Qidi Tech 1 - Replicator 1 clone

[suds]

Thank you Suds, outstanding! I printed in PLA @ .2mm and your new version of these hinges works perfectly. I absolutely love the slide to the right to lock in the open position.

Oh awesome. I'm glad this is working well for you.

Gotta love when you've got an idea, you cad it, share it, and you and like minded enthusiasts print out real deals in your respective man caves.
A bit campy, I know.

[DaveB]

Oh awesome. I'm glad this is working well for you.

Gotta love when you've got an idea, you cad it, share it, and you and like minded enthusiasts print out real deals in your respective man caves.
A bit campy, I know.

Yeah, campy. See box label on left. Maybe it has something to do with hinges...

[suds]

Yeah, campy. See box label on left. Maybe it has something to do with hinges...

Haha very nice. And I think I see some overlapping interests.. not so surprising.

[DaveB]

S3D just provided an update to the QiDi profile. Dunno what's changed if anything.

[caall99]

S3D just provided an update to the QiDi profile. Dunno what's changed if anything.

I just put in a feature request with S3D to include "slow down for small loops". I have been in communication with the authors of Sailfish, and they believe that S3D slices into too many gcode segments for the Sailfish firmware to process properly, and that S3D really needs a slow down for small loops" feature like slic3r has... this should mitigate my issue of shuddering/vibrations on small details.

How do you know that they "just" updated the profile?

[DaveB]

I just put in a feature request with S3D to include "slow down for small loops". I have been in communication with the authors of Sailfish, and they believe that S3D slices into too many gcode segments for the Sailfish firmware to process properly, and that S3D really needs a slow down for small loops" feature like slic3r has... this should mitigate my issue of shuddering/vibrations on small details.

How do you know that they "just" updated the profile?

I use S3D daily. Today when I started S3D it presented a pop-up which announced an update to the QiDi Tech I profile, which I accepted and downloaded. I do not see what changed, but also am not sure exactly what one might need to do to engage the new profile other than loading the QiDi Defaults.

[caall99]

I use S3D daily. Today when I started S3D it presented a pop-up which announced an update to the QiDi Tech I profile, which I accepted and downloaded. I do not see what changed, but also am not sure exactly what one might need to do to engage the new profile other than loading the QiDi Defaults.

Oh ok, thanks. I would probably just reload the "updated" profile, and tweak settings after a trial print. Not sure if the profiles they update contain more settings than what are accessible to us.

[wirlybird]

S3D just provided an update to the QiDi profile. Dunno what's changed if anything.

I can see one thing right away in the script which we were changing manually to avoid crashing into the left side.

[DaveB]

I can see one thing right away in the script which we were changing manually to avoid crashing into the left side.

I sent an email to S3D support earlier today asking what had changed in the QiDi profile. Here is what I got back....

Thank you for contacting Simplify3D support! I'd be glad to answer your question. In the start script, we changed:
G1 X-120 Y-70 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
to:
G1 X-110 Y-70 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
Because on some machines the head hit the side of the machine when the optional cooling fan was installed.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, I'd be happy to help.
~Simplify3D Support


So campers, not much changed in the S3D profile for QiDi. The VRef values are still maxed out at 127.

[DarkAlchemist]

I sent an email to S3D support earlier today asking what had changed in the QiDi profile. Here is what I got back....

Thank you for contacting Simplify3D support! I'd be glad to answer your question. In the start script, we changed:
G1 X-120 Y-70 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
to:
G1 X-110 Y-70 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
Because on some machines the head hit the side of the machine when the optional cooling fan was installed.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, I'd be happy to help.
~Simplify3D Support


So campers, not much changed in the S3D profile for QiDi. The VRef values are still maxed out at 127.

SMH on those maxed out VRefs.

I saw a Makerbot Replicator a few months ago and it did something that intrigued me. When it was printing the line to prime the nozzle before launching into the print proper, it wiggled... To be more specific, when it started printing the prime line it was a straight line on the X-axis, but as it moved across the plate it added a successively increasing orthogonal Y-axis modulation to that. By the end of the prime line the Y-axis modulation was about 2mm peak to peak in amplitude. The frequency of the modulation was fixed throughout the line at about 4mm per cycle. Has anyone ever seen something like this this, or a GCode script for generating this motion?

I saw this a few months ago on an old Youtube video and the guy did it via gcode at the start to mimic the Makerbot.