lukem96

I tightened my nozzle with the 4 screw things quite tight today? could that really cause a problem? also the long belt on the back, the half where the pulley is, is fine, but the bottom part is really loose, can that cause a problem? Thank you!

Thanks for the reply! One of the issues is i am just terrible at leveling the bed, as i don't really know what signs i'm looking for but i think i've got it alright, however all corners are leveled but about half way down the right side the lines are coming out really jagged? Also i hear my extruder clicking, when it does this, material doesn't stick for a few seconds and it builds up by the head? my initial layer thickness is 0.3 initial layer line width is 100% shell thickness is 0.8 . Yes i can drop the temperature to 205 after the first layer, i could do a bit more probably but the filament looks the best at this temperature, but its just getting this first layer down clean, then its all good! Thanks for the reply! appreciate it

Thanks for the replies! appreciate it! Does anyone have an answer why it starts off really quickly? its only for the first 15 seconds of the print, but then i have to pause it clean everything off the nozzle and if anything actually stuck to the bed, then play it again and it prints normally.

Its on 3 out of 4 corners. What i think it may be is when it first starts it does some random bits of the first layer really fast and the head just moves around really quickly and nothing sticks, then it starts printing normally will some plastic on the nozzle which causes these problems. Why does the printer do these random bits first? I'm printing the bottom layer at 15 but it looks like the first part is around 40. Hope someone can help:)

Hello community! Okay i am printing this phone case, and as you can see from these pictures, the bottom layer is getting ruined in some places. I am using an ultimaker 2, and my settings are: 0.06 height layer 0.8 shell thickness and bottom layer speed was 15mm p/s Printing at 215 the filament is the rep rap uv reactive PLA, anyone have any advice? Thank you!

I just set my Ultimaker 2 to print, and when it tried to lift the build plate, it made a really loud grinding noise, the build plate didn't move any where, i just got really scared and turned it off, and came on here. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Would this be good? http://www.wickes.co.uk/Super-And-Glass-Stainless-Steel-Cleaner-750ml/p/114455 And between 200-220 with no luck:( Thanks for the reply! Apreciate it

Hello community, Okay for some reason the last few days my ultimaker 2 has been playing up, nothing is sticking to the build plate and its driving me crazy. What i have tried: re leveling (like a hundred times) cleaning the build plate using the glue stick/hair spray The Normal/high quality/ ultra quality settings on cura build plate at 50 - 60 degrees a few different types of PLA (which have worked fine previously) Basically what is happening is it isn't sticking and everything is just getting dragged by the nozzle, i don't know what else to suggest, anyone have any ideas? Thank you very much!

And i am still having problems with this file, if anyone is kind enough to offer to help that would be amazing, if i can send the file to someone and they can fix it i could not be more appreciative as this is driving me insane!

sorry i have been extremely busy,, okay i have got 3ds and illustrator. What is a vector file? what do you mean export as illustrator 8 ? thank you!

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately i don't really know what i am doing with 3ds so cant do much on there, what is this maya you are talking about though? sounds very interesting! Thank you

I also have no clue about blender and 3ds, but i want to second this approach: I'm pretty sure that you have a hidden (inner) wall in your model (marked on your screenshot) and you have to redesign it in some way without such a wall... (you have to remove all internal faces) Thank you so much! fixed the problem! really appreciate it, and everyone else for their advice, THANKS!

Still not working, anyone got any other advice? or has someone got netfabb pro which may be able to fix it where i can send you the model? really don't know what else to try, i needed tis sorted last night and was up most of the night, and been trying to sort it all day, and its driving me crazy! Thank you for all your help i really appreciate it

I will try give it a go, i am really not that good with blender though so not really sure what i am doing, thanks for the help! really appreciate it

That didn't work im afraid, thanks for the help though!

Thank you for your help! Anyone got any other advice or solutions?

Thank you for your reply! When i do that on normal view the whole circle is open, and on layers its all filled in so still not working:(

Anyone able to help?:( This is causing me a lot of problems and delays, i'll really appreciate it, thanks!

Thanks for this, i'm trying to follow the procedures but having a lot of trouble, have you done this before? Because i cant do this: Loose geometry (elements without any other connecting elements) can be selected with 3D view > Header > Select > Loose geometry. Note that it only selects vertices, edges, and faces depending on the current selection mode.

Thanks for the replies! still really struggling, there are red areas in x ray mode. I have tried netfab and it hasn't fixed them unfortunatly. I have tried flipping the normals in blender, i think i was doing it right, and nothing was changing. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your reply, i'm quite new to this, what do you mean by that? and how can i fix it? Thank you very much, really appreciate it!

Hello everyone! Right i am printing a object with my logo on it, i want it to cut out of the object and this was done on both blender and 3ds max. When on Cura on the normal mode its just how i want it, the logo looks like its going to cut out on the object, but when you go into layers mode it does the opposite, cuts out whats round the logo and fills in the logo?? If anyone can shed some light onto why it is doing this, that would be great, thank you very much!

I'm using a UV sensitive material which i can only obtain in ABS, and i would rather learn with ABS and use both, than learn with PLA and then get stuck on ABS, thanks for the reply!

Excellent! thank you very much for the reply, i really appreciate it! I'll have a look at the link as well:) Yes its printed on a glass surface but its a bit patchy in areas which is a bit annoying. I will try doing some standing up, Ye i am using an adhesive and brim but in some cases I'm still getting a warp unfortunately, Thank you for the help though!

Hello everyone, i am looking for as much advice and tips for printing phone cases. So how to get the best quality? How to get the face that is touching the build-plate as smooth as possible? How to people print phone cases that go onto curved phones, as the back isn't flat? Best way to stick it to the build-plate when using abs? Best way to reduce warping? And if anyone has any experience with printing phonecases and have any information that might be of use to me please fire away! Thank you very much Luke