Topic: First day with SD3
I barely had 24 hours at home with my new SD3. While there were other things that I had to do, I snuck in a couple of hours to concentrate on my long awaited printer. I first made several attempts to print the knobs designed to go under the table for level adjustments. After about 6 tries, I finally got the height of the table correct so that the parts stuck to the end, and I ended up with 4 knobs and several small unfinished parts, all made from the sample filament that came with the printer. Next I loaded up a spool of natural and began printing parts for my panalolu case. I got the front, back and support printed before having to pack my bags for the next trip.
Sitting here gloating over the wonders of such a fantastic machine, I began to realize that the front panel is, while at first appearance perfect, wrong. The outline is indeed perfect, but the interior is almost a solid filled block of plastic. I obviously in my excitement overlooked this in the software after slicing, but for some reason, slicer filled all but the LCD cavity. AS you can see in the prints, there is no place for the PC board or buttons, etc.
Have others had such an experience with slic3r? I realize now I have to pay a lot more attention to the results, but also have discovered that I have no visual in the gcode editor using kisslicer or skeinforge so have no way of confirming short of printing. Any ideas to help me address this? Thanks in advance.
Well.. for some reason my image is not showing up. I will try to describe the problem. There is a well for the electronic parts in the half of the front witht he rounded edge. This area is filled solid in my print, where as it should be a cavity.