They just shipped the first 60 units to backers a couple of days ago. There should be more reviews by real users soon.
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They just shipped the first 60 units to backers a couple of days ago. There should be more reviews by real users soon.
cool, should be interesting :-)
They just sent me a tracking number for mine, so it looks like it is actually happening.
woo hoo !
let us know when it arrives :-)
My wife just informed me of my Mod-t's delivery... And she unboxed it for me...
I have the sneaking suspicion that if I don't get home early, she might do a first print on it without me. :p
New Matter just uploaded a whole whackload of tutorial videos on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/newmatterinc/videos
This is looking really good.
And now is about 8 hrs later. After a delicious dinner, I set about unboxing. It was really packaged beautifully and was very easy to setup.
During first connection, my pc (Win 10) didn't see the MOD-t, so I used the FAQ (http://support.newmatter.com/custome...e-installation) and got it going.
Things were smooth for a while, but during calibration, the build table moved very noisily through the x-axis for several minutes. Sounded like it was crushing rocks. I was about to unplug to save it from eating itself when it settled in.
I had it start the test print of the NM logo. It wiped off the nozzle on the right side, but some extruded filament strung into the print. I picked out what was loose and let it keep going. At 27%, the print broke loose from the print bed. I moved the piece out of the way so the nozzle kept extruding into space because the head had moved up about 2 mm (the thickness of the print). I pressed the front panel button and it stopped extruding and the head raised up.
There is a rough spot on the bottom of the print, probably where the original extraneous filament was laying on the print bed when it started printing. I think that is why it broke loose.
As I write this, the nozzle is staying hot (202C) and the fan is running full out. I finally tried to resume, but the nozzle was still 2 mm up in the air. I finally had to unplug power to get it to stop trying to resume. It is now quiet.
I think I'll call it night and work on it again tomorrow.
Hi, JCrump. I’m so sorry you’re running into some issues. This is not the usual set up experience a MOD-t user should be having. Our customer support staff will be happy to help during our business hours: 9AM-6PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. Please contact them via email, phone or live chat, all of which is available at http://support.newmatter.com. We apologize for the frustrating experience and hope that we can help you resolve it when you’re ready.
I've also had some problems with setting up my MOD-t since it arrived, though at least for now it appears to be my fault. The machine requires a wifi signal, and I don't have one in the workshop where I was hoping to set it up.
Also, while I didn't have any significant problem getting the test print going, the interface completely lacks a "stop current print" function, so if it does fail, the only way to cancel the print completely is to unplug the machine.
Also, I noticed the print had a lot of acceleration and deceleration. Is that handled in the firmware, or is it something I have to account for in my slicer?
Hi Feign,
If no Wi-Fi is available, the desktop app may be used to manually upload g-code via USB to your MOD-t. Our Customer Support team will have a guide on how to configure Cura to make g-code that will work on the MOD-t very shortly. Since you are what we would consider a power user and you may want to run your printer off-line, please contact customer support so they can help you get your MOD-t up and running with the latest firmware and software.
With regard to stopping a job: Pressing the front panel button while printing will pause the print job and move the carriage up. This process can be used when a job has failed for some reason before unplugging and plugging back in.
The accelerations are handled by the firmware. We plan to quickly improve and revise the firmware to make the accelerations more consistent.
Thank you for your support and your continued patience! We sincerely appreciate it.
good to see prompt responses.
I'm not sure that wanting to be free of a wifi signal constitutes being a 'power user'.
Could just be someone who wants to take their printer somewhere other than where they set it up.
Friends house, garage, workshop etc.
Sounds like something that ought to be optional during setup.
Still no user submitted videos on YouTube that I can find. Bummer, I'm really looking forward to seeing it print since New Matter haven't really released any "raw' videos just showing in detail how it looks/sounds.
Well, I moved the printer into the house with reluctant agreement from the wife, and it has been printing pretty much nonstop all day Sunday (all things for her rather than for me... that free starter filament is very VERY pink.)
While I don't have the time to put up a youtube video anytime soon, a good description of the sound would be a "rumbling and grumbling" rather than the usual printer noises of "whining and whistling" with about the same amount of noise a running microwave.
EDIT: Now that I'm home from work, some other notes and first impressions:
I really wish I could take a look under the hood of their slicer, particularly the way it does infill seems counter-intuitively effective.
I didn't notice until seeing it in action that the z-axis screw doesn't ever turn. The motor for the z-axis is in the top portion of the machine and turns a nut that the head rests on. It's a really odd design decision, but considering how much the stringing (or in the case of this pink PLA, plastic cotton candy) gets on everything, I can understand the benefits of the system.
Seriously, stringing alone is reason to keep the lid on this thing. The fan in there blows like a tornado and those strings get everywhere if you run it without the cover.
The pinion x-y system does indeed make a very distinctive texture on the print, but it's so subtle that it doesn't even interfere with mechanical movement. But if you know what to look for, a MOD-t print is instantly distinguishable.
The slicer seems to default to 100 micron resolution for uploaded parts, with no option I could find to decrease resolution... For the vast majority of what I'm printing, that's an arduous slowness.
Been playing around with my MOD-t for a week now and I'm absolutely in love. It's my first foray into 3D printing and it's left a great impression; the thrill of turning .stls into tangible objects is an excellent experience. The brown-sugary smell of it printing is a welcome plus.
Mostly, I've been satisfied with the prints themselves. The test print and the duck from the store came out flawlessly. The phone stand printed well, but has a glob near one of the cosmetic holes in the back part.
Problems arose when I tried to do custom prints from things I've downloaded form Thingiverse. I tried the iPhone 6 + Watch stand combo, and while the print completed, halfway through the print translated back and to the right. It makes for cool glitch art, but sadly things like "being able to feed a charger in from beneath" and "using the speaker amplification area" are disabled. Twice when I tried to print the articulated octopus, once for the head and once for a set of the joints, the filament broke and stopped feeding into it, resulting in two bad prints. Eventually I got them to print with great detail, but sadly they don't join together. I think that's more of a PLA vs. ABS problem than it is a MOD-t problem.
The last concerns I have is that it frequently shows up as being disconnected, which results in me having to go power cycle it so it's picked up by the site when I try to print. I can't get the offline printer utility to find the printer either, despite it getting picked up by the store in my web browser. It also gives no indication of how long a print has left to complete, a feature I expected since it gave an estimate during the test print.
Overall though, I'm happy with my purchase and with the promise of continued firmware support, I'm very excited to see how my clean little cube comes along in reliability and print quality! It'd be nice to have an official announcement page to obsessively check for when firmware updates go live.
Pause and switch filaments is on the roadmap for the near future with a new firmware release. We've done that on MOD-t prototypes & previous firmware versions and they came out beautifully. See example here: https://instagram.com/p/68SpRPJOGY/ We're confident that we can get that feature implemented for our users.
Right now, the pause feature can be used to put something into the print mid-build or to just pause for some other reason.
Has anyone found any YouTube videos yet from users? I can't find any except ones from the official New Matter channel. Was hoping to see some "raw" footage to hear what it sounds like and get a feel for the real unit, not so glossy, if you will.
Just received mine about an hour ago ;) very nice design, packaging and information. I only have one issue so far I am trying to diagnose. I cannot get it to connect to either of my wifi networks at work. Both are 802.11-N. I think one is setup to do B/G+N. Any others having this issue? Did the firmware update out of the box and tried their only suggestion online (power off and disconnect the usb and try again).
It is a little noisy (different than my other very noise (fan) on the I3). The rack and pinion definitely isn't quiet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXMHi39zncQ
I cannot connect to wifi for some reason so pointers for that would be appreciated. I do not use Cura or Slicer so any settings that would help with Simplify3D would be appreciated. I can probably convert the Cura settings if you post the meat of what is needed.
What exactly does the Temperature Calibration do? At first I thought it was broken because it looked like it was printing but nothing was extruding. It looks like the nozzle parks just above the surface then moves back and forth many times slowly lowering? until it hits the bed then raises up and starts to heat and print.
Question or feedback. My test print just finished but the desktop shows 9 minutes remaining and printer at 71% complete (status shows Printing). So there is a bug there. This is from the utility directly over usb.
Hi, we're sorry you're having some difficulty trying to connect to wi-fi. Can you please reach out to our customer support team? They'll be happy to walk you through the process. We have Live Chat available at http://support.newmatter.com or you can call us toll free at 1-866-949-8722. Thank you and we look forward to helping you out!
I was logged in and pretty much had the chat going all day. It connected but now the problem was anytime I tried to send a print via the cloud it started the sending then after a minute or so would show disconnected online and would never finish the load. I go the local test file printed but really, really could use some offline slicing settings because the cloud isn't going to cut it all the time. I use Simplify3d and tried to use the start and end code from the local test gcode file and it went through the motions of loading the file, waiting for the button press, calibration then moved up and said the print was done. For some reason none of the code past calibration seemed to be executed but I verified the file looked just about like the sample except for the in-between code. It didn't even print the "purge line" which I had copied over. Slicer settings please.
Well, this is just a pickle... Apparently the latest Windows 10 update that installed (without asking, even though I have it set to ask me before installing updates) has put my laptop into a loop of BSODs (crashing straight from the login screen) that only stopped when I disabled wifi and plugged into the wired network connection. Now after that, my MOD-t doesn't find any wifi connections available when searching in the Printer Tool, but I was able to connect to my wifi manually, so now it says it is connected to the wifi in the, but on the store site it consistently says the printer is disconnected.
I dd say a while back that windows 10 was best avoided. And one of my main reasons was that you have no control of updates.
The best you can do is to disable all updates in a the administrative options section.
Frankly this should be the default setting for ALL versions of windows. No updates, ever !
basically you need to do a system restore to before the update - make sure you are OFFLINE.
Then disable updates (look it up if you're not sure where they've hidden the administrative options section) and THEN reconnect the internet. Otherwise it'll just reinstall the same update.
Well, I've finally finished out my free half-kilo of SUPER FREAKING PINK filament, unfortunately I wasn't paying attention at the end of the spool and I got to experience clearing out my first jam...
Long story short, it was a heck of a lot easier than with a Makerbot, the hot end unplugs from the head unit and simply unscrews (they even have an instructional video on youtube for it) after that it's a simple matter of plugging it back in, heating it back up while unscrewed and pushing the filament the rest of the way through (with proper protective gear, of course) The whole process took about 5 minutes.
Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_049B56ifQ
Is there a firmware change log anywhere? It would be nice to know what each firmware release changed instead of guessing and looking for differences. (i.e. just updated to 0.2.0)
Ditto! Your early users really need this. I attempted to print the 2-sided pumpkin from the store, and after something like 18 hours, it appears to have simply stopped. Is that something that's likely to be fixed? What about the wifi problems? Are they fixed?
Well, you specifically asked about sound, and I didn't include the sound, and it's sped up 8x, but here's something: https://youtu.be/K1uD0gRSx0Y
lol love the way the printbed moves around.