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    Nice print - do you care to share the STL?
  1. What should the supports look like in your opinion? I think that for such small features, support will always look like this... And @gr5, are you sure that no supports are needed? With unsupported bridges, there will always be sagging and a not-so-pretty lower surface... of course, the Ender 3 is possibly quite a bit better concerning bridging than the UM S5, but still...
  2. I have designed a 3D printed insert where I have attached a Bowden fitting. However, if the filament isn't straight I have trouble getting it past the feeder, so I think the solution proposed here is better.
  3. Hi, your link leads back to the forum post when clicked...
  4. What about reducing the steps/mm for the extruder stepper in the firmware?
  5. Maybe it isn't the stepper itself, but rather the stepper driver? Can you exchange the drivers on your board?
  6. Hum... very strange. Never had this happen at all...
  7. How does the end of your bowden tube look like? It could help to cut the end so there's a fresh end that the fitting can hold on to....
  8. Thanks for the feedback, I just did that:
  9. Hi, the intent profiles have been quite a game-changer for us, since we have profiles for Tough PLA that reliably produce accurate parts, our S5 is getting more usage than ever. Now, Tough PLA is a good material - until there are special requirements, such as high temperature or chemical resistance. So we'd love profiles - especially for CPE and Nylon, in our case. Is there any timeline on when additional intent profiles will be released? Will they be released as part of a Cura Update, or will the material profiles be updated seperately?
  10. Thanks :) I was asking because transparent and black/white are quite different, at least according to the technical data sheets.
  11. While the improvements are nice, what I would be *really* interested in are more intent profiles - for example for CPE, for Nylon... Some weeks ago, @territerriterri wrote that more such profiles would be coming soon, what's the status on this?
  12. Hi, do you print in black PC or in transparent PC`?
  13. A-ha! So if that is what you're trying to avoid, you always can set the bottom thickness to 0...
  14. Ah, I see. Well, I guess you could do three parts then... or else try the adaptive layer feature, possibly also the gradual infill option.
  15. That may be a stupid question... but is it an option to print trophy and base seperately and later glue them together?
  16. Hm, maybe I get the idea... its kind of a figurine or something with a pedestal, and you are thinking of printing the pedestal very quickly - is that correct? Of course, you could always go the pathway of doing custom supports infill where you want it, and then disabling supports infill in Cura completely. The layer height problem remains... I can only think of using adaptive layer height throughout the print. Unfortunately, Cura doesn't have the manually changeable implementation that PrusaSlicer has for this, which would achieve exactly what you want. What you have to be aware of, is that of course the difference between the layer heights will be visible - thicker layers have a completely different look. If you're smoothing/painting/plating the object anyway, that is no problem, of course.
  17. What works quite well is to only print the support interfaces with Breakaway. That avoids the mess Breakaway often makes, with curls of filament everywhere and sometimes stuck in the print. It also minimizes the use of the rather expensive Breakaway filament, as well as reducing print times (by reducing nozzle changes). Thereby you also avoid problems with tall support structures, as these will be printed with the "normal" filament anyway. I imagine that this could also work with PVA, but I don't have too much experience with that.
  18. Well, this is what beta tests are for. Not something for paying customers who rightfully expect a working solution. Other manufacturers also doing it the wrong way doesn't mean it has to be this way.
  19. Ouch, that doesn't look good... maybe some kind of telescoping Z screw guard could be installed? The segments would have to be rather short, obviously, since the minimum clearance to the build plate assembly is not that high...
  20. If I understood the original post correctly, it is also about waiving the build height restriction for the last part.
  21. Nice suggestion! I don't know if there is any way to do this yet (I suspect there isn't), but that would be a handy feature for sure!
  22. Hi, so to clear up things a little: -You design your part in a CAD modeling application like Fusion360, TinkerCAD, OpenSCAD, Solidworks etc. Better stay away from SketchUp for 3D printing, as it is really bad at generating correct polygon models (more on that below). Here you can also edit dimensions - if the Thingiverse uploader also uploaded a CAD file and you happen to have the right software, you open the file and tweak the dimensions, add or remove features etc. -For 3D printing, you then export a polygon model (STL, OBJ, 3MF,...) which describes the object not in terms of features and parameters (extrusions, fillets etc.) but in terms of polygon surfaces. These models have to be watertight, non-manifold etc. to successfully be sliced and printed correctly, which is the point where SketchUp often messes up really badly. -The finished polygon model is what you load into the slicer (Cura etc.). With most slicers, you can scale and/or distort the model, but editing features is difficult to impossible with polygon formats, regardless of what software you use. So, if you only get the STL, you can print it as-is or scale the whole model, but you're out of luck if you just want to change a certain dimension. With simpler models, you can often re-create them by yourself, though. For the spool holder you mentioned, you will notice the .scad files that are available - meaning you're lucky! You just have to download OpenSCAD, make yourself familiar with that software and then you can make those arms longer, export it to STL and print that baby :)
  23. Interesting, so the brittleness was solved by printing at a higher temperature?
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