ultiarjan

As seen in the french section, 3D solex has a new heater block available. http://3dsolex.com/matchless @GR5 do you know what material this is? is it some kind of coating? can't imaging it to be stainless steel... as this has poor heat conductivity?

I may be color blind but my favourite yellow is Colorfabb fluorescent green

FYI the architect is Rem Koolhaas.

Looks nice! Regarding functionality I assume you know the @tinkergnome firmware, loved and used by many people here... main thing for me is an overview of main settings in the printing screen and direct ability to change settings....

I think sketchup supports all fonts you can think off... you can load sketchup files into the also free design spark mechanical. You may need to save the sketch up file as an older version (8?)

I guess for the most your right... its the layer view that's incredibly slow... and that's a crucial part imho...

Unfortunately it's the same on a windows machine....

sure you can, but the point of having it configurable is you set it up once to your liking and forget about it..... I fe want the nozzle size in the filename, but you might have a different need...

2th hand ultimaker?

could be nice to have a more configurable naming. f.e. when you only have one machine the machine name is useless, but you may like the nozzle size or layer height in your gcode file naming....

The original DXF files are in the same location as the panel pdf/step files, for example; https://github.com/Ultimaker/Ultimaker2Extended/tree/master/2211 look in the BOM to see the folder/part numbers for the panels.

I find the threads in free fusion360 easy to use...

I use dxf files in cambam, for my shapeoko cnc.... you obviously have to set the different 'actions' on the different parts in the dxf.

You can use cura for it .... old cura... the 15.xx versions

The text file gcode is to manually update. I would advice you just install tinkergnome firmware and the adjusting of e steps is just in the advance menu...

If you use the tinkergnome firmware you can see the current steps and directly change it on the printer.... as simple as rotating the main selection wheel...

talked to a guy from Ultimaker about this once... he just pushes a thin cloth in the grooves with a thumbnail, then uses the "move bed" function a few times to go over the whole z axis.

I'm sure the dxf files are also on github.... and you can create dxf files from the step files using free fusion360

As you have more machines I would first switch power supplies to see if it's the power brick or the machine that's dead...

I think there are video's using the wizzard, but I never got it to work, manual is just quicker. It's been a while since I did it (so I probably forget stuff) but it's roughly like this; - load the 2 stl's of your dual print. - select them - hold "shift" and click "center and arrange" to merge the models - create 2 processes - set the extruder in one process to 0 and in the other to 1 - set the other setting as you like (nozzle, temp, speed etc etc etc - in each process SELECT MODELS (bottom left of window) to allocate one of the stl's to a process (warning, I think by default both stl's are allocated to all processes. There is a way (after you set the stuff that needs to be different like allocate model, and extruder number) to combine the to processes so if you change something in one its also changed in the other. Select both processes, go to "edit" / "group selection" You set the tool change script in the script tab of each process. You set the toolchange retraction in the advanced tab of each process. example of the toolchange script I used on the magnetic head setup, obviously you don't need the change movements, but it's good to know f.e. the {IF NEWTOOL=1} function. https://ultimaker.com/en/community/10657-a-different-multi-extrusion-approach-um-tool-printhead-changer?page=10#reply-106547 looking at an old file i think I first created one process with 2 extruders, called them primary and secondary (one = T0, other T1), then copied the process, and in the 2th propces set extruder to the "secondary")

About what? I can't see anything

sure, I agree reliability is more important than speed.

that is indeed a pretty well thought out proces!

that's looking pretty good!How long did the benchy take to print?