cloakfiend
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Im finding the Forum taking longer to load pages than before. Post your latest print takes forever to load, and i just gave up many times, i assume as it has many pages or something, but this should not be an excuse as if the forums grows, then it will truly become useless.
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Stay away from ABS, it prints cleaner and better in my opinion, but the warping is just too random and may ruin a print if your not very careful. It also tends to snap easier than PLA.
BTW!
The whole printing nothing after plastic coming out when you've just loaded it, is due to the cooling of the filament next to the head and the problem arises from the filament cooling down and melting into the nozzle creating a gap between the filament in the nozzle and the filament going into the nozzle so that by the time the heat bed has heated up to 60 Degrees or whatever, the filament is no longer connected to the nozzle, as the bit you loaded has melted. To avoid this, either, a. heat up the bed before hand so that when you press print, it print immediately, as the nozzle is hot and the bed too! or you manually move material after heating up both nozzle and bed and then as fast as you can go to print and hope you did it quick enough.
if the nozzle is melted with filament in it, and you click change material it often gets stuck and just grinds the hell out of the material by the feeder, so that it has none left to grip on therefore leaving it stuck. Just get some plier and pull it out.
You will generally not need to unscrew ANYTHING unless you want to give the feeder a bit of a clean inside, but blowing into it is usually enough for me.
i recommend two atomic pulls before every print to ensure you don't get jams later. and remember with pla heat it up to 260 and then start pushing, but as you dial it down to 70 , keep pushing it so that by the time it cools its still filling up the nozzle so that when you pull it out around 85-89 degrees, you clean all the inside of the nozzle, not just the bottom bit.
below 85 degrees will just snap the pla in the nozzle BTW and you'll have to start the process again, and do it when the head is in one of the corners so you don't bend the bars.
I do it so much i don't even bother taking out the blue thing anymore that connects the bowden tube! lol.
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Has anyone got any xtc-3D models they've painted with high levels of detail in them? Just to see how they compare next to acetoned ones?
Can someone who own any do a split model, i.e. paint half the model with the 3d coating and half not so you can compare the detail on the exact same print like i did on the model below.(which is acetone on PLA BTW)
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I get those lines when my spool of filament is jamming itself or turning too tightly, try printing something small with some filament off the reel. As in cut of a bit and feed it in so that you can at least test the if the feeder is at fault, as if its pulling even very slightly. I only print like this now and get constant perfect layer height. It wastes a bit, but i can always get it recycled when i have enough of it, so im not bothered, and im happy to 'waste' this extra bit to achieve my perfect layer heights as it means far less sanding and post work before spraying.
Its worth a shot, even just to see how it looks....
Also check your model to make sure its looking fine in the View mode/layers option. Before you print so you know what the program is trying to print.
...and get some sewing oil and lube up the bars, cant hurt.
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Yeah removing the arrows would make sense on only having one picture, but as you pointed out there is still a bug loading multiple images? no? i could be wrong i didnt check, i just noticed a while back the thumbnails didnt load correctly.
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@personal drones, i posted 3 pics a while back only to have them all fail and just have nothing, so i figured out that there is a bug when loading them in, once you load an image the reason it doenst load is that the bar at the top stops it. I posted multiple pics succefully, just click on the arrows on copper patina test, and i put 4 or 5 pictures, as well as my iron budda.
to load them, just scroll the page up and down after you have selected them (to activate the bar at the top) and they'll show up as thumbnails, otherwise they are just blank and when you hit post i guess it doesnt post them as the thumbnails haven't loaded?
Hope that helps those having trouble, at least i figured something out. The picture section is an area i like in this forum.
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@SandervG I hear you and you gotta do what you gotta do, and are the notifications are taking me to the relevant post? well I think they are, when they aren't if you know what I mean.
I'll keep swinging by keeping an eye on things and see how things improve in the future. Im no Ultimaker master but am now totally comfortable in every aspect of using it, so im happy.
If I was just looking at this forum for the first time, I think it would have taken me a lot longer to find and read all the things I did that helped me, thats all I'm saying.
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I don't think the notifications are fixed, just got a message saying a thread i posted on had a reply, did it? like hell it did. Maybe from 3 days ago?
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Yes, I hear you mr. olsson and cant disagree with any points you've made!
My thoughts on why they did it are purely because they wanted to intergrate it with the main site, which i understand, but if it causes this much mess, then is it really worth it.... not so sure? in fact definitely no. Now it doesnt even come up in the search so even less people are aware of the forum, and they'll most likely just go to other forums for reviews and such as they'd want them to be unbiased. So add on that the main hardcore users who would have left as all their friends have left, and you are left with newbies only, and a whole lot of repeating yourself which wouldn't be the case had you just left the forum alone, the money could have been spent better developing an unblockable nozzle system and a better feeder mechanism (which are the only real bad point on the Ultimaker)..
I also spent much writing long threads, but if all the people who have helped leave, then its like starting from scratch, New forum, new users. Not so advanced users.
This is bad for Ultimaker, and an ugly but usable forum is for the hardcore, i.e. for the serious who want to improve. a pretty forum is never needed but helps with PR. Its why some companies deliberately make their plugins look old and ugly to keep the people they really want using them, its the functionality that matters.
Ultimaker should turn this forum into a chat forum and reopen the old one (ignoring any newly posted content to save any headaches) to the functional one.
But they wont, because that would mean separating it from the ultimaker.com URL which was probably the only reason for this forum.
I have a feeling the Ultimaker Forums got more hits than thewebsite so they thought they would get more hits on the website by mixing the to together, but its clearly not working. this thread already has over 11.5K views.
Im sure ill find another site to post images and finishing techniques on if this places talent dies.
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These blank general forum things really need to be fixed asap....
and slooooow speeds on the site seem to be getting pretty regular today. Two more reasons to dislike this forum.
Im also spending more time here reading this thread than i feel i should be....
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On the other hand there are a few odd prints where i noticed a useless bit of plastic, but i believe that to be related to the leftover plastic melted in the nozzle, building up pressure as the newly heaated up filament pushed in to the old and then you get a clump, which i just remove and its fine. Im sure you wont get it with all prints. Its a small price to pay, and it only happens during the first layer which i always tend to watch so im not too bothered by this.
You could always try printing on a raft? i used to but dont anymore since printing closer to the glass.
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try printing a little closer to the bed as well. its when the PLA? doesnt stick i used to get this all the time. I print the first layer hot and closer to the bed. never got these problems since.
Or the only other problem which ive also had was i unknowingly moved the object a touch up of the xy so it prints in the air, but that was my fault for not checking the base alignment properly, worth taking a look also.
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Did anyone ask why he is leaving? I always like to know specifics, lol.
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I just got ghost mail as soon as i posted this....
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I had three ghost messages which didn't even load this time and just left me waiting for nothing to load, wasted my time. Then the website took forever to load pages and hung... and likes still dont seem to show when you hover over them like in the old forum, its nice to know peoples tastes.
oh well.
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I dont see a reason why the forum has no direct link?
You can bookmark https://ultimaker.com/en/community
Yes thats true, but as i computer hop quite a lot, i dont always use the same browsers and setups. and if you want more people coming to the forum then a direct link would show people that you have a forum, its how i found it before and i assume many others did too. Now i would never had known you even had a forum.
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Im using new cura and never used the usb on my ultimaker ever. I also only use the memory card that came with the ultimaker, and have only had one case where the file saved incorrectly from cura because the options suddenly appeared defferent on the ultimaker, i just went to cura again, redid it and it was ok. I bought ultimaker last september and am also on cura 15.02.01. if that helps. im using everything defult and also dont play with setting to much. if you want send me the files via wetransfer and ill take a look?
P.S. if your models are extremely thin, they will show in cura but not in the layer mode, and will print nothing. make sure yuor models have enough thickness to print. and use the layer mode in cura to check you model, this is a MUST if you want to get results that you expect.
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I think im just going to resort to posting pictures from now on, going through threads is just frustrating unless you stick to one area and ingnore the others to save wasting time looking for stuff. Im not sure if im clicking on a thread or a link to more threads, or a title of thread or if im just confused, lol, ill see how this all pans out in the coming weeks.
And when I type Ultimaker Forums in google why is there no link???? i have to click on ultimaker, then community, then forum, an then a main thread and then the topic thread. That a lot of clicks. It gets annoying. big time.
I dont see a reason why the forum has no direct link?
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more blank general forum alerts, 2nd or third one today!
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Yes im getting the ghost general forum empty link pages as well. Actually took me a while to find this thread, which is the main problem of this new forum, and if it happend not to be in the three threads shown, I doubt i would have ever found it, or would have given up trying.
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Is that the top that is bumpy or the bottom? you really need to give more info for more help. the outside is not perfectly round, most likely due to model topology, and the surface is bumpy from being too hot, or if its the bottom, too cold, or too far awy from the glass. The closer to the galss at the start and hotter, to smoother the surface as it all melts together nicely. Play with temperate as you are printing and experiment. i keep dialling down temos until the feeder clicks suggesting that the nozzle is not hot enough to melt the plastic anymore. mainly i print at 208 for .06mm at 35mm/s and 210 at .1.
Your model doesnt look so bad, just play around with temp. and dont print too fast. printing at high speeds shouldnt even be advertised, it defeats the point if you are after quality. Fast speeds should only really be used for dirty mockups and to get an idead of whqt you are making dont expect thing to look good printed at 200mm/s compared to 50.
Also a lot of people seem to think printing infill at diferent speeds to the shell is a good idea. It isnt, and also creates a long list of problems.
Hope this has helped somewhat, main this is to experiment, then you really know. Without experimentation you are always in the dark on whats best for your printer.
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What I think everyone would agree on is that we need a page (preferably near the start of the forum) that displays as many sections and threads that is possible. not just a few on the current chosen topic or the most commonly viewed ones or most popular, but all, or as many as you can.
Also it needs a direct weblink to this forum, constantly clicking on ultimaker then community and blah blah gets very irritating.
Its these little things that save time that I miss the most.
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Just to let others know this new forum will take getting used to, and as someone stated already Frederik i think, that it was a massive part of my experience also and checking what people were saying about things and news in general was actually addictive. That has been killed somewhat and this new forum, not entirely bad but still very light on the selection pages (seem to remember having more posts viewable at a time, and now you can only see the latest three or something. Its still guess work, to an extent, even though i think it was previously, but seeing more post per page, gave the impression it was layed out better or something. Ill get used to this, but my main gripe is wandering if im not seeing a thread that is not necessarily the most current trending topic, but interesting none the less, with this new minimal view, i cant seem to tell if im looking at all the new threads. This for me is the main problem. The old look was a proper working no nonsense default layout forum, that was made for users not for vanity which i feel this one is to an extent, but i can understand you for wanting to spruce things up, but seeing as many threads and topics per page to me is the most important thing as it means i can see things changing order over time, (i.e. thread order) so I know exactly whats new and whats trending without being limited to only seeing three topics or something. Im not hating this new look, and you have fixed most of the errors in my previous posts, but still feel like posting things might get omitted or not see whereas before i felt that they would be. Hard to put my finger on what i dont like as i forgot exactly what the old forum looked like and why i was drawn into it. This one feels like a chatroom, whilst the other one felt like a forum. I think?
the edit box still needs a delete post button, and the last time i posted more than one picture in the prints section, nothing posted. only when i posted one picture did it work?
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I would have fixed it had i noticed it but i didn't, i don't really mind as i'm going to paint it so its fine! I've done a few base coat test which came out interesting...lol.
Filament wheel getting stuck? - Extrusion problem
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@kayzay it does get tangled, it happened to me twice and i decided never again as i was doing 48 hrs prnts and got pissed off. this is also the cause of uneven layering, due to to inconsistent variations in pressure into the feeder head cos of the jams. i never print of the spool anymore. i just measure what i need off the spool and cut it off and balance it on the holder. flawless prints eversince and i get perfect layering as a bonus. bout half a meter wasted each time, but its a price im more than willing to pay, and after i have a lot i can always recycle it, so its not really wasted.