Heaven help me - I've just bought a delta kit :-)

[curious aardvark]

How do we keep this thing from splooging all over the center of the print when warming up the hot end?

I just pick the filament off.
it goes down fairly slowly so you can pull the string off just before it hits the centre.
I always use a 2 line outline as well.

The bed takes a few minutes to heat up. But the print speed more than makes up for that :-)
For some prints it's saving me hours over the flashforge creator.

Plus with the new printbite, I find that I only need 50c for pla and 60c for petg. The flexibles don't need the bed heated at all.

Ah ha - found a bridging setting that makes it a lot more sensible. Plus added a wall down the middle to help as well.

[curious aardvark]

Here's a job for you. See if you can slice this with simplify3d.
Just crashes on me everytime.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1385312

It's the ideal model for the delta.
Reckon I could knock one out in about 8 hours.
Plus i have lots of the right sized ball bearings :-)
Only thing I've ever come across that crashes s3d though.

[DaveB]

Here's a job for you. See if you can slice this with simplify3d.
Just crashes on me everytime.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1385312
Only thing I've ever come across that crashes s3d though.

Loaded & sliced no problems. Maybe you've got some bad memory or a broken copy of S3D?

[curious aardvark]

You think you can get that printed in 8 hours?

yeah, cura says 10 - I reckon if it would slice it, I could fettle s3d to get it down to about 8.

Just a bunch of stuff cura won't do or I just can't find.
I remember it being a lot more user friendly a couple of years ago.

I can probably print at 150mm/s on a 0.2mm layer height.

[curious aardvark]

well sometimes the gods smile on you.
Cases just arrived and after unticking both y axis - text both displays and prints normally.

But when you go into tool-options it says I'm using a non-right handed coordinate system.
weirdos.
I'm more than happy with widdershins if it works :-)

yeah, that is ticked - otherwise it gets confused between which orinter you're using. Or something like that. That's always been ticked, as far as i can remember.

So basically what obviously happened was when it updated to version 3 - it automatically ticked the invert y axis box. Seems a bit bizarre to me.

But working now anyway :-)

Right off to build a system.

[curious aardvark]

Ah the strutnuts print fine , but are too thick too fit in the struts and turn to lock.

[curious aardvark]

Think I'll have a play with the laser tonight. See if i can't set fire to the workshop or blow something up :-)

[curious aardvark]

found it !
they've got it listed under mainboard for the tricolor i3.
http://www.reprapmall.com/index.php?...product_id=175
$100 !

So if that's $100 by itself - how the hell are they making ANY money on the delta kit ?

[curious aardvark]

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Well it's a bit rough in places, but should work and black hides a multitude of sins. Might have to cut it a bit shorter. Not got time to mess about tonight, I'll fit it tomorrow evening. The cable fits good and snug too :-)

See my spool holder looks simple - but it will fit every spool on the market, right down to the bastard taulman 10mm ones :-)
The spools can't come off, the filament won't get trapped and it take about 20 minutes to print :-)

I actually prefer the spool holder on the right hand strut. Keeps the filament under deceht tension and leaves the underside of the extruder clear for fettling about when loading filament.

[curious aardvark]

okay this gets even weirder.
scrapped the sequential and used my normal one print profile via usb.

Turns out it's printing the first layer at z=269, then goes down to the bed for the rest of the print. WTF ?????????
Curious to see if the spiral prints anyway. But what the hell is going on.

I changed nothing but start height and first layer speed. Which i do a lot.
Bizarre.