LePaul
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I guess I would start with the basics. This is on an Anycubic Chiron? Or?
I would verify the esteps are correct for your extruder. (https://mattshub.com/blogs/blog/extruder-calibration)
Then I would do an extrusion multiplier test print or two to dial in your flow rate/ extrusion multiplier
You really want to rule out over/under extruding right off.
I'm not a fan of Anycubic materials and for something like a frame, this is that one time I'd splurge for better stuff. (Versus a critical failure later and ponder how much you really saved)
With that said, I would also suggest doing a temperature tower so you can find out the sweet spot for your filament. I see a lot of people "guessing" on this and one temp tower can really save some bad guesses.
You could find that just doing these fine calibrations could produce a vastly better print.
Printing requires some fine tuning!
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Is Sidebar supported in Enterprise yet?
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Ok, I apologize. Ask questions after ingesting coffee. I totally missed that.
I appreciate you asking that
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Oh wow, a 5 year old post!
I used ColorFabb nGen for mine. I paused BB-8 in favor of some other projects.
I used the suggested settings from Cary in his files.
What orientation are you printing in? Screenshot? Material? Maybe I can help
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Good question, we just inherited a zmorph fab and are trying to find the basic settings within Voxelizer to transfer into a custom Cura (custom) profile.
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ps the Thermal Properties section for CPE is blank under Thermal Shrikage
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Hi @SandervG, long time no see....still got the beard??
Yes we provide the engineers and technicians with those TDS and SDS sheets and sometimes they ask us for more!
The part was two rectangular pieces that should fit one over the other. One was notably different that the other.
Thanks for moving the post to the correct thread!
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Quick question,
I know that CPE is pretty shrinky and I have a peer that wants a part made using it.
What information on shrinkage could I provide him so he can design around that? Do we have a percentage/ratio of how much shrink to expect and design around it?
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I do not see this listed on your site...
Can you please provide this?
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On 2/18/2021 at 4:33 PM, Carla_Birch said:
V5 was meant to be out over a year ago and they have yet to even say what new features it will have or anything and have a thing of removing posts when people ask about whats going on.
They have given about two updates in the past few year that just say they are working on it. So for most people they view it as dead as they can not even tell people whats going on and hint at what they can look forward to.
Thank you for that, Carla 🙂
I saw they just posted on their Twitter feed and dozens already asked for an update on v5
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10 minutes ago, curasurf said:
I suggest you forget it, because many settings are fundamentally different.
Let's see what a programming person says
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3 minutes ago, curasurf said:
Hi @LePaul I remember that their support is an award-wining design. The software has many awesome features, but unfortunately its team discontinured its development. Thank you for your comments!
Where did you hear that? Last I read v5 was still under development?
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I feel your pain, I really struggle with some objects staying on their supports in Cura.
For most things, I use Cura. For prints that really need great supports, I rely on S3D. I also find the method to manually add or remove them way easier.
However, I am trying to learn Cura's methods...especially the tree supports
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CHEP did a video on this about a year ago. I'm not sure if newer versions of Cura affect the content...but here it is
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I'm hoping someone talented in code can consider this! Several vendors offer FFF profiles for their machines but not a Cura one.
I understand the FFF is a big text file and perhaps some fields from S3D do not direct transfer to Cura. (Perhaps the import process could report what it couldn't transfer?)
Please don't flame me.... 🙂 Just a wish list item myself and a few peers have chatted about.
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We tried the Buildtak sheet/spring steel and magnetic bed on our two Ultimaker S5's at work.
We found we had to add a little z offset (0.1) so the filament wasn't mashed too hard into the surface and for a while, they worked really well.
Then, despite being in a clean enclosure environment and cleaned with rubbing alcohol before each print, filament stopped sticking to the bed. Its quite odd.
So, for now, we have returned to glass prints and spatulas.
However, I see that Wham Bam offers painted PEI spring steel surfaces. I don't know if they have the S5 dimensions yet...but I would like to try it when they do.
(I have several machines at home using WhamBam PEX and they have been an excellent surface to print on)
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Hello!
I'm starting to use larger nozzles on my old 2+ and 0.8 nozzles
I'm doing some extrusion multiplier testing and found that with ColorFabb White PLA, I'm at 94% flow.
That seems ok.
I'm curious what people are using for retraction settings? I'm observing some stringing at 5mm distance (25 mm/s).
I couldn't see any suggested settings in the latest version of Cura, for some reason my profile options are "draft quality" and no other options listed?
(In 4.8, i can't see my Material settings at all using "Generic PLA", so I can't seem to even set temp??)
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That's an interesting point.
The user didn't match what the S5 had loaded for Cores and Materials.
I changed them over via the Settings menu but then lost the profiles in doing so.
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Due to the nature of my work I can't.
I just tried adding an Ultimaker S5 again and now I have them back (didn't work previously but closed and restarted Cura)
We're trying to use a workflow where they send me their project so I can see the model and Cura settings (similar to what we do with S3D). This way if their settings are incorrect, I can either make changes...or if it is quicker to use one of Cura's built in profiles, I can use that.
Is that a good process or do you advise another method?
Thanks
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On 2/14/2020 at 7:32 AM, mkaj2019 said:
I have done a few things on my S5 so far.
The first thing I did was to replace the UM glass plate with a spring steel print plate by Filafarm (for PLA, PETG, ASA, TPU...). The set came as 4 seperate parts: the spring steel, the print surface sheet, the magnetic sheet and a thinner glas plate. The magnetic sheet with an adhesive side is mounted on the thin glass plate and clamped in the S5 bed sheet metal tabs. The thin glass plate broke in half a few weeks ago but Filafarm quickly send me a free replacement. They told me this has never happened before.
Nonetheless the trust in the glass plate was lost. That is why I have replaced the thin glass plate with a nice carbon plate and it looks like this at the moment:
We installed magnetic spring steel / PEI (Buildtak) sheets from PrintedSolid a while ago.
Lately we have great difficulties with Tough PLA sticking to the PEI. After a few failures we went back to glass.
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This one has me stumped.
My peers send me the Cura Projects so I can open them and see the print settings, model and how everything is set for their print request.
One thing I notice, even if I close out and start new, is the various Profiles are missing. Such as the 0.1 , etc etc... How do I get these back?
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Left is 0.1mm offset, Right is 0.15mm offset
Left is super smooth, right is smooth but you can see/ eel the individual lines of the bottom layer, so a bit too high
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If one uses the z offset tool, what would be the suggested distance to try?
I wish I could adjust it at the beginning of a print (Marlin babystepping)
I'm trying 0.1 and 0.15 to see how those go
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Hi,
We have two Ultimaker S5's and noticed with active leveling, printing on glass, the prints are very difficult to release from the bed.
Trying to improve from this, we purchased some magentic bed/spring steel/BuildTak sheets offered by PrintedSolid a while back.
Due to the COVID thing, I haven't had a chance to try those out until this week (we are allowed back in the laboratory for short shifts for now).
The prints release with that lovely spring steel wiggle but on one printer, you can see the "ghost" of the location where the print was.
My experience with PEI surfaces have been you need to be a tad further away from the bed or the sheet will eventually fail (prints have to be peeled off or eventually rip the PEI sheet).
On my home Marlin-based machines, I know I can Babystep my first layer and adjust it (ideally during the skirt layers of a first layer).
How do others adjust for this? On the printer? In Cura?
Thanks!
Ultimaker Cura 4.10 beta
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I hope it appears in Enterprise since that’s what I use most
Also, I sent you some emails recently. Still waiting to hear from you. Thanks!