PVA Settings?

[SpragClutch]

Wondering if anyone uses PVA in their Flashforge printers. And wondering on temp. and printing speeds for it.

Thanks

[jfkansas]

Start at 180, that stuff gets nuked at too hot of temp. Just start at conservative speeds at like 60mm/s. You really only want to use it as support material.

[Danno]

jfkansas, How do you set the FF Creator Pro to use one extruder to be used as support material and other as the main print?
Just got the printer a few weeks ago and have a spool of PVA but have yet to use it because I have been unable to figure out how to set it up as you suggested.
Can you provide any help?
Dan

[jfkansas]

What software? It is pretty straight forward, you have to set the Toolhead 0 (right) to your main filament, then Toolhead 1 (left) to the PVA. You should have seperate temperature settings in each and you can designate Toolhead 1 as Support. It is kind of like dual extrustion but instead of setting part of your object as left and the other as right you can designate supports to use a certain tool head. You can switch the tool heads assignments around the other way also, it doesn't "have to be" the left for supports.

[Danno]

I was using ReplicatorG and it doesn't have separate extruder settings unless you're doing a dual printer file.
I installed MakerWare and had some luck getting it to use the left extruder (2) as the support material, however I was unable to get the ABS to adhere to the PVA. Eventually gave up.

Any ideas?

Oh and I did try Slicer, and after setting up all the different profiles (ie: left, right and dual) for the extruders, I tried again, and no matter what profile I select it won't heat up the left extruder nor the print bed.
Back to MakerWare.
(and yes I have it set to extruder=2)