[dms-discuss] 3D Printers

[yourcurtainsareugly]

Great! Thanks for the effort and the update. FWIW, the test print I did
Monday came out ok, if a little squished at the bottom, and it should be
greatly improved by being able to tweak the bed.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, that is awesome! Thanks Ryan
>
> On Mar 14, 2018 7:35 AM, "Alexander Pedersen" <alexander.dean.pedersen@
> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's awesome
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 5:11 AM Ryan McKay <yakcm.nayr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I put some time in to the 3D printers at the space over the past couple
>>> days.
>>>
>>> Tried to improve upon the state of the Prusa i3.  I haven't had too much
>>> luck in actually getting it to print much better than before, but I did fix
>>> it up with an adjustable bed-leveling system.  That took a lot of time so I
>>> actually have more time invested in mechanical fixes than software tweaks
>>> on that particular machine as of yet.  Not ready to give up hope on further
>>> slicer calibrations (print settings) yielding some improvements as of yet,
>>> but I am starting to suspect that there are further mechanical issues to be
>>> dealt with (getting some oscillations in the X and Y dimensions from layer
>>> to layer... loose belts?) beyond the, now solved, issue of the print bed
>>> being super uneven.
>>>
>>> Then I fixed up one of the little wooden guys... got it printing great
>>> now, in relative terms.  It's still not as nice as what I'd like it to be,
>>> but it's definitely printing better than the Prusa right now.  I'd say we
>>> could probably start telling visitors that we actually DO have a functional
>>> 3D printer now, instead of the typical "we have some but they're all
>>> broken" response... the only potential problem is that this one only has a
>>> 12x12x10 cm print volume.  I did all the setup, calibration, and driving of
>>> this little guy with my laptop, so maybe tomorrow I'll try to get it
>>> running of one of the computers in the space and then transfer over my
>>> calibrations.  Once that's done I'll be able to show anyone who's
>>> interested how to use it, and I'll probably write up a little quick start
>>> guide that could hopefully get a (decently tech-savvy) person from 3D model
>>> to 3D print.
>>>
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