On Friday 05 June 2020 13:44:22 Karl Jacobs wrote: > Hi Gene, > > take the attached file for 5mm calibration steps and put it into Cura > for slicing. This is about as simple as it gets for initial tests. > Download > https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:763622 for the benchy-boat torture > test. After you optimized that, you are a master. > Let me tell you that I admire your ambitious mind and perseverance, > knowing your age. Respect! > Karl > > Am 05.06.2020 um 19:30 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 05 June 2020 08:51:56 andy pugh wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 13:34, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > >> wrote: > >> > >> But before I try another 10 hour print, I'd like to see an improved > >> much > >> > >>> better filled tooth profile, my guess is that its 10% or less, no > >>> high strength fill behind what might be called teeth. I'd like to > >>> see a 100% fill for at least 4mm behind the teeth, but cura isn't > >>> doing any of that. Those teeth are 100% crushable all the way to > >>> the bore reinforcement. > >> > >> I have a feeling that you are under-extruding. > > > > That was my impression also, so I sped up the extruder about 3% so > > far. > > > >> Have you configured and calibrated the printer at all? > > > > The usual piece of paper to set nozzle gap, but adhesion is very > > poor if its not dragging gently. Nothing for scale fine tuning > > which seems to be dead on. The instructions I've found and printed > > have largely skipped over most of the stuff I see in the menu's. > > > > Help appreciated, but ATM the place is running on Nat gas power and > > has been since 09:42 am, an hour and a half ago. Power return is > > auto with this standby setup, so I could restart another test print. > > Anybody have a ready made file that will test & gage everything? > > Seems like a huge thermal effect between hot and running vs cold > > when doing the auto-home, and added an "offsets apply", whatever > > that is after homeing. > > > > I've sped up the extruder feed, both in cura and in a menu I can't > > find again on the printer, so it should be getting around 115% of > > its starter value this time. > > > > Raised the start temps to 210 and 65, it lays one layer and drops > > both 10 degrees for the rest of the run Made two bird nests laying > > the raft, gave it a spot of hair spray. Stuck. Raised the extruder > > speed and read thru the rest of the help in cura, so we'll see it > > they know anything in about 6 hours. Or more, I also slowed it down > > where it claimed better rendering. > > > > Thanks all. Stay well now. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
New problem, need temps and hot plate cleaning tutoring, its come loose 4 times in a row in the 3rd layer of the raft laydown. Overture PLA says 190-210 nozzle, 0-60C bed. cura says initial speed is 12.5, looks slow. Better guesses? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
