Hello everybody! I'm printing with my Mosaic and Skeinforge 50. I've been doing some adjustments in the Skeinforge profile to improve the quality of my things printed. However, I can't improve the "plastic sewing" (I'm not sure how do you call this in english..). Is the point where the extruder starts and finish each layer.
Now keep in mind that I may be a complete fool, if it is possible to have
the endpoints of each layer be varied then the effect won't be as
pronounced. I'm am basing this on molding processes as I do not, as of yet,
have a 3d printer, but if the variance and buildup caused by the oozing at
the stop points is not allowed to build up in one area than it should be
less noticeable. You may also consider adding a junk item as a stopping
point so that all of the buildup would not be in the actual model, but
instead on an extra piece.
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:49 PM, MAF <astro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I'm printing with my Mosaic and Skeinforge 50.
> I've been doing some adjustments in the Skeinforge profile to improve the
> quality of my things printed.
> However, I can't improve the "plastic sewing" (I'm not sure how do you
> call this in english..). Is the point where the extruder starts and finish
> each layer.
What is your retraction speed set to? It could be trying to retract too fast, skipping steps, and then when it tries to un-retract, it could be squirting out a bunch of extra plastic.
I downloaded the skeinforge profile from this google group and star to print. However, I'm really thinking about starting using the last version of Slic3r.
Sfact? If you are going to use a skeinforge derivative Cura is a much
better choice. It has many of the same user friendly changes and is
4 times faster that SF. Nice UI too. Made by a member of the Ultimaker
community.
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:10 AM, MAF <astro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good question....I'm not sure! XD
> I downloaded the skeinforge profile from this google group and star to
> print.
> However, I'm really thinking about starting using the last version of
> Slic3r.
> wrote:
> Sfact? If you are going to use a skeinforge derivative Cura is a much
> better choice. It has many of the same user friendly changes and is
> 4 times faster that SF. Nice UI too. Made by a member of the Ultimaker
> community.
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:10 AM, MAF <astro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good question....I'm not sure! XD
>> I downloaded the skeinforge profile from this google group and star to
>> print.
>> However, I'm really thinking about starting using the last version of
>> Slic3r.
As I said mostly used in the Ultimaker circles but if you
like skeinforge it uses PyPy to speed SF up by about 4x.
The RC2 has slic3r and the accelerated SF built in and bundled with
printrun.
The setup has a handy E value calibrator for odd/custom extruder gears and
a
link to Daid's Marlin customizer/builder. Where you can check boxes to roll
up a
marlin for a variety of machines.
It has UI 3d viewer similar to RepG and a slice viewer.
Also starting to add some fancy multiple object options. Including a
project planner
that when finished will allow you to print multiple objects one at a time
on a large enough
build platform. Reduces strings between each object and reduces failed long
prints
since each object is printed individually.
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jay Couture <jay.cout...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting, this is the first time I ever seen mention of Cura.
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Bill Culverhouse <
> bill.culverho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sfact? If you are going to use a skeinforge derivative Cura is a much
>> better choice. It has many of the same user friendly changes and is
>> 4 times faster that SF. Nice UI too. Made by a member of the Ultimaker
>> community.
>> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:10 AM, MAF <astro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good question....I'm not sure! XD
>>> I downloaded the skeinforge profile from this google group and star to
>>> print.
>>> However, I'm really thinking about starting using the last version of
>>> Slic3r.
For those who might be looking for more information about Cura rather
than just the download page (which does not seem to include any
documentation), look here:
> As I said mostly used in the Ultimaker circles but if you
> like skeinforge it uses PyPy to speed SF up by about 4x.
> The RC2 has slic3r and the accelerated SF built in and bundled with
> printrun.
> The setup has a handy E value calibrator for odd/custom extruder gears and
> a
> link to Daid's Marlin customizer/builder. Where you can check boxes to roll
> up a
> marlin for a variety of machines.
> It has UI 3d viewer similar to RepG and a slice viewer.
> Also starting to add some fancy multiple object options. Including a
> project planner
> that when finished will allow you to print multiple objects one at a time
> on a large enough
> build platform. Reduces strings between each object and reduces failed long
> prints
> since each object is printed individually.
> -b
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jay Couture <jay.cout...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Interesting, this is the first time I ever seen mention of Cura.
> > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Bill Culverhouse <
> > bill.culverho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Sfact? If you are going to use a skeinforge derivative Cura is a much
> >> better choice. It has many of the same user friendly changes and is
> >> 4 times faster that SF. Nice UI too. Made by a member of the Ultimaker
> >> community.
> >> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:10 AM, MAF <astro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Good question....I'm not sure! XD
> >>> I downloaded the skeinforge profile from this google group and star to
> >>> print.
> >>> However, I'm really thinking about starting using the last version of
> >>> Slic3r.
Underneath it is just jazzed up skeinforge.
So you'd set it up in the same way as you would skeinforge.
Getting it to talk directly to the printer would require a marlin firmware.
Or you can send the gcode via other more usual means.
I use it to generate gcode for my cupcake, a reprap and an ultimaker.
