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Cubes too large and holes too small. - 12 years ago
I've struggled to get successful prints of multiple parts that fit together, such as the planetary gear sets you see on thingiverse. I've had similar issues, for example, when I made a filament spindle I had to file pieces down quite a bit to get them to fit together. To diagnose the issue, I make a test 10mm cube with a companion piece, a 30mm x 30mm x 10mm block with a 10.5mm x 10.5mm hole inby sminnee - Printing
Consistent flow - 12 years ago
I'm having a few issues printing PLA. I discovered that many of my printing problems were caused by extruding too much filament, because my E steps per mm was set too high. I used Slic3rs extrusion multiplier setting to crank this down. Win! However, now I don't always get a consistent extrusion - for instance sometimes my bottom layer will come out "patchy" in places, because the filament coby sminnee - Printing
Re: Start/Stop extrusion delays - advice? - 12 years ago
Following up from the "you're printing too hot" comments. I had a similar issue; I had turned the temperature right up because otherwise I didn't get consistent flow. I found that the better way of solving this was to get the bed *really* level and to get it to just the right height where the plastic touches the bed as soon as it comes out but doesn't get smudged. In this way, the adhesion ofby sminnee - Printing
Re: Saving RepRap - 13 years ago
> As much as I love RepRap, I can't see it becoming > a super beginner friendly end customer solution > right now. > ... > Then again, lowering the entry barrier is a good > idea. Yeah - that was more my point - that "isn't it kind of good to have a barrier to entry" is a really unhelpful line of thought. Whatever the barrier to entries are for your project, it is always goodby sminnee - General
Re: Saving RepRap - 13 years ago
> This will sound very harsh and elitist Yes. > , but RepRap > is (at the moment) probably better off if it's a > bit difficult to get into. Then the people who > only want to learn things that's easy digestible > in 2 minute chunks, will rather start out with a > UP! or Ultimaker where they pay for support. We > benefit from reprappers that can hold their own, > so wby sminnee - General
Re: Encouraging development 2 - Incentives - 13 years ago
> Having done some of the work to get a vertical X > axis standard put together, I agree with what the > last few posts have pointed out, and I might even > go a bit further. There may be some worry that > creating standards will suppress creativity, which > I can't imagine considering the new designs coming > out every day or so, but there is another side to > the story.by sminnee - Developers
Re: Encouraging development 2 - Incentives - 13 years ago
One thing that I am struggling with, as a newcomer, is trying to work out which of the experiments out there are worth incorporating into my own machine, and which are invalidated or failed experiments. For example - what am I to make of this? It would be great to see more of the incremental improvements that various people have come up, and the community consensus as to their value, make theiby sminnee - Developers