thomas_nomad

Good afternoon we have been printing with Cura on our 2 head, IDEX printer and getting great results. The printer is metal ready and we have a spool of Ultrafuse 316L and the Ceramic support. The Cura 5.2 supports metal printing with BASF and has created special profile, allowing a few essential things. 1. basic profile for the Ultrafuse 316L and the Ceramic Support 2. special printing of a baseplate that goes under the parts to control shrinkage and warping 3. layer support detection and using the second head to build the Ceramic layer, which is very thin and it seems solid - unique to metal printing with Ultrafuse. 4. controlling the specifics of the print profile, such as print speed, % of extrusion/over extrusion, reversing direction of the print head to relieve stress, auto scaling for post processing and sintering, etc. etc. we would like to install this in our IDEX printer but i cannot seem to find any clear information as to how to do this. any guidance, thoughts, support would be extremely helpful, we have uploaded the profiles but the printer does not recognise and I understand there may be other steps to take, we have a large project of a series of limited edition parts to produce and believe that this process may lead the best results. thank you in advance. thomas

smithy, thanks for the note but I have a non Ultimaker also, and I would like to add/access the BASF Ultrafuse 316L and their Ceramic Support material. The online documentation states that the update Cura (I have 5.2) supports metal printing. We have a metal compatible, IDEX printer, it is printing beautifully with Cura and I want to begin to print a series of stainless steel parts, so we can test to see if it works for our needs. 1. it automatically configure the base plate (to control shrinkage and distortion 2. can add the support layer of ceramic 3. is the correct profile for slicing from an STL 4. I also believe it automatically scales the parts. these are all essential to our use of the material so if you can guide me on how to install and set-up this "metal" setting on my printer it would be a great help. thank you thomas

I have a third party printer using Cura 5.1.0, and we have printed Ultrafuse 316L in the past but with the printers proprietary slicer. We have set up Cura and would like to add the 316L as a material from the marketplace, is it only available for Ultimaker printers or can I also install this profile???? any help would be greatly appreciated. thomas