<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/3571/glossary/ Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:40:12 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/43979/#p43979 It should be pointed out that solidoodle has updated the site to include this basic info.
http://www.solidoodle.com/start-here/

]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:40:12 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/43979/#p43979 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/43978/#p43978 helifrek wrote:

I am going to plus 1 on this thread. I would definitely like to see some sort of noob guide with most of the information dumbed down to the lowest level.  It is hard to start from the bottom and work your way up, especially if the answer to your question is always "use the search button" . But I do appreciate every bit of help I can get.

Put it on the wiki?

]]> Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:25:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/43978/#p43978 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37156/#p37156 I am going to plus 1 on this thread. I would definitely like to see some sort of noob guide with most of the information dumbed down to the lowest level.  It is hard to start from the bottom and work your way up, especially if the answer to your question is always "use the search button" . But I do appreciate every bit of help I can get.

]]> Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:37:50 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37156/#p37156 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37153/#p37153 While its easy to LMGTFY and UTS as a reply to this request, have you actually done so recently? Search for E3D and tell me which post comes up first? then tell me which one you should follow. This forum is getting out of hand quick. There are 10 times more posts about 'how do I?' than there are about 'this is how to'. And its all over the place. Try to find the link where solidoodle has their hidden firmware and motherboard files on their website. I bookmarked it because the post is buried in an obscure thread.

Its easy for all the people who understand everything to knock down users who ask even the simplest of questions, but you have forgotten just how much there is to learn here. Not everyone has invested all the time we have in picking at all of the details. And quite frankly, this forum has alot to be desired in the form of organization, discipline, and misinformation.

Pick a simple topic like lifting and crawl backwards in time through the posts. Each topic will be wildly different with some replies being outdated or simply wrong.

Every info forum I have ever seen always has a "Noobs start here" right at the top. This is where people could be given all these 'useful' links to terminology, basic setup and operation, the wiki for damn sake.

]]> Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:26:35 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37153/#p37153 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37142/#p37142 Every time someone does that I still laugh out loud.

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:44:11 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37142/#p37142 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37113/#p37113 @lawsy: "lmgtfy.com"

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:46:55 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37113/#p37113 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37102/#p37102 elmoret wrote:
Claghorn wrote:

For instance what the heck does "PID" actually mean?

Second hit in google for "PID":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

It certainly wasn't 2nd for me - google was the first thing I tried, of course now that I've visited the wikipedia page, it has started coming up on the 1st page of search results (but still not 2nd). Must be those wacky google engineers and their personal search tuning :-).

Thanks for the pointer.

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:28:41 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37102/#p37102 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37101/#p37101 PID - Proportional, integral and derivative.

https://sites.google.com/site/narasimha … mall-gains

Claghorn wrote:

Search may be your friend, but often search only discovers that everyone constantly uses a term that was possibly defined sometime in the depths of history, but you couldn't prove it.

For instance what the heck does "PID" actually mean? I know it has to do with controlling the way the heater works, but what does it stand for? Coming from linux, I'm sure it is a process ID :-). On the web, I can see that it means pelvic inflammatory disease, but I can't actually discover what the heck it means in the 3D printer world.

PEEK is another confusing one with lots of meanings, but I think I found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyetheretherketone

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:09:28 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37101/#p37101 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37100/#p37100 Claghorn wrote:

For instance what the heck does "PID" actually mean?

Second hit in google for "PID":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:05:07 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37100/#p37100 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37097/#p37097 Search may be your friend, but often search only discovers that everyone constantly uses a term that was possibly defined sometime in the depths of history, but you couldn't prove it.

For instance what the heck does "PID" actually mean? I know it has to do with controlling the way the heater works, but what does it stand for? Coming from linux, I'm sure it is a process ID :-). On the web, I can see that it means pelvic inflammatory disease, but I can't actually discover what the heck it means in the 3D printer world.

PEEK is another confusing one with lots of meanings, but I think I found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyetheretherketone

]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:51:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37097/#p37097 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/34189/#p34189 Regarding backlash: That is no where near the mark, bpulst. Adrian had a really detailed thread that explained everything with diagrams:

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/2342/bac … the-topic/

Once again, search is your friend.

]]> Sat, 24 Aug 2013 23:00:52 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/34189/#p34189 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/34185/#p34185 I agree here is a start

Backlash is when parts are not smooth due to layers getting plastic running and other issues that cause a problem in the look

Is this a ok definition?

]]> Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:53:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/34185/#p34185 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/34153/#p34153 It's called the search button.

]]> Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:04:39 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/34153/#p34153 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/34143/#p34143 2n2r5 wrote:

get on it!

I don't know the universeal terms for everything.

]]> Sat, 24 Aug 2013 02:50:23 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/34143/#p34143 <![CDATA[Re: Glossary]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/33128/#p33128 get on it!

]]> Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:19:17 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/33128/#p33128