Hi all. I'm John. Long time 3d printing fanboy, but I just got an Ormerod kit a few weeks ago. Been doing some electronic and mechanical hacks to it, and will probably keep doing so infinitely...
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Hi all. I'm John. Long time 3d printing fanboy, but I just got an Ormerod kit a few weeks ago. Been doing some electronic and mechanical hacks to it, and will probably keep doing so infinitely...
I'm just starting out with 3d Printing. I'm looking at building my own delta 3d printer when I get some funds together. Eventually, I would like to get into business with 3d printing.
I've been asked to moderate the reprap subforum. I'm looking forward to getting involved.
Cheers,
Martin
Sorry, I have broken forum etiquette by making multiple posts before introducing myself.
I'm based in Australia and have a long term interest in 3D design from a purely amateur hobby basis and have played around with 3D Studio MAX and it's predecessors for the last 20 years.
I have a 3D StuffMaker Evolution, purchased late last year which I have already customised with a redesigned extruder, an illuminated nozzle fan and filament feeder. All designed by me and built on the printer.
I love the bleeding edge nature of the current range of hobby level printers and enjoy the development, tweaking and improving of the printer as much as I do producing printed objects.
I am Bruno. I love to tinker and take on projects. Variety is the spice of life.
My hobbies
Cars
Computers
now 3d printers.
My Job?
Systems Engineer (Computers)
Hello I'm in Canada,
I run a MIX G1 3d printer using a version of Marlin
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Currently Building a second unit with 3d printed enclosures for ramps and smart controller
aluminum build plate and main Mounting platform
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Progress so far on the second printer is going well awaiting a supply unit to arrive
extruder, steppers, and full operations in Repetier-Host all tested fine using a 3s lipo & 5v from usb
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Hey everyone I'm in Tasmania, just got my Makerfarm I3v 10"
Love prop making (mostly Iron Man and star wars)
Im a glazier by trade, but now spend my days quoting house windows.
How's it going? I am in the middle of building a Kossel Mini. I've operated a Makerbot, but this is my first experience with a RepRap. I have been very impressed with the Kossel that a friend made, so I am excited to have one of my own.
I intend to use the printer as a prototyping aid for various projects. I am an active member of a FIRST robotics team - where we use 3D printing more and more. And I am going to use my Kossel to print prosthetic hands for the E-Nable project.
Hello everyone, I'm from Italy (Rome). I just ordered a full Prusa i3 kit from Charlie http://www.charlies3dtechnologies.be...-i3-kit-metric
I’m a Solution Architect (.net) passionate about electronics, model aeronautics and Arduino.
Ciao!
Benvenuto al forum. E sempre un piacere incontrare un italiano apasionato.
Hi there, I'm new to the whole 3D printing, although I have been watching it and that for awhile now. Guess I decided to get into it. I just received a HE Reprap Prusa i3 DIY kit. Just have to get it together and start printing. But I already have questions about it, and nothing is together yet. Isn't that how it goes.
Hello,
I am writing you from Bulgaria. Does anyone has idea for a big format 3D printer with building area 1000 x 1000 x 1000 mm? Could you please recommend any machine ASAP? Thanks!
There are some things to overcome when building something that big. It seems to me a CORE XY could be scaled to that size, however the motors will have to be at least nema 23. With motors that large you will need something more than a ramps board or possibly a very highly modified ramps. You also have to consider time to print as well in something that large. Current slicers seem to crash on very large objects. Considering the size of the printer you also will have to run it much slower than a small machine due to weight. Unfortunetly designing something that prints that big is an exercise in exponential mathematics. It can be done if you reduce nozzle resolution though.
Hi from the UK
Just finished building my first 3D reprap a Prusa I3 Rework with a E3D V 6 Hotend
Hope i can help people with the pit falls that i suffered and how to get round them
Crawler (Dave)
Hi RepRap. We wanted to share the Inventor of the RepRap project, Adrian Bowyer, is a board member of Libre3D.com.
Libre3D is a 3D printing resource for Free and Open Source 3D models.
www.Libre3D.com
Hello from the Isle of Man.
I've been given a sunhokey prusa (acrylic frame) i3 kit for my birthday from the wife. I have to say I'm very impressed with it. Pretty easy to put together and I was printing my first cube within a few hours of completion. I'm totally addicted to messing with it and trying to fine tune my results. I hope you can all help with my questions and queries which I'm sure will be plentiful.
Cheers all
Docker
Hello everyone. I am new to the 3D printing industry, but a network engineer by trade. I want to break away from "working for the man", and buy and build a 3D business. My main hobby when I have free time is 1/4 mile drag racing. I'm connected to the industry through various performance shops. I'm not sure what direction to go for a business model. I need direction find that niche market to be able to jump start my business. I have not even committed to a 3D printer yet but my resources allow a budget of $2200 or less for a printer. The one thing I am most concerned about is not having a printer that is capable of producing the size product I need. If I buy a mini or small area printer, i'm limited on my business model. I guess I need to know what the best and biggest print area I can get on a 3D printer for my price range.
Hi peeps,
I'm the latest newbie here. Very interested in the whole CNC/3D world. I've built a CNC router, now wanting to get into the 3D printing world.
Hi all and happy holidays, did post an introduction in another part of the forum but I'm that much of a noob to 3d printing I didn't even know what type of printer I had bought
Anyhoo I've got my HIC prusa i3 up and running and weeded out the easy to find faults (mine came with quite a decent set of BUILD instructions that only missed 3 small parts) and after finding 2 wires crossed on one set of motor leads, wiring my led strip to the heart bed and wondering why it was turning on and off for 15/20 second intervals (that was a flushed cheeks eureka moment).
Ive managed to sort many problems by reading Roxys answers to the HELLLLLP! threads but I'm still a long way off.
See you all out the
Johno
I have 2 3d printers and every thing works heating, melting, and the plate heats, but as it get's to the point to start printing it goes to the home corner and stops and starts making a loud noise, if I leave it the noise stops and the head tries to go to the start point but doesn't get there it starts to zig zag and just move around a little at which time I stop it. I have tried every thing I know to get it to work but even my other printer is doing the same thing????? Any help ????? Thanks Ron.
I have 2 3d printers and every thing works heating, melting, and the plate heats, but as it get's to the point to start printing it goes to the home corner and stops and starts making a loud noise, if I leave it the noise stops and the head tries to go to the start point but doesn't get there it starts to zig zag and just move around a little at which time I stop it. I have tried every thing I know to get it to work but even my other printer is doing the same thing????? Any help ????? Thanks Ron.
Here's a little about what I have going on. A few months back I bought a 2-up 3d printer kit and put it together knowing that I wanted to be able to print on a much larger scale. Before producing a completed successful print (extrusion problems) I made the decision to build something that would satisfy my desire to go bigger and at the same time give me a more reliable platform.
I upped the size of the 'z' and 'y' motors to nema 23's and have micro switches for both ends of each axis. I got a couple of bowden extruders and an ep3 chimera hot end.
It took a bit but I have reached the point where I'm starting into control check-out. Using the ramps board (from the original 2-up) I turned the pots down on the drivers and powered up the board. I was able to control 'z' fairly well though it needs some mechanical tweeking, but have not got anything out of the other 2 axis yet. What I've been able to find about tuning the drivers (drivers rated at 2 amps and the 23's are rated 2.8 per coil) leaves me hesitant and wanting to reach out before I let the smoke out of something. (This part of the process is what I have the most to learn about.) It looks like my useful build-space when complete will be 24"x 22"x 13.5". I'll post a pic in the not to distant future.
Looking for suggestions to best proceed.
Ed
Hello hello people. My name is William. I recently acquired a Makerfarm i3v 12" from a friend of mine. Mainly wood frame, with aluminum for the sliders. I believe it's setup with a Wades extruder. Currently has an e3d hot end with a 0.4mm nozzle and prints using 1.75mm filament. I got it knowing everything needed to be calibrated and tweaked. It's got the ramps 1.4 board instead of the Rumba(i have that one too)
My issue at hand, and I'll drop a not in the proper area, is, getting the Z axis setup properly. It's got a servo and microswitch for the ABL and, the marlin 1.0.3 firmware is saying the z-offset is 2.6 . when I print using something like Slic3r, it prints pretty close to correct, as far as starting height. Using Simplify3d, it's all kinds of wrong.
Off to do some research!
Hello RepRap users! I would say I'm pretty new to the RepRap world but I've learned a ton since I first started this month. I'm currently running the Prusa i3 Rework.
Hi there,
I recently bought a Monoprice i3 clone of a clone (based on the Wanhao i3) as my first foray into the world of 3d printing. I had seen powder bed 3d printing at design school, but have never been hands on with the CNC process only modeling in CAD and seeing the results. I am of course very excited about my new machine. It seems to print up to if not exceeding my expectations out of the box. The Monoprice i3 v2 model has some issues however, and I have all my noob misconceptions about 3d FDM printing to dispel. Hopefully you all can help me modify the cheap out of this cheap printer and improve my prints :o)
I have some machining experience, and a machinist square thankfully! So I was able to find the things the assembly line for Monoprice did wrong after only a short time. The Y Belt was all out of alignment, they installed a Nyloc nut between the brace and the roller guide as well as installed the toothed gear on the step motor backwards. Measuring from the left side frame I evened that all out, spun the bearing shafts a tiny bit, and loosened and squared the front belt bracket which was attached out of alignment. The motor bracket was slightly bent inwards maybe from running the thing with the belt out of alignment so I shimmed the motor against the back frame to bring the shaft square. The firmware had the acceleration maxed causing bad vibration waves on direction changes while printing, I set the y axis accel to 700 and x to 800 so far in tuning that, it has helped the y axis wave patterns at the start of corners a bit, with more tuning needed. I have ghosting on holes in vertical walls and am tuning for that as well.
I've had the machine 4 days, could not be happier with it even though it needs a disassembly and alignment out of the box, which I did not know when I opened the box. I guess I didn't really know much of anything about what I was getting into when I ordered it but this thing is making me smile. Currently printing Z braces and other random stuff while I establish some profiles for the machine for different types of parts (structural load bearing, best surface detail, etc).
Thanks for the forum, thanks for the posts, have a nice day!
New member here. Just ordered a Prusa i3 based kit. I already own a Malyan M200. Just waiting on the slow boat from China to bring me my new printer kit.
Came here looking for info and support for assembly and tweaks for the Prusa.
New fella to the scene. Build my first hictop prusa i3 3dp-11 with z-axis autolevel.
Havent had it working but once only.
Came here for find help for firmware(I have no save on LCD) and tips how to get it righthly calibrated before first use.
Hello guys, names Gino and I just got my printer about a few months ago (MAKER SELECT V2) I have no experience in 3d printing but have been learning alot with videos, trial and error and experimenting, ive had a few really good prints but still cant seem to get get the buildplate properly leveled or having to level it (or try atleast) to get it somewhat decent, and need some help or guidance with it lol.
hello all, hoping ill be able to find some insite into some issues I'm having with a new to me printer, thanks!
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