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Tiny Timbs posted:X1C + PETG + Bambu slicer: Can anyone help me figure out why this went from matte to shiny (what I want) about 1/5 of the way up? I've watched a couple videos on this and they've pointed to speed and flow changes, but there are none here. The closest thing is fan speed. Would that do it, too? Easiest way to deal with it is to turn down max volumetric speed in the filament profile, below where you change bed temps per filament. If you turn it down to 3 or 4mvs you will get much more even and cleanly stacked layers. Granted you will also print way slower but that's just how it goes with faster print speeds and most materials. You may also get the max flow view to even out at a bit higher MVS but I have found good results with 3 or 4 on petg and PLA. Opinionated fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:Here’s what it looks like: Let us know if fiddling MVS as suggested helps. That's a very clear shift in the look of the filament, all right.
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Nov 15, 2023 19:43
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I think I'm gonna give Mean Green a go in my resin setup. I really, really hate having so many litres of isopropyl alcohol.
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:i want to print a jet engine model for a gift and i'm still so new to 3d printing (using an x1c), what's the best way to learn how to use supports to print? and should i be using a different material just for the supports or...? If you have the AMS (you should), then you can print in PLA and use PETG for your support interface material. Under the filament for supports, you can make that change. It's recommended to use the primary filament for the base, and the PETG for the interface. This will reduce the PETG that gets thrown away just for supports, and should reduce filament swaps, depending on the model geometry. If you do this, make sure you set the interface spacing to zero and z distance to zero.
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Nov 15, 2023 20:25
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I have some models that I was going to share for free and was wondering which site would be the "best"; I'm fully aware that the content will likely get scraped and rehosted by other unscrupulous actors but as far as a good semi-permanent home would be, is Printables leading the pack now? Most of the links to models that I see nowadays seem to be going there.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:05
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I like Printables. MyMiniFactory and Cults3D I never really go to anymore unless a search sends me straight there. Thingiverse is functional, at least 
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Nov 15, 2023 22:09
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Printables is number 1. Failing that I use yeggi as it's a nice search engine that greatest all of them Myminifactory/Patreon for miniatures
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Nov 15, 2023 22:18
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Listerine posted:I have some models that I was going to share for free and was wondering which site would be the "best"; I'm fully aware that the content will likely get scraped and rehosted by other unscrupulous actors but as far as a good semi-permanent home would be, is Printables leading the pack now? Most of the links to models that I see nowadays seem to be going there. You should upload it to Thingiverse, Printables, and Thangs, at minimum. Under YOUR name, and crosslink. Maybe Bambu's site too? Don't give people a place to upload in your stead.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:22
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Nerobro posted:You should upload it to Thingiverse, Printables, and Thangs, at minimum. Under YOUR name, and crosslink. Maybe Bambu's site too? Don't give people a place to upload in your stead. That's a good point actually, don't know why I didn't think about it. What do you mean by crosslink, link to the other hosted locations in the model information?
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Nov 15, 2023 22:23
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Printables has a good description of the different license types you can select. I mostly use CC w/ attribution and share-alike (meaning derivatives are allowed but have to abide by the same license)
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Nov 15, 2023 22:31
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Listerine posted:That's a good point actually, don't know why I didn't think about it. What do you mean by crosslink, link to the other hosted locations in the model information? Yeah, link back to your github, link to the other hosts, or be sure to link back to you "main" site. If someone finds you on cults, they should be able to get to you on printables, or thingiverse. Or at minimum back to your homepage or github page.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:48
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Re: low power, the dlp resin printers are under 15W at full tilt.
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Listerine posted:That's a good point actually, don't know why I didn't think about it. What do you mean by crosslink, link to the other hosted locations in the model information? as well as what other people have said, Printables lets you import models from your Thingiverse account, Cults also supports Thingiverse imports, and Makerworld supports imports from both Printables and Thingiverse, so you can upload the model once to Thingiverse and then share it across to the other sites with a minimum of effort The Chairman fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Nov 16, 2023 |
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Nov 16, 2023 01:39
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The Eyes Have It posted:Thingiverse is functional, at least
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Nov 16, 2023 01:54
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Just set up my X1C and ran a test print of this bionic mesh hand thing. Turned out amazing. So worth the price with how easy it is to get rolling and printing.
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Scarodactyl posted:Is it? It really almost wasn't the last time I tried uploading there. It kept doing things like loading a description from some other random upload. But that was like a year ago. mostly functional
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I requested a quote for the Prusa PRO SLX nine days ago. Here's what I received today:quote:Dear customer,
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Nov 16, 2023 15:57
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Classic Prusa
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Nov 16, 2023 16:35
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Just post the price on the product page cowards
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Nov 16, 2023 17:09
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Price by quote only is very common for professional equipment. (Unusual for Prusa I suppose) But if Prusa were following existing professional vendors' best practices, they'd not even acknowledge your request 
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Nov 16, 2023 17:20
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It's also basically still a hard concept at this point so the BOM cost is probably not even fixed, it's a bit difficult to put a real hard price out there when you're still developing the thing But yeah it doesn't matter because Prusa
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What value do you get from the tilting vat in the Pro SLX? Just using the dregs?
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Nov 16, 2023 17:59
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It's also in their consumer-grade SLA printer. It supposed to help reduce the suction force when raising the print after a completed layer, which in turn theoretically reduces the amount of supports you need to stop the print from being dislodged from the build plate. At least I think that's the case.
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Has anyone tried Resione for UV resin? I'm looking for a white, flexible resin that I could dye.
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Snackmar posted:I requested a quote for the Prusa PRO SLX nine days ago. Here's what I received today: lol I got the same for the HT90
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A friend is looking at getting into printing for him and his kid. I only have experience with my venerable Rostock that I’ve been happily running and upgrading for a decade now. I still love it. But because of that, I can’t really help advise him too directly. Is anyone able to recommend a few sweet spot printers at whatever price points there are running up to $1k? Like if there are community favorites at 300, 600, 900 or whatever? If that notion is readily available. I really don’t know. I just don’t track it. e: FDM. Build volume unknown because he’s not sure, but hopefully something they won’t outgrow immediately. Seems like that’s usually one of the first things to wish for more of. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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Bad Munki posted:A friend is looking at getting into printing for him and his kid. I only have experience with my venerable Rostock that I’ve been happily running and upgrading for a decade now. I still love it. But because of that, I can’t really help advise him too directly. Honestly Bambu Lab A1 Mini is very hard not to recommend as a starter printer. Then after that…just more of their line. I think it’s around $450? The P1S is great as well. There are first party filaments and good documentation, and they’re basically good to go out of the box without hassle. I think there are a lot of great options as well from types like Sovol and Elegoo, I just don’t have experience with them. Not sure how plug and play they are compared to Bambu Lab.
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Bad Munki posted:A friend is looking at getting into printing for him and his kid. I only have experience with my venerable Rostock that I’ve been happily running and upgrading for a decade now. I still love it. But because of that, I can’t really help advise him too directly. I guess the best question is how old is the kid, and is this dad's project the kid is interested in, or the kid's idea that the dad is being supportive of? Any of the Bambu printers are going to be pretty great in a 'I want a printer to print things' aspect. If this is going to be a hobby project where building it yourself and fiddling with things is more the goal, with neato plastic dinguses as a nice side benefit, the Prusa printers are pretty nice. If you want the latest in endless upgrade opportunities, and build costs doubling every month or two, Voron seems to be decent? The Bambu P1p is $600 currently. The Prusa Mk3S+ kit is $650 currently. I had fun putting my prusa together over the course of a weekend, and it was a reliable 'I need a plastic dingus' printer for years before I upgraded to an X1C.
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I agree with Methylethylaldehyde! As an owner of a few printers, I'd recommend one of the Bambu offerings as mentioned. P1S or P1P probably would be ideal, especially with an AMS for ease of use/quality of life improvements. My X1C+AMS has been working away for over a year now and I love it. I do love my Prusa Mk3s+ and Mk4 but they are vastly overpriced for the feature sets they provide over Bambu's current offerings!
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The kid’s the driving factor but the dad also sees the opportunity here, for sure. The kid’s in 6th grade at the moment and has a growing interest in tinkercad. Knowing the kid, time to first print would ideally be minimal. Knowing the dad, messing with it down the road is not a bad situation. But also if it Just Works that’s fine too. I’ll have him give the bambu line a look. Are those the ones that only like their own branded filament or will they take whatever? Also, any slicer lock-in with those?
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Bad Munki posted:The kid’s the driving factor but the dad also sees the opportunity here, for sure. They’ll take whatever filament, the slicer is called Bambu Studio which is great and there’s another open source slicer called Orcaslicer that folks really seem to like.
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Awesome, thanks! Still never gonna give up my Rostock v2->v4 though. I’ll be buried with that thing.
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The best printer is the one that works and that you gave!
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If the kid's really into the idea of printing, see if there's a middle school robotics team in your area. The more advanced programs do a lot of custom 3d printed parts, and that's a great way to make the logical leap from trinkets to functional technology. If you're in Michigan FIRST's FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) is a middle school program, and outside of Michigan it's high school. Not sure what the grade levels are for the Vex competitions, and not sure how much custom parts they allow. I'm currently printing the redesigned midplane for my kid's team's bot because I am the only parent with an X1C and we don't have 40+ hours to spend on essential parts.
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NewFatMike posted:The best printer is the one that works and that you gave! It’s also nice knowing every inch of the thing inside and out. The initial 20-hour build, countless upgrades, the full tear down to put a completely new print head assembly along with a controller upgrade, and so on. No surprises.
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I just bought a sovol sv06 after a multi year break from printing. It's excellent value and was printing the benchy gcode it came with after some very easy assembly in no time. But I found the open source software side of things a bit daunting and not completely obvious intially - ended up using cura which again took me a bit of time to work out how to use. So for a beginner it's good but not perfect. Haven't used the bambu stuff but I think it has it's own software, which would definitely be easier for a beginner.
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Bad Munki posted:The kid’s the driving factor but the dad also sees the opportunity here, for sure. In that case, whatever Bambu the budget will allow for will be the best bet. Almost all of the 'well, the Prusa can do that, if you buy X and spend time setting up Y' features are just baked into the Bambu. The camera and wifi cloud printing are the biggest quality of life features ever, since you can model the thing, slice it, send it, and watch it put down the first few layers so you know it'll be a good print, all without getting up from your computer desk. The AMS is almost criminally handy to have, and actually works really well in my experience. Also it lets you do Hueforge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmlI_8wOpE0 prints, which are incredibly cool for how easy they are to make once you figure out the trick to them. P1S and AMS is about a grand shipped, which gets you a LOT of really cool printer features to grow into, instead of the prusa system of 'a lot of cool printer features you wish you had, but can't justify the time or money on now'. No filament lock-in or slicer lock-in. There's even a phone app so you can check on your 10 hour 3d printed starwars lore accurate space 'sword' from work or school.
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Splode posted:I just bought a sovol sv06 after a multi year break from printing. It's excellent value and was printing the benchy gcode it came with after some very easy assembly in no time. But I found the open source software side of things a bit daunting and not completely obvious intially - ended up using cura which again took me a bit of time to work out how to use. I see it sorta like this these days: A user that wants an easy out of box experience and just print with not a lot of thinking: Get a Bambu A user that wants an affordable printer with little or no tinkering: Get a Sovol SV06 or other similar Ender 3 clone of equal quality (rare) A user that wants an affordable printer with much tinkering: Whatever Ender puts out A user that wants a workhorse printer with unrivaled post-sales support: Get a Prusa A user that wants balls to the walls speed and want to build it all themselves: Get a Voron or other similar DIY CoreXY kit Of course I'm not really considering print farm users because they sorta have different needs, but lately from what I've seen it's been between Bambu for speed and Prusa for uptime.
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