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An idea to deal with twisted filament !?
kwatts replied to jeremie's topic in Third party products & modifications
Hey, I have a similar problem, plastic that is at the bottom of a spool, is tighter packed / coiled. This plastic , seems to cause extra friction, and cause the filament to get stuck tin the tube or grind in the feeder. I ended out making a plastic straightener that i run over the filament im about to use, to straightener it out before using it. something similar to this: http://www.leadmaker.co.uk/Seconduserpi ... HTENER.jpg My local surplus store has *hundreds* of grooved bearing that fit the 3.0mm filament snugly. I have had great results, plastic that i previously couldn't use works perfectly now. If your interested, ill get the stl up on thingiverse. Cheers Kym -
I haven't painted mine any colours, but i have a ton of flurecent addon parts. This image was taken last weekend, where i took my printer up to the montreal mini maker faire. or
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Yep, that in one of the few screws I have never tightened up. Thanks, I have a whole other day of printing bottle openers and i'm key chain hangers. Cheers Kym
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Hey, So i'm at a faire for the weekend . I have been printing for a few hours . Every few prints the controller stops the machine just before it prints the object and displays "sleep" on the ulticontroller display. It's becoming a pain, so I was wondering what causes it? Cheers Kym
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I got some filament from diamondage which was spooless. I wanted to use the least amount of plastic possible, so i made these with some heavy duty cardboard from a large lcd tv box: http://www.flickr.com/photos/prottiwatts/7702348514/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/prottiwatts/7702348142/ These are the first meshes i have made in sketchup and still need some work before i put them in thingiverse.
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So where would i put a feature request like this?
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Hey Guys, I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of where i would go to add or modify fuctions that display on the ulticontroller lcd. some things i want to look at changing: -preheat pla function, i want to change this from 180 to 200/210 -Id like to add a function to prepare menu to set the build platform to its lowest point. -id like to make it so in the card reader it removes the .gco and uses the extra 8 possible chracters to display names for files better. Any help on this would be great. Thanks Kym
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All the plastic i have brought so far is from http://a2aprinter.com/ Usually my order is ready to ship the next day. I have never got it shipped as i have a friend that works near there shop. I have tried, the green,white,red,blue and black. Examples of what the colours look like when they are printed (ill add the black when i do a print next): http://www.flickr.com/photos/prottiwatt ... 9694253286 The green and white i purchased first, because i thought the silver that came with the machine was faulty. I was happy, because i put them in the machine and they just worked. The tolerance of the filament is .1 , i have been printing all in cura at 2.89mm , with the exception of the red, its giving me some problems, time to change the bowden tube. Hope this helps. Kym
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Your opinion / reviews of Ulticontroller.
kwatts replied to futurejames's topic in Third party products & modifications
Hey James, Id be interested if you do a group buy. Also i can ask the guys at hacklab if they are interested as well. Cheers Kym -
Thanks, aligning the belts got rid of the clicking. Cheers Kym
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Thanks Guys, Ill try to align my belts tonight when i get home.
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Hey Guys, My Ultimaker has started making clicking sounds when it prints. To me it sound like a wood click, or structure shift, its either happening in the front 2 corners or on the sliding blocks. If i turn the machine off and try to repeat the movements that the head is making at print time, i cant hear the sounds at all. i cant see anything hitting the sliding blocks or directly hitting the corner wood. The longer the prints the more frequent the sound becomes. please let me know. Cheers Kym
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Hey, So I have been printing pretty good for a few weeks. The other night I found during a 2 hour print that I could hear a clicking and grinding sound. Yay. The grinding was coming from the xmotor its band was rubbing on the wood frame when the head traveled from left to right. I realigned the drive gear on the motor and the one on the x rod. Then I relised that the y back rod was causing the clicking. It was traveling 1~1.5mm from left to right on fast moves. Im not sure how I fixed this, but it has stopped. Now I get some prints with gaps between the border and the infin as well as really crappy bottom layers. What do i start to look at to fix this? Im using cura rc4 and i have not modifed any of the settings between the prints. Image examples here: This is the bottom http://www.flickr.com/photos/prottiwatts/7255586540 this is the top http://www.flickr.com/photos/prottiwatts/7255585882 Cheers Kym
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Thanks for the reply. realised my problem was that the front stoppers were switched. all is good in the world.
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Ok, so the question then becomes. if i calibrated the machine and build platform in replicatorg 24 with the standard firmware. now that im using cura, and updated to marlin, how do i re calibrate? or do i need to i notice that cura doesnt have a control panel type thing that rep g has... soo?
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heh... i just saw this on the cura wiki: Cura-RC2 (Known bug: both machine check and 100mm extrusion are bugged in FirstRunWizard. Skip them) carry on.
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Hey guys, So based on the response from my last post: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=784 i switched to cura. Previously i got to the print stage, after configuuring the end stops and extruding some plastic. But with cura, i cannot get past the ultimaker checkup. It fails on: "Error: Missing reply to Deactivate steppers (M84)." "Possible cause: Temperature MIN/MAX.\n Check temperature sensor connections." I have turned off the machine a few times now and checked all the connections to the electronics , with no luck of getting past this problem. I saw in the out put that i was getting a None type return so , i added some debug prints that im hoping might help for getting a solution to this: Connecting to: COM5 250000 DoCommCommandAndWaitForReply:cmd None DoCommCommandAndWaitForReply:replyStart start line: start DoCommCommandAndWaitForReply:cmd M84 DoCommCommandAndWaitForReply:replyStart ok line: echo: External Reset line: Marlin: 1.0.0 RC2 line: echo: Last Updated: Marlin-Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:01:30 +0200 - 414408b2d0fed428b55445f48b01d00932a7a92c | Author: Build-Me-Marlin line: echo: Free Memory: 4498 PlannerBufferBytes: 1232 line: echo:Using Default settings: line: echo:Steps per unit: line: echo: M92 X78.74 Y78.74 Z533.33 E865.89 line: echo:Maximum feedrates (mm/s): line: echo: M203 X250.00 Y250.00 Z5.00 E45.00 line: echo:Maximum Acceleration (mm/s2): line: echo: M201 X9000 Y9000 Z100 E10000 line: echo:Acceleration: S=acceleration, T=retract acceleration line: echo: M204 S3000.00 T3000.00 line: echo:Advanced variables: S=Min feedrate (mm/s), T=Min travel feedrate (mm/s), B=minimum segment time (ms), =maximum xY jerk (mm/s), Z=maximum Z jerk (mm/s) line: echo: M205 S0.00 T0.00 B20000 X20.00 Z0.40 E5.00 line: echo:PID settings: line: echo: M301 P22.20 I1.08 D114.00 line: I am running on winxp 32, on a centrino duo chipset, with whopping 3.4gb of ram.. Please let me know if there is anything else i can provide to help figuring this out. Cheers kym
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Hey Guys, So i have gotten to the first print stage and am having some troubles. Im currently working my way through this page: http://wiki.ultimaker.com/Newcomer_guid ... t_3D_print For software, since i am usning an old 32bit winxp i chose: UltiReplicatorG-0024-r3-windows.zip from the software page. now, it lets me connected to the printer, i have checked all the stops, in the NewComer_guide im up to step 4 : generating the gcode. in the software version i have , i can select skienforge 39 settings and not 40 that is in the docs. if i edit any of the profiles, to the settings in the docs, and select "save all" and close the window, replicator g hangs. ie, i can see the select profile window, but i cant select anything. if i force close the repg program and reopen it the settings have saved to that profile. So , i go to generate the gcode, which works, it , but it never allows my in the ui or the gcode menu to select "build"... How do i proceed? Or better yet whats the path to debugging what is going on here? Cheers Kym
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HELP "order processing" Log your SN# and Shipdate here
kwatts replied to mastory's topic in Buying or selling your UltiMaker
order #1850 Ordered 19-03-2012 Confirmed Payment: 21-03-2012 Arrived: 24-04-2012 Thanks -
HELP "order processing" Log your SN# and Shipdate here
kwatts replied to mastory's topic in Buying or selling your UltiMaker
order #1850 Ordered 19-03-2012 Confirmed Payment: 21-03-2012 does anyone have estimates on the time it takes to ship to north america? Cheers