I’ve always followed Ellis’ guide start to finish. It really makes a huge difference in print quality and especially consistency of printer performance.
As for filament, I’ve found brands I really like that have good and consistent quality and stick to those. Before when I was trying different brands, I found I had to tune filament settings every time I tried a different brand which got really annoying.
Motorcyclists drive like maniacs, not like everyone is going to kill them. They drive way too fast, cut blind corners, weave in and out of close traffic without signaling, they make hazardous passes because they can accelerate fast…yeah, that’s why I said they must be the dangerous driver.
I drive my car like it’s a motorcycle
Sounds like you’re the maniac on the road then…
And it’ll only take 3-4 months to print it!..oh, and you can’t really use your home while it prints because of noise and VOCs.
I only respond to “ding”
Behavioural modifications through specific patterns of rewards is not limited to dogs…
Pavlov did some very famous experiments that suggests otherwise.
They didn’t…
That’s a pretty cool way to construct a bearing that fits the limitations of especially FDM printing.
I also have issues like what you’re having when I’m printing with PETG, and using gyroid infill pattern eliminates it completely for me.
Is this the same guy that made the marble clock with same working principle?
I just store mine in bins as well… I don’t have an entire room (or wall) to dedicate to just 3D printing filament, and bins with spools stacked in them is by far the least space consuming way to store them.
It prints the skirt first, but yes.
Yeah then it sounds like I was lucky with mine then. I only needed their support once when I just got the machine. I had a defective Y-stepper (working, but making weird noises), but they were quick and i had the correct replacement motor within a week. A friend of mine had the previous generation of mine, and he has basically no original parts left aside from the frame and belts.
Maybe I was lucky with mine 🤷♂️ which model have you tried, and how long ago was it? Mine is only a year old
Something like $4USD in filament and a few cents in electricity
Mostly it just gives me a chance to change the z-offset before it starts printing the model. 9/10 times I don’t have to change anything though. I purge and prime the nozzle before this.
I have an Anycubic Kobra 2 that is pretty OK. Only mods I’ve done are print a new fan duct for better cooling and flash klipper on it, other than that it’s original HW. It obviously requires some tuning for best possible results, but the printing with just Anycubics setup guide OOTB were decent.
I added to my comment, maybe after you replied.
Like I mentioned in the edit, I don’t mind paying for content. But the way they manage the pricing makes me defy them out of spite. When they want to manipulate the pricing like that, they themselves started the immoral behaviour. When your opponent fights dirty, you level the playing field by circumventing their efforts.
I would definitely still tune extrusion rate on the printer profile and flow rates and PA for each filament profile