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Print failure question
Hello All,
I am VERY new to 3D printing. I have a Replicator V5 and have printed all of the sample items on the machine...they come out great! I have downloaded two items from thingverse to print...
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:226911
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8119
Both items started printing nicely and I left my office, upon returning to both prints I could see there was progress but then a whole spiders next of extruded filament. I'm going to try something else but as of now, I havent had a successful print from an outside (the machine) file. Is there anything I should be looking for when choosing and / or creating files to print!?
Thanks and I appreciate the help!
Pat
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Just a quick example of another object downloaded from thingverse...
Attachment 7420Attachment 7421
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Hi there
That's becouse you print it in very unconveniant position.
You have a lot of "air" printing.
Try to rotate in upright.
Regards
Roberto
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Thanks Roberto!
I'll give it a try!
Pat
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you're downloading things that need to have printed support. And by the look of it, you don't have support selected or switched on.
That's the problem :-)
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Thanks Aardvark! I am assuming I make this change in MB desktop but I am not finding it. Thanks again!
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I found the settings box and well give it another go! Thanks!
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Haven't used makerware for a while. But the support options were fairly obvious. That said I used 2.3 not the newer versions. Usually an option to switch support on and off and one to choose which extruder you used.