Zero To Hero: Replicator 2 New User Guide
David Celento
<cross posted on MakerBot Operators, MakerBot-Users, and 3D Printer Tips, Tricks and Review>
Hi Makers,
I just posted ZERO TO HERO: Replicator 2 New User Guide on Thingiverse (thing:71575). This is a WIP and I appreciate any and all feedback which helps improve this guide. Feel free to share.
The original motivation for this guide was three workshops taught at Norwich University for NEW USERS. However, during several months evaluating and testing the Replicator 2, I came to realize:
A) My (often inexplicable) experiences with failed prints on a new machine were far from unique.
B) That great solutions were scattered throughout the interwebs offered by intrepid and generous enthusiasts—but centralized knowledge was not yet compiled.
C) That when well-tuned, the Replicator 2 can print incredibly well; however, tuning it is an elusive goal for new users—regardless of their prior 3D modeling and printing experience!
I am deeply indebted to the many users here for the assistance given throughout these past few months. This guide would not have been possible without assistance from MakerBot Support and the generosity of countless MakerBot enthusiasts found at Google Groups: MakerBot Operators, MakerBot-Users, and 3D Printer Tips, Tricks and Reviews In particular, gratitude is extended (in alphabetical order) to: dnewman, Eighty, Enginewiz, Jetguy, and whpthomas/Wingcommander for sharing their efforts, knowledge, and enthusiasm. Without the collective wisdom of all the enthusiasts in this group, the tremendous potentials of the Replicator 2 would be elusive to many. (Many apologies if I missed anybody who spent countless hours answering assorted questions -- drop me a line and I'll fix this!)
DigiFabLab is particularly indebted to Norwich University, School of Architecture + Art, which generously loaned one of their MakerBot Replicator 2 printers. This served as a test-bed for the exploration of the Replicator 2's capabilities and for the development of this guide. Faculty and students at Norwich also provided invaluable feedback during three days of in-depth workshops held there during Spring 2013.
Hoping this guide helps a few people out...
David Celento
DigiFabLab, Founder
ps... The PDF guide and its content may also be posted on the wiki efforts. Attribution is appreciated.
Kurt @ VR-FX
I did one digital book myself - of 3DS Max Tutorials - originally done as reference materials for the classes I was teaching at the Fashion Inst. Of Tech. - but, alas - you can still buy it on Lulu.com - as it wasn't something I was just going to give away - as it was a LOT of work putting the sucker together.
Still - it sounds like your's should be an interesting read to those in need of guidance on a new Rep2!
-K-
<cross posted on MakerBot Operators, MakerBot-Users, and 3D Printer Tips, Tricks and Review>
Hi Makers,
I just posted ZERO TO HERO: Replicator 2�New User Guide on Thingiverse (thing:71575).�This is a WIP and I appreciate any and all feedback which helps improve this guide.�Feel free to share.�
The original motivation for this guide was three workshops taught at Norwich University for NEW USERS. However, during several months evaluating and testing the Replicator 2, I came to realize:
A) My (often inexplicable) experiences with failed prints on a new machine were far from unique.
B) That great solutions were scattered throughout the interwebs offered by intrepid and generous enthusiasts�but centralized knowledge was not yet compiled.
C) That when well-tuned, the Replicator 2 can print incredibly well; however, tuning it is an elusive goal for new users�regardless of their prior 3D modeling and printing experience!
I am deeply indebted to the many users here for the assistance given throughout these past few months.�This guide would not have been possible without assistance from MakerBot Support and the generosity of countless MakerBot enthusiasts found at Google Groups: MakerBot Operators,�MakerBot-Users,�and 3D Printer Tips, Tricks and Reviews�In particular, gratitude is extended (in alphabetical order) to: dnewman, Eighty, Enginewiz, Jetguy, and whpthomas/Wingcommander for sharing their efforts, knowledge, and enthusiasm. Without the collective wisdom of all the enthusiasts in this group, the tremendous potentials of the Replicator 2 would be elusive to many. (Many apologies if I missed anybody who spent countless hours answering assorted questions -- drop me a line and I'll fix this!)
DigiFabLab is particularly indebted to Norwich University, School of Architecture + Art, which generously loaned one of their MakerBot Replicator 2 printers. This served as a test-bed for the exploration of the Replicator 2's capabilities and for the development of this guide. Faculty and students at Norwich also provided invaluable feedback during three days of in-depth workshops held there during Spring 2013.
Hoping this guide helps a few people out...
David Celento
DigiFabLab, Founder
ps...�The PDF guide and its content may also be posted on the wiki efforts. Attribution is appreciated.
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Kurt @ VR-FX
Hey there Dave,
I started
writing this reply at work - on the 9th - but,
never managed to complete it - so, I sent it to my home
address - so I could finally finish it...
Thanks for your follow-up. I can sure
understand your desire to “Pay It Forward” (which – by the
way – was a Great movie!). With so many GREAT Guys like JetGuy
helping
out the community – I can surely understand your desire to
follow in their
paths. And, of course, I suspect that a HUGE amount of the
content was directly
gleaned from many of their postings to the forums. Which also
means that to
make money off it would not be truly honorable – that is – if
I
understand the content of the book.
And – yes – writing up a Technical Book can surely be a Huge undertaking. Mine, well – I’m sure it occurred via a Greatly different path than your own.
You see – many years ago (well – not that long – like 2000-2002) when I was teaching in a Land Far Far Away (Ok – Manhattan isn’t that Far from Long Island where I live) at FIT – I was getting frustrated with the Books available on the Market. I tried a number of different books - assigned them to my students to buy - and use as a reference. They all sucked for different reasons - too many to go thru here. So - I began writing up these tutorials as webpages. Each tutorial would cover EXACTLY what I would cover in class. So - if a student missed a class - they could go to the tutorial and cover the same material. The students all just lover the tutorials. But, it was funny - as many of them were being hard-headed, and would attempt to PRINT the Tutorials! Something that should print as 3 pages - but was not layed out for printing - would instead stretch across 12 pages and look like SHIT!So - it was at that point that I finally reformatted ALL of it to print as a book - and they could take the PDF and just read it as a digital book. But, I cleaned it all up - loaded it up to Lulu.com - and people could then buy it in print - either in Color, as B/W - or simply download a PDF (the cheapest option). But - yeah - the whole book, compiling and formatting it into Book form was a HUGE Task - and even producing each chapter - writing up the Text & creating and inserting the images - just a Lot of Work!
As such, I can imagine what you went thru! I actually downloaded it today & printed several pages so I could read it on the train...
L8r,
-K-