I was wondering if increasing the flow rates by a tiny amount would help with shrinkage. yet to find out..
I am still coming to grips with skeinforge settings, I am not sure exactly what to adjust .. things do not always seem to act the way you think and the only flow rate calibrations I can find for solidoodle on the official wiki are for slic3r, wtf .. thought skeinforge and pronterface was the one to use.
I found a description on lawzys (I think .. ?) blog with descriptions of D/T and W/T but my skeinforge does not seem to have the specific values to change as per the blog ..
the 2.1 setting for flow rate .. I am guessing thats the main one and will adjust everything accordingly..
for instance .. I have printed a few of these, the early ones all had holes visible, printing as more of a mesh, increasing
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16621
now I increased the /raft/base flow rate multiplier from 1.00 to 1.03 and it seemed to make things worse, the diagonal fill lines ending up to 1mm from the drawn perimeter, the perimeter can be easily split away after printing .. thinking it went the other way I then changed it to 0.97 and that seemed to fix it mostly .. gah, baffled
I have come close to reinstalling skeinforge after just turning the raft off it started printing 0.5mm above the bed. lol.
I will persevere, my printing computer decided it was time to die this morning, so reinstalling everything on another computer will give me the opportunity to start from scratch following solidoodles instructions to the letter.
I will let you know how it goes..
my challenge is to get prints with no raft to stick as well ..
I know all the info is online somewhere, just so much to wade through and learn, all fun.
.. just fixed my printing computer, added a spacer under the spacer under the motherboard under the video card, cheap cases are a pain..