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I am glad it works again. Thanks for the feedback!

Good but strange 🙂 BTW forget the mobile app, it is old and limited on functionality. So when you slice something and say print via network, Cura says ok sending to printer without any error but the printer does nothing right? Just an idea, but could it be that there is something working with your local network or Cura installation? After your factory reset and that the printer prints fine from USB I don't think it is the printer itself, but I am just guessing.

I have moved your question to a separate thread.

https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012589099

Can you try to save the file to an USB stick and use that one. Just to see if it works or not. So you did also a factory reset, right?

Glass plates are nearly consumables, so you will need more of them with the time.

Das ist das Wichtigste, viel Spaß und Erfolg damit! 🙂

Yes I looked through the whole object and everything looks ok for me.

I used the latest Cura v4.7. A profile doesn't help in your case, because it is printer specific. But when you want to test it, select the Ultimaker S5 as printer and just use the default profile. I don't use a special profile, just the default. Which printer do you have and which printer profile do you use in Cura?

The question was which software do you use to design the model? CAD? But anyway, I just tried to slice your object and it seems fine. But I got some errors that the model is not ok.

Hi first of all, please make real screenshots, the photos of the bottom right corner just shows the summary how long your print will take, we cannot see the model or any other things you are talking about. Slicing issues are 90% defects in the model itself. So I guess your STL itself has some error and therefore you get strange results when you slice the object. Which software do you use to design the objects? Can you upload your STL or even better the whole Cura project?

hmm, I am nearly out of ideas, but two more things you could try. Turn off the printer and leave if switched off overnight. We had an user a few days ago who had a similar problem and leaving the printer switched off for a longer time helped. Not sure if it helps you also, but you could give it a try. Another idea is to disconnect the printer from the network, that isn't able to download the firmware. But to be honest I don't think this is the problem, I guess you will have to same result when you load the firmware from USB stick. It gets stuck during installing the firmware and not during the download. I would first try to switch the printer off and leave it off overnight.

According to this page https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011545559 Go to Preferences > Maintenance > Update firmware, and select the new firmware in the update menu

The biggest and most important difference is that the robot isn't anymore on the side panel 🙂 just joking, but we miss him 😪

When you have Cura 3.6 installed and install 4.7 it should (should!) migrate all the settings you had in 3.6.

You can also adjust the brightness of the leds via the printers api, but to access them you need a local network connection. But someone could build an "external" local service (maybe with a raspberry) which is triggered somehow and then could adjust the lights. Complicated but I want to show that this could be also a possibility if you want to thinker around.

I think it is really funny to design and to build the printer, but for me it is annoying that when you need parts or so, that you have to order it, wait for delivery and so on. Thats the most time consuming part I think and it would be much easier when you can get all the parts in a local store nearby. And it is nearly impossible to know in the beginning what you really need and do a big order and that's it. But on the other hand you learn a lot and you can easily fix problems or design failures, like your leadscrew for example.

Yes you can download the file from the UM website and put it on a USB stick. Just make sure you use the correct file, R1 and R2 are different and must match your printer. If you have the UM robot on the side panel you have to use R1, if you have the U on the side, then use the R2 firmware. Another question, from fw version do you try to update? Is it maybe a much older version? Because in that case you cannot update directly and you need to install a stepstone version first.

It could be that nylon clogged the nozzle, but the stringing is from your PLA you print too hot. Clean the print core with hot/cold pulls several times until it is clean and you should be fine again.

You print core looks indeed not so good, I guess it is partly clogged that also the reason why you need to print hotter. But 230 is too much, you can print PLA fine with 205 and also cooler. So check you the UM website hot to do the hot/cold pulls and clean your print core. I guess someone has printed other materials than PLA which needs hotter core temp and the material is still inside the nozzle and blocks a normal extrusion.

Yes, PVA is very sensitive and absorbs moisture from the air very quickly. You should always store the PVA spool in a sealed bag or box with silica gel. And if you do longer prints you should consider to buy a Drybox that the spool is also during the print job in a dry environment. You can regenerate a spool on the heated bed overnight, to dry it again, check out the instructions on the UM website. Wet and soft PVA causes a lot of problems and when you hear a sizzle sound during extrusion you know it is too wet. And this can clog your nozzle, has terrible print quality and such things.

Unfortunately not or currently not. But if I remember correctly there was a feature request some time ago, so maybe it comes with a future update.

Ahh ok, thanks for the information! So in that case @Jman15x I would contact the reseller about it.

Please post your feature request also on the GitHub page of Cura that it can be tracked and discussed. You find the link in Cura in the help menu. thanks

Really nice quality! I also want to build a printer from scratch, but not enough time for it - so it is a plan "for later" 🙂