Delivery No.1 - Build blog of the first V1.0 Peachy Printer in the Wild

[Builder1]

I will take some detailed pics as soon as I can but it will be a few days (out of town :-(
Meshmixer sounds interesting. Craftware can also place supports in user defined locations (haven't played with it but know it can do it).
Honestly, I'm not excited about Autocad products as you have to sign away your life to get it installed... but I may try it some time in the future. Too many things in the cue currently ;-)

BREAK THROUGH !!!
I think I have figured out how to get Cura 2.3 to work with the Peachy !! There is a setting in the “Machine Settings” called “Machine Centre is Zero”. This sets the origin to the centre of the build plate rather than the Cura 2.3 default of top left corner. I looked at the gcode output from 2.3 and NONE of the values are negative (thus working in only ONE cartesian coordinate quadrant).
I'm hoping to do an actual test in a couple days when I'm back in front of my printer.

[Builder1]

Ok. I have definitely confirmed that Cura 2.3 works with the Peachy printer !!
I will have some pics uploaded later (I will add the link here)

My most recent issue with Cura was that when I up-scaled the object 10x, the slicing time would go from 1 min to 3-4 HOURS!!!
This intense CPU load would start to roast my poor macbook pro!
Hoping to utilize more cores, I setup my Mac Pro with Cura 2.3 last night. Inorder to do this I had to go through EVERY SINGLE SETTING (there are LOTS) and set them one at a time on my other mac. In doing so I found ONE setting that was 10x to small. Changing that reduced the slice time on my macbook from 3-4 hours to 7 minutes !!!!

Cura maintains two processes, each with multiple threads. The "Cura Engine" process appears to only use ONE core with TWO threads for slicing and the "Cura" process manages the UI. On my Mac Pro which has 4 cores, Cura doesn't even use two of them :-(

So where are we at now that Cura 2.3 is setup properly?
-"Machine Center is Zero" setting sets the print origin to the center of the build area which is what the Peachy needs !
-Easily configurable Rafting (so the raft, not our print, gets embedded in the mesh)
-Top & Bottom surfaces print (No more tilting !!!)
-Customizable UI (Settings that are irrelevant to the Peachy can be Hidden from the UI !! (Bed Temp and Cooling Fan settings for example)
-File sizes are large (334MB for the planetary gear pump. This is just the nature of the Peachy since it has 10x the Z axis resolution)

This is a VAST improvement from where things were at previously !!

To Do Items
-Recalibrate the printer to the new "stew pot" build container (Height calibration, Drip calibration *should* be OK now)
-Run more glow paper print tests to ensure print viability with new container
-Finish drinking cranberry juice so I have a 3L Dripper bottle (It's soooooo sweet!! ...I might just dump it)
-Drill cap and run hoses in my new Dripper bottle
-Print Planetary gear pump and Scissor jack
-Take close up pics of galvos and post them