Solidoodle 3 Mods, and issues. (Page 7 of 9)

Whatever slicer settings I've modified insided repetier. Whatever version comes with .85, I installed the new version of repeteier and it's a blank slate with nothing preloaded. Bad thing is , it seems to have 10 times the settings so for a new guy it appears a complete black hole. I even took screen shots of the majority of my old settings and still couldn't find all of them. Also unsure of the new settings and how they may impact the machine

This is what your looking for... just duplicate what .85 has into .90 and you should get your settings back.

One thing at a time lets get RH working with 0.9.9 first and since that's what I'm using we can figure the rest out together once we are on the same page.

I picked up a lenovo dsektop and dell monitor so i can make it a stand a lone unit. I didnt blow my settings out thankfully in my last transition from computer to computer. I stick with the .85 version of repetier until solidoodle releases it on their website.

Ive been looking for a way to scan objects, everything from makerbots solution to what ive found as a "sense" unit. http://cubify.com/sense/index.aspx

Its cheap, not sure if it works all that great or shows fine details.

I'd eventually like to upgrade the carriages to ball bearing on rod, instead of the sleeve style bearing. I think it would be a huge difference in print times if you could crank up the speed!

Ok, got it semi dialed in. Now I just want it printing faster!!!!!

Limiting factor seems to be not knowing how to properly speed it up without losing quality. Clearly I can increase the feed rate 150% which really gets things moving but not sure how I should increase the flow rate? 1:1? I really need someone's high speed slic3r settings since mine are slow and suck, especially bridging gaps.

It has been my experience with higher speeds that temp is critical (higher).  If you really want more speed you should change the speed settings in your profile and adjust your flows by tweaking the extrusion width in the advanced tab in your profile.
Remember you can make all the changes you want as long as you save it with a different name.  That way you won't loose your originals.  I have also found that flow rate slider in R-H is a poor way to adjust flow.  Feed rate also changes the flow at the same time.  It just increases by percentage to all motors.  Flow rate to a point only changes the extruder and past that point forces the others.  For example Flow rate at 80 will start to slow the speeds also.  I am guessing it is a safety feature but I don't know that for certain just observation.
Also bearings and spectra line (instead of belts) make a huge difference when it comes to speed as far as reducing backlash.
A bigger nozzle (I use .60) can pick up the speeds of a print also.  elmoret uses .80
Hope that helps.

Well its been forever. I have been doing a bunch of other things. This weekend hope to get back to printing some goodies, and probably updating the software. Stay tuned! hope everyone is doing well.

I'm assuming that this is sort of a general discussion for the Solidoodle 3. Currently, my printer seems to be jamming pretty frequently. What happens is that it seems the top of the hot end seems to be getting to hot, and when the stepper motor does a quick retract, extend procedure between moving to new extrusion segments, the PLA gets folded up and hardens above the hot end as such: https://38.media.tumblr.com/118e46fabe8 … 1_1280.jpg.

I'm curious of any of you guys are having this problem frequently and what is your solution? My hot end was set to 185F previously, and I'm trying to run it at 195 now. The jamming has happened quite a bit, and I don't remember the temperature settings every time.

+1

I had the same problem with the stock hotend AND 100% of the time I clogged while printing PLA.'
I have printed PLA many times since upgrading to the E3D, and the only clog I suffered was from user error.

If you have perimeters set higher than the width of that lip Slic3r may have a hard time figuring out what to do.