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    Print failure question

    Hello All,

    I am VERY new to 3D printing. I have a Replicator V5 and have printed all of the sample items on the machine...they come out great! I have downloaded two items from thingverse to print...

    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:226911

    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8119

    Both items started printing nicely and I left my office, upon returning to both prints I could see there was progress but then a whole spiders next of extruded filament. I'm going to try something else but as of now, I havent had a successful print from an outside (the machine) file. Is there anything I should be looking for when choosing and / or creating files to print!?

    Thanks and I appreciate the help!

    Pat

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    Just a quick example of another object downloaded from thingverse...


    2015-09-25 14.36.58.jpg2015-09-25 14.37.04.jpg

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    Hi there
    That's becouse you print it in very unconveniant position.
    You have a lot of "air" printing.
    Try to rotate in upright.

    Regards
    Roberto

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    Thanks Roberto!

    I'll give it a try!

    Pat

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    you're downloading things that need to have printed support. And by the look of it, you don't have support selected or switched on.

    That's the problem :-)

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    Thanks Aardvark! I am assuming I make this change in MB desktop but I am not finding it. Thanks again!

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    I found the settings box and well give it another go! Thanks!

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    Super Moderator curious aardvark's Avatar
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    Haven't used makerware for a while. But the support options were fairly obvious. That said I used 2.3 not the newer versions. Usually an option to switch support on and off and one to choose which extruder you used.

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