Our new I3 Mega printed just fine until lately it seems to have gotten a filament jam. Normally on other printers I would take off the nozzle, take off the tubing, and hopefully be able to push the...
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Our new I3 Mega printed just fine until lately it seems to have gotten a filament jam. Normally on other printers I would take off the nozzle, take off the tubing, and hopefully be able to push the...
My trusty Creator Pro, roughly 2 years old, has begun having serious filament jam problems in the right nozzle, the one I use most. The filament gets stuck with a blob on the end and a thin place in...
There is a lot of unnecessary travel on the inside of the scooped pocket, when it seems that simply going around and around its interior would be just fine. The design is generated using openSCAD's ...
I bought some ninjaflex, and had mild success with my first couple of tries. This has proved impossible to reproduce.
Printing on the blue provided surface of a Flashforge Creator Pro, the first...
I bought a glass bed from Flashforge to go with my Creator Pro. It didn't come with any instructions on how to install it, nor any double stick tape that I might use to stick it to the metal base....
Some answers to my own questions, after processing what's been said here:
1. The end stop. For others who may come searching here, it's actually called an "axis sensor" on the Flashforge USA parts...
Hey, warkmal, that's really helpful. Not to mention that I've been hearing people advise adding a glass bed – but I wouldn't know where to get one of the right size, or how to go about it. Can you...
Thanks, guys. Sorry I was taken with more urgent work for the past couple of weeks. But a couple of questions:
1. Where is that switch located? And what part should it be replaced with? Sounds...
This is a recent development: my Creator Pro has started losing track of its Z starting position. I will launch a print job, the platform comes up to starting position, and then it makes this awkward...
I wonder if anyone has experimented with building auto eject mechanism for their 3-D printer. In other words, some gadget that kicks the completed print off the platform, leaving it free for the next...
The blue surface cover that Flashforge provides (what is its rightful name?) - mine wore out and I'm replacing it. Is this best done hot or cold, for best long term adhesion to the metal bed?
Well, I did both of those things - acetone, then boiling with dish detergent. However it worked, it worked, and I was able to get the cleaning wire through. Thanks!
I printed with a cut strand of PVA for support material. The PVA ran out during the print. BAD IDEA! I wound up with a length of (somewhat burned) PVA stuck inside the plastic tube that leads to...
Using Simplify3D, I need to make lots of different groups of settings, as I'm sure most users do. Big, boxy, flat objects can be printed fast, light and airy objects need slower, some objects don't...
Thanks for contributing that! Great! I'll give it a try.
When I tried using Makerware it just kept saying "Connecting..." forever. Console log showed that it was correctly seeing and identifying the printer. Is there some simple trick to this?
My older printer, a Printrbot, came with Repetier as the recommended software. Repetier, though far from perfect, has the lovely property that it has a box where you can type a line of gcode, and it...
Yes, please talk in detail about lubrication. I completely missed this issue.
Aardvark, you have convinced me. I was teetering on the edge and now I'm going for Simplify3d.
I understand x3g for the SD card. But i don't use an SD card (yet), I use a direct connection. Can't see the virtue in handing an extra bit of hardware from one machine to the other unless I needed...
Cool! Now, can any available software help me do that on my FlashForge? Slic3r, Cura, Skeinforge, anything?
I have a dual extruderFlashForge Creator Pro. I have a bunch of small parts to make. Smaller than the distance between the two extruders. I would like to get my printer going in a mode where the two...
I'm trying some alternatives because ReplicatorG is cranky and VERY slow to generate gcode.
Has anyone got Cura working? I'm getting errors like this:
Changing monitoring state from 'Offline'...
I actually did figure out the trick about editing the G code. I'm rather shocked that I had to go under the hood in that way for a setting that seems so basic and so obvious. I'm surprised it isn't...
I tried my first serious print yesterday. Replicator G. comes preconfigured for ABS printing, I tried cloning my profile "Replicator 2 slicing defaults" and modifying to suit PLA printing. Several...