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Re: stratasys fdm 2000 thoughts and ideas - 6 years ago
Quotechrisg9So would it be your opinion that there is no precision to be gained from switching the electronics out and being able to use modern day software and the features they bring? If the base machine itself is working well, I don't think there's much to be gained in swapping out electronics and switching to 'modern' software. In fact, I've shown a few people how to use Insight, and they'vby Have Blue - General
Re: stratasys fdm 2000 thoughts and ideas - 6 years ago
Quotethe_digital_dentist One of the guys at the Milwaukee Makerspace, have_blue, has one of those machines at the makerspace right now. He'll probably post here shortly. I have been summoned! Digital_Dentist is correct about the guts of the system - the extruders are DC motors with encoders, and everything else is steppers (and they survive perfectly happily in their 70deg C enclosure - no neeby Have Blue - General
Re: Retro Fitting Stratasys 3D Printer - 7 years ago
Quotethe_digital_dentist QuotePDBeal That Duet Wifi might be able to do it, but if you can find / buy the parts to put a stratasys controller back on the machine you'll end up with a much better overall system. The slicer software that's used with the stratasys printers is leaps and bounds above and beyond what slic3r or cura produces and you should be able to get the machine to print very accurby Have Blue - General
Re: Nozzle material of Stratasys FDM printers? - 8 years ago
The original FDM series are stainless nozzles, and I believe the newer P-class and T-class are stainless as well. Not sure what the Mojo uses as a material, but given that the printheads are basically disposable, they're probably using something cheaper.by Have Blue - General
Re: Heated cabine for ABS printing - 8 years ago
Quotethe_digital_dentist 90C is a bit excessive. At 90C you're going to have to circulate room temperature air to cool the hot-end via hoses. Stratasys industrial machines only heat the chamber to 70C. I have found that 45C works fine and print large ABS parts all the time without warping or delamination. Newer Stratasys P-class machines actually go a smidge higher to 75C, but they will throwby Have Blue - General
Re: Uprint chip/dongle trading for cheap material reloads
- 8 years ago
Quotedavew_tx that looks pretty simple. I don't think it works on Uprint chips, am i right? Correct, it doesn't work on uPrint chips. The code is there, but without knowing the MAC used for the uPrint EEPROM, they can't be written to.by Have Blue - General
Re: Uprint chip/dongle trading for cheap material reloads - 9 years ago
Quotedavew_tx I saw in Ebay where a guy was selling a reprogramming box for $400. I think it did the chips others than Uprints. He probably was making a pretty penny, but the pitch was you could recoup the investment on just a couple of rolls. No need to spend $400 - all the software is on github for free: There's even a version ported to Windows: Really annoys me seeing people on Ebay repaby Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys SST768 extruder motor wire colors - 9 years ago
What currently isn't functioning with the machine? I may have a 186 board available.by Have Blue - Stepper Motors, Servo Motors, DC Motors
Re: Makerbot selling Stratasys P430 for $48/spool! - 10 years ago
Correct, you still need to do the cartridge hack - gnurds.com has a guide: There's also a new Stratasys user forum - doesn't seem to be many people on it, but perhaps some of them have done more with cartridge hacks:by Have Blue - General
Re: Makerbot selling Stratasys P430 for $48/spool! - 10 years ago
This is the new MSDS for Makerbot ABS filament: Also note that Coex is now selling Sabic MG94 filament (which is what P430/M30/ABS+ is):by Have Blue - General
Re: Makerbot selling Stratasys P430 for $48/spool! - 10 years ago
How are they going to explain it to resellers and customers? Easy, the DS2433 EEPROM that they use to chip the Stratasys cartridges is discontinued, and they're getting really expensive to procure! :-) :-) ;-) As a Stratasys user, this is fantastic news - who would have thought that you'd be able to get cheap third party filament from Stratasys themselves?by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
I noticed that the new 3DS CubePro (http://cubify.com/cubepro/index.aspx) touts a "controlled print environment". I wonder if they paid Stratasys a licensing fee?by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
Initial analysis by Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge is up: Michael's appraisal is that Afinia is putting up a fight and is not indicating a willingness to settle - a request for a jury trial, an expansive search for prior art, and asking for a declaratory judgement that the patents are invalid (and not simply that Afnia is not infringing) are indicators that Afinia's intent is not to simpby Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteCdnReprap I wonder how SOMOS tretrashell falls into all this? My guess is that it doesn't apply at all, since tetrashell generates an entirely new STL with the sparse supports added in. The Stratsys patent would appear to cover the slicing software's generation of actual toolpaths.by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteRBispingNone of their printers used sparse infill untill very recently since one of their money makers is in consumables which they dont want to reduce usage of. Incorrect - Stratasys has used sparse infill since at least 1997, and almost assuredly even earlier (Quickslice 4.2 is the oldest software I have, which was from '97).by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
Michael Weinberg has an article summarizing the lawsuit up on Make:by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteTekwizard VHS machines started popping up everywhere and sales people lauded their much beefier size (needed because of more circuitry and mechanics) and the fact that they had 4 heads, whereas Sony Beta had only 1. Sony lost the video market quickly after that because VHS"s were abundant, and cheap, and because the average consumer would naturally want the machine with 4 heads over the unitby Have Blue - General
Re: Layer Adhesion Problems with ABS-PC and Polycarbonate - 10 years ago
I would guess that the max temp. depends a lot on the specific resin that's being used. Stratasys PC-ABS is SABIC Cycoloy C1110HF and is run through a 320°C nozzle. Their PC is Lexan HF1110, also run at 320°C.by Have Blue - General
Granule based extruder head for a ME design project - 10 years ago
Just came across this: However, they have yet to have any luck with extrusion, it appears.by Have Blue - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteA2 It's very unusual of Stratasys council not to have been proactive and instigated litigation at the juncture that Stratasys had some cash to sling around. Seems to me it's more like they waited to finish acquiring Makerbot, as Makerbot would have had at least a few of the same claimed infringements.by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteA2 Got a link to Stratasys heated bed patent? Stratasys doesn't have a heated bed patent - they're using a very loose interpretation of the term 'build environment' in the '058 patent to cover the area above a heated bed. (Guizmo beat me to it)by Have Blue - General
Re: Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
QuoteMattMosesI'm not familiar with Afinia, but it seems like they are part of a large company? They're part of Microboards Technology (http://www.microboards.com/about), but I think Beijing TierTime (the parent of PP3DP) is much larger. I wonder if Stratasys is using this case to test the waters before a possible suit against other hobbyist printer makers? If they win on the heated bed claim,by Have Blue - General
Stratasys sues Afinia - 10 years ago
"Stratasys Acts to Protect Its Intellectual Property" Attached is the case summary - they're going after heated beds?!?by Have Blue - General
Re: Layer Adhesion Problems with ABS-PC and Polycarbonate - 10 years ago
40-45°C probably won't be sufficient for a heated chamber. Stratasys uses a 110°C chamber for PC-ABS and 135°C for PC.by Have Blue - General
Re: Printed Gun and Police Raid (UK) - 10 years ago
DaveS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the INTERESTING thing is that the charge is > "making gunpowder" > > So.. was he making gunpowder and the police put > 2&2 together and presumed he was trying to make a > gun ? > > I think there's a bit more to the story than "daft > police" > > I think he underestimated how serious anby Have Blue - General
Re: Professional Arburg freeformer using plastic pellets - 10 years ago
The 'droplet' approach may very well bypass some patents as well, since existing FDM processes generally assume a 'fused filament fabrication' rather than a 'fused droplet fabrication'. Also, I was intrigued by their mention of a 5-axis system (which would theoretically eliminate the need for supports) - using a droplet based modeling system undoubtedly makes the software side of things much easby Have Blue - Plastic Extruder Working Group
Re: Printed Gun and Police Raid (UK) - 10 years ago
akhlut Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HaveBlue, > > Perhaps you have a different > recollection of it given that you were in the > middle of it. Well, given that a Congressman started having press conferences with a blown-up photo that I had taken (http://blogs-images.forbes.com/andygreenberg/files/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-18-at-8.29.59-AM.pngby Have Blue - General
Re: Printed Gun and Police Raid (UK) - 10 years ago
akhlut Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was his idea to push it in everyone's face, > wasn't it? Perhaps, but the media was already in full "OMG 3D PRINTED GUNS WILL DESTROY HUMANITY" mode as a result of my printed AR-15 lower. Cody has been more than happy to feed the sensationalist news, certainly, but the hype has been self-perpetuating by the media iby Have Blue - General
Re: Printed Gun and Police Raid (UK) - 10 years ago
ddseeker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Honest Question: Are Airsoft Guns illegal in the > UK? I don't believe so. Paintball is certainly legal in the UK, and deactivated firearms are legal in the UK:by Have Blue - General