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Actually nevermind on those. I've got it running and it homes well but whenever I tell it to move down -10 mm it goes down really slow/doesn't stop. Adjust the Travel Feed Rate or Z Axis Feed Rate?
And do you by any chance, have a good calibration guide? This video is confusing (It doesn't say whether to adjust the Z height?), and this article is confusing too. Thanks.
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Quotefrankvdh
I don't think it matters too much if your carriage wheels are badly aligned or anything like that. So long as they're round and they roll up and down the tower, they're good....With power on to the motors, you should not be able to move the effector. If there's any movement or clicks (i.e. play in the bearings), you need to fix that.
See that's the thing. I think it is the carriag
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
We are using Marlin firmware, and this is what it looks like.
I forgot to mention that someone who has been helping us has successfully constructed a identical printer to ours, right down to the nut. Everything from hardware to firmware is almost exactly the same, which adds more mystery to this. We've been in R&D Purgatory for the past 2 months as I like to say.
We've calibrated our prin
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
The printer can't print circles properly. We've looked up solutions and the closest answer is probably the belt being too tight/too loose but we think that our carriages/bearings might be bad. I personally think that there are some errors in printing the carriages (such as the holes are crooked or inaccurate) causing the printer to print inaccurately.
If it is the carriages, what design would b
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Alright awesome. I've tried that and there was a stark contrast from earlier prints. Now one more question if you don't mind haha. I've gotten most of the parts printed except for the legs, and the main problem is the support material. Here you can see the print itself turned out fine, but the support material fused with the build. I currently have the Pattern Spacing as 5mm, Pattern angle 0, Int
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Im using 0.2mm for the layer height and 0.35mm for the first layer height with the Nozzle diameter being 0.35mm
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Awesome thanks. I've tried what you suggested and it still seems to be "smooshing" up near the top. Would decreasing the Layer Height help with this? Besides that, it's a whole lot better than before and what really counts is the functionality so its making progress
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Thanks for replying.
I'm using PLA and with a 0.35mm Nozzle diameter, so if I used your settings for Slic3r, could that help a bit? If I may ask, why print a sacrificial tower?
Also, would you suggest that I print at 25mm/s for all settings on the Speed tab of Slic3r and increase the heat to about 220C? Could that help? and concerning the supports, do you just have the supports at 45 or 60? F
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
I am sort of stuck in a dilemma of how to print very small objects with good quality. From here I am trying to print the "Leg_Hinge_001.STL" file and it has to be printed pretty good in order for the landing leg to clip on properly. I've tried printing with support material and a slow speed but it's just too hard to take the rafting (that is already fused) off of the hinges, along with the fact i
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Lexar
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Delta Machines
Quotedmould
If you are having problems with the geometry of prints, it will be a fault with the printer, not the slicer. Go back to basics and do the basic calibrations, then do a few fast moves to see whether the belts, motors or pulleys are slipping.
Dave
I dont think thats an issue. Here's an example of whats happening. Just to see what happens, we tried to print the Interstage_001.STL file
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Lexar
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Slic3r
Quoteo_lampe
What's the history of your printer? Did it print anything correctly with a different slicer?
Have you ever calibrated the printer, printing test-cubes?
Its brand new (from scratch). We have not tried anything yet with a different slicer but we have printed small to medium builds successfully (including test cubes).
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Lexar
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Slic3r
My printer seems to have a problem printing big things, but not for smaller things. For example, when we printed this, the printer apparently decided to do a poor job and call it a night. We deceided to print a small model, which printed fine, and then we decided to print a big model (specifically, a rocket.). Pretty much the same thing happened. Looking at the Layers section of Slic3r, I saw wha
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Lexar
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Slic3r