Some misinformation in Chris' post. The QIDI Shadow 5.5S has a USB port, just like most 3D printers, but the lack of an SD card does not imply that data is dribbled across a USB cable as the printer needs it. Instead of an SD card, I plug a USB thumb drive into the Shadow. There's a very nice graphic touch LCD for a user interface. When I select PRINT from the touch screen, the contents of the USB card are listed in little buttons on the screen. The writing is too small for my old eyes without magnification, but there are images of the parts to be printed which is very cool. Touch the image I want to print and it prints from the USB thumb drive.
I replaced the supplied (possibly fake) Toshiba thumb drive with a tiny 64GB Sandisk (they're awesome, Gene :-) Cruzer Fit thumb drive (Amazon ASIN: B07MDXBTL1) that's almost flush with the side of the printer so it won't snag and banjax the printer's USB port. On 6/4/20 2:25 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > I looked. They have their own slicing software that runs on Mac or > Windows. The interface is USB only, no SD card. So on Linux you'd be > using a virtual machine to host a Windows image and then their software in > that. Windows runs well in a VM if the host machine is powerful enough. > > I would prefer a printer that accepts SD cards as that is more reliable and > does not tie up a computer for possibly 20 hours. > > Here is a very good unbiased article comparing 3D printer types from a > company that makes all three types of printers. I would start with FDM > as it will do 90% of what I want. Then SLA for the other 20%. If you > must have a solid-built FDM printer These guys have that or you Utilmaker > printers are well made but at literally 10X the price. > https://ultimaker.com/learn/comparing-fff-sla-and-sls-technologies > > SLA is limited to small parts and is a mess to work (goggles, apron, and > gloves required) with but worth it if I want to build a mechanical hand > with 5 tiny motors inside. The cost of the material is high but if > only making small parts maybe it does not matter. > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:09 AM grumpy--- via Emc-users < > emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >>> I bought a QIDI Shadow 5.5S a few weeks ago for US$289 >> i see it is available now for $259.00 and free shipping >> what slicing software is needed >> does it run under linux >> is the manual available >> i would like to read up on this >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
