Greetings!

I have a makerbot replicator gen 5. It has worked out alright so far, my biggest issue has been print warping on large wide prints. I have tried the helper disks on the makerware software, to no avail.

I have an aftermarket build plate now (Its one of those flexible ones that has pretty good adhesion (better than tape) and removing prints is very easy.)

So here is my question:
I was thinking that if I printed the large thick raft base layer as the base of my part, I think it would adhere really well, but I have no idea how to do that in the software.
The raft always seems to stick just fine, the part will pull up off the raft (or the layers of the raft de-laminate) so my idea is if the entire base was made of thick extruded base layer, it would adhere well, and it might even help with making the base more sturdy (generally not a problem)


Any ideas?
--Frank