Printed on my primary M2 + Simplify3D. First time trying out changing colors mid-print and worked perfectly

Thanks for the reply - yeah I was thinking that as well that it might not have enough time to cool between layers. I'll try printing a few of them at a time as even with 2, I get the same issue (may have to print 3 at a time in this case).

Hi all,

I was printing this very small cylinder on my M2 and noticed that I have a surface ripple effect (see photo). Doesn't seem to show up on larger cylinders....any ideas? I also attached my S3D print profile as well. Thanks for any help!

Mark the Greater wrote:That makes the kit not really worth it anyways.

Oh great...........now after I JUST bought it..........

I just wanted to say how happy I am with my M2! I received a huge 80-part print order from 3D Hubs recently and just finished the print job. Over the course of 9 days, the printer ran 24hrs a day, with little to no downtime/rest. Ended up with 80 prints, using up 4 full spools of black PLA filament ...

Ah ok - I'll keep it at 100mm/sec then if that is the case. I don't want to push any part of the printer to the limit as my current M2 has been performing perfectly, but I did want to see if I could speed things up at all as I've been running it at default S3D speed till a few days ago.

Oh thank you! I didn't know that you could change S3D to mm/sec....just changed it.

Keeping with my current speed, I'm now reporting at 113.3mm/sec for my PLA speed, but want to know if this is considered too fast or if anyone is running higher than this with success?

jimc wrote:Haha squeaked that one in right under the deadline

What's funny about that is that I bought a Lulzbot Mini last week to be the 2nd printer next to my M2....needless to say after only a few days of screwing around with it, I asked for my money back and put in my order for another M2 right in time!

Hi all, Did a search and didn't really see many posts on this, but all I want to know are people's successful default print speeds with the M2+S3D (please post in mm/min!) I recently went from the S3D default of 4800 mm/min to 6800 mm/min and while it seems really fast to me, I'm still getting great...

I just ordered my 2nd M2 kit on the 13th - I hope I'm still receiving mine?