My MakerGear Holy Grail

[JohnnyRobot]

So, I'm coming up on my second year of being an M2 owner.

I must say. I love this printer. I (*think I*) have a good understanding of how it works. I know what it is capable of, and I know it's limitations.

However. I've been having some trouble lately. My wife saw a design on thingiverse that she's in love with. ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:202774 )

Is it just me? Or is this piece unreasonably difficult to print? I've been trying on and off for about 3 months now, no luck. (Hasn't been high priority, but still!?!)

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

[insta]

That part has a lot of insane 10 degree overhangs ... I bet the sample was printed at Shapeways. It might be possible with a lot of support material.

[JohnnyRobot]

I've tried the overkill support route with no luck.

Whatever slicer I try, It still ends up dumping material.

[jsc]

Check out the fourth photo on this make: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:114153

[jsc]

Well, I gave it a shot. 1mm spacing support with my usual print settings. It printed just fine, but I was a little too vigorous in removing the supports and broke off parts of the rim, then I gave up the rest for lost. Here's a photo of it in its unpeeled state:

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The part itself seemed pretty good, it's just getting the support off that's a pain. If you were patient and took your time with it, which I was not, I'm sure it would turn out nicely.

[JohnnyRobot]

Not bad... 1mm spacing? I'm going to have to try that. I'll post how it turns out.

[insta]

So, I'm coming up on my second year of being an M2 owner.

I must say. I love this printer. I (*think I*) have a good understanding of how it works. I know what it is capable of, and I know it's limitations.

However. I've been having some trouble lately. My wife saw a design on thingiverse that she's in love with. ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:202774 )

Is it just me? Or is this piece unreasonably difficult to print? I've been trying on and off for about 3 months now, no luck. (Hasn't been high priority, but still!?!)

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

I'd like to point out that this is something wives are good at. When I finally got my MendelMax running, it was tuned and calibrated as one of the fastest hobbyist 3D printers in the midwest (I could push something like 20mm^3/sec of plastic, 4 years ago). I did this with high print speeds of nearly 150mm/sec, and a huge nozzle (0.66mm) and fat layers (0.5mm). Telling her all this, I asked her to pick a part for me to print, something with wide, flat areas without a lot of retractions and hops, and certainly no support material as the software for it was terrible then.

She wanted one of these: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3493

[JohnnyRobot]

She wanted one of these: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3493

I get it...

[msmollin]

It's this kinda stuff I want a dual extruder setup for: 1 nozzle with PLA and the other with PVA or some water-soluble support material.