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Blizz

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  1. I had pretty much the same issue with my printer delivery.

    I had it delivered to the company I work for and even though I put my name in the delivery address, only the company was mentioned. There are 500 people working in that building so my heart pretty much stopped when I saw the tracking go to "delivered" without hearing anything. It took me 4 hours of running around like a headless chicken to locate the darn thing. Luckily for me, since I know where the package was coming from and what it was supposed to contain they weren't too annoying in releasing it.

    I sent sales a message that same day of delivery and they assured me they would look into it.

    Haven't heard more since its not really important for me, but I hope they did. Far from pleasant, these things.

     

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    G1 E8 F225 ; purge nozzle with 8mm of filament

    Guess that's the one you mean. That would solve one of the other issues for me, namely that when starting a print after another the nozzle is empty.

    So that leaves only the retraction during a print.

     

  3. Daid I thought that my current nozzle was going to be unusable. Since the filament creeping upwards is not a direct consequence of the cut I have, I just figured I might as well try to drill it out.

    I didn't even know yet when we were at the Ulti-Evening.

    Can they do that at ProtoSpace btw? Otherwise I'll just bring it with me next time ;) I am certainly prepared to pay for the effort, either in cookies (if they accept that currency) or plain ol' cash ;)

     

  4. Okay thanks! I've been hesitant to order at 123Inkt before but since a couple of people present at the Ulti-Evening had good experience with their filament I went ahead and bought a whole bunch of colors there. I'll wait until then as at the moment I have only "dark" colors :)

     

  5. That's for sure... The supports it generates are very easy to remove.

    Now if I only could solve the fact that it retracts the filament more than it forwards it. After about half an hour I'm just printing hot air. Not something I ever had with Cura.

     

  6. Yeah I definitely don't want to start drilling the way the linked video above shows. That's why I started a new topic about it instead of just reacting in the one where that video was already posted ;)

    The weight of the entire block is completely unbalanced, as the heater block sticks out to the side of the nozzle. It would never rotate without hopping all over. You can pretty much forget centering your drill that way.

    In this case it's the drill that will need to rotate.

     

  7. I was at the UM Evening a couple days back. When they heard I was a fairly recent addition to the community they asked me what I thought could really be improved.

    I replied with 2 things:

     

    • Introduce a geek mode in the firmware for the UM2, remaining time only is stupid for the techies
    • Create a central repository for categorised tips and tricks. The community should be able to rate these as to get rid of "less good" tips

     

    As a n00b I noticed as well that it's a lot of work to actually gather the intel you need and it would be awesome to have that in a central location. Some kind of a categorised wiki with ratings would be perfect.

    If they don't want to set it up I might, but it would be cooler if this was also linked to your forum account (no anonymous contributions).

     

  8. @MedicalModeler: You can set them both in the code and on the printer (while printing in the Tune menu).

    In the gcode will probably be for advanced users only.

    If you are using Cura you can switch to advanced mode and use the "Tweak at Z" plugin. Just double click it to add an instance to the list below. Set the height at which you want to change things (either in mm or layers) and configure what you need. You can add multiple instances of the plugin if you would like to change stuff at different heights.

     

  9. For me 45ºC for the bed when printing PLA works perfect for the first layer.

    I up it to 55 a 60ºC after starting either the 2nd or 3rd layer (basically at the point I start my side fans).

    75º (what the default was when I bought the printer) was simply too high so 80 will probably be as well.

    I am printing brims lately for parts with a smaller base, they come of easy enough with little visible "damage" and it helps a lot.

     

  10. Agree about the avatar thing. But that doesn't make it that much easier. For instance Titus, I've seen your avatar before, yet I couldn't link you with "the real person" initially. I propose that next time we wear labels with our forum/real names ;)

     

  11. It's more of an "everywhereextrusion" :)

    Perhaps useful to know: For this to work the filament needs to be retracted the entire time, as making it shorter pulls the plunger down. They gave a couple suggestions on how to do that. One was to edit the gcode and replace all " E" with " E-" and Daid suggested that setting the flow rate to -100 might work as well, but he wasn't sure.

    I'll make sure to add this to the pictures as well, I guess it will be lost otherwise.

    Funny part of the entire store was that the way to get the chocolate in the syringe and the air out involved a lot more steps than the actual making of the aiding tools :) (something with swirling around the syringe attached to a piece of rope, it will be in the videos when they post it and it's pretty funny to see)

     

  12. As someone from Ultimaker was filming, I did not make a video myself. But for those who can't wait or are interested in what things looked like (and a "working" version of the chocolate printing): Check my album below.

    Youmagine link of the models is included in the pictures.

    Ulti-Eventing - 14/07/2014 - ProtoSpaceHuge ass printer @ ProtoSpacePrinting substances in syringesMessing around with chocolate

     

  13. @Travis for a full 5 minutes yes :p

    I oiled it up a bit internally when assembling hoping for smoother movement. Unfortunately while trying to rotate things it "flew" out of my hand and the top gear broke a tooth on landing. I probably had too much oil left on my hands (Lets just ignore the clumsiness for now).

    Guess I have to print that one again, but didn't have time yesterday as I had to bag my printer for tonights' meet. It'll probably be something for tomorrow.

    Ow btw: I have exactly the same issue: More than half of my prints are because of the "oooh"s and "aaah"s of my better half hehe.

     

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