SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

Re: Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-05T17:09:36Z

Well... Good news and bad news.

Good: It works! Thank you SO much. elmoret!!!

Bad: The new, improved way of printing these makes them look worse than the original. Not entirely sure why, must fiddle with it more... It put lots of little "drops" on the flat surface of the washer, which is a new thing. Argh.

I might need to play around with the filament retract settings.

As always, thanks a ton for all the help you guys provide. It makes any frustration more of a shared woe / experiment!

Re: Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-05T01:11:48Z

I reckon you could probably get some pretty tight packing there: the outer edges of those washers look pretty low, so you can probably define the clearance cylinder in slic3r a bit tighter - use the height of the outside of the washer, and the diameter of the brass nozzle at that height plus a few mm of clearance:

Re: Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-05T00:20:48Z

might need to space them out some so that the extruder doesn't hit the finished one once it starts the next one.

Re: Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-04T23:34:22Z

elmoret wrote:

http://manual.slic3r.org/advanced/sequential-printing

Reading now.

If this solves my issue, I owe you some drinks!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-04T23:13:22Z

http://manual.slic3r.org/advanced/sequential-printing

Looking for a better way to print something multi-up

2014-09-04T23:03:00Z

I searched, but could not find...

I'm running a SD3 with the stock Repetier & Slic3r. I made washers for my company with it. Pic attached below shows how they're currently set up to print.

My question - and I'm hoping there is an answer, can I have it print one full washer at a time, going through all 15 layers on the Z axis, and then go to another, resetting the Z axis, so that it's not switching and smearing between each layer between each washer? In other words, it creates one whole washer, then shifts position, and begins on another starting at glass level...

Is there a slicing program that can do this? Does Slic3r do it?

I spend WAAAAAYYYY too much time cleaning these washers up by hand with an X-Acto knife. it's not efficient at all. The machine should be doing all of the work, not me!

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. I imagine I could hand-edit the code somehow, but certainly there's a more GUI way to do this... Right?