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  1. I fixed it... weirdest thing.

    In my case it must open on my primary monitor. If you close it while you had it open on a secondary monitor, it will crash. So that means w/e i am doing, when closing Cura it has to be located on your primary monitor.

    Very weird... But i have a 34" ultrawidescreen curved monitor coming in to replace my dual screen setup, so not an issue later on (at least for me).

  2. Unsure what to do... Cura 2.3 no longer works. It will freeze and crash every single time, on both computers. One running windows 10, the other 7.

    I have reinstalled, restarted, checked firmware, etc, etc, etc, nothing is working.

    The kicker is yesterday everything was working perfectly fine...

  3. I wouldn't mess with the insides of brand new UM3's tbh...

    Right now kind of grounded for long prints, i spoke to the owner of the building where we rent space for our business, they do not care. They have to abide by some pretty strict regulations.

    Thought of sticking them in our utility closet but it's kind of messy and 30 feet from the nearest outlet. No point having a 'nice' workshop if our printers are struck in a tiny closet lol

    Editing the gcode is a good idea... id have to dig into it (unless someone already has... @Daid ;)

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    BTW, is there any videos on Youtube showing the UM3 at some detail, for instance: filament change, settings, calibration, part cleaning, etc...?

    All videos I have watched on Youtube are very simple and pretty short.

     

    There's an online guide, that's what i used to setup the first one, and then setup the 3 other's.

    Only thing is filament recognition isn't working... I plugged the antenna properly, i'm using Ultimaker chipped filament... so idk... I had to tell it manually what it was.

     

    Hi Ronan, thank you for your message. How do you mean it is not working? Are you sure you have plugged the cable in correctly?

    Have you contacted a support team for assistance?

    Looking forward hearing from you!

     

    Yes I plugged the white cable in. It's not working on any of the 4 UM3's we bought.

    Meaning i must be doing something wrong... so will check again today.

  5. BTW, is there any videos on Youtube showing the UM3 at some detail, for instance: filament change, settings, calibration, part cleaning, etc...?

    All videos I have watched on Youtube are very simple and pretty short.

     

    There's an online guide, that's what i used to setup the first one, and then setup the 3 other's.

    Only thing is filament recognition isn't working... I plugged the antenna properly, i'm using Ultimaker chipped filament... so idk... I had to tell it manually what it was.

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    That's interesting.  The few times I have bid on Ultimakers on eBay, the same buyer snipes them at 30 second remaining.  At least the last time around I made him pay more  :)

     

    Nice. They always sell for what i put them at, but can't stop certain people from 'offering' absurd low amounts and then getting mad when they don't get it.

     

    How many UM do you sell?

     

    6 um2 were replaced over the last year with um2+.

    Um3 Arriving this week I believe. Let's hope it's all that it's claimed to be!

  7. That's interesting.  The few times I have bid on Ultimakers on eBay, the same buyer snipes them at 30 second remaining.  At least the last time around I made him pay more  :)

     

    Nice. They always sell for what i put them at, but can't stop certain people from 'offering' absurd low amounts and then getting mad when they don't get it.

  8. Well I'm not sure how annoying some can be....some of the ones I have seen in the past had a very hard life yet they still want what you could get a refurb (with 1 year warranty) from Fabrc8    I opted to go that route and just did the Extruder Upgrade to it.  Great value right there.

     

    When you post something for $1200 when the going price is around $1500 used and they contact you offering less than $500 because 'thats the going price' in their head, that's being annoying. When you show them what the going price is, they resort to using non-sense idiotic comments.

    eBay is full of them, and they seem to target people that post 3d printers. I have sold numerous used Ultimaker's on eBay (basically when ever we upgrade our printers), and every time it happens. Some of them will actually keep contacting us until we block them/add on ignore.

    We all go through a rough time, but i do not understand how someone can ask for a fraction of the price of the current rate, and then have a big mouth about it when they are politely refused. The term low balling comes to mind.

  9. Yeh I complained about the upgrade kit (and rightly so) and yes,  I have had problems, but the idea of moving the printer to Foehnsturm's Mod interests me, my UM2 is on ebay and I am getting disillusioned by idiots who want it for nothing. Time to pull the Add and keep the UM2 and  mod it,, (Happy Days)

    SandervG you gave me some sound advise at the London 3D print show a couple of yrs back,  I never forgot (thanks).

     

    Hey mate, ignore those ebay idiots. It's the same 4-5 individuals harassing people. Every time we put an older Ultimaker for sale on eBay after replacing them with a new one, they kept contacting us offering 1/4 the going rate on eBay and how we are ignorant about prices.

    A few have been reported and blocked. If you push through it sells within a week or so.

  10. My company, has an overstock of materials, time to let some go!

    Shipping is NOT included! $10 2-Day shipping within the US per roll! The more you buy, the cheaper the total is!

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    Brand New, Unopened, still sealed:

    ColorFabb Leaf Green PLA 750g: $30

    ColorFabb Signal Yellow 750g: $30

    ColorFabb Bamboofill 600g: $40

    ColorFabb Corkfill 650g: $40

    ColorFabb XT-CF20 Carbon Fiber 750g: $40

    ColorFabb Copperfill 750g: $45

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    Recreus Filaflex White/Flexible 500g: $30

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  11. Rasputin, You make for a very interesting read. Thank you for sharing. You hit the nail on the head with my printer being a "tool". Not a hobby.

    I have been designing products on my own, with my small business for about 11 years now and have sent so many CAD files off to the prototyping houses in that time. I had been looking for some time, and had initially decided on the Form 2+. But as I compared it to the claims of the Ultimaker, I changed over to the Ultimaker 2+ Extended. I had hopes of reclaiming some of the revenue I had been sending out. It wasn't a quick decision, as my small company does just enough to keep us going.

    To date, I have close to 650 hours of run time on my machine and only have two models I was able to send out to customers. One of which they declined full payment on, based on the quality of the prototype. (I had so many support structures to get it to print that it was impossible to clean off well) Some of the print time is now generated from things I have printed for myself around the house and such.

    I design complex models that almost always require lots of support structures, and the idea of printing them in the same material has proven to be extremely time consuming and my customers would be better off going back to the prototyping houses than paying me for all the time I have to put into cleaning off the prototypes I make.

    I have resigned my machine to a toy and gadget maker that just can't do what I had hoped. I would never recommend this machine to anyone who wants it for more than simple, no overhang type of prints. No way could you ever use it in a business atmosphere and make any money with it, unless you were strictly making items that need zero support structure all the time. Sure you could break your design up into several pieces and glue them together. (Well, only sometimes can you do that, as I found out) But then you are back to many man hours on the part and what happens when the glue fails while the customer is messing with it?

    LePaul,

            Thank you for the more personal look into the people of Ultimaker. We don't always get that perspective and it's nice to have.

                     That being said, unfortunately it doesn't change the fact that I have a very expensive machine sitting here that can't do what I thought it was supposed to be able to do and they have the one that will. But I can't do anything about it because I spent all my money on this one.

     

    We run a 3D design/printing company and our bread & butter are our Ultimaker's. I have no idea why you are having such an issue with yours/your customers. We have printed from sample toys to full on 5 feet long high quality models and everything in between. Yes sometimes you need to cut and weld parts and even paint them after doing some cleaning up/sanding. It's still MUCH cheaper than traditional rapid-prototyping or even small runs which are usually very expensive.

    Yes supports are a pain, but 9/10 times can be worked around/with. Sometimes it means you have to put extra work into getting a high quality finished product. This new printer eliminates that, which is why we already pre-ordered one to test it.

    Also, we originally replaced a $25,000 printer with a Ultimaker 2+ and received the exact same results (Since then we sold that expensive printer and bought 6x Ulti's). Sure our stratasys can print in higher quality and in full color and support is never an issue... but that's a whole different price tag (and the finish products are much more expensive too!).

    Like in everything, how much work you put into it will yield higher quality results. Also a pro-tip, your 3d printer is just a small part of your ecosystem at work. Softwares are much more expensive and some are pretty damn difficult to master.

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  12. Hello all!

    Slight issue i am having. I am printing 4 0.4mm thick squares, 1 at each corner of the bed. Rear left/right and front left are comming out perfect. Front right is having some issues, there's tiny holes where the lines aren't quite connecting to the shell/outer perimeter.

    I have been tweaking that side for a few hours, nothing seems to fix the issue, not even releveling the bed, changing the z axis, etc...

    Please advise.

    Photo attached.

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  13. If I print a thin rectangle of a height of 0.4mm, in Cura my layer height is set to 0.3mm and my initial layer thickness is set to 0.5mm, what layer height is my first layer printed at?

    If i change the Initial layer line width from 100% to 125% or even 150%, what does that do exactly? Increases the flow to put more material down? Increases the nozzle width of each line by the % needed?

    Does Dual extrusion Switch Amount (mm) overule the retraction settings for each extruders?

    Thanks :)

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