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    An idea to deal with twisted filament !?

    in Third party products & modifications

    Posted

    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

    ulticontroller – Sleep mode

    in UltiMaker 3D printers

    Posted

    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

    custom functions and changes for ulticontroller

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    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

    PLA from north america

    in Coffee corner

    Posted

    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

    clicking sound as the printer head moves

    in UltiMaker 3D printers

    Posted

    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

    edge and infill issues after fixing x motor

    in UltiMaker 3D printers

    Posted

    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

    switched to cura for first print

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    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?

    switched to cura for first print

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    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

    Trouble making first print

    in UltiMaker 3D printers

    Posted

    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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