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There slipped a bug in the time estimate, I noticed it too late to it got shipped with the bug. It happens when there are layers without any printing on it. (which is alway the case if you use the "sink in plantform" feature) Good thing is, I found and fixed the bug. And I'm planning a new release somewhere next month to fix some more issues.

Recv: : Extruder switched off. MAXTEMP triggered ! Recv: Error:Printer stopped due to errors. You have a temperature sensor problem. At which point Cura will refuse to do anything with the printer as this is a critical fault.

Even if Cura fails to connect to the firmware, it still should be able to update the firmware. 13.10 also contains an experimental patch for 250000 baud on linux, but I have no idea if it actually works.

Cura cannot auto-detect old UM1.1 electronics, but if you manually configure the serial port in the machine-settings then it should work fine. I have one UM1.1 machine which I updated the firmware a while back. (With the old electronics) and it printed fine with Cura. I can send you a copy of this firmware? Trying to get everything to work with skeinforge will just be more pain then it's worth really.

USB printing with the UM2 is not officially supported, it's not something we developed into the details and it's something that we had lots of issues with so we decided to do SD printing only. (If you do want to print with USB, you'll have to switch to "RepRap" gcode-flavor in the machine settings instead of UltiGCode. But you might experience connection problems)

From the main menu, select "material" and then "change".

I'm a fan of the Faberdashery stuff when I print small things (awesome quality but pricey) for large things I use Ultimaker stuff, which I see as decent quality (but Ultimaker PLA is easy to get for me)

13.10 was released yesterday ;-) The "enable raft" is under "platform adhesion", but I advice Brim. "Manual select-able support" will most likely be a future feature. Right now it's only on/off.

Could be a bug in clipper. I just updated my development version of Clipper (library I use for lots of the heavy lifting) and the changelog reports a few bug fixes for rare bugs. You could try changing the cutoff point by 0.1mm to see if that causes a difference.

Email is fine, d.braam@ultimaker.com, I'll delete the file and do not share it with anyone else (which is my default procedure if I do not get explicit permission to share the file)

So, the Ultimaker2 is released and shipped. The first units are out of the doors and heading for the happy customers. (As you can see here: http://ultimaker.ipbhost.com/uploads/gallery/album_7/gallery_423_7_141670.jpg ) So. Time to take a deep breath, and time to take a good look around us. Holy, we are a real company now. We have a nice 5 man R&D team. Erik, Martijn and Siert moved to UltiLabs to do research for the far future. Logistics is handling the rest of the Ultimaker-Original and Ultimaker2 sales. Marketing is doing their own thing to promote us. Yes, stuff got real. We finally have room to take a breath, and dive into the future head on. So, sitting at R&D, we are planning the roadmap to the next development. What should be done in the near future? And this is where you can help. What do you think that we should concentrate our time on? What should be on and absolutely not be on our roadmap? We have some ideas ourselves, but I do not want to bias people and give you the full open spectrum think. Software, hardware, materials, the world is at our feet right now. We should use that opportunity! (Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee that every idea will be used. We have limited time, and more parties to think off then just you guys. But we do want your involvement in the process)

I think this also relates to the model, as I do not get the same problem with the same profile. Can you share it?

Ease of use and advanced features do not have to be in conflict. You just have to be sure the advanced features to not hinder the easy workflow for normal users.

Could be a bug, did not check if that is still working, and how it worked was always a bit ugly...

Actually, I don't think we will till the first reviews tickle in. We did everything in our power to reach this deadline. Everyone pulled in extra work to get it done in time and properly.

The UM1 firmwares are still the same as in the 13.06 release. But they are included just as in the previous release. There are no plans to drop UM-Original or RepRap support. Only to expand support. I've also added some experimental changes that MakerBot users seem to need (It's still a bit difficult to talk to MakerBot users, so details are still a bit sparse). I really think the UM2, UM-Original, YouMagine, Cura, RepRaps, everything strengthen each other. Sales of the UM2 will bring in more money to improve Cura, improvements in Cura will help on the UM-Original and RepRap users. UM-Original and RepRap users will provide new ideas and experiments, which results in even more improvements, which will translate back as stable features for the UM2. Full circle of improvements :-D

This most certainly can be done. I tried to do a quick Arduino "upload photo app" for YouMagine, but I had some issues with Android and HTTP file uploads.

NetFabb support used to be quite ok. But they pretty much stopped supporting and developing for Ultimaker when their own printer came to market: http://www.fabbster.com/gallerie.php which they see as the best solution to 3D printing ever. I leave it to yourself to judge the fabbster. Shouldn't be too hard ;-)

I usually wait with linux versions for the full release. Because there are only a few linux users, and about half of them are running from source anyhow. Release should be out today, it nothing odd happens (so might be tomorrow ;-) )

Most likely you are having strings. Making sure retraction is enabled, and lowering the temperature a bit usually does wonders.

The support in Cura 13.06 has some issues. The 13.10 release has a totally redone support material implementation and does not has the "material hits object" problem. You can get a preview release of 13.10 here: http://software.ultimaker.com/Cura_closed_beta/

You could build it yourself from the kit version. You would need to get new side panels lasered, longer Z rods and lead screw, and lengthen all the electronic cables. (actually, I would put the electronics on the back near the top and only lengthen the Z motor cable, less cables to extend) The height limit is mostly limited by how large of a laser-cutter you can find. The experimental ones at Ultimaker have a build height of 55cm. But the one at Protospace (who have a larger laser) does 70cm I think. Ideal for you would be 100cm of print height I think. A machine of this length can have stability issues, with the mechanics moving at the top. But nothing a few bricks laying in the bottom could not solve.

Right now the code works like this, the distance between infill lines is calculated for the line infill. This distance is between the center-line of the lines. If this distance is more then 4x the extrusion width then it does the grid infill at double that distance. This logic was made to prevent the grid infill from happening at high densities, because at high densities the corners of the grid would get too much material and cause problems. If 4x distance is the best option, I'm not sure. I just picked something that made sense in my head. There is always the battle between fine grain control and ease of use. I'm still pondering to make the main logic of the slicer scripted, so you can tweak things like this at will...

Haven't reproduced it yet, as the latest version works for me. But as a workaround you could delete the "vidcap.pyd" file from the Cura installation, this disables all webcam support.

Wings would be easier on this prototype Ultimaker: http://blog.ultimaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/10.jpg Sadly, the only ones around are in the Netherlands.