[UM Materials Station, is it worth it?]

6 hours ago, RudydG said:

At a price almost in the range of total printer, for me the material station it is not an ideal option.

I manage all my materials manualy or in a polybox.

Pva, i just cut the needed length, or, for very big prints, from a polybox.

For other sensitive materials, a second or third polybox is used. (they are cheap and easy to use)

With a polybox i have the advantage to use large spools, which eliminates much of the filament switching because of end of roll situations.

If you buy this material station to reduce your downtimes, maybe better invest in a extra printer? I will buy another S3 (i have 1xUM3 and 1xUMS5)

Ofcourse this is my opinion.

I totally agree with your point, 

In my situation, my company order the ultimaker pro bundle for the look than usability, I rather to have 2 to 3 ultimaker S3 machine than the bundle.

[UM Materials Station, is it worth it?]

13 minutes ago, bagel-orb said:

No when you manually select a material there is no option to choose color.

Are you guys thinking of adding this option or just think this is an dumb idea?

[UM Materials Station, is it worth it?]

5 hours ago, bagel-orb said:

For materials with NFC tag the material is automatically detected, including colour.

what about manually selected ones?

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On 3/2/2020 at 6:33 PM, orangepeel said:

Hi UM users, I am considering getting a Materials Station for our UMS5.  I am at a small texas university, on the coast, so we have high humidity all the time.  Also, we want to print a lot of TPU, nylon, and fiber-filled nylon filaments.  Right now we just dry our filament every few days, and we have a makeshift enclosure that somewhat slows down the ingress of moisture.

a) First question, if the room environment is about 60% humidity, will the materials station (if kept on) keep the humidity in where the filament is at, low enough so that we won't have to redry tpu or nylon, pva, etc?

b) Second question, setting aside the problems with pva, does the material station do what it is advertised to do?  I would like to keep some PLA, TPU, nylon, and ABS filament inside the Material Station, and just select them as needed.  

 

thoughts?  reccomendations?  Thanks ahead of time!

 

b) the material station did really good on this function, once you select / npc the filament in the material station, they automatic selected the correct material of filament from the station.

But make sure you install the filament in the correct nozzle port and select the correct profile in cura while you slice the model.

 

The only problem I got with the material station, is that they do not have selection on color.

so I always accident print the wrong color when I have the same material filament in the material station.

 

[Please give us more flexibility.]

6 hours ago, nallath said:

Cura synchronises materials with your printer. Even custom made ones.

Is it possible to set the customize material on different colors as well.

I do a lot of due color print in my S5 pro bundle, (99% I use PLA but different color combination)

If there is any button to choose when I install the filament in the material station, this would be nice.