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Are you heating the build plate to a typical value, like 60 or 90 degrees C? Looking at your graph, it seems like your bed is bent, or slanted slightly. I'm not sure there is a way to account for this in firmware, but if you run MatterControl's automatic calibration it reads the height at multiple p...

Finally got a few (7) "Fly-N-Strude" hanging extruder kits made up and available for purchase. http://www.tricklaser.com/Fly-N-Strude-extruder-hanging-mount-FLYNSTRD.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Just picked one up on backorder :) Any estimates on when it wi...

Just to check, I plugged my printer's usb cable into the computer running MatterControl, and the same thing happened if I just tried hitting "Print". I know it takes much longer to slice using Slic3r, but I can tell when this happens because I can manually set the temperatures using the Co...

I've been using MatterEngine in MatterControl to slice my files for my Rostock Max V2, successfully. I've started playing with new filaments, and I wanted to try the herbertcurve infill pattern. The only problem is, when I export the Gcode to my SD Card, then plug the SD Card into the Rostock Max V2...

Sweet, thanks! I tried eyeballing the distance after a pair of calipers I had wouldnt bend far enough to take the measurement, and got 50 and 65, and had to trim some of the plastic on my effectors away. I'll be using this as a guide from now on, do you have the diameters of the holes btw?

Hi all! I recently installed an E6d V6 extruder, and my first couple prints came out ok, but I noticed my bed temperature was oscillating by +-2 degrees around 85 degrees. I tried a larger print with the bed set to 105, but the bed got to 95, then dropped to 85, and is now bouncing between the two. ...

Is PEI meant to go to temperatures as high as 115?

PEI Is in place, I purchased from McMaster Carr the 12x24 sheet and it is thin. The z adjustment made a small dimple and there is an air bubble by an edge. I looked at the order form and it is .003" not the .03" on Amazon. Prints stay down well, but I don't know how long the thin sheet wi...

I tried doing this with some cable ties, but ran into the problem above where I tightened them too much and ended up effectively shortening my arms, throwing the XY scaling off and making my parts look bad.

I'm switching to carbon arms as soon as I get a set of carriages printed

Hi guys! After reading about the trouble a lot of people have about getting print off of PEI, I wanted to share a trick I discovered while puzzling it myself. All you need is a pair of diagonal flush cutters, which most electronics folk use for cutting component leads after soldering. All you do is ...

Hi all, I'm trying to create a set of carriage mounts for a custom arm solution for my printer, and I'd like it to mate with the existing cheapskates. The only problem is I can't find the CAD files to esure I get the correct geometry for my MAX V2! I tried importing the Orion files, but they all giv...

I decided to solve my own problem and made an effector for my purposes, grabbing the best features from all the different effectors I've seen. I'll create a set of carriages soon, but does anyone know about the critical dimensions I'll have to change in my Rostock's EEPROM after switching out the ef...

Quite the appropriate signature! I got the arms, and was trying to find an STL for the effector, but my slicer seems to have done a great job messing it up (strange top/bottoms, support in random places, etc). Also the carriage mounts are nowhere to be found...

Hi guys, After trawling thingiverse and numerous other STL aggregators, I can't seem to find an effector platform with carriage mounts for the cheapskate for traxxas ball ends. It seems to be the complete opposite of what I experienced when searching for magnetic ball joints, now I'm finding tons of...

Just got the pre-made arms in, and measured them up to make sure they're all equal length. But... the ball ends don't fit over the Rostock's arm pins, doh! Since I got the E3d V6 kit also, I'll be swapping out the effector mount and putting new 'pins' (M3 threaded rod right?) in the carriage arms, I...

Thanks, I'll start with raising the speed of retraction. I'm running ABS for now, just getting a feel for it before i move onto PLA. I checked in matter control, and it says my length is set to 8mm and speed is 110mm/s. i guess my ABS is extra oozey, so I'll try raising those already seemingly high ...

Hi guys! I'm trying to get my filament settings perfect, and I was wondering which parameter I would have to change to get these little anomalies from appearing in my prints. By watching the printer, I gathered that these occur whenever the printer finishes a segment and seeks over to another part o...

I realized also after putting the machine together completely..... the hole for the filament is on the wrong side! hahahaha... XD I'm running my filament outside the machine and back in outside the frame. I'm thinking of flipping the input to the cold-end when I install the dampers on my extruder to...

Hi everyone! Super happy with how my Max V2 is coming along, it printed my fan shroud and a lot of other things with some amazing details. A few overhang and blobbing issues aside, I'm looking to spend a few christmas bucks left over, and was thinking of getting a magnetic/carbon fiber arms kit and ...

Ah, this looks like where that picture came from. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I saw a picture on here a while back which showed a few lines being printed after setting the Z height above and below the optimal distance, as well as an example of a perfectly calibrated zheight. I didn't save the picture however... After searching for a couple of hours, I couldn't fi...

after building it and appreciating its majesty,I ended up naming it Babel

I was originally gonna call it Randy Savage after his Tower of Power speech...

SOrry for the double post, but I got brave and tried again. I waited until the hot end cooled down to 30C, then tried it again. The hotend got all the way to 220 without smoking at all, but then I got this message in the console: Error: PID Autotune failed! Temperature to [sic] high Do I have to sta...

Finally getting up to the Calibrate Hot End step in the manual, the instructions say "Your hot end may smoke a tiny, tiny amount when reaching temperature" I started it, watched the thermistor start climbing to 150C, then my hot end started making very small spitting noises and giving off ...

Just had to undo the entire top plate because i threaded the wrong axes through the wrong holes in the top (x through y, y thru z, etc) i wish there had been some text saying that the orientation made a difference.... I realized 4-4 and 4-5 don't show the side that is closest to you when assembling ...