RudydG wrote:RudydG wrote:Well, i did it, bought the prog.
First impressions: (DV 1.0 + repetier, macbook air mid 2012 with 480 SSD)
Program is NOT mac friendly, experienced like 20 crashes, got no preview, lots of little problems.
In the end, tried with the profile Velleman 8400, and then the prog gives a preview. Hopefuly stays that way.
Also, have to drag and drop the stl file to get it in without crashes
First print, missed a part, detected an error, than wasnt fixed by S3D.
Start and end G code has to be entered manualy, not nice. without this tweaking, printing just gets on the way, with cold bed and extruder. Can imagine for a newbi that its problematic.
Now i have these issues fixed, i will try to get it printing. (dont trust it yet to let it print overnight)
Keep you postedOk, thing is tweaked now, start and s
tops like it should.
This weekend will start my first real print ;-)
I can already tell, that this expensive program was not a plug and play solution.
But, will see what the future brings.There is no host software that is plug and play. That is nature of 3d printers. They will always require adjusting. In fact every time you change your filamwnt you will most likely have to adjust your temperature and feed speeds.
I am not even printing, only trying to set up, getting a non-crash working program.
It is the first time i payed such an amount of money, as an alternative for the freeware slicers, and got a problematic software, while the freeware slicers worked without problems
Ofcourse i will have to adjust temperature en speeds while printing 3D, but first get there....
RudydG wrote:Well, i did it, bought the prog.
First impressions: (DV 1.0 + repetier, macbook air mid 2012 with 480 SSD)
Program is NOT mac friendly, experienced like 20 crashes, got no preview, lots of little problems.
In the end, tried with the profile Velleman 8400, and then the prog gives a preview. Hopefuly stays that way.
Also, have to drag and drop the stl file to get it in without crashes
First print, missed a part, detected an error, than wasnt fixed by S3D.
Start and end G code has to be entered manualy, not nice. without this tweaking, printing just gets on the way, with cold bed and extruder. Can imagine for a newbi that its problematic.
Now i have these issues fixed, i will try to get it printing. (dont trust it yet to let it print overnight)
Keep you postedOk, thing is tweaked now, start and s
tops like it should.
This weekend will start my first real print ;-)
I can already tell, that this expensive program was not a plug and play solution.
But, will see what the future brings.
There is no host software that is plug and play. That is nature of 3d printers. They will always require adjusting. In fact every time you change your filamwnt you will most likely have to adjust your temperature and feed speeds.
]]>Well, i did it, bought the prog.
First impressions: (DV 1.0 + repetier, macbook air mid 2012 with 480 SSD)
Program is NOT mac friendly, experienced like 20 crashes, got no preview, lots of little problems.
In the end, tried with the profile Velleman 8400, and then the prog gives a preview. Hopefuly stays that way.
Also, have to drag and drop the stl file to get it in without crashes
First print, missed a part, detected an error, than wasnt fixed by S3D.
Start and end G code has to be entered manualy, not nice. without this tweaking, printing just gets on the way, with cold bed and extruder. Can imagine for a newbi that its problematic.
Now i have these issues fixed, i will try to get it printing. (dont trust it yet to let it print overnight)
Keep you posted
Ok, thing is tweaked now, start and stops like it should.
This weekend will start my first real print ;-)
I can already tell, that this expensive program was not a plug and play solution.
But, will see what the future brings.
Carl, how do you find the print quality with S3D on the Da Vinci ?
To be honest my first run was when my extruder died. Might be why I am somewhat sour towards the program even though I know it is not at fault. So I never really got to see what the finish and such looks like. I plan to fo a side by side of a few items with similar settings using Cura Host, S3D and Craftware. See which tirns out the best.
]]>One note: I'm on a Mac and S3D - while not perfect - has decent Mac support and feature parity and concurrent releases with the Windows version. The Windows version of Craftware is b1.10 while the Mac version is still at b1.06. Doesn't inspire confidence that they're taking the mac version seriously, but maybe it's just the Windows version was buggier.
]]>I am have been using S3D for about a month now - I can tell you it is WAY better than any of the free slicers. I am running .91 mod and I have tried all of the popular free slicers. They all have pros and cons, but I am very happy with S3D as it has ALL of the pros and very few cons. The surface finish of all my prints have greatly improved and I used to not even bother with a complex print that needed supports - now with S3D I love printing with supports! and the more complex the part the better. I believe that S3D is worth every penny.
Did you try Craftware? What did you think of it?
]]>carl_m1968 wrote:Still playing with it myself but I believe it also allows layer settings like temp and infill as well.
Yes, you can set "processes" for different sections of the print whereby you can vary any of the print settings.
This would be useful for instance if you needed a lot of infill at the bottom of the print and less at the top. Or you could change the layer height if you needed more detail at a certain part of the print.
Actually I was talking about if it was available in Craftware or not. If it is then 150 for S3D is pretty much a rip off. However my Delta and Da Vinci both went down before I really got to play around with Craftware.
]]>Still playing with it myself but I believe it also allows layer settings like temp and infill as well.
Yes, you can set "processes" for different sections of the print whereby you can vary any of the print settings.
This would be useful for instance if you needed a lot of infill at the bottom of the print and less at the top. Or you could change the layer height if you needed more detail at a certain part of the print.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great bit of software. I'm just not quite as blown away by it as I was expecting to be on first impressions.
I'm sure I've still got a fair bit to learn so my print quality with it may well improve.
Like I said, it's definitely a vast improvement over xyzware but if you're already using other slicers, you may not see that big a difference in print quality initially.
And it does have some handy features that aren't available in other programs.
I am still trying to see these handy features that cost 150 bucks. I have compared it to Craftware which is free for now and to me Craftware is nearly a clone and allows custom placement of supports and such. Still playing with it myself but I believe it also allows layer settings like temp and infill as well.
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