[Compensate Bent Frame with Cura? Fix?]

I have now ordered a replacement "top panel" for the printer and will report again. Thank you (and for the reader, see you soon)

[Compensate Bent Frame with Cura? Fix?]

Dear Community,

 

I have been using 3D printers since 2012 and my Ultimaker 2+ since 2016. 

Recently due to unfortunate circumstances, the printer fell on the ground from 1m height, the glass plate shattered and was replaced.

I reassembled the gantry and luckily it still worked fine after calibrating the build plate, or so I thought.

 

I now printed objects that fill the entire build plate and noticed that circles aren't perfectly round, rather oval. Googling came to the conclusion that the frame was indeed bent, I can measure squares being 88.7° instead of 90°. This is unacceptable for the current project, including 52mm dia. bearings,  >300N etc.

 

Theoretically this could the compensated in Cura in the short run. Does such "ovally streching" exist?

Long term, how would you solve this issue?

 

Thank you,

Attenbach

 

PS: the frame shows indents from the chute but is in an overall working condition, not crooked or broken.

[Ultimaker 2+ swapping material doesnt work...]

Hi guys,

so i started printing as usual, the plan was to resume the print after 7 hours with a different material as i used to do:

Pause it, select Change material etc.

Now this time after the 7 hours, i went throught that process again. When the Printer threw the old material out, i selected PLA as i always do (cause i print with PLA). Then though, it said:

Heating printhead for material Insertion.

then after some time, the "heating" changed into a "cooling" and then swapped between the two every second or so. Now i couldnt even resume the print as the material was already ejected. I had to factory reset the Printer, loaded the material and did a test print to see, whether the Problem still remained.

Now it did the same Thing again.

Is this a Software bug? I mean, all temperature sensors must be working fine since it started printing.

Any tips? I mean i could try to install the very latest Software update, since it didnt do the bug before i updated i a month ago or so...

Greets, Ka