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and after you finish your model.. are there any issues with the 3d geometry... ? or do you get a clean outside single mesh for printing ? Ian :-)

About my weekend.. as the coffee maschine warms up... :-) Saturday morning got up at 5AM and sold old photos and documents at the famous AGRA antik flohmarkt in Leipzig. Morning was freezing and I thought my feet were going to fall off but then at 11... the sun came out and we got cooked :-) Made 120 euros profit from the day. Sunday took my 120 euros and brough my girlfriend for a day trip to the Palaces of Potsdam. Walked 4 hours around the palaces and parks... amazing place !.. bought yummy ice cream and then went into Potsdam and sat down to a really tasty Italian pizza dinner. Came home and did Solidworks and feeder testing for 3 hours.. collapsed into bed... That kind of weekend reminded me that life is actually a real treasure.. its just sitting down here now in my office... having nothing to do that... starts getting me down again.... Ian :-)

picnics are always really lovely :-) Can I ask you what crappy work do you do ? Ian :-)

It is very impressive to see a successful company grow and develop and actually keep to their original promises and ethos ! If this system works into the future and I hope and pray it does... Then many other small companies will be looking at the ultimaker business model with great admiration. Very COOL ! Ian :-)

wait a second.. let me prepair my reaction.... HA HA HA.... ohh your soooo funny.... wait theres more.. HA HA HA.. Ian ;-)

I had the pleasure of meeting Siert a few weeks ago. If the World needs even more amazing creative products with good enginering to back them up.. then ultimaker has just apointed the right man !! :-) Ian :-)

It looks really cool... Im adding this to my print job list... ;-) Very interested to see if it makes a noticable difference.. Ian :-)

ps... how do i paste in a youtube video directly into my post ?? Ian :-)

Couldnt say it better than this... :wink:

damn... I knew I forgot something this morning.... LOL :wink:

Last friday Ultimaker released all their documents about the ultimaker2. Im sure everything you need is in there ! Ian :-) Here is the link. https://www.ultimaker.com/blogs/news/2014/03/28/ultimaker-s-open-sourcing-continues-ultimaker-2-source-files-now-online

Morning ! :-) What software was used for the modelling ? really like it ! Ian :-)

your print is getting better :-) Can i ask.. did you get this little guy on the SD card that comes with an ultimaker ? Ian :-)

damn sexy !! :-)

very cool idea.... the ultimaker1 with a shiny new board and maybe even.... a heated bed ?? ;-) Just stiffen up the print bed a bit and that would be an amazingggg maschine !! :-) Ian :-)

Good morning :-) How are you ? :-) This morning was funny.. I was in bed with my girlfriend.. first her alarm went off.. she just kept sleeping... i had to poke her with my foot for 5 minutes and then she switched it off.. then my alarm clock went off and I was fast asleep and she started poking me.. this went on for 15 minutes... im now black and blue ;-) On another note.. I have to pack up a lot of stuff tonight.. Europes biggest antik flea market is opening tomorrow morning at 4AM and I have to be there at 5AM... I want to clean out my apartment and want to emphty out a lot of old antik documents and papers that accumulated the last 15 years... maybe even make a few euros in the process.. ;-) Anyway its very cool to deal with people from around the world.. everyone is searching for a bargain .. ;-) wish me luck. Ian :-)

nice hobbed pulley... definitly worth a try :-) thanks for the link ! Ian :-)

I dont think its the sensor.. The feeder mechanism is slowly breaking to pieces inside for many users... :sad: Also the teflon tube is slowly deforming in the hotend with use. If users dont notice there print quality slowly worsening.. they probably will in the near future. This is a problem that ultimaker is quietly... very busy trying to solve at the moment.... because it is very important for both their reputation and our customer satisfaction. Ian

my office firewall is blocking your site.. :-( Ian

just a tip !! some photos will really help you sell ! Ian :-)

good and honest answer !! ;-) Ian :-)

to be honest your right.. ! iv taken off the existing feeder housing and dropped it into my box of never to be used again things..... and put on a second copy of my simple feeder system.. :-)

the last image is something i spotted on the forum this morning from another user.. i would be surprised if he didnt ask for a replacement with results like that....

i have two setups at the moment.. a seperate board with my designed test rig and im changing that in and out all the time with new designs and i have a motor to push the filament through.. then i put the original feeder back onto the actual printer... so I can still learn from the default perspective what the hell is going on with that thing... Ian :-)

George you give me a very interesting offer. Here is what I am thinking... (1) Clean and Simple. (2) Very easy to add new images to the site (3) Very easy to add meta data and decriptions (4) Each page is scannable from google (really important so google searches can find relavent material (5) Users can define what size images they want to purchase (6) Users can define what license they want to purchase.. image for a book 10 copies or 10,000 copies. (7) Images are automatically created as watermarked thumbnail. (8) Users can have a shopping cart to add different images (9) Original full scale images are kept very safely... if these are hacked and released.. then game over. (10) Users can move over images and make them larger to focus on details. (11) Picture pages can have associated recommended other pictures under them. Keep people buying. (12) a good search engine for detailed searching.. date... country.... topic.. etc.. George I have no experience about this.. but if this is a massive amount of work for you.. then I can try one of these commercial things first and see if that works... I dont want you pulling night shift for this !! ;-) Please let me know what is the best practical approach.. as I mentioned I want to get this rolling now when I can.. or soon and then make this project scalable.. so in a few months I can add a few more thousand images to the system... Ian :-) THANK YOU !! :-)