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So I've been testing out the free colorfabb samples I've been given and I have to say That I'm a bit disappointed so far. I've tried various different heat and speed settings but everything I try with this stuff comes out very stringy/hairy. Printed a small version of the grinner character Height 50mm Speed 30mm/sec infill speed 50mm/sec layer height 0.02mm nozle temp 200C bed temp 60C I really hope its just a bad sample and that the bluegrey colorfabb that I bought isn't like this Does anyone else out there that uses colorfabb have any tips or advice on heat settings etc?

Awesome work ulbie

Nice work Jonathan. I like the little green guy holding the glustick. I went to get some colorfabb from the imakr store today and came away with all this free stuff!! Its their birthday so they are giving away free samples of colorfabb and forma futura. The other box is a 3d printing pen that they are selling for £10 with any purchase until the end of the week. They normally sell them for £79.99. I don't know weather to have a play with it or sell it on ebay. ^_^ hmmmmm

@ Skint: Thanks man. If you have your computer working by the time I do the hulk I'll send you the file and you can have a go at printing it if you like. As far as real vs digital sculping goes I actually started with super sculpey when I was about 14. I saw a youtube video of someone using zbrush about 7 or 8 years ago and I couldnt believe how awsesome it looked. I was hooked within minutes of playing around with the demo version and bought a copy right away. I much prefer sculpting digitaly now and using zbrush has improved my traditional art skills as well. @AaronAli: Cheers mate. The gyroscope looks really cool, I'd love to start impimenting some functionality into my designs. I'm just a hobbyist with the whole 3D thing at the moment. My day job is working as a stage door keeper in a westend theatre answering phone calls and giving the dressing room keys to the actors as they come in etc. I have a ton of free time at work when nothing is happening so I just take my laptop and wacom tablet to work with me and practice zbrushing all day . I'd love to do something like character/creature design for games and film. I'm currently looking for jobs in the industry but its very difficalt as I have no formal qulifications in this area and everyone seems to want people with industry experience. @braddock: Awesome! That beast is comming along nicely. Do you tend to do much sanding and post prossesing to your prints? @fabskill: Nice print! very clean looking. I'm going to go to the imakr store after work today and pick up some filament. I think I'm going to go with colorfabb but I have heared mixed reviews about it. It sound like it's good stuff but occasionally people get a dodgy batch. I would go for faberdashery but I dont like the fact that it dosn't come on a spool. Also I wanted to ask you guys about how you store your filament. I've just been keeping mine on the back of the printer but I have heared that pla can absorb moisture which will effect the print and that it's a good idea to store it in a container when not in use?

I think your definitely right about enhancing detail.

I just had a thought, I haven't actually connected my printer to my pc yet so there may be a firmware update that I need. maybe this might help with the noisy prints?

@:Skint: Thanks man. I was actually thinking of doing a hulk soon. I'm concidering casting my prints in chavant or monster clay, refinining them and then recasting them in resin. I know it sounds like alot of effort but I'm a stickler for detail.

@:Skint: Thanks man. I was actually thinking of doing a hulk soon. I'm concidering casting my prints in chavant or monster clay, refinining them and then recasting them in resin. I know it sounds like alot of effort but I'm a stickler for detail.

Thanks man. I sliced it in Cura 14.01. I'm wondering if some of the noise is due to the fact that the model was highly detailed in Zbrush with lots of skin pores and such. I generated the supports in meshmixer and then tweaked them in Zbrush. I think I'm going to get some colorfabb today.

really inspiring work everyone. Great stuff. @ braddok: That creature is looking awesome. I don't know how you get such clean looking prints. Here's my second print. Its a character I did a few months back. I'm really pleased with this guy but I still think I can do better. There seems to be a lot of streaking going on in places. I've been using the blue filament that came with the printer and I'm wondering if it would make a difference if I used something else. I've seen a lot of people like using colorfabb. Is there much of a noticeable difference in quality between filaments? Anyone have any recommendations for filament? Height 150mm Layer height 0.06mm Print speed 30mm/sec Nozzle temp 210C Bed temp 65C Print time 59 hrs :shock:

Hey guys. So here it is, my first ever 3D printed design. As I said before I was having issues with Cura and had to print this guy a lot smaller than I had intended so a lot of the detail is lost due to scale. I also made the mistake of modeling some parts too thin, you can see that the bottom row of teeth didn't print properly. Other than that I'm pretty pleased with the results. Height 100mm Print speed 30mm/sec Layer height 0.06mm Bed temp 65C Nozzle temp 210C Time 12.5 hrs Pictures where taken on my iphone so the quality is not great. There seems to be a lot of noise on the print so I think I still have a bit of tweaking to do. I managed to solve the issue that I was having with Cura freezing the progress bar on large prints by rolling Cura back to 14.01 as per braddock's suggestion. I'm now printing another model at 150mm and 59 hrs :shock: lol. so far its looking good and there doesn't seem to be as much noise, maybe this is something to do with using the earlier version of Cura.

Man those skulls are awesome.

Thanks for the info IRobertl. I managed to get my model working in Cura now by either lowering the quality of the layer height or by reducing the height of of the model. I have chosen to do the latter and lower the models height from 160mm to 100mm. Does anyone know why this may of happened? Now going to start printing. I'm soooooo excited, this is the first time I'm going to print one of my sculpts :-P!!! I'll post results tomorrow.

True but it is well worth it. I bought my copy when it was version 3 for about £250 and its been free upgrades ever since :-P Another couple of questions. Do support structures need to be merged with the model so that the print is one continuous mesh. Also regrding the problem that I'm having with the progress bar freezing, I am able to view the model in slice mode and move through all of the slices so does this mean That the model is able to print even though the progress bar is frozen and there is no time/material est?

Wow such awesome stuff going on. @braddock: Very cool. did you use any supports to hold the teeth? @Skint: Stick with Zbrush, its so worth the learning curve. I got my ultimaker 2 on Tuesday and I'm very pleased with it. I havent had much time to play with it yet but will hopfully get a lot done this weekend. The first 2 attempts at printing the ultimaker robt faild with the print coming detatched from the buildplate. this was because I was using the gluestick and turning up the bed temperature too high which cooked the glue and prevented the print from sticking to the bed. Any way after correcting my mistake I got a print that I was really pleased with. So now I'm trying to print one of my own designs but I'm running Into some problems and I was hoping somone could help me. I have sculpted a creature bust in Zbrush. I have merged the seperate meshes into one using Dynamesh and have also used decimation master to reduce the polycount. Then I use Meshmixer to generate supports before bringing the model into cura for sliceing. When I get the model into Cura the progress bar fills up slowly and then freezes. I can still pan arround the model and change settings but the model never finishes sliceing. The model is around 400'000 polys, Is this too high for Cura? I also tryed another model with meshmixer supports and had the same problem so I removed the supports and tryed agin. This time it worked but when I clicked the SD card button to save the model nothing happend. Is there a particular workflow when using meshmixer supports? Hope someone can help me out as I cant wait to get printing stuff. Heres the model that I'm trying to print

Hey everyone. I'm new here and I just wanted to say I love all the stuff you guys are posting here. Great work everyone. I have just purchased an ultimaker 2 from the imaker store in london and should hopfully get it on Friday!!! I'm sooooo excited its ridiculous! For a while I was thinking of getting a form 1 but there seem to be alot of issuse with it at the moment (huge lead times, small build volume, lots of customers reporting print failures over a certain size, needing to swap build platform for differnt resin types) and also as I live in the UK it would cost a bomb in import tax not to mention expensive material costs. I came across the ultimaker 2 When I whent to the Imaker store in london and was blown away by the quality of the prints that they had made on the ultimaker 2. I honestly didnt think that you could get such high quality with an FDM printer. Needless to say when weighing up the pros and cons Ultimaker came out on top. Don't get me wrong, I think that the form 1 is an awesome machine but I just dont think it's worth the money and hassle at the moment. Any way I just wanted to say hi and that I very much look forward to sharing my work on here in the near future :grin: