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For Sale: Ultimaker 2 (New Jersey, USA)
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in Buying or selling your UltiMaker
I originally bought it to prototype a new product. Funding ran out and the only thing I use it for now is to print something random off Thingiverse every few months. Figured someone could put it to better use. -
Buying Used Ultimaker2
guitardr34m replied to moldovan-marius's topic in Buying or selling your UltiMaker
I'm actually selling my Ultimaker 2 with a couple rolls of used filament at various lengths. Probably 30-40 hours of print time. Asking $1600 shipped anywhere in USA. -
I'll give that a try thanks so much. It does show in normal view as a whole object and I can move it around and resize. But on the top left it says 0 minute print time and nothing shows up in layers view.
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Hey everyone, I've been printing a bunch of parts I made in Sketchup for the past few weeks. I export them as COLLADA files and just load them into Cura and print them without an issue. I've printed 10+ parts and this is the last one I need and for the life of me I can't get it to show up in Cura. I've redrawn it multiple times and even changed it slightly to see if it would work but it just literally won't show up in layers view. Could anyone help? http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:735447/#files This is the part I'm trying to make. Any suggestions are very helpful. Thanks!
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Part not printing as it shows in Cura
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Thanks for the quick reply. I leveled the bed a little closer to the nozzle like you suggested and also downloaded the plugin and used the settings you showed. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byffs2-9EE3bRTRGaGx3NGtGeGpOZnJXdHdFa2tpTmsySlpZ/view?usp=sharing It looks a lot better but i'm still having some issues with it. It almost looks like its printing them too fast. I have the print speed set to 30mm/s and the infill to 60mm/s. Would that have anything to do with it? I assumed 30mm/s would be slow enough but maybe its printing at 60 instead? I didn't think those circles would be considered infill. -
Part not printing as it shows in Cura
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Thanks again for that tip my 12 hour print came out almost flawless thanks to you! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byffs2-9EE3bUlhlWXBTTVhiMTQ/view?usp=sharing But now I seem to have another problem with a different print that I am hoping you could help with. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byffs2-9EE3baDJVQlBNTTJueVk/view?usp=sharing The problem as you can probably see is with the outline it makes for the small circles. When it prints them the nozzle keeps extruding as it travels to the next one and it grabs onto the circles and ruins them. I tried decreasing the retraction speed and increasing the height but that didn't help. I also increased the bed temp. to 70c for the first layer as I read in some threads and decreased the nozzle temp. to 198c. Neither of those helped. Any other ideas on how I could fix this? -
Part not printing as it shows in Cura
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Thanks for those tips it's really appreciated! -
Hey everyone, I finally decided to purchase an Ultimaker 2. I printed some small little items the other day when I got it and they came out great. But now I need to start printing parts for a prototype I'm working on which is the whole reason I bought the printer to start with. Here is a copy of the amf file I uploaded to Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:497580 As you guys can see it's symmetrical on both sides but when I started to print it, the holes on the right side didn't print out. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byffs2-9EE3bRGJ2QWxGdG13ZFE/view?usp=sharing You can see in this picture that the 2 holes on the bottom printed out fine and also the start of the larger hole came out fine. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byffs2-9EE3bTHdpeGxKbUV1RUU/view?usp=sharing But then on the other side the 2 smaller holes kind of came out but the start of the larger hole isn't even there. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Any insight is much appreciated.
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Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
This isn't really related to my question but I didn't want to start a new topic to ask it. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the PDF of the "Terms of Service"? They're page on it on the Support tab isn't working and I haven't gotten a response via email from them for a couple days now. It's just something I'd like to read regarding warranties and things like that before I put in an order. Thanks for any help! -
Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Good thread. I was looking for a carbon fiber ABS thread and didn't find anything but your point definitely makes sense. Thank you. -
Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Wow I didn't even know you could do that. That sounds like an awesome idea though it's something I definitely need to try out. Thanks for that. Yea I was also looking into other materials and I came across a carbon fiber mixed ABS that seems very strong and I think it would work really well if I were to make the layer height a bit thicker and keep the infill pretty low to cut down the printing times. -
Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Thanks that actually really put things in perspective for me. I had no idea that it was printed like that. I really appreciate all the help everyone. It makes things a lot less confusing for me and pretty confident in ordering my first Ultimaker 2. -
Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
As you can probably tell I have never done anything like this before. I changed the layer height to 0.2 and it dramatically decreased the print time but there are also two 1" horizontal holes going through the side of it. How would changing the layer height to 0.2 affect those holes? Again I have never 3D printed anything before so when you say 30-40% infill, even though it's a solid block it wouldn't print solid? Sorry if that's a dumb question I definitely need to read into this some more. It's not as easy as I thought it was going to be. Thanks for both of your answers it's much appreciated. -
Question before I buy a Ultimaker 2
guitardr34m replied to guitardr34m's topic in UltiMaker 3D printers
Wow thanks for such quick replies. I'm just waiting for the confirmation email from YouMagine and i'll be sure to upload my file. It's pretty much a 6"x4"x6" block with some room bored out to hold a stepper motor and holes for a guide rod and a lead screw. But other than that it's just a solid block. I was thinking about taking chunks out of it for faster print times but I don't want to take away from its strength. Anyway i'll upload the file and post a link here and if you guys have any suggestions I'm all ears. Thanks again! -
Hey everyone, I've recently been prototyping a product and I've decided that 3D printing would be the most efficient way to do so. I had my first run of parts made with an online company and it was quite expensive, so for my next run I think it would be best just to purchase my own printer and save money in the long run. Now I downloaded Cura and just loaded in my 3D models just to see how much they'd cost to do myself and how long it would take. My biggest piece said it would take 90 hours to make. I know nothing about 3D printing so I was wondering if this is normal? Can I keep that printer running for 3 days? It just seems a bit crazy to me but then again I'm a complete amateur with this so that may be a short amount of time compared to other things I just don't know. Any insight on this before I put an order in for my own printer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.