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- Mon May 11, 2015 6:26 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Material stops feeding in the middle of printing
- Replies: 5
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Re: Material stops feeding in the middle of printing
I to have been having this issue. I have a Rostock Max V2 with e3d v6 hotend. It doesn't do it with short prints or with longer prints when I'm using harder filaments. I tried decreasing the retraction to 2 and then 0 and it still did it. I have noticed the extruder stepper motor appears to be very ...
- Sat May 02, 2015 10:31 am
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
My son told you about me last week. I am a bka and I am dealing with a prosthetist in Fort Wayne, In. This last week I had my second appt with him. He used Lazer scanning on my stump. Within 2 hours he had my first test socket ready to test. I asked him about software to do what you wanted, he said ...
- Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:04 am
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
Can do this in FreeCAD but it takes a bit of stuffing around. Your basic steps: 1. Import the STL. 2. Cap the mesh and turn it into a solid. 3. Copy and scale it. 4. Subtract the original from the scaled version. Of course you could make your own limb solid and subtract the stump mesh from it, too ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
Rburke1963 wrote:teoman wrote:Would you mind providing an stl, iges and dxf?
I can have a look at it in fusion to see if it is easy.
How would you like me to send the files? Email?
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:55 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
teoman wrote:Would you mind providing an stl, iges and dxf?
I can have a look at it in fusion to see if it is easy.
How would you like me to send the files? Email?
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
Out of curiosity, where are you located? My dad is a new 3D printing enthusiast and a 1 year old below knee amputee. He loves being a guinea pig and would be all in for a project like this, even if he had to print the parts himself. He's currently working with a prosthetist in Ft. Wayne Indiana ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
NetFabb can do this. Meshmixer can do this. Blender can do this. 3D Coat can do this. I would advise going with Meshmixer first. Load the STL - Edit - > Make hollow. Lots of functionality. You may want to look into boolean operations as well, which I would use Blender for or NetFabb if you have the ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:43 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
So, if I understand you correctly, what you really want is an stl file for a piece that would fit over the outside of the socket that you vacuum form, is that right? I think that could be done in SolidWorks or Inventor, but I'm not exactly sure how, probably by abusing design tools for making ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:38 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Re: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
I can currently output as - AOP DXF XYZ IGES STL ASCII STL BINARYteoman wrote:You need a good CAD software to do that. I have never needed to do that, but i am sure it can be done.
STL files are not really that great to work with. What other formats can you output?
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:02 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with printing prosthetic sockets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17185
Help with printing prosthetic sockets
I am a certified prosthetist who really embraces new technology. I bought and assembled my Rostock Max V2 in January off this year. Prior to this I had no 3D printing experience and still feel overwhelmed at times. I am sure everyone has seen in the news all the stories of 3d printed hands for ...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Build Zone
- Topic: Need help to design this.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13403
Re: Need help to design this.
All of you guys are awesome! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Really appreciate it.
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Build Zone
- Topic: Need help to design this.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13403
Re: Need help to design this.
Thanks KAS! Really apreciate this.
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Build Zone
- Topic: Need help to design this.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13403
Need help to design this.
I am very new to 3D printing. Just recently finished my Rostock Max V2 assembly. Love this machine and technology. I am a Certified Prosthetist by trade and cant wait to implement 3d printing into my practice. The first project I would like to undertake is printing a cylinder 6" in diameter by 8" in ...