Quote Originally Posted by CheerCreator View Post
Hey Geoff, nice stuff. What 3d printer did you use to print this?
I'm printing mine on the Flashforge and mainly because it never ever crashes on me - ever. It has never stopped mid print.

I have a kossel and an I3, but unless you print from the SD card, I have found that if you use your computer alot when it's printing, the thing actually skips a bit and you can hear the printer actually stop and think... this isnt good.
I thought it may be a thread issue, but I am running an Octocore CPU, and have only 2 threads assigned to the print - but anything that runs in 64bit mode and uses multiple threads seems to adversely affect the print.

Long story short... If I print on my Flashforge, I know I can happily use my PC to it's fullest while sending a print to the printer and the print will not fail... if I print with the kossel or I3 prusa, it has to be SD card otherwise there is a chance the print will just completely balls up for no reason... this is via both pronterface and repetier host.

People dislike Makerware for many reasons, but there is one thing I do love about it - the background service is very reliable. You can crash your PC to white screen and as long as you don't reset it - the print will keep going. You can close makerware.. and the print will keep going.

You can queue another job with makerware.. .with the print still going (so you can create an auto wipe system to clear the bed and print a second object automatically.. etc..)

While printing from SD is no big deal, nothing beats sending it direct