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can someone please tell me how i combine these 4 parts shown in the pic below thx for any help

can someone tell me the steps i would take in meshmixer to add a lattice support to a print? i managed to get it to work twice but that was after i messed with it like forever. im sure its simple but also hard if you dont know how. i watched a couple videos but it was more on how he could use lattice in an advanced state and not useful for beginners thx for any help.

as the topic says,i was doing a print when i heard a loud pop from the other room and when i went to look at my printer i noticed the filament got bound up in the reel and broke. not wanting to lose the print job i pulled a unused filament from my dry box and frantically tried to grab the moving extruder without hampering its operating . i held on letting the extruder use its existing filament and then put the filament in and pressed until it began feeding itself. i didnt know if this would work but it did and came out with a nice 2 colored print.

hello all after i do a successful print in order to do another print job i have to turn my printer off and then on again every time,if i go and run another print w/out a reboot then the extruder goes thru the motion of printing but the bed stays parked and doesnt move up.,,,this is every time like clockwork. im running a bibo dual excruder printer is there a setting im missing somewhere? tia and thx to Gregs help here,im printing like a monkey on steriods,,,thx greg.

wow looks good,is it all one piece?,if so i envy you having a bed that size. yeah im getting ready to go the next step in meshmixer and use an animal and cut his head and feet off and make a different color,one baby step at a time. i cant get over how long it takes to print,the bear took almost 12 hours with a normal profile,no brim and print speed at 40. im gonna print some socket holders as soon as i can figure out how to print without the inside mesh area. i wish i had started this 20 years ago when my retention was better,lol my girlfriend wants me to get a camper too and cruise for a few months,,sounds intriguing. seems everyone i know is making requests for me to print for them so get a printer,right? haha😎

this may not be all that to some but my first real model i think looks great with the help of gregvalient whom was very patient for my newbie ignorance thx greg

i do need to figure out if and when to use both extruders and figure out how to set the 2nd extruder temp,i think that will be one of my future endeavors,,i saw a few items that had a white body say and blue hands and feet that i thought was really cool. but i feel i took a huge leap forward this morning thanks to you. Greg If you scaled the model up there really shouldn't have been a problem. On the other hand, scaling models down can make fine features disappear. shouldnt this be the other way around,you lose detail scaling bigger,just curious

yup got a full bed print going right now and so far it looks GOOD. Im from Virginia,,,,,, im sure there will be other bumps but it feels good to take a step forward.

thx greg,it looks like you really went out of your way to help me,my only regret is i cant pay you back in some way,i do say thank you and really appreciate all the help. ive always been on the side of mechanical things and not the software side but with the help you've given me i may just have a good chance of getting the hang of this 3d printing hobby.. may the Great one smile on those such as yourself that go out of their way to help fellow friends.. Thank you,Greg

im not sure honestly,i was trying hit and misses how would i chane it?,,,reinstall cura?

greg not trying to tease anyone just trying to learn this stuff,believe me theres times when i literally wear 2 pair of glasses. i posted the 3mf file a couple posts above but here it is again,i stayed up to 4am trying to get things understood ,seems like my biggest issue is i cant print to only 1/4 of the printer bed. heres the file bigbear.3mf

greg notice how the print looks like it fills the bed but at the bottom its only like 65.9mm in size,i tried to go larger but cura said the file was too large to fit the print bed so it wouldnt slice it. edit i just pulled this file from the printer and it was riddled with small holes throughout it, no setting were changed since printing the smaller bear which turned out much better the smaller bear had a support under its chin but the bigger one did not,this is confusing.,,but no setting was changed

here is the file,also note when i sent to printer the bed or extruder didnt heat and once the file began the excruders moved so slow that you had to concentrate to see it move also the support it made was really imbedded in my gdaughters bear print also things arent printed in the middle of the bed which prevents cura from saving a large bed print [i assume] but in cura it looks like the file is taking up the whole bed but the print is only 1/4 of the bed thx greg it may not seem like it but i am making progress,lol bigbear.3mf

cool thx,ill have to send tomorrow,be 3 more hours before this bear is done thx btw is a drybox worth the money spent?

well greg,ive made some progress since we last txted i got my printer online finally,i had to add a wifi program to get it to work,i dont see why docs are so hard to give to buyers rather than have to figure it out themselves i got my printing dialed in alot better and producing decent prints. bout all i need to do is figure out why cura isnt heating my bed and extruder but im sure its in the settings even tho i know i had it set,i had to stop to print my gdaughter a bear,lol. maybe in a few weeks ill be as good as you NOT! lol we all need a good laugh now and then.

ive learned more from you these past days than i have the whole last week several hours a day,,thx greg

i just figured kiss was an inside joke,,im just the kind of guy if it can be done then i gotta do it,lol so tell me,the g code tells the printer what to do basically,does this also mean if i use cura to slice,,then take the sdcard and put it in the printer and start the print then it will heat the bed and extruder according to what i set in cura and after thats done itll begin the building process,is this right?

i just watched a video and the send option is at the slice box which i cant see since im not connected to wifi yet,, ive got a total of 9 computers in my home and have well over 100 smart devices connected and never had this much issue,my printer has an ip address but my computer cant see it,i read a troubleshoot article where certain ports need to be open so i guess thats my next step what state are you from greg>?

wheres the send button in cura??

sometimes you have to walk away from all of it and the answer will just pop up,,like for me last night around 1 am and it was too late to go further....my next step is to get my printer networked ,this is win7 so ima gonna see if my win10 computer will recognize things.....ill be coming back to your replys and study how to code things,,,you wouldnt know by my ignorance on this that im a big computer buff myself with over 15k in my 3 computers but ive learned that even the most simple thing can stump ya till its understood thx ole man i appreciate everything now i said ole and not old lol

hey greg answer this if you would please to see if i understand the procedures i build a object in a program such as meshmixer,then i take that object and open it in cura then in cura i set all my printer settings in cura for that object and use my internet connection to copy it to the sdcard which is in the printer now if all this is right can i set the bed temp and extruder temp in cura and once i send all this to my sdcard the printer will heat things up and begin printing? this sounds like im dumb as a box of rocks but at 67 years old things arent as easy as they used to be, i do really appreciate all your help..

ill have to put alot of this on hold till i get my computer connected,ive never seen connecting something be so difficult but in time,,,i guess

thank you for such a lengthy reply i really appreciate it im afraid changing the gcode will be over my head for now,i learn things at my age by repetition and via video's...ive come a loong way but i know its gonna take time in order to reap any benefits,my biggest obstacle right now is being unable to get my network to see my printer so i have to only use my sdcard,,this has been the biggest project ive ever tried to learn and fortunately i dont give up. one day i hope to use one of my drones to create printable objects. its people like you that really make this possible and your time is most appreciated. this is the printer that i have https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LNADH8M/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=A389YHOP96DZ1C&psc=1 again,thank you!

let me ask some stupid q's if you dont mind i can leave the filament loaded right? i can begin the extruder heat up and execute the print from cura? how do i designate when the 2nd extruder with different color begin? how do you get thin walls and small holes out of a print? when i want both extruders to print,is this done in cura software and is it in cura where you decide when to use the 2nd extruder? i apologize for such newbie questions but i cant find these answers anywhere

its on the printer,,to heat it for printing,i didnt know you could heat the extruder in cura