Hello from Canada !

[Gandou56]

Hello everyone,

My name is Sebastien, I'm from Quebec / Canada, I'm an engineering student and a hobbyist in electronic circuitry and automation. By some luck I discovered the awesome world of 3D printing this summer and can't wait to get my hands on one of those famous H1.1 of yours
Right now it seems like they are BO I hope you'll get some back in stock soon !!

I'm a complete newbee in 3D printing so I would like some information and a little explanation on the "process" to print something.

Since I prefere to go with the RAMPS/Arduino model, i'd like to know how it works when you want to transfer a 3D model of a piece (Inventor/Solidworks maybe ?) to an arduino code. I read about a software called Slic3r, but I can't figure how it works, I'm kind of lost ...

Thank you in advance and I hope I'll be a new member of the 3d printing soon !!
(forgive me for my mistakes my english is not perfect)

[dougmsbbs]

Welcome Sebastien!

I can't help you on the RAMPS setup, I don't have one. And I'm not all that experienced with Slic3r yet, but I'm learning and it doesn't seem very hard once you get a few settings right.

I have only had a H1 for a few weeks now, but I'm working my way towards some real good prints. And we have some experienced people in here who are happy to help you out.

So while I really can't help you much, at least I can say Welcome!

[drkow]

Hey I'm an H1 user from Montreal.

I recommend RAMPS it's much easier. You can get cheap RAMPS kits from www.reprapdiscount.com

We have a plastic vendor in Montreal too: http://www.voxelfactory.com

[johnoly99]

Gandou, John here from SeeMe. Here's a dirty quick example of how it works. You buy/build your 3D printers hardware and wire up your electronics per whatever board (I'll use RAMPS for the rest of this). Once you have everything assembled, you download firmware (the actual code that foes on the arduino that reads what the Host software such as repetier-host or printrun, is sending to the arduino. Once you choose your firmware, you flash that firmware onto the arduino board with a usb cable. It will take many tried to get your printer dialed in, and each time you make an adjustment, you are adjusting it in the firmware, and re-sending (flashing) it to the arduino. The arduino then uses the firmware to read the gocde your host software sends it, and turns that gcode into pulses to the motors, hot end heated bed etc..., and BAM, magic happens!

Hope that kinda helps a little. If not, we can do a skype chat call and I can go much deeper into the how-to's