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    Olsson Blocks info?

    in Third party products & modifications

    Posted

    I've seen a few posts here and there talking about these. However I haven't heard much more than that.

    Is this something that would benefit an Ultimaker Original?

    What's involved in installing one?

    What are the Pros and Cons?

    I know some mentioned having different sized nozzles to print with. Is the standard/included size not the best?

    Thanks for educating me!

    general forum feedback

    in UltiMaker.com

    Posted

    One thing I meant to mention...and not sure how your development team would handle it.

    I frequently get the icon on the top that shows I have 2 notifications. One for a reply. One that i was quoted i the reply. That seems a bit repetitive

    Cold pull temperature for colored XT

    in Materials & profiles

    Posted

    I pull colored XT at 90 to 100 degrees.

    For cleaning the nozzle I use Nylon.

     

    I've never heard of doing that. Do you use the Taulman Nylon?

    To date I've only encountered one nozzle clog on my UMO and it was the Ultimaker Blue PLA and a problematic Bowden tube coupler. I robbed my dual extruder kit of the extra coupler, Bowden tube and nozzle. The printer has worked well since. I'm not sure what to do with the old nozzle. Someone mentioned holding it over a heat source and melt out the large chunk of PLA stuck inside.

    I'm fascinated by these multiple Atomic Pull remedies.

    Ultimaker is dishonest in selling incompatible materials with their own UM2 printer

    in Materials & profiles

    Posted

    ColorFabb does a wonderful job of giving "Tips and Tricks", which i wish more filament vendors did.

    For example, go to this link from ColorFabb's site and scroll down to the "Tips and Tricks" tab. There's a lot of great information and there is more in the Quality Tab, so the customer can see if they have tested the filament with their model printer.

    We all started new at some point. I still consider myself a newbie/noob and ask a lot of questions. Helping those users out helps our little industry gain new customers. Who can learn and help others other some day!

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    Ultimaker 2 Tested In-Depth!

    in Coffee corner

    Posted

    Don't forget that your travel speed should be higher than printing speed, or you'll get a lot of stringing. The faster you print, the smaller the print <-> travel margin becomes and the worse print quality you get.

    I have my travel speed set to 150mm/s (UMO). If I print at 30mm/s, then the margin is so big that I get pretty much no stringing / oozing at all.

     

    Is there like a ratio/best practices on that? I've never messed with the travel speed and only changed the default print speed to 40-49 to get better results

    What do you print the most?

    in What have you made

    Posted

    I've used my printer to make some parts for my robot project (full-sized R2-D2). There's been several times I have needed to make shims, various sized washers/spacers and mounting devices for Arduino UNO's inside my droid (electronics and bare aluminum produce expensive blue smoke!)

    I haven't found the right CAD software I really like and usually Google Sketchup gets me buy. And of course, I've used items from Thingiverse for stuff already designed.

    McMaster-Carr is offers many of their parts offerings in CAD files, which can even be printed! Great of prototyping with my droid

    Can we convert units?

    in Improve your 3D prints

    Posted

    I have a file where, when loaded, the part shows up extremely small on the build plate.

    The artist who made the part said this is a common problem solved by converting the units in my software. He suggested doing so in Netfab.

    I looked around Cura and didn't see a means to do this, unless I missed it?

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