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Rich, Thanks! Those prints are amazing! When I try to go that small and hollow, Slic3r 0.9.8 infills the whole thing. How did you avoid that?
This whole thing is very timely for me. We just got some client work where they need us to print some really tiny stuff in Taulman nylon. Still not sure it's going to be possible given what they are looking for, but this competition highlights two thi
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BenitoSanduchi
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Competitions
Tiny twisted gear vase in Taulman 618 nylon. .2mm layers from a .35mm nozzle. I burned out some interior strings.
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BenitoSanduchi
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Competitions
I realize this is an old thread, but same thing just happened to me. Same exact terminal melted. Had an ABS print fail due to terrible warping and just thought I didn't put enough juice on the bed. Then I realized that the bed was cold. Then I remembered the burning smell from thirty minutes prior. Damnit!
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BenitoSanduchi
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RAMPS Electronics
I put Sailfish on a Thing-o-Matic I've been repairing and upgrading for someone. It now runs circles around my MendelMax and I don't understand it. One thing Sailfish does is handle retraction as a part of the firmware and does so very well. The outer shell of my prints from the TOM since Sailfish are just perfect. No banding, no blobbing, no gaps or holes anywhere, really impressive. I hope
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BenitoSanduchi
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Reprappers
Funny thing is that I'm not knocking the MendelMax or its output. It's a very good, extremely reliable printer. But look at the examples on the Sailfish Thingiverse page
It could be so much better. Just wish I had the software engineering chops to make it happen.
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BenitoSanduchi
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General
I agree, Slic3r has been on the decline. They add useful features with each new release but those features have produced so many bugs that I use older versions also.
But what's out alternative? Seriously, has anyone else out there seen what Sailfish is capable of and suffered the same depression I'm stuck in? I've recalibrated everything on my MendelMax and just cannot touch the quality com
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BenitoSanduchi
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General
I get most of my filament from www.protoparadigm.com and have yet to be disappointed. Quality and consistency have been excellent through probably 15-20 pounds of material. They are in Oregon so shipping is cheap and fast if you're out west. They also offer reusable spools now and filament coils that fit them perfectly so I'm not ending up with wasted/worthless empty spools.
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BenitoSanduchi
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General
Sailfish firmware for Makerbot printers is absolutely amazing. I upgraded a squeaky old neglected Thing-O-Matic to Sailfish yesterday and was absolutely blown away. I'm embarrassed by the print quality of my MendelMax and Prusa now. The layer precision coming off the TOM is so good and even at high speeds, yet it sounds like it's going to rattle apart when it's running. My MendelMax is a beau
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BenitoSanduchi
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General
I missed that. Thank you!
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BenitoSanduchi
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Slic3r
Anyone else getting excess, messy infill with the new Slic3r version? Had to make a solid cover plate for someone and had wildly different results with otherwise identical settings.
The left-hand plate was printed from a 0.7.2 slice. I killed the print early. Second is from 0.7.1 and is very smooth.
This is a bummer because I need the support functionality in the new version. Anyone else e
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BenitoSanduchi
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Slic3r
Thanks. The nozzle wasn't blocked. I knew it wasn't because I could get filament to extrude, just not consistently. Confirmed that by swapping my .5 nozzle back on today and eliminated the problem.
So I'm curious though, why would I have such a problem with a smaller nozzle? I know it takes more pressure to extrude through a smaller hole, but it sure seems like it's causing more problems th
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
First off, thank you to everyone that helps out on this board. Hope to some day be able to contribute. Gotta get my noob problems out of the way first. This one is weird.
I have a Prusa with a Greg's Wade's Hinged Extruder and a Budashnozzle hot end. I very recently swapped the original .50 mm nozzle for a new .35 mm nozzle so I could push up the resolution of my prints. First print went fi
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
I=idiot. I was looking at the wrong Marlin file and yep, my max lengths were wrong when I actually opened the file that's installed on the printer.
Doh!
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
I have a Lulzbot Prusa Mendel with a Mk1 heated bed, so it has a theoretical max X/Y envelope of 200mm x 200mm. I'm working on printing a prototype for someone that requires me to push my printer to the max in Y and pretty close to it in X. The base of the object should be 180mm x 200mm. There are no physical barriers to the printer being able to do this, but it stops about 10mm shy of both th
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
Width over height ratio was the ticket. Helped with perimeter quality too. Thanks for the knowledge!
Hope Slic3r does a better job calculating this in future versions.
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
NewPerfection Wrote:
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> > never printed (ABS) below 220˚C. 220-225
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> > worked on my Thing-o-Matic, so I didn't see why
> > that would be different now. I know some
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> > print much cooler
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
Thanks for the reply. The print pictured was at a fairly low infill, yes. I think about 12%, but I hate to waste more plastic than that on non-structural objects. But yeah, it's basically laying down failed bridges over and over again.
Maybe it is a temperature thing. I don't have a fan installed yet, just need to find a housing/duct I like and get it wired up. I've never printed (ABS) bel
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing
Howdy All,
I've searched the forums and Google apparatus for solutions, and have thus far had no luck. Attached is what my infill tends to look like. Perimeters are fine, perfectly solid even at higher speeds. But the infill, no matter the speed it seems, has been looking like this. It's not a really big deal, but reduces the strength of my prints and can cause problems when it tries to lay
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BenitoSanduchi
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Printing