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    S5 Wireless Disconnection

    in UltiMaker 3D printers

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    I have an S5 w/Material Station and Air Manager and am having the same problems. Cura and firmware are up to date. It takes various and seemingly different combinations of Digital Factory every time - Digital Factory resets, system resets, reboots, printer remove and printer add sequences to run a print or several prints before it happens again. The S5 prints beautifully and the material station is a great add on but I am spending more and more time dealing with connection issues. I sent support a detailed manually written log of one long session and they said it could be the wifi board. Based on the forum this seems to be a common problem. Is there a known issue with some or all of the wifi boards? Can I replace the wifi board or does the whole printer have to go out for service? 

    Small Scale Architecture Model details

    in Improve your 3D prints

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    I'm not familiar with Revit (I use Archicad and several other programs). Try this link 

     

    I generally have to play around with several saves/export settings and then Cura scalings before getting it right. Eventually I will make an instruction sheet for my own set up so I suggest you write down what you do. In any case you will likely need the "real scale", which is simply the actual scale (1:20, 1:50, 1:500, etc . . .) that you see in metric but for the imperial measuring system. So 1/16" = 1'-0"  equals a real scale of 1:192 because there are 16 1/16" in an inch and 12 inches in a foot (16x12=192). When you convert this to a percentage 1/192 to get .52083%. Depending how you imported into Cura that percentage scale will likely be the correct one. I hope this helps,  - it is not an intuitive process, so keep trying and you'll get it.

    Small Scale Architecture Model details

    in Improve your 3D prints

    Posted · Edited by aubij

    Agreed. I will be working on a variety of scales and expect to experiment quite a bit. Fortunately the main model I will be building is at 1/16” =  1’-0” (1:192) which prints well (still have to figure out detail level a bit). Picture attached. Also a city site model from simple 3d data pulled from the web. The land mass in that scaled so thin it created an interesting mesh instead of solid surface - the accidental result came out really nice!

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    Small Scale Architecture Model details

    in Improve your 3D prints

    Posted

    Thanks geert_2 and Framar,

     

    Flat printing is an option I expect to explore as I do more models, especially for larger scale models with more detail, but for now I am trying to use out of the box capabilities for printing buildings with little or no finish work/assembly. I will try the suggested settings adjustments and let you know how they work.

     

     

    Small Scale Architecture Model details

    in Improve your 3D prints

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    Hi UM experts,

     

    I have a UM5 and am trying to get the best quality prints for architectural models. The larger scale models, 1/16" = 1'-0" print fine, but the smaller scale, ~1" = 50' does not. A photo is attached. Left print is at .1mm height and the right is at .2mm using pla. Are there particular setting I can adjust to stop the blobs on the piers between windows? Is the detail level/size of the piers to small and thin to get a good print?

     

    Thanks,

     

    John

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    Print from Mac material settings.

    in Materials & profiles

    Posted

    Hi All,

     

    I have a new S5 and am using Cura on my MacPro. When using non UM filament and sending a print from the Mac via wifi as opposed to a memory stick) to S5 I get an error message in the queued job in Cura saying "requires configuration change" to the filament I have assigned in Cura. The S5 screen then has a "change configuration" message listing the assigned material, but when I press "OK" nothing happens and the only way to print is to "Override" the error in Cura. How do I fix this? Also, in general how does the S5 handle non UM filaments, do they become part of an on board library of materials on the S5 with the names I have assigned? Are they all just listed as "generic" but take the formatting included with the print file?

     

    Thanks

     

    John

    S5 Build Volume?

    in Improve your 3D prints

    Posted

    Hi All,

    I have a print that fits within the S5 specified build volume of 330 x 240 x 300mm. When I hit "Prepare" it says unable to slice/model doesn't fit build volume. In Cura 3.6.0 the model is 320.6 x 232.6 x 14.7mm and fits within the wire frame "build volume". It does not fit within the shaded border on the gridded view of the build glass in Cura. Is there a setting to make this model work? Is the specified build volume correct?

    Thanks,

     

    John

     

     

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