Starman37121

Learning Curves, Learning Curves. When You encounter a problem.......ASK around. Be cautious when Someone says "You Need to Buy This" or that. Ambient temperature and humidity can affect your whole print job. Thermal properties of co-polymers (Plastics) are "Wicked" to say the least. With that said, I love having a 3D Printer. It's a lot less costly, to "throw away" some plastic, than to make certified blue prints, buy exotic metals, run thru expensive machine shop services, spending a few Million Dollars in the process, I am always building something. Sometimes Handy. Sometimes a little strange. Thing is,...... give yourself a chance, be Patient. Be Creative. Have FUN!

Been There, Done That! A couple of times I got very busy (Distracted) I finally put a "Ran Out of Filament Switch" to Pause the printer and wait for input. No more printing without filament for too long, too many layers. So far, the "kink" at the end of the spool has not been a problem. I try to cut it off when it gets close to the end.

..by sizing, could you also mean "Scaling" or making a part larger in one or more directions. In my experience, most "softwares" scale or resize from a reference point such as X-0, Y-0, or Z-0. AND/OR some will expand or reduce from the center of the object. In either case, UltimakerCura allows you to expand or contract your part Spherically or like a balloon. "Clicking" the part, which "pops-up" a window and allows you to select an icon on the left. the second one down is scale, picking that will give you options by size or percent, snap scaling and/or uniform scaling. If you wish to alter in one direction only, you must "UN-check" the box for Uniform scaling". Now, in the case of your Helmet, It most likely would expand it at the largest diameter. Complication: It will expand it as if you had a Basketball and scaled only the X-axis, You could end up with something like the American Foot-ball. OR, if the area below the Ears is much smaller than the area AT the ears, (going to extremes) You may not be able to put it on or take it off. So, Yes. If where the Ears are is the largest size it will scale from there, BUT, if the head opening is larger, it scales from there. Clear as MUD? Think, Ball or Block. If you scale a ball in only one direction it will stretch it into a Football. If you scale a square block in only one direction it becomes a rectangle.

OK. Thanks.

New to Community. That's strange in and of itself! At 75 I'm NEW to something, (Anything!). 🙂 I recently set up a brand new "Kickin ___" Computer. PROBLEM: Instead of going through all of the upgrades of UltiMaker-Cura I went straight to Ver. 5.6.0 Win64 X64. I had that on my old computer. Definitely Impressive! The problem that stuck its head up was when I went to "Tweak" my Machine. It would NOT go there! No way. NOT happening! As shown in the 4 screen shots: New Only 1.jpg, New Only 2.jpg, New Only (3).jpg, & New Only (4).jpg. I was also NOT able to add plugins. I love ArcWelder, I don't Slice without it. I was only able to configure my machine on the initial setup. Spent a couple days on that. Then, "MariMakes" here in the "Community" shared a screenshot which gave me a "BINGO" moment. After a few uninstalls and re installs it still was not totally solved. I had to uninstall, then open windows administrative level and wipe out every hint that Ultimaker-Cura was ever there, then install version 5.4.0 then go through upgrades. CONCLUSION: 5 Screenshots, Old to New 1, ___'2, ___(3), ___(4), and Last. I tried to report this as a bug, but, that wouldn't help anyone else that might have the same problem. I hope no one else does If they do... This is how I solve it for me. Happy Trails All! Well.... Happy Printing At Least. Is there a way to share an "MP4" file here. I'd like to share a rather complex build.