Month: December 2016

An update on our Z18

A few months ago I asked here for help getting a MakerBot Z18 up and running. While that thread resulted in a lot of unhelpful down voting some folks were really helpful, so thank you. This post is to thank you guys.While MakerBot support were no help, one of their recommended service providers (http://ift.tt/2hIsv2I) were excellent. Long story short I ended up replacing the extruder for a newer Smart Extruder + and also had to swap out the gantry motor and PCB which was knackered. Simplify3D also helped but the most recent version of Makerbot’s software wasn’t bad either.A Klein Bottle:http://ift.tt/2hs5q8M also printed a sectioned version which came out lovely.An 18″ tall rocket:http://ift.tt/2hIsgVz a poor shot of a couple of benchys:http://ift.tt/2hs9k1i(I’m away for the holidays so I don’t have any better shots on me)Anyway it’s working away now and has given very little trouble. http://ift.tt/2hIwNHu

What slicer do YOU recommend?

I’ve heard of the major ones- Slic3r, Cura, Simplify3D, and the CraftWare beta, but I know there’s loads more that I don’t know of. What do you personally use, and what do you think of it?If you see yours mentioned and have something to add, reply to the top-level comment listing it- it’ll make gathering information way easier.At any rate, I’ll probably end up buying S3D eventually unless I come across something else that really blows me away, so let me hear what you think!Note, I’m not asking what slicer is best, seems some people can get fired up about it! No need to argue, I just want to hear your experiences.Thanks, and happy holidays to all! http://ift.tt/2i0BvDp

The “problems” with this sub, i know this is probably going to be downvoted heavily.

Memes and show-offs (facebookish posts) get upvoted so heavily while anything that related to slightly in-depth or legit questions/discussions got downvoted heavily. I thought 3dprinting folks should be smarter than this? What is wrong with the sub? http://ift.tt/2hh74oL