Month: May 2017

Went to r/3dprintmything for a project. Paired with a great person to get my cosplay item printed. Would heavily recommend.

I got this printed by /u/greenirishsaint . He did a fantastic job and was very involved with getting my needs met. Mostly just going to show off my cosplay, but I have to give props to the person that printed it. http://ift.tt/2r3TUjV

on my 10th print, my brand new maker select plus destroyed itself. [NSFW, 3d printer gore]. I have two questions, please help?

So, I had 9 successful prints of various objects before this one. I carefully leveled the bed before each print, mostly because its fun but also because I noticed that it drifted a bit between prints. Z axis home, 1 paper thickness off the bed, 2″ in from each corner. Every. Fucking. Time.On this print, I failed to stick around to watch the raft print. I just hit print and walked away (lesson learned). My printer then proceeded to damn near destroy itself. I have two questions:given what I said above about the bed being properly calibrated before each print, what in the hell would cause this? It looks like it printed the raft right on the surface..and then printed DOWN into the bed! I can post the .stl/.gcode files if that helps.where can I purchase a replacement e-axis (extruder) stepper? Monoprice has a short replacement parts list, but that motor does not appear on it. (photo of motor and model in lower images here)If anyone cares, pulling the bed cover off, removing the adhesive with goo gone, and replacing it (it came with a spare) fixed the bed issue. The metal was undamaged.But the extruder motor is dead now. Need to replace it, can’t find one. The silver lining here is that with removing the bed and completely disassembling the extruder assy, now I know how the thing fucking works and feel pretty confident that I can fix it whenever it breaks. http://ift.tt/2qX8T32

Cura supports too strong and a pain to remove? I think I found the fix

So I have seen many people complain about the supports generated by the newer versions of Cura are difficult to remove and too thick compared to the supports generated by the older Cura versions. I was messing around with settings and I found reducing Support Line Width by about 1/4-1/3 of your normal line width results in nicely formed but easily removed supports (this was done in about 10 seconds without tools) that are very similar to the ones that older Cura generated. I did a search for the setting name and didn’t find anything so wasn’t sure if this was well known and I’m just behind the times or what but figured I’d share.Edit: I should add that the setting is hidden by default and has to be enabled in the settings. http://ift.tt/2quwKXZ