).
The second image shows the very top layer, and looks like it is using the correct 0.35mm size, but using a spacing as if it were the 0.60mm nozzle 2.
When I tell it to use extruder 1
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Repetier
Edited - I posted this in the wrong section - this is a Repetier question.
I see that is says in the log window how much filament I will need, but I have it configured for two extruders with the second one for infill and support material. It does not seem to tell me how much of each filament I will need. Is there a way to see this? If not, can it be added in the next version?
I am loving this p
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RepRap Host
I had that on 1. I changed it to 2 and it did not seem to change anything.
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Repetier
In slicer I said that the capability was two extruders. I then assigned one material to the main extruder, and support material to the second. Then in Repetier, I saw that you can assign colors to materials - but my support material was showing as the same color as the main material.
Has anyone ran into this and what do you change to make it start working?
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rsilvers
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Repetier
- 11 years ago