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Nice! I was thinking about cosplaying some day, perhaps even print something. I have no doubt the winner will have created something amazing, not being able to compete against it. Especially the design part. But I might give it a try, to get printing and designing again, something simple. But what? *puts on thinking cap*

A brim is always nice, but I noticed a huge difference when switching to a different stick. The tesa stick works like a beast when spread out with a wet cloth. In comparison to a general glue stick

Awesome to hear um3s are shipped out already, shame to hear about the gantry, let's hope it is a one of a kind. As for WiFi, instinctively I would print USB or ethernet due to WiFi sensitivity, but your problem sounds different. I think @nallath or @daid will be interested in some log files to solve the problem

Nice! Congratulations!

Same here, but I believe that was stated as a no go, something with the costs or time. It would solve the problem totally though.

@SandervG I'm not sure if you understand what I'm saying, what I believe many of us mean(thanks @nallath I'm aware of Googles answer and that is my point exactly) Sander, either a search engine works or it doesn't, listing all topics also means it found the right one. Users need it to be top 5 at least. I would be perfectly fine with an active and recently replied to Cura feedback to be higher in the list. But look at the results! How can you claim your search engine works? It was shit, is less shit now for sure, but no way this is acceptable. I know what I'm looking for, you are too. New users don't. Not the first 5 hits, you lost them. Stop telling yourself and others it is working but could be better. Acknowledge the fact that it currently is NOT working and make sure your priorities are set accordingly. Note, "you/yourself" isn't personal, it's the entire team behind the website.

@SandervG, you mentioned somewhere the search is working better than ever before. I'd disagree. Still. I'm not sure whether I mentioned this in the irl feedback, in the beta testing after, during live updates, but as long as I cannot FIND this very topic using search, something is wrong. Look at the screenshots. What on earth is a topic with 0 replies, 1,5 years old doing so high, and this topic so low(#15-20)? Or what about searching for the actual same title? Still #15-20 somewhere. WHAT THE HECK is going on in the search engine? I don't get it. [media=21924][/media] It just isn't working. Don't tell me you believe it is. Or do you get different results causing you to think it is working for everybody. Who is testing this and calling it working? I'm not sure if there is a topic like this, but please make a sticky topic somewhere with known issues or what you guys are working on. Many things feel so obvious, like the search engine, but I didn't bother posting again as I thought it was obvious. Apparently it is not. So please release a detailed list with known issues/Work in progress so we can say what else is missing/failing. I'm not a backend site developer, but come on, searching on a site is possible and should be basic functionality. I'd even go so far as to say it is THE most important functionality on a forum like this where users help each other. And right now, it is still not sufficient. Please understand that I'm not angry, just frustrated to see a forum I held so dear still lacking in basic aspects that make my daily visits frustrating, causing me to stop by less frequently. Also, when I'm in the forum part of the website(Community/forum), and I search, I expect the results to be from the forum, not site. Ofcourse when I'm on the site I expect site results, but when I'm in resources I expect resources, people=people. I don't want to go to XXX to search for XXX and getting YYY results a) it costs me extra clicking/loading b) you will lose your new site/forum user as they might not know why they are not getting the expected result.

I think there should be a clear distinction between: how to use your printer -newbie version. and How to push things to the limit and over. The first I'd see on the site somewhere, manual like. Much like there is now (I assume given all the questions people can't find it still, see feedback topic for some things there). The second is really the hackers space part of the forum, perhaps it should even have it's own category, separate of all the hardware software etc distinctions.

Is the bed still dropping down? Hope you are succesfull!

1 thing that has been bugging me, although it's probably not a bug, is: When opening a topic you never read by clicking on the unread button(or the border on the left), it goes to the first unread REPLY. Not including the actual main post, that I never saw either. So I'd have to scroll up for that :(

Exactly! That's how I see it, rather than a few 'news' items on upgrades. That is great to start with, but it also needs to be inviting to build upon improvements/tricks or totally different things.

haha Neotko, 1,75 mm mod, I should have known Sander, yeah just throwing the weirdest ideas out there to spark ideas from others. Nallath, I figured (especially the last reason). Nevertheless I still hope the community can give you some new ideas to consider Is there still a downwards homing switch? Then you could home down, and trace the gcode from end to start until you 'home' on your incomplete model. Kinda, hackish, not realiable. Nevermind

Ah that might solve things yes. Otherwise check your stepper driver, is it getting enough power? Look for what the potmeter should be about.

Ok so more back on topic. I'm not sure what I would like to know of the UM3, but I'm interested in stuff we didn't hear yet. I guess this is mainly software related @daid @nallath, what kind of features can we expect in some point in time, either from UM, or things you would like to see the community do. Examples that were already mentioned: -Detecting filament empty/jam, and continuing with the other nozzle? -NFC writing(add an NFC tag to your own spool, write in a certain format to it using your phone/UM and let the UM/cura read it and use it.) -Using active leveling to resume prints, or something else if the new boards allow for it? Going absolutely banana's, this is hardware hacking, something up @neotko or @foehnsturm alley. What about a print core changer Note, not triple extrusion but perhaps for nozzle sizes, or for using 3/4 cores: Walls(PLA), infill(same PLA), Walls/support(other material /PVA), infill/support(same other material/ PVA) What else can we imagine possible ? @rooiejoris UM3 Z-unlimited hack for extruding high prints with solvable support Just sparking some creativity among the community, and trying to get the UMstaff to tell us more about the roadmap of possible features incoming for as far as they are allowed to share

I'm still convinced the write ups such as Neotko did are the best. But perhaps you can make new forum part that links those and has the same discussion as underneath the articles in a forum style section. Writing stuff up is a lot of work, especially when going into detail. But perhaps this forum part can different than complete neat write ups, but kinda like summaries of what has been talked about in the forum. Either way, someone is going to have to do the work. Though when I read @ivan-lipunov s post, and also what he wrote in the other topic/forum (can't remember). It's broader than the community mods. It is also about software like plugins/other software than Cura, and for example methods like how to approach models like XXX, or what to do with YYY. It's a knowledge database, but of a higher level than the already in place getting started UM database.

It depends, if your motors are not powered, i.e. You can move the bed by hand or turn the screw, then congratulations you assembled everything right! The bed should be able to drop yo the bottom slowly when unpowered. This was different on the original bed where it would stay in place. If you have your machine on, and use the menu to make the z move by 1 or 0.1mm then it should not fall down. So calibrate with the motor powered on and move to using the ulticontroller (or Cura if without ulticontroller)

@foehnsturm, Perhaps a new topic van be useful when you start recruiting for beta /feedback / moving towards commercial product I agree with your focus on um2(+) as that is what you working with. Users with such a printer want a reliable kit to upgrade. UMO users can come later and can do with more hacking, they are used to it. I'd offer help on UMO, but I think there're already more committed people here

Permanently I might add, until reload.

When you write a long long long post as I just did in the UM3 topic, and you press edit, nothing happens. Or actually, things happen: underneath your post the edit window appears, but when that is not visible due to the post length, you have no clue something actually happened. Scroll to window when pressing edit would solve the problem.

Time for my 2 cents. I've read a lot, want to answer a few questions, so it's going to be chaos. Let me however start the fact that I'm biased. I've known Ultimaker from the start being an intern at ProtoSpace, the fablab in Utrecht where UM was started(Do you have an early UM, then there is a change I lasered the frame ). Back then it was about getting things to work better than currently available. And, being a (partial) kit, getting it to be assembled reliable. Especially the hot end was critical. When I printed stuff on an UM in 2011 I was happy if something came out within a day of trying to get it to work(slicing, first layer problems, other errors). But I was happy, it was new, cool, a toy in the lab. Fast forward to like 2,5 years ago, I got back into 3D printing and was amazed by the advances(Cura being imo one of the most important, but also hotend design and reliability). This is about the same time I started to get back in touch with old friends and got to know more amazing UM staff, and became active on the old forum. I'd still have to spend some time to get everything right, but way less. During this time I got the same impression but even stronger. UM products have to work, better than others, but most importantly, more reliable. The stories I heard from @Korneel, on print and forget with UM2's. And at some point with the Heated Bed Kit I could just press print and walk away too. In that regard the Apple comparison works. Within a certain market, you couldn't really pick wrong with an UM. Sure it was more expensive than a $200 China kit, but a non technical person could work with it and create art or scale models. Note that I'm not trying to brush over the 'many' troubles with couplers, hot ends etc and hacks (feeders, cable guides), and upgrades such as the Olsson block proved great, even making it into the official upgrade kit. In that sense UM still had the roots of the community, working together to create the best solution for everyone. However I do know a lot of people that made amazing things with stock UMs, no problems what so ever(most cases involved more patience, most of the forum users want to push the limits, speed, temperatures, models, hacks, upgrades, etc). I never thought about buying an UM2(+), as budget wouldn't allow it, and part of the fun was tinkering with the printer, upgrading it, kit or custom. So I'm not in the same boat as others that faced the release of a new edition a few weeks/months after buying theirs. However, I know the feeling. Being a geek, always wanting the newest. I feel your pain. However the complaints @Ultimaker for not letting you know are ridiculous. People expect things from Ultimaker, comparing them to the largest companies in the west, yet when it comes to releases they want Ultimaker to be personal? When buying a car or Apple product it also doesn't say on the product page what it can't do, or that there might be a product next months. Look at Xiaomi, started out as a Chinese phone company and is now branching out. A week after the moment you buy a phone, you know a new one is getting announced. Well, you know that once you are in the Xaiomi world. The first time you find out the hard way. As for the dual extrusion upgrade on UM2(note, NOT +), as stated many times before, they wanted to, but only if feasible. That is, affordable, functioning without doubt, and above all, easy enough to install so that anyone can do it. Anyone. When they realized this was not going to work, they had the balls to tell us. Even though they thought and told people just 4 months earlier, it was going to come. That is tough to do, but right, and they did it. People got angry, and Ultimaker tried to work things out with them and the resellers. Reactive, perhaps proactive too, I don't have any data on that, and in some cases it worked out, others it didn't. Going back to the specific discussion now on UM3. We don't know what PVA will cost yet I believe. It could be very very expensive, only to be used if otherwise not possible, not just because it is easier/prettier. Yes it will create many many options, but an UM2+ can do most things too(and currently with the Olsson block things UM3 can't: nozzle sizes). Then again, you won't need nozzles for materials as the print cores seem to solve that completely. The concept of print cores is perfect for the power user/industrial. The print and forget aspect. Replace without downtime. And don't forget, these things are really well designed and tested. It is an UM product after all. @makingzone, I believe it is still advised to use wipe towers, but the oozing problem has mostly been solved by the design of the hotend, allowing it to cool down and heat up very fast, and reliably. Summarizing, I think UM did a great job on the UM3 as a 3D printer itself. As for upgrade paths, or market aim. Time will tell what will happen. I really hope they will keep the tinkering spirit(think hack core) and work with the community to hack things, which in turn can improve UM3+ or UM4's. What we need to realize however is how incredibly large this company has become in a short while. Every time I visit their space has like doubled. With a larger company comes a larger inertia. You can't just get a part, can't just make a kit by taking some things here and there. Even things like bringing spare parts to UMevenings to save shipping have become incredibly hard to manage as the entire production/assembly machine is large and doesn't allow for these personal touches. Ultimaker has grown up, and I keep enjoying it, even though I'm already starting to miss things. Note, there have been quite a lot of things I didn't agree with, or thought could be better(forum is one of them, sometimes communication or other things) and both the R&D people I know such as @Nallath @Daid and the community managers such as @SandervG have always been there to listen, agree, disagree or argue(I could add more people but they are not active here on the forums). For me that is the personal touch that makes Ultimaker special, next to good printers. That is also the reason I reached out to them, offered feedback and beta testing. Someone mentioned make shootouts? I'd put my money on UM3 for a #1 spot. For it's target audience, and perhaps even less professional audiences that just want results and have the money. This all being said, I'm really hyped to see UM3 hit the market, and read about user experiences. With that happening soon enough, it's time to sit down and think about the next step in desktop 3D printing Ultimaker could make. Edit: damn that turned out longer than anticipated. Edit2: Just noticed my finale paragraph in combination with my current level title is very fitting:

Haha, wow! I wish there was a video of the printing/dissolving! Not entirely sure how to make sure Cura uses the PVA as 'egg' material, but then again I've never done dual extrusion I should start printing again. @SandervG I haven't seen a contest for a while now Not expecting a win an UM3, perhaps nothing physically even(see suggestion topic on how to proceed with contests). Just want to get kickstarted to print something

I'm seeing a reverse option for pva: Print a model of something, with pva around, as a cocoon. Surprise egg solvable in water!

That is amazing Flowalistik!

Yeah, but then again, it would also destroy any form of automated intelligence with leveling and performance, tuning, leakage etc. Ruining the reliable product. This is made for power users and businesses, keep that in mind. 24/7 uptime without maintenance or calibration is what they are aiming for. With 1 core you can print different materials in sequence without changing. From what I've heard the cores actually outperform expectations. It might just not be a cheap hobbyist printer.

If the NL launch party is open I might stop by @SandervG?