Shadowman

Well, once the new Ultimaker Cura deplyment is stable I look forward to the new Prime Tower design as I had another Prime Tower last night fail 48 hours into the print and as the result I have Breakaway filament intermixed with the print. Ugh

This is my “exact” intention otherwise the CC is an expensive specific use only Print Core. I too am very surprised.

Good information

Frustration understood and appropriate. NO issue with the CAPS... You need to be heard.

Ditto

Lon Here is what my IT Guru said; 1. Try the phone and see if both the laptop and the printer can see each other; neither of us know as we have never tried it. If unsuccessful below are 3 options. 2. Use a hotspot device such as the one I shared in the picture as we know this will work. 3. Grab an Access Point or Broadband router; maybe a used one laying around and plug it in ( is doesn’t need to be anything fancy) but don’t connect to the office network but rather you will connect your laptop to it via LAN or wireless and then connect your printer to it wirelessly. 4. Create an ad hoc connection between the laptop and the printer. The draw back to this is it is command prompt command driven so you need to be comfortable in this arena and must be undone once the testing is completed. Takes care.

I deleted my earlier comment because I was wrong; you can’t be on WiFi and broadcast WiFi at the same time. So back to the original plan. Use your phone and hotspot connect to your laptop and the printer and see if they can see each other. If not; connect your laptop via LAN to your office network and then use the hotspot feature within the laptop to connect to the printer. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/214053/how-to-turn-your-mac-into-a-wi-fi-hotspot/amp/ For your information; if you have access to a Windows 10 based laptop then you can; Use your phone to hotspot to the laptop and then broadcast WiFi for the printer; this would be the ideal situation. ”Windows has a useful feature that allows you to create a virtual Wi-Fi adapter interface, making it possible to both connect to a Wi-Fi network and create a Wi-Fi hotspot using the same physical network interface at the same time. This feature is hidden, but you can access it using the Virtual Router software—this uses the same Windows features as Connectify, a commercial application. Macs unfortunately don’t have the same sort of virtual network interface feature. To share a Wi-Fi connection over Wi-Fi, you’ll need a separate physical Wi-Fi interface.” Takes care.

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Sounds good and you are welcome. I do use the phone as a hotspot from time to time however, when traveling I use a small dedicated hotspot such as this.

Interesting I am in the midst of a long print using Ultimaker Breakaway filament for the first time. Speaking of which; the print failed several hours in because there was a raft and the PLA would not stick to it. The PLA simply curled and lifted. I cleaned the build plate, changed it to brim and 12 hours later it seems to be doing fine. Lesson learned......... “Breakaway can’t be used for raft”. I will try the next print which has much PVA being used without a Prime Tower and see how it does. I always understood that using the Prime Tower purged and cleaned the Print Core making it ready for the next layer; I was told to do this by the Ultimaker support team on day one. Thank you

You are welcome Please update us. Takes care.

The LAN connection won’t validate the WiFi issue; how about using a portable hotspot? You could connect both your laptop and printer to the same hotspot network. At least this way you will have isolated the WiFi portion of the equation.

Thanks for the update

The S5’s feeder was designed for the aggressive materials.

Thank you for the information Take care

Do you mean to.o surface smoothing? If yes, Ultimaker Cura has an ironing feature. I have not used it but have heard from others that it works fine. Not having a 2+ I can only assume that the feature will work with it.

Ugh... a truly frustrating situation Lon. Two things; 1. What version of Ultimaker Cura were you using prior to 3.5.1? 2. You stated that you operate within a large DHCP pool; can you have your IT person do a MAC address assignment so as to create effectively a static IP within the DHCP pool.

LOL.... and so do I.

Well stated....... We are fortunate that humidity is not an issue as such PVA works fairly well; in fact, for intricate items it is phenomenal. I learned the hard way; do “not” leave PVA in the nozzle if printing without it as it will get cooked in the Print Core. My recommendation is to unload and remove it after every print so as to reduce the risk. Takes care

I asked because I have read where others were having support issues with Ultimaker Cura 3.5 and 3.5.1 and reverted back to using 3.4.1. I use 3.4.1 and until today when I am trying the Ultimaker Breakaway material; all of my prints have required PVA support. The only issue that I have had with PVA has been the Prime Tower. Unless someone has a better or more viable suggestion I would encourage you to try Ultmaker Cura 3.4.1.

Thank you and gloves will be used.

Do you use much PVA? I ask because without the Prime Tower the PVA support process came out pretty rough with strings and crapola everywhere. Have you used the Breakaway material?

So am I; LOL I have deal with spool wrap jams but not an out of filament situation so I await your results. I just loaded a 4 day print with the new S5 firmware and this will be my first usage of the Ultimaker Breakaway materiel; I am anxious to see how it performs. I have been using PVA filament exclusively since the S5 arrived with good results except........... for the structural integrity of the Prime Tower. Hopefully the development team gets the issues resolved within Ultimaker Cura 3.?????? as I understand that the Prime Tower is one of the issues being tended to.

I don’t think can; I think you would have to remove the Bowden tube and the old filament, insert the Bowden tube and then begin the load process otherwise it will simply chew away on the filament in the feeder or appear as out because the filament can’t move. Just my thoughts

Will this complete a complete load process? If yes; are you saying; When the out of material messsge is displayed to go to load material and complete the process as if no print in running and once completed go back to the main screen and select continue?