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tl:dr -- Has anyone used MatterControl? Did the Z axis not set correctly? Did you find a fix?

Hi all,

After a hiatus from printing, I've been playing around a bit lately, and have been looking...

Hi all,

I've been puttering around looking for a better PLA solution (you know, curling, brittle separating layers...), beyond the fan shroud I've been using...

I bought a bunch of screws/nuts from Bolt Depot. Metric Bolts are very rare in any stores in my area. I wound up getting a bunch of M3 bolts in various lengths, that I keep around for projects that...

I just cracked one of my thin beds. I'm going to buy a this 3-pack @ US$50.
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Oops. I tried to reset the x/y origins from 0:0 to 114:75 and it prints just fine.

It's good to be back! Now I have to clear out my left extruder, and I'm going gang busters!

Cheers,

John

Hi all,

I've been away from printing for a while, and am starting back up again.

I run linux, xubuntu to be precise, and have had success with my PowerSpec/Flashforge in the past. However, I've...

I know, I know. One of the stellar features of the FFCXP/Powerspec is having dual extruders.

However, I find that I have never actually run a dual-color print (well, that caffeine molecule...

I would do what I did with the spool mounting holes (I use a spool holder that sits on a shelf under the printer). Stick a bit of blue painters tape over them. :)

Cheers,

John

Some time back, some psychology-minded folks identified a phenomenon known as the 'baader-meinhof phenomenon', which sounds worse than it it. It refers to how you tend to see things more often once...

Some slicers will cause each layer to start printing at the same point on the perimeter each layer. Skeinforge, the slicer for replicatorG, always starts my prints on the left-front corner of the...

There are a few .stl files published on thingiverse. If you search for 'flashforge creator filament tube', you'll get quite a few hits. This one looks pretty nice: ...

Is the printer new? Have you ever taken the extruders apart? It could be crossed wires, but it could also just be accidentally swapped fans. The fans are pretty easy to swap, though you have to keep...

I'm a 60C heat and hair-spray guy, myself. I've been having great results in the cooler dryer winter weather that way for my PLA printing. As it warms and moistens up, I figure I'll have to adjust...

I'll be interested in any information you can share about that idea, using the other extruder for support material. I have run a couple of prints today, and the slic3r files are working quote well...

Yeah, that's my plan RepG is fine as a gcode driver. I'm not even going to worry too much about slic3r for more simple prints; skeinforge does a decent-enough job. But the supports on slic3r are MUCH...

I'm glad to see you've got a handle on it.

I figured out that the x-y offset issue I was seeing was, in some ways, a matter of semantics. A lot of the forums/discussions that I found referred to...

I'm playing with using Slic3r files on the FF Pro also. Did you use the informaton in this article to set up your start/end gcode? ...

I'm very interested in the edits you make to your gcode to get it to compile in replicatorg. I want to look at slic3r or Cura as alternatives to skeinforge, but run the gcode into replicatorg for...

I don't think I'm missing the point. I don't need to convert to x3g, if the print program will do it for me.

Interestingly, the documentation for replicatorg is somewhat ambiguous, but I do find...

I print using the gcode out of replicatorg all the time. I can open the gcode file that was generated by skeinforge inside replicatorg and print that over the usb directly. There's no lag that would...

I tried to export the gcode that cura puts out and open it in replicatorg. It didn't work very well...

It appears that the start/end code is presented as text in the profile for the current...

I did tinker with Cura, and with Slic3r, yesterday. No joy in getting anything that will print on a FF Pro, though. I know there's a gcode converter to generate an x3g file, but I run Linux, and that...

I would be interested in this topic as well.

I downloaded Cura, and started to look at it, but have had other priorities lately. I think I'll tinker with it more over the next few days, to see...

Hi all,

It's been a while, but I thought I would toss out another tidbit for those of us who can't justify the cost of S3D. :)

I'm using replicatorg for most of my printing. I do sometimes...

Oh well. I have one of the robust fan ducts already; I was looking for something I didn't have to remember to plug in (I'm not messing with internal power), and that was easy to remove. I like that...