I got busy with other things and forgot to order.🤷🏼♂️ Watching the video right now, just out of curiosity. I'm just happy to see decaf being taken seriously. I often would love a cup of coffee after dinner without spoiling my night's sleep.
Looks interesting. My primary focus is on engineering materials, but I'd love a truly biodegradable draft filament and I'm willing to put in a bit of time working out how to make it work with my equipment. Looking at Colorfabb's site, it appears they only sell it in 750g spools which is incredibly frustrating considering my intended use. For a draft filament, the bigger the roll, the better!
i recently got back into printing. I had some PLA, some PETG, some ABS and some ASA all of which had sat for longer than that. After thorough drying in a dehydrator, a couple of rolls just didn't cooperate but most did. The troublesome ones may not have been very good to start - unbranded mystery stuff.
I mean, yeah obviously, but the kind of person I'm talking about isn't going to listen to me telling them why they shouldn't. Given that, the best we can hope for is not talking about it.
Unfortunately, yes, just like any other niche. I have distanced myself from a few musician friends because they absolutely cannot resist injecting incredibly toxic politics into every aspect of their lives. Vote for whoever you want, but every conversation is not an invitation to blather on about the talking points of the week.
That is spot-on what works for me. Warm soapy water has given me the best results with a PEI plate. The chamber heat soak is also big for these troublesome filaments. My printing gear lives in a closet and for trouble prints, I will crank up the bed, and my filament dryer for a half-hour or so to get reliable chamber temps.
I've pretty much been running on the binary theory with the AMS sensor: anything but a 1 is too high. I guess I'm glad I didn't waste any money on those digital jobbies. I wonder if the old school analog style are better?
I feel like it's finally at the point where the issues are minor enough that I have the patience to deal with them. I've been using the release candidates for the last couple of weeks and mostly it comes down to remembering to save regularly and occasionally having to shut it down and restart. Honestly, some of the commercial solutions aren't drastically better in that respect!
I think anyone coming from a place where they have a ton of experience in SolidWorks or Fusion might want to hold out a little longer, though it's definitely worth a try. If you're coming from a place where you have to learn a new program anyway, you might as well learn the free option that will only continue to improve.
This is a very good joke and deserves more upvotes, but I only have one to give.
I think my experience is roughly parallel to yours. I bit the bullet and got an X1C and with a couple of exceptions (mostly my own mistakes) it has been largely hassle-free. Having a reliable printer is actually allowing me to tackle the project of rebuilding my Anycubic Predator into the machine I always wished it was. That massive build volume will be great, but I have something I don't have to fiddle with to make the parts.
As for the Bambu/Chinese paranoia, I think it's overstated considering most people here are probably typing their replies on a device thoroughly infiltrated by Apple or Google or both. Do a few prints to make sure everything works properly and switch to Orca Slicer and local network mode if you're concerned.
YM (and your fear of China) MV
Orca and local network mode work pretty well for me.🤷🏼♂️
Seriously, grinder first. You can use a better grinder with your Aeropress and French Press l, and you won't waste as much time making bad espresso when you do get a machine.
If you're mechanical, watch Craigslist and marketplace: I once got a broken Rancillio Silvia for free. It needed serious repairs, but I don't have $100 in parts in it and it works perfectly now.
They just announced it a week or two ago, but they're keeping the server up for "a reasonable period" to allow users to migrate. From my understanding, many of their tweaks have been integrated into 1.0 and the team all plans to continue working with FreeCAD and submitting improvements.
I was recently roughly in the same place. I have played around in the past with a few things, but there were reasons I didn't really get into any of them: Fusion360 and their increasingly limited free options, OnShape and their online only thing... so on...
FreeCad has a new release candidate for what they're calling version 1.0, meaning they consider it a mature and functional piece of software. I've been working with it, and yeah... it's not perfect, but it's definitely usable now. I figured if I was going to put all that effort into learning something, I might as well learn something that would always be free.
Yeah, honestly that was at least partially my thought process posting this. I see someone else posted the same video and got a bit more traction as well, which is great: the more eyes on this, the more likely someone chooses to develop it. If someone develops a fork or plugin for various open source slicers, it's usefulness should quickly become obvious and someone with deeper pockets will wind up going after the BS patent. Even as little as a 10% improvement in layer adhesion, if it's reliable and consistent, is a significant upgrade. The old saying about a chain only being as strong as the weakest link comes to mind and layer adhesion is the weakest link in 3d printing.
Any thoughts on this. It seems pretty obvious as a development once you get into it and there doesn't seem to be much difference between the new patent and the expired patent. Layer adhesion is the big Achilles heel of 3D printing after all.
Whew... that's well presented and I do appreciate it, but I was speaking specifically of filament tuning. One of the things I paid Bambu their premium for is having the machine and baseline slicer profiles dialed in and they kinda do. All that machine calibration stuff is what I got frustrated with when I quit the first time!
I am kicking around the idea of rebuilding my Anycubic Predator with updated... everything, just to have that massive build volume again. It might actually work pretty well with a high flow hotend and klipper firmware.
I'm definitely bookmarking that guide for future reference.
I recently got back into 3d Printing because it finally seemed like it had matured into a usable production method - where one could actually just make parts instead of spending all their time fiddling with the printer. That said, I realize there are still some benefits to some fiddling.
I'm wondering about other's process using the calibration prints in Orca. Do you go beyond maybe a temp tower, flow rate and pressure advance? Do you do those in any particular order? Bambu owners, do you bother on Bambu filament, or do you find their stock settings are pretty close (I haven't been bothering - most of it seems to do pretty well without).
I started thinking about this because I pulled out some OLD filament when I got my X1C, just to see if any of it was still usable. I dried it all thoroughly with a dehydrator, and have been pleasantly surprised. Much of it has been fine. The really old ABS has been fine as was the slightly newer ASA. The 5-year-old Hatchbox PLA was perfect, but a slightly newer generic PLA roll is terrible (it may have been bad when new). Old PETG has been hit and miss. I had all but given up on one roll, only to try tuning it, and suddenly got usable prints for the rest of the roll. Then the next roll clogged the nozzle on the pressure advance tower. I could just toss it all, but it was already paid for several years ago, so anything good that comes out of it is a win.
5pm seems to be my limit if I want to get good sleep. Doesn't matter if it's espresso or what.
lol My new Carbon printed it's way through two rolls of 7 year old PLA last week and it's doing fine with the equally old ABS (all Hatchbox). I also have one old roll of PLA and a couple of PETG that are less useful, but they were no-name stuff that were troublesome new and are at least partially to blame for me giving up on printing back then.
Still, it's nice to see 3d printing is finally not too finicky to tolerate. With this machine, if I get a failure, it's a lot easier to narrow down the cause.