Daid

Reporting from R&D. If you don't have a kit which came per default with the injection molded (black) parts, then the dual-extrusion kit will fit fine. You DO have to use the old top plate then, this will fit fine, but you'll have slightly less room for the cables. (This is not in the assembly instructions) For example, this my own printer rigged for dual extrusion: http://daid.eu/~daid/IMG_20120514_235612.jpg (with still a V1 hotend, but a top plate for a V2 hotend without injection parts) You DO need the V2 hotend, if you still have a V1 hotend you will need to upgrade. Else it won't fit.

I recommend start by removing the {date} and {day} tags in the start code, this seems to solve the none-slicing issue for most people.

Dunno about the filastruder, but the filabot (the first one that did a kickstarter) just started shipping their rewards, and went way over budget. The local fablab I am a member off should receive it soon. When we have it I'll see if I can do a review.

I think he wants "time left till print is done", but currently the controller does not know this. It can guess it, but it will be off. (It could take the time already printed, and how far it is in the file, and extrapolate the final time from that)

There are 2 errors there. The first bit can safely be ignored (it's an exception by a bug by me. But it only means that the "upload use stats" does not work) The part with ">>" is some other bug, not sure what, as it comes from the X window system. So could be a bug in your wxPython version.

That's odd, as the spring without tension should be about 17mm...

Temperature does a LOT for transparent PLAs, experiment a bit with it, most likely you need a lower temperature. You can also play a bit with the flow, this also does things.

We have someone working on setting the base for translations, as soon as that's done I'll write down how you can help in translating.

I've made PCBs before, but I always find it messy and the results never that great. I just got boards I ordered from http://imall.iteadstudio.com/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping.html (10 pieces of 10x10cm 2 sided for $25) and I'm very happy with the result. Took about 2.5 week from ordering to delivery, with the cheapest shipping option.

My complain was with a smile ;-) don't be offended by it. The updated layout from Erik already looks cleaner. The signature generate isn't a huge technical hurdle. The YouMagine upload tool I'm working on in Cura is a lot more complex.

I think the YM might be the distracting part. Removing that could help in the clutterness. Maybe making the icons a bit smaller also helps. Just something I threw together. But as always, people will complain about it =)

Looks like it has issues with IE10.

Different tape widths, different taping stratergies (front to back, left to right) offset from the start point of the tape. There is a lot of odd things that can differ here. I recommend pushing the nozzle slightly less into the tape, this will damage it less and so it needs less replacement.

Note that I created this signature generator in the weekend using the yet unpublished YouMagine-API. See, same script running on my home server: http://daid.eu/~daid/youmagine/img.php/daid.png

Yes, this is on my todo-list (which is quite long)

None, it will tell you that it cannot install a firmware for your setup and that you should arrange your own firmware.

For M3 holes I usually use 3.2mm for easy fit and 3.0mm for parts where I thread the screws into the PLA.

Extruder is a bit of an odd name. What you are looking for is the feeder part. (extruder is actually the feeder+hotend)

See 3 posts up: Care to share the model?

This is not the proper way to translate Cura. The proper way would be with http://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html. Also a bit of searching should give my opinion about translating Cura, and why it has not been done. (This chineese translation commit also reverses some patches on the code and breaks a few things)

Yes, XY and Z distance from object are 2 configurable settings (because they clearly need different values in my tests). As well as the density of the support grid. I've uploaded a test version at http://software.ultimaker.com/Cura_closed_beta/ I'm not 100% happy about it yet, mainly because it does quite a bit of moves across the print, making strings. So it needs some combing and retraction added to it.

Latest result. With some care and a screwdriver I manged to remove all the support material as 2 pieces. I left a 0.2mm gap between the bottom of the print and the top of the support material. So the flat parts on the support material don't look great. But it was really easy to remove.

Actually, Cura moves the head slightly inwards of the model before retraction (in the 13.06.4 release). But not all the way into the infill. You might just want to lower your temperature a bit so the nozzle doesn't meld the outside walls as much. Could make all the difference.

Did you always safely remove the card from your computer? Not doing this could irreversibly corrupt the card, it usually only corrupts a file, but it could corrupt the card forever. (Which is why we didn't go for SD card storage on my previous job, which had very high reliability requirements)

Actually, my 2nd test print, the whole support came off as 4 different pieces, because the outside wall keeps the support together while it breaks off the model as 1 piece. Less cleanup (took me less then 5 minutes to cleanup this print) I'm making some more adjustments, like rotating the support infill 45deg so it does not align with the top/bottom solid infills and thus sticks a bit less. (I've also fixed the raft that it accounts for support now, didn't fix the skirt yet)