Showing posts with label Basics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basics. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

Same old, same old.

I had hoped once I bought a high-end hotend I'd get good prints, but the Eventorbot frame is still holding me back.
Although much has gotten better such as the solid infill and surfaces

Left .3 and right.2 mm layer height
However I'm still puzzled by the gaps in the walls.






It looks like parts of the wall just curl upwards. However if I see it during printing I cant really see a wobble it just curls up like it doesn't want to stick on the layer beneath. It also is connected to the layer width, which I had down to 120% for different reasons but it appears that 150% reduces the number of gaps visually.
One glimmer of hope is that the gaps appear to be only in places when it wobbles towards the inside, all outward wobble have not gaps.
I can't really imagine that the bed is jumping up and down when the general wobble is only in the x-y direction, but nothing is impossible.
I'm implementing a stability mod at the moment, so we'll see where this leaves us.





Tuesday, July 9, 2013

The basics - Hardware and parts

When talking about the home 3D printer I mainly referring to reprap style printers. What that is I explain in the next part. For now the we just need to know that it stands for "replicating rapid prototyper". These machines are either bought as a kits for self assembly, as whole from certain manufactures or the parts are sourced by oneself again for self assembly. Prices range from very basic models ~300$ to 3000$ for pre assembled brand products.

The main parts are:

The basics (series)

I learned about 3D printing one year ago and it took its time till I made the decision to buy one myself and now I´m at least "google-smart" enough to ask the right questions in the right forums :)
So this will be my attempt to connect all relevant parts of 3D printing in a practically short way and continually update it to give a good impression of what home 3D printing can do.

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