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Rubbery materials include "ninjaflex", "cheetah", "TPU", "TPC". These are more difficult to print as you are kind of "pushing on a string" so the feeder has to push very gently which means you have to do some tricks. Cheetah is about 100X easier to print than ninjaflex because cheetah is a bit stiffer. Look at the "hardness" of each of these materials to get an idea. Ninjaflex is like rubber band material. It's the softest but Cheetah is quite soft as well (think sneaker sole). The hardness will be a letter and number like "50D". Each letter A,B,C,D is a different scale and you can find translation tables and learn if 30D or 50A is harder or if they are the same, etc.
The material station isn't going to help much and your material could get clogged in there (probably not) so I'd be ready for some headaches.
But the most important thing: I don't know if these absorb inks. I don't know if these are good for making stamps. Maybe do some googling around about 3d printing stamps (in the hobby areas just to learn some things as hobbyists are always ahead in the learning curve).
Once you pick a material ask again for suggestions on settings as these are tricky materials to print and you want all the advice you can get.
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Strap in for the first Cura release of 2024! This 5.7 beta release brings new material profiles as well as cloud printing for Method series printers, and introduces a powerful new way of sharing print settings using printer-agnostic project files! Also, if you want to download the cute dinosaur card holder featured below, it was specially designed for this release and can be found on Thingiverse!
S-Line Firmware 8.3.0 was released Nov. 20th on the "Latest" firmware branch.
(Sorry, was out of office when this released)
This update is for...
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Temperature status. During print preparation, the temperatures of the print cores and build plate will be shown on the display. This gives a better indication of the progress and remaining wait time. Save log files in paused state. It is now possible to save the printer's log files to USB if the currently active print job is paused. Previously, the Dump logs to USB option was only enabled if the printer was in idle state. Confirm print removal via Digital Factory. If the printer is connected to the Digital Factory, it is now possible to confirm the removal of a previous print job via the Digital Factory interface. This is useful in situations where the build plate is clear, but the operator forgot to select Confirm removal on the printer’s display. Visit this page for more information about this feature.
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Rubbery materials include "ninjaflex", "cheetah", "TPU", "TPC". These are more difficult to print as you are kind of "pushing on a string" so the feeder has to push very gently which means you have to do some tricks. Cheetah is about 100X easier to print than ninjaflex because cheetah is a bit stiffer. Look at the "hardness" of each of these materials to get an idea. Ninjaflex is like rubber band material. It's the softest but Cheetah is quite soft as well (think sneaker sole). The hardness will be a letter and number like "50D". Each letter A,B,C,D is a different scale and you can find translation tables and learn if 30D or 50A is harder or if they are the same, etc.
The material station isn't going to help much and your material could get clogged in there (probably not) so I'd be ready for some headaches.
But the most important thing: I don't know if these absorb inks. I don't know if these are good for making stamps. Maybe do some googling around about 3d printing stamps (in the hobby areas just to learn some things as hobbyists are always ahead in the learning curve).
Once you pick a material ask again for suggestions on settings as these are tricky materials to print and you want all the advice you can get.
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