QuoteJerseyGirl I found a sample of PLA I had from Faberdashery and no luck again making a perfect part. I'm ordering a smaller nozzle. Maybe 0.5 is too much for this size. That will not help. Print 4 at a time. Reduce the speed and reduce the temperature to match the new lower speed. Also use Kisslicer or Cura, not Slic3r. I won the tiny printing competition printing stuff the size of a kernel
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I don't think it would be possible in Excel because it has a bunch of recursive functions, but I could be wrong.
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My intent has never been to make an alternative Cura but rather just a branch to test things that will hopefully get in to the main version. So in the end getting Daid to make the changes would be better then me doing it. But in the event he is not interested I will do my best to maintain at least some version with my options.
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QuoteDinoK QuoteSublime I would say your prints are almost perfect except for heat. I also like JerseyGirl's print over my own. I tried 3 prints and still haven't perfected the settings. QuoteSublime Also an overhang has nothing to do with bridging, they are seen as completely different things by the slicing software. Didn't know that, always treated them the same, thank you for that revelation
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Quotejbernardis What is it going to take to get your inset feature merged into the main cura branch? I can attest to the accuracy of the models sliced with Cura. I just printed the same piece sliced with both Cura and Slic3r. The piece has pockets for 20x20 aluminum extrusions, a 608 bearing, two holes for 8mm smooth bars, and several bolt holes. I used actual dimensions in my openscad source
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I would say your prints are almost perfect except for heat. Also an overhang has nothing to do with bridging, they are seen as completely different things by the slicing software. You should add a large cooling fan for the PLA prints and possibly a small one for printing such small ABS parts (not large ABS parts). Then you should try printing a couple of them at once. After that you can try slow
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Quotesage19175 OK pronterface works great! I love it!.... But I can't get Slic3r to work on my computer...any other slicing softwere that's worth trying? Thanks! Sage. Slic3r should only be your very last choice to use. Try Cura or Kisslicer as they both create great tool paths and have very few bugs. If those do not work try Skeinforge or SFact.
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QuoteHazer Show me a Kickstarter that met its promised schedule on an experimental 3D printer? I ran an Indiegogo campaign for an experimental 3d printer and was successful at getting all the perks out on time.
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QuoteEvil Monkey There should be a new game on here, who can find Ohioplastics new account the fastest. I claim this round. No MattMoses called him out almost two weeks ago
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QuoteTheSerialHobbyist Ultimachine seems to be a good choice. I bought this package: It came with a real Arduino and an Ultimachine RAMPS board. Ultimachine is the original creator of Ramps and his boards are good but expensive and always green. The kit you bought looks to have a geetech Ramps board which has not received the best reviews and if it is geetech may have some fake parts that will
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Yeah it does sound like comb is the issue.
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Yes and the #endif that follows.
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Odds are you will not find them locally in a few days. You can order them from eBay and run the machine without them until they arrive. Or as some people have done run long ones in their place until the short ones arrive. It does reduce the build area by a few mm's but for a short term answer it should be fine.
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Quotejbernardis I can't get cura to do any retraction. I am using Sublime's 14.02-RC5, and have the following retraction settings: retraction_enable=true, retraction_speed = 30; retraction_amount = 2; retraction_min_travel 2; retraction_combing = True; retraction_min_extrusiobn = 0.05; retraction_hop = 0. Every time the print head does a non-extrusion move, it just continues smoothly at the sa
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QuoteMrDoctorDIV Haha, yeah. I like things that are simple to use. A few tries at Kisslicer and I was out. I'm an easily lost customer, you can imagine. Beg as you might, if I don't like your product I'm not buying it . That's actually funny, I hear it both ways very often. If people started with Slic3r they hate the way Kisslicer is termed and layed out. But on the other hand if people start wi
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In the Tantillus branch of Marlin there are a few changes to Marlin.pde that effect the way it homes.
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One of two things will happen. Either they will run just fine (like all the ones I use that are all 12v) or the fan will die. If you are really concerned or if the fans are expensive you could get a voltage regulator from eBay.
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Can you please post all the modified parts since it is a legal requirement of GPL based designs. I would prefer if you forked it on github to make it easier for others to find but ultimately where is up to you as long as they can be found with minimal searching. Also I do not believe this is the appropriate section to post for sale items since there is a specific part of the forum to post for sal
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Quoteisonoob Here's a side by side i found: Interesting but too bad he compared S3D to Slic3r. Slic3r in my opinion is at the very bottom of all slicer choices and should not be used.
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You want 1/8" id tubing which is 3.15mm's . For the best retraction you will want 1/4" od because the wall is thicker and stretches less. You can get it from most industrial suppliers and fluid power companies as well as lab supply companies.
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I saw one post a few years ago about making a steel sheet with a 2.9mm hole in it that a person pulled the filament through and the holes sharp edge scrapped the extra material away.
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Hey look they just released an even bigger machine with even more design flaws. It looks to be a giant HBot even though it is well known to have racking issues even on a small machine with short belts, but they decided to make a machine almost 1 metre square with this problematic system. Then they built a bed that is 900mm x 900mm out of a single sheet of acrylic without any ribs or reinforceme
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QuoteCrazyGeek Hi psych0hans, I have recently purchased MegaBot from Makemendel, It was just amazing. they delivered me the machine within 1 week, I also assembled the same, Earlier I had some calibration issues after talking to their support team I am no more having any issues Its just working smoothly with the PLA and gives a good output. I would recommend MegaBot from Makemendel. The
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Quotegoldenmongoose I don't think Makerbot is strugling. If you make a list of the most successful / highest quality 3d printers of all time, Makerbot is on top of the list. Bar none. Wow Makerbots advertising sure must be convincing. Maybe actually have a look at some Makerbot prints. This following print is a picture posted by MAKERBOT themselves and as the creator and manufacturer of the prin
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Where did you get the J-head from? If it is a china clone I would go back to the Buda.
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Quoteronderful Thanks Sublime. In Kisslicer, I changed the temperature and fans speeds on the material tab, but it doesn't seem to take - temperature defaults to 220 (M104 S220) in the gcode, and the fan speed at 64 (M106 S64). Plus Kisslicer drops in M107 almost every layer or so, so the fan spins up and spins down almost every layer. I'm running it on Mac, so not sure if these issues are spec
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You can change the temperatures and fan speeds in the material tab of Kisslicer. Also be sure that in the extruders tab in the printer tab you have the correct material assigned to the hotend. If you would like to try Cura you can try my branch with relative extrusion but you will need to change the profile to match your machine. Just use my calculator to get the correct settings. Also note that
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You can have them milled (my first two machines were milled) but they will need to use a small bit and cut into the corners of the finger joints a little extra to ensure they fit.
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Quoteto-the-nth @Sublime - Looking at some Slic3r Gcode comments; there is a "move to first perimeter point" followed by a series a "perimeter" command comments. No indication of which perimeters are the outer most. Could set an unique external perimeter speed for the script to key off of. Problem is the small perimeters speed over rides the external perimeters speed. For a Slic3r post sc
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If you want dimensioned drawings you can have a look at WillWorkForPlastic's metric repo otherwise there are dxf's and svg's in the original repo's laser cut case folder but they do not have any dimensions in them. You can use the large bearing holes to get the scaling correct, they need to fit a 608 bearing (22mm).
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