Search:

I think the same, but someone here with practical experience?

Hi,

after runing my I3XL printer for quite a time without any issues, I thought it would be good to have a second one.

I try to get the new DIY printer running with the SainSmart 2in1 board,...

Just for the case you would like to have enhanced funktionalities in CURA: http://umforum.ultimaker.com/index.php?/topic/4618-new-cura-printer-interface/page-2
This is almost all you have in...

If you like the button of Pronterface, why don´t use the ones in Cura? You can chose in your preferences in Cura if you want to use basic settings or Pronterface UI. On top of that we have customized...

Thanks for clarification, it is never to late to learn something new ;-)

Are you sure that we´re talking about the same thing? Unfortunately my English is not perfect and not sure if I´ve really written what I have in mind...

Hope the picture helps to understand... and...

After 23 years experience in preparing rallye cars, 15 years experience in electronics and mechatronics - yes I do!

And when we were using crimps (because we needed special connectors) we...

I´m using a simple 4 mm float glass in my I3 and have no problems with it. The important thing is that you´ll need a heat bed which spreads the temperature equaly over the whole area. I heat my glass...

All my hot end wires are soldered, thermistor or heater makes no difference. This parts working for month now and over 500 prints. As Roxy described above, the approx. 4 cm length of the heater...

For all machines with moving parts is criping not an option!

Printers move quite rapidly and have usually thin wires, especially at the extruder where the termistor is connected. If you have a...

The heat temperature could even be higher, at last for the first three or four layers. I´m using 105° C for the first three layers, then reducing temperature to 96° C. It is quite important to get a...

OME, looking at your picture makes clear what the problem is: This seems to be a huge fan at your extruder, approx. 80mm in diameter? Maybe it would help to have a smaller one... I´ve used a small...

That´s depending on the hotend you´re using and what material you´re printing with - PLA or ABS?

In most cases cheaper hotends needs a cooling anyway. The reason is that the insulator and/or the...

Ok...

Now we now that your problem is connected to the fan on your hotend. Any chance to redesign the fan mount so that the air don´t hit the heatbed? Maybe a photo would help us to understand...

Yeah, the extruder fan is ONE possibility. No mater from which direction the air comes, you should in any case prevent the print from any cool air. This was the reason I changed my hotend to a...

The way I did the upgrade was to copy the "old" configuration.H file into a text editor (e.g. Wordpad) and printed the whole file out then. I´ve marked the changes I did previosly in red and after...

Same here: For things with holes I usually increase the diameter of the outer shell so that I´m able to drill the holes without having any issues with stability there.

I´m using an Arduino Mega and RAMPS 1.4 as well. I really like the number of I/Os the Arduino board offers and the possibility to chose between different stepper drivers an RAMPS. On top of that it...

Roxy,

great idea and many thanks for the file. I´ll definetly rework my printer with this mod, that ´s what i need to change the two different extruders (single and double).

I´m using the V2 hotend from RepRap.Fab http://reprap-fab.org/shop/product_info.php?products_id=90 and don´t have any issues after more than 200 prints with it, mainly in ABS. on top of that the...

Looks great!

Maybe you can tell us what printer you´ve used here.

I used SolidWorks if it has to be very precise and SketchUp for all quickshots :)

Captain Obvious,

since I have tested serveral different extruder here in my printer(s) I can tell you that building a hotend is much more difficult as it seems to be. That said I personally have...

wrenchinjunk,

a bit more information about the hardware setup und the software you intend to use would be helpfull. We need to know what you´re talking about...

For me personally it is quite...

Congrats, very well done!

At the moment I have no time to change the Marlin_Main.cpp but I will give it a try in a few days. My current version of auto-bed-levelings works quite well, but i´m...