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Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:30 am
by Peterh226
Decided to try one of the gear sets;
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:185912\n
- math gears printing
Looks like I'll have a little cleanup, but printing nicely...
WooHoo... a little cleanup and here we are:
Re: Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:44 pm
by Eaglezsoar
That looks like an excellent print to check the printing at all areas of the plate.
Re: Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:44 am
by RegB
That doesn't all fit on my Max V2 plate.
Despite that slic3r tried to slice it (with core i7, 8 gigs ram) and even with a dozen threads it went over an hour, so I killed it.
Cura sliced most of it/them in a minute or two, but I had trouble getting filament to stick that far out from center.
Did you get it all on the plate at once ?
If not, how did you divide it up ?
or did you scale it ? (-:
Re: Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:26 am
by Peterh226
I just moved the parts all around a bit on the plate. I've been using the recommended settings from SeeMeCNC for about everything and its been working great. I'm using Aquanet on the glass and that holds it down as long as I'm running the temps pretty hot - 205 and 65. I did not scale it. I'm running from an old Core I2 computer. One piece (one of the sliding pivots) I had to reprint because of adhesion.
Peter
Re: Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:20 am
by RegB
Thanks,
I tried again this morning, just after upgrading to repetier host 1.0.4
I got them all ON the bed, although shifting them around was slow.
It seemed to be going OK when I went out to run an errand.
An hour later it was still "exporting gcode", so I killed it.
I am trying a different infill pattern, I just restarted and it gets to infilling layers in about 5 minutes.
Ooops, I hadn't noticed this before; Slic3r reports "Unknown option bed_shape".
Right now (6 minutes in) it claims to be exporting G-code to C:\Users\etc\etc\composition.gcode
Re: Printing all over the hot plate - Math Gears
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:37 am
by RegB
Cura 14.07 STANDALONE seems to handle it OK, though doesn't always position the parts automatically.
SOMETIMES it gets them all on with no collisions.
Matter Control crashes out of the sky if I put more than 4 of these parts on the bed.
IMO Matter Control is VERY FRAGILE !!
I tried auto positioning and saving between adding each part, but it takes a LONG time to even FIND parts.
Cura wants to print ABS at 245C and 100C bed - I have had fair luck using repetier and slic3r at 225/90, so I think that may be unnecessarily close to the PEEK's limit.
Bahh, I'm starting to want the parts more than the gratification of printing them all at once.
Maybe its time to resort to a two by four strategy (-:
Where 2 parts per print by 4 prints = 8 parts