I know you are doing this for noobs @Pelgrim, but there shouldn’t be any need to check anything before you start a new print (other than checking the beds clean). It sound overly complicated!
Hi @markb . I don’t have a folder called :\Program Files\CEL\Common\windows_drivers either but it works fine on my machine. If you haven’t already its perhaps worth uninstalling everything, deleting any folders that remain in Program files and My documents, then re-installing.
I don’t recall anyone having issues with windows installations on the threads, plenty of mac issues tho (which now seem to have been ironed out)
hmm guess that’s something all the betas need to do with the upgraded parts then, we shall see.
They had a coupe of units merrily printing away, looked good quality but I have no idea how reliable/repeatable it would be. It seemed like a well engineered piece of kit and I think it can use a number of different slicing engines. Guess it should be more reliable from an early stage without the nozzle control headaches.
Sorry to hear that @biscuitlad, I think you’ve probably had the roughest deal of all the KS backers given your beta stresses too! You’ve probably already seen it but I was really impressed with the Z-Morph at the TCT show recently, http://zmorph3d.com/toolheads/ ,a 3d printer with multiple attachments available for it already, milling/laser engraving.
Anyways I’ll keep the thread going with some more info when it returns, great if the material works but I doubt it has anywhere near the durability of ninjaflex. seems quite a niche material given its porosity . . . . . we’ll see!
Lay-Fomm sample has arrived . . looks extremely promising, it has similar rigidity to standard PLA, so should hopefully feed down the Bowden tube ok so long as its not too brittle.
Sample of Lay-Gel also arrived and its the same as Lay-Fomm in stiffness.
Looking forward to trying them out when the ‘box has returned from Cel!
@3dnerd the gantry is the assembly with the two bars which the head runs on, LH & RH Gantry brackets the two bits of plastic holding the X axis rails and belt, driven by the threaded rods. Us beta backers have just had replacement parts arrive to bring the beta machines up to production level spec, your non-beta unit will already have these.
You can randomize the layer start position in the print profile config file, just change the 0 to 1 on line “randomize_start = 0″. Seems to be quite common for home printers to blob on the start of a new path, looking round Google, read an interesting blog a while ago where they’d coded a stitch between the start and end of the paths to try to even it out and make it watertight. Guess it makes it easier to clean off though if they’re all in the same position.
@datman you can change some retract settings . . .just edit the print profile settings file directly with a text editor (My documents\celrobox\printprofiles).
