1 Topic by tapoutms (edited by tapoutms 2013-09-04 21:23:49)

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Hi guys I'm trying to print the 3 piece iron man helmet with my solidoodle 2 but every time i want to print it the machine start going slow and i don't see the filament coming out  if some comes out is a little but i can print anything else fine do i need different setting to do the helmet please help.

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Re: Iron man helmet

Can you extrude manually? You most likely need to calibrate your printer.

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i print with the printer fine and i calibrate it but when i try to print the iron man helmet wont work the solidoodle 2 is acting like is printing but i see a little bit of filament coming out and the machine  go so slow and before i print i check the stl file and i center it in the middle of the heat bed. thank you

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Re: Iron man helmet

Have you checked the extruder temp?

What is the thingiverse number? or can you attach the .STL so others can test it.

Have you run it through NetFabbb Cloud?

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Re: Iron man helmet

Could you post  your gcode from slicing it?

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Re: Iron man helmet

Is the filament getting caughtup? I once had made the mistake of thinking my printer was busted, only to realize that my spool was stuck & unable to spin, thus not allowing the filament to be fed into the machine.

In the  stl file, is object hovering above the ground? Or placed flat? If its not flat then that might be your problem....

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ronsii wrote:

Could you post  your gcode from slicing it?

You can also visually check the gcode output for errors in RH

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Re: Iron man helmet

OK this is one of the Gcode Thank you guy's for the help

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Re: Iron man helmet

yes i use Netfabb

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tapoutms wrote:

yes i use Netfabb

Have you tried moving the z-tab up a  bit? The nozzle maybe too close in general.

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tapoutms wrote:

OK this is one of the Gcode Thank you guy's for the help

The Repetier-Host visualizer shows the mask being printed off in space below the bed.
Editing the gcode and removing or commenting out lines 6,7,8 gets it back on the bed. Though there appears to be more bad code in there that looks like it might cause a crash.
I am not sure it will print like that without supports, or maybe the model needs to be rotated to lay flat on its back.
And I am not sure where you got that gcode but you are either going to have to reproduce it correctly or fiddle with it to make it right.

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Re: Iron man helmet

thanks guys for your help

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Re: Iron man helmet

Has some one print the 3 part iron man helmet with there solidoodle 2 and can someone please post the Gcode so i can try to print it on my machine because i can't  make it work

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Re: Iron man helmet

There a few of these on thingiverse, and even a couple that look like they printed OK. Maybe you can grab one of those, slice it and get it to work.

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I always get the files in Thingiverse but the iron man helmet won't work for me the rest for the stuff the i get from Thingiverse i can print fine is only the iron man helmet i don't know why

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tapoutms wrote:

I always get the files in Thingiverse but the iron man helmet won't work for me the rest for the stuff the i get from Thingiverse i can print fine is only the iron man helmet i don't know why


Thingiverse doesn't have any quality control. Nothing preventing you from uploading bad files.

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Re: Iron man helmet

Thank You for the Help