Excellent answer, Dave! I will leave your plastic flamingos and gnome statues alone.

-John

Dave, very nice use of the multi-process functionality. S3D proves the worth of its unique approach quite well in this case! Nice looking prints.

-John

jsc wrote:Dale, why do you do the thing with resetting the extruder position to retract? Once you are in relative mode, why not just G1 E-60 or whatever?

I was wondering this as well... I've seen this in a few different posted start/end gcode blocks.

I've tried most of these methods as well (bare glass, painter's tape, glue stick, hairspray) and would agree with the very set of pros/cons that you stated in the introductory post for glass and tape. I found like Jin that glass by itself was a little more of a crapshoot - it occasionally wouldn't s...

A quick update on my S3D permissions issue related to printing via USB (see post a few earlier than this one) - I e-mailed S3D support, who responded very quickly with some permissions-related tests to try and help narrow down the issue. Before I could try them, I went on a couple of day business tr...

FYI I have a slight filament feed alignment problem most times I load the machine - the filament (PLA, ABS and PET+ so far - all similar symptom) will go in until just past when it is engaged by the gear, and then hits an obstruction (I presume it's missing the bottom side hole, just past the gear-b...

I'm on Thingiverse with the same user name as this forum: jbarnhardt.

-John

There are some good suggestions above. You might also just try using the manual controls in Pronterface to extrude filament fairly slowly (similar to the rate it would be extruded during a print) and see if you can keep it extruding freely into thin air (print bed is lowered far away from the hot en...

Gents, thanks for your suggestions. I am able to fully control the machine in the machine control panel - jog buttons, homing, temp controls, etc. so it's definitely not a connectivity issue. And if I save the gcode and then have S3D print it from the saved gcode file (darn computer keeps wanting to...

Hey S3D gurus. First, a quick comment: I just started using S3D two days ago and holy cow is it a fantastic application! I've been using Slic3r and Cura extensively for the past few months (both with my recently-purchased M2 and before that with an inexpensive Makibox) and while I felt like I was ge...