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Zwakie

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  1. Extremely disappointed about the extremely high price set by Ultimaker for the CC Red core. In my view that kills all viable and reasonably priced options for using abrasive materials on a UM3. Add to that the fact that Cura only allows selection of this core for the 5S, and it is clear to me that Ultimaker is no longer that open source / community driven and loving company anymore. It hurts to say this, but Ultimaker has just lost a great deal -if not all- of my sympathy as these recent marketing actions from Ultimaker are nothing short of a big ""f**k you" to customers like me who have purchased a UM3 in the very recent past and are now being told "sorry, we have no future for your new printer anymore"... 😞
  2. Thanks for the information @Dim3nsioneer , I missed that page. I was not expecting a vital piece of information ("Extremely high wear resistance for use with abrasive filaments") being missing on the regular feeder webpages ? ). Certainly worthwhile considering to get me a set of those. And nothing wrong with ordering in Sweden direct I would think, would it?
  3. I have visited Bondtech's website, and though it looks promising at that price point I am surprised nothing is stated about wear and tear when using abrasive materials. Do you have first-hand experience with that combo and do you care to join your experience with us? BTW I am in The Netherlands.
  4. Thanks @SandervG for your reply. I was kind of expecting exactly that answer, so my next question was already in my mind yesterday: does Ultimaker not wish to increase customer satisfaction by making the feeder available for their UM3(+) customer base? In my view that would be a perfect way to create commitment with customers to follow Ultimaker's future path...
  5. Thanks for the information Sander, this opens the door to this question that most UM3 owners will have I would htink: will the new CC core work on a UM3(+) and will the S5 feeder be made available as an upgrade for the UM3+)? I for one I am very interested in using composite materials, but I cannot justify upgrading my entire UM3 for a S5 just to be able to print composites every now and again (I do have a need for that from time to time though...) BR Marcel
  6. This mystery is gone after I did another firmware upgrade to v. 3.7.x. I still have no clue what happened, but am glad I am in business again Thanks to all for your ideas, I very much appreciate that!
  7. Thanks for the suggestion, but I have already tried that before posting it here (FWIW: I have already tried all options available). The only way that I can get the bed to close vicinity of the nozzle is when I raise the bed using UM3's menu. All other options leave me with a huge distance, effectively rendering my machine as inoperative. Any other suggestions, anyone?
  8. Two days since posting without any reaction, is it time to get really nervous now? Anyone care to help me out?
  9. I am hoping the collective wisdom here can help me fix a problem that surfaced after upgrading the firmware of my UM3 to the newest firmware today. During the upgrade I noticed the motion controller received an upgrade as well. New f/w version is 3.6.3.20170406 The issue I am having is that the distance of the build plate to the nozzle is well over 10 mm, which simply is too much to compensate for by the screws when leveling the bed. As expected, the Z-axis offset calibration did not bring success. It does not seem to be the limit-switch since I an raise the bed (using the printer-menu option) to within a couple of mm's of the nozzle (with screws fully tightened). I am lost on how to correct this, any ideas?
  10. Probably not your intention, but your remark adds to the uncertainty, as I feel this is an "in the eye of the beholder" type of comment. Anyone from Ultimaker care to provide clarity about expected availability dates for the new cores?
  11. I can't really tell from the picture, my guess is that setting "Z Seam Alignment" (in Cura, under Shell) to "Random" will help (with this model setting this to "Back" will probably only move it to another place on the model) I would also try reducing the amount of oozing happening at start or end of printing a line. Maybe the experimental option "Coasting" can help as well?
  12. I had problems a few times getting the UM3 to print a model using only the second nozzle. I did not yet investigate this to find the root cause, but my gut feeling is telling me there is a little snag in Cura, since I never have an issue when I select the first printcore for bed adhesion. Again: this is a proviso observation. Maybe others experienced the same?
  13. Hi Bas, To me this sounds like the bed-leveling system making tiny Z-corrections constantly. The same thing (though not as imminent as in your case) kept me confused for quite some time before I could pinpoint it. There are some other threads around this subject that you can go see, f.i. https://ultimaker.com/en/community/33351-knocking-sound-while-printing .
  14. No they haven't been released yet, but I believe they will be made available to the public somewhere soon.
  15. Version 1.0

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    Credit where credit is due: I found this fantastic design on Martin Hansen's website (http://www.mysupercharger.net) and decided my phone needs a supercharger exactly like this beauty Completely printed in Innofil3D PLA (white, grey and red). Photo shows test-fit as it came of the bed with a minor bit of sanding on the base and grey rods to allow assembly. (apologies for the crappy photo)
  16. It happened to me a second time just now: wanted to like, but instead clicked on Flagged (as inappriate). Is there a way to undo this? Maybe an idea to move that option as far away from the "Like" stuff as possible to minimize this risk?
  17. Yeah @fbrc8-erin, it definitely is the bed-levelling after all. As I wrote in my last reply, I had given the idea that the sound lasted throughout the entire print, which was not the case. Apologies for the confusion, but thanks for asking! I'm sorry, it looks like I missed the last response. I was reading the earlier one where you'd mentioned the clicking being ongoing. Glad to hear it's working well! Your helpful responses make up big time for being sorry about having missed a detail Thanks again!
  18. Yeah @fbrc8-erin, it definitely is the bed-levelling after all. As I wrote in my last reply, I had given the idea that the sound lasted throughout the entire print, which was not the case. Apologies for the confusion, but thanks for asking!
  19. Yes, Windows support sym links. For more information see https://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.85).aspx
  20. Version 1.0

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    Came out pretty good for a first try with the Innofil PRO white. This test print was also used to test gradual infill steps. I used 40% line infill with step height of 1.2 mm, not being sure if printer could handle laying down the denser layers with too small a step height. It turned out that 1.2 was a bit much, I am confident that .6 will work just as as fine - will test that sometime soon... A tiny bit of stringing between the pillars and an occasional 'blob' where it started printing the outer wall, other than that I am quite pleased with this first result (just a little fine-tuning will lead to perfection - I hope ). I truly love the shiny surface and the 'translucent' effect on the thinner parts of the print. If you have recommendations for improving quality, please let me know!
  21. There have been reports that USB cables were not seated properly, maybe something to check if that is the case for you?
  22. Did you check you extrusion? If you're over-extruding, the previous layer might be slightly thicker than what the software had planned, making the nozzle to drag over the previous layer.
  23. It took me some time, but i get it to work :-) If you want to print with two "foreign" Materials (as a dual print) and do the workflow Zwakie suggested, you'll get the following message from your printer: "This print job is not suitable for this printer - Err 26" So the printer will NOT start the job.... What you have to do is to cheat Cura and the printer :-) In Cura you have to pick up for the printcores one of the 5 Materials (eg. CPE) and modify it in the section "Material" on the right side - like printing temperature, build plate temperature a.s.o. so the it has actually the parameters of eg. Bronzefill. When you select the material on the printer it has to be the same you choose in Cura (eg. CPE). It's not working when you add a new material to the list in Cura and select that for your printcore and slicing - then you'll get the ERR 26 message..... hope it helps, Conny Good additional explanation @Conny, and funny you mention the E26 error since tonight for the very first time I got that error. Unloading the non-UM material and reloading the same non-UM material cleared the error for me (it felt like the UM3 got itself confused somehow, since I can't explain why this fix would clear the error). Despite that, things for you seem to work a little different than for me since I have been using non-UM materials on both print cores exclusively for the last weeks without any problems. Maybe a small detail was omitted from the workflow that I wrote down, but despite a careful re-read I don't know what it might be :(.
  24. During printing it does indeed shrink, so you have to watch out for warping. @Artiz and myself have been 'playing' with Polymaker PC-MAX recently and shared experiences in this thread: https://ultimaker.com/en/community/22722-polymakers-pc-max-polycarbonate The purpose of 1 hour annealing @ 100C and subsequent controlled slow cool-down to room temp is to relax the material. What this does is slowly reducing the internal stresses caused by the melting/solidifying process (which is what we do when we print the stuff). In fact this process is not making the stuff stronger, but instead takes away internal stress so that the printed piece will not deform afterwards due to these stresses. So if you need the dimensions to remain unchanged long after printing, you will need to go through this process (of course, heat above glass temp will still deform PC).
  25. I did all the things you discripted above on Cura / Printer. When i got the warning on the Printer and tried to ignore it, the Maschine didn't started the print!!!! That's why i began this conversation.... I see... I had the exact same thing once, it happened when I did not follow the normal material/printcore unload/load sequences all the way through the end (I did not -and still don't- fully understand the logic behind the differences of unloading/loading materials and printcores so I was experimenting a little to find shortcuts here ). My fix was to go through the cycle (one step at a time): unload material - change printcore - load material. I think that during the fix I just broke off the second step after it accepted the 'new' printcore by powering off the printer, but am not 100% sure about this so could be that I did follow the full sequence presented by the UM3.
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