Using My Colido 3D DIY Printer With Cura
Cleopatra Elland
Hello to all the community! I am new here :)
I have a Colido D1315 PLA 3d printer (it's a Delta) and I have always used the related software for slicing and 3d printing.
Overall the prints are OK, the 3d printer is well calibrated.
But since I have some issues with the quality of the printing, and even trying different settings did not help, I decide to give a try with another Slicer and so I chose Ultimaker Cura...
Now, Cura doesn't have automatic settings for my 3d printer... But I can add it as Custom.
The 3d printer is a Delta, I had set the parameters related to volume and area, the filament diameter 1.75 and the nozzle (0.4)
As Gcode Flavor I tried the Marlin and the Griffin ( but I don't know how much impact they can have)
I tried to do a first print, with the Malrlin flavor, and the print did not come out well, I stopped it at midprint because the model was ruined...
With the Griffin Gcode it went better, the object was printed but the quality was poor (lots of perimeters bubble)
Any suggestions on the settings? Do I have to set some other things?
It the Gcode Flavor so relevant to the quality of the 3d printed object?
I'am attaching some screenshot of the custom 3d printer settings.
This is concerning the Colido 3D 3.0 / 3.0 Wifi printer. We are using it for a course project at the university, but I decided to use Ultimaker Cura instead since I can prepare the gcode from home. However, Colido printers are not readily available profiles on Ultimaker Cura.
Hello everyone! So to start off I am new to the 3d printing world. A few months ago I purchased a Creality cr10spro and I use cura as my slicer. And just very recently I purchased an Alta +. My deal is i love designing my 2d and 3d with Silhouette, but as I'm sure you know Silhouette's slicer isn't the greatest. I've been trying to get cura to recognize my alta but can't understand what I'm doing wrong. Im wanting to use Silhouette S3D to design my part but slice with Cura, but I want to be able to run this part on my Creality cr10spro. Is this possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Printing a Gcode on different printers can be tricky. The printers must be near the same size (a print that fills a CR10 will not print on an Ender 3). The firmware must understand the G and M commands being sent to it. If you compare a Silhouette gcode with a Cura gcode you may be able to determine the differences. Some differences can be handled by altering the StartUp Gcode in Cura, but some differences can become incompatibilities and so you can't cross over.
The Alta is a Delta printer? Then you won't be able to pass gcode files back and forth. Your Ender 6 is a Cartesian printer with the 0,0,0 origin at a corner. On a Delta printer the 0,0,0 origin is the center of the bed. They are going to want different speeds and acceleration settings as well.
recently I got an old Silhouette Alta from a friend who was rather disappointed by it. Being into 3D printing for several years now I really have to say that the Silhouette Alta sucks in many ways. However, you can make a pretty decents PLA printer out of it by uploading Klipper firmware and attach a fan. It can now print PLA autonomously with more than 80mm/s with pretty decent quality.
FYI for anyone having issues with the negative numbers for printhead settings. Just type it in. with the negatives. I did and it is working fine. I used the code Jenny shared and the other code someone else shared. I have alta setup twice in cura and both profiles work. Thank you to everyone who contributed. I did my first print and the difference with the same settings from the Alta slicer are astonishingly favorable for CURA! Now I don't need to buy a new printer...
I have input the recommended gcodes and using my Alta Plus with Cura looks promising so far. It performs the initial blob and all correctly. But then when it moves up and goes to start the print job, the nozzle is just a hair too high off the bed so the first layer doesn't quite touch the bed. How do I fix this? Thank you!
I have a Colido 2.0 printer that I cannot seem to get a print centered on the plate. I am using Slic3r and OctoPrint. If I use Repetier Host directly connected, I can get it to print correctly. I'm guessing Slic3r is the culprit but I can't find where. Any suggestions?
Note that this needs to coincide with the way the firmware has been configured. The accepted answer on question: "What determines print start location on the build plate?" shows that the origin not necessarily need to be at the corner of the build plate, it can also be at the center; this depends on the firmware brand. This answer explains that you can find out where the origin is located. Basically, you need to prepare a G-code file containing at least homing (G28), optionally bed levelling if your printer has auto bed levelling (G29) and a move to the origin (G1 X0 Y0 Z15 F500); note a Z of 15 is chosen for safety!. You can edit an existing G-code file for this or create a new text file from scratch saving the file with a .g extension. When this is "printed"/executed, the nozzle should be at the (elevated, so X, Y) origin as defined by your firmware. Usually this is at the left front corner of your build plate (there may be clips there, so therefore the elevated value), but can also be the center of the plate.
In fact, enclosures often have a detrimental effect on PLA prints, with the raised air temperature potentially causing issues such as nozzle jams. Other problems caused by enclosures can include issues with delicate areas like overhangs and bridges, which can become overly soft and cause part failure. That being said, some researchers have found success using environmentally controlled enclosures for the printing of PLA.[3]
If using an enclosure cannot be avoided, try printing PLA with the door of the enclosure left ajar, or, if possible, use exhaust fans in the printer to prevent the enclosure temperature getting too hot.
The latest stable release of the Repetier-Host for Macintosh comes already with everything you need. Download and run the package to install. If you are using the new Mountain Lion, you need to allow installation of unsigned code!
This is the reason why you can print any filament in perfect quality like PLA, ABS, PETG, chocolate or metal, if your printer hardware supports it. Biotech companies even print organs with Repetier-Host.
Everyone's gotta start somewhere. There's plenty of great tutorials on using linux, search youtube for some and watch a couple and find someone who teaches at a pace you can keep up with. You don't need to know how to use linux in order to find your API key though, it's in octoprint's settings dialog box, in the UI you'd access through your browser.
Studies and research conducted over the past few years on the mechanical properties of products manufactured by 3D printers have aimed to enable the production of better and more capable products. The results show that the products printed by home desktop 3D printers (e.g., the RepRap 3D printer with low cost and small size that can be used at home, universities, etc.) using the FFF method can exhibit tensile strength equal to that of the products produced by commercial printers [17]. Due to the interest shown by the scientific community and the attractiveness of the subject, some recent publications have focused on the mechanical characteristics of the produced parts using FFF technology. These papers include one by Goh et al. [18], which investigated the sustainability of thermoplastics; one by Chacon et al. [19], which investigated the effects of the production parameters on the mechanical properties of PLA parts; and another by Tymrak et al. [17], which focused on ABS and PLA. The raster angle of 3D printing, the width and height of printed layers, and the orientation of the part during printing are the factors identified by Forster [20] as parameters that affect the mechanical properties.
The effects of printing parameters on the mechanical properties of 3D-printed parts using the FFF method were investigated by Ćwikła et al. [27]. Their experiments investigated infill density, infill pattern, solid layers, and the extrusion multiplier at constant printing speed. Extrusion and print bed temperatures were 240 C and 100 C, respectively. The tensile tests were performed at room temperature (22 C) and at a humidity of 50%, and the strain rate was 10 mm/min. The authors found that an increase in density (increased infill value) reduced deformation. The strength of the samples increased with the increase in infill density. The authors also investigated the influence of shell thickness (encompassing the perimeter in the horizontal plane and the solid layers forming the bottom and the top) and found that the shell thickness (i.e., the number of layers) had a large influence on the tensile strength of the samples.
In Figure 12 and Figure 13, the microscopic cross-section image of the 3D-printed sample with the 1.6 mm and the 2.4 mm ILD before the compression test can be seen at the different magnification settings. Since the perpendicularity of the cut also influences the observed shape of the printed material on the cross-section, the accuracy of the positioning was analyzed with preliminary tests. The angular error was less than one angular degree. The measured cross-sections of the unloaded samples showed a layer height of exactly 0.2 mm, while the measured width ranged from 0.400 mm to 0.425 mm.
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