Solidoodle Workbench (Page 2 of 2)

Just thought I'd give a chime in here,

I Received my workbench last night.  and it was only about 3.5 hours until I had a successful print includes "unboxing"

a few notes that I found: 

- one of the packaging pillows had burst leaving packaging debris over everything in the box

- The Y rods were not even, which caused the X carriage to not be parallel with the frame, so the carriage would not move in the Y direction.  All this took was loosening off the bearings in the Y direction and trying to move the carriage, until it popped in. the Y carriage was then looser

- the cables to the X carriage would interfere with it's movement.  I added a cable tie point to hold them back a little farther.

-After my Tweaking the carriages I thing some of the alignment was lost, and the Y motor was set too far down putting to much force on the motor belt.  following the tensioning link that has been posted, and managed to get some good movement on all of the motors.

- I had a little bit of confusion because my printer was in "Virtual printer" mode, but After I found that, and had a few "holly crap" moments with manually moving, homing and parking the printer, I managed to get everything heated up, and 2 successful prints.

I ran 2 prints, both of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:170922 calibration cube & circle.

first was the default .1mm settings (including extruder and print bed temp) there was a fair bit of warping and it eventually lost adhesion just after it completed the second level.

Next I did the same part on the default .3mm settings, except 10% fill rectilinear, only 1 shell and 110 degrees print bed. The print managed to make it through a successful print, there is very minor warping on the bottom, and the top didn't seem to be filled in fully, but I am quite happy with the results for no tweaking.  I would certainly classify this as "working out of the box"

Tonight I plan to do a little more tweaking and hope to get it dialed in pretty good.  I'm thinking go through the belt tensioning again (the circle is a little wonky) and do a flow calibration and see if I can find why I didn't get a full fill on the top.

One question, is there a "soft" stop?  when the first print lost adhesion I couldn't find any way to stop it other then the emergency stop button...

you want to use .48

Yeah?  please put that ".48" into context for us.

The answer is that is the extrusion width you want to set if using a .40 nozzle
It is also the width you calibrate to for a single wall calibration cube.
Still, I fail to see how it pertains to this discussion.

Did I mention I'm impatient...

Thanks tagyro,

I guess what I'm looking at is the possibility of going with a homegrown enlarged i3, or this.  I knew by the price, and the amount of hacking and complaints i see in the forums that I was going to have to mess with it.  I've been using repetier and slicer from the beginning, so that's not really a problem for me.  Everything else I look at lacks the control I see in RH/Slic3r.  The Workbench seems like a really good platform to hack on, as long as you can get quality prints out of it in a decent amount of time.  The speed thing bothers me a bit, but as you said, you haven't pushed it.  I don't need 300mm/s printing at 20 micron, which is probably a fairytale anyway, I just want it to print faster than my Air2 does.  I'm getting about 90mm/s on low detail stuff, like quad frames.  If you haven't printed with the E3d-v6, you're in for a treat.  I doubt I would ever even bother with any other hotend, ever.  I like the no frills setup on the workbench, as I keep my printer on my desk, and it's never disconnected from my workstation.  They're both hooked up to a giant UPS, so they never go down in the middle of a print.  I've looked at the LCD on my Prusa once or twice in two years, and the sd card has the same files in it from when I bought it.  I looked at the plug and play models like the UM2, and I figured I'm mechanical enough to save myself a thousand bucks.  Thanks again for the great input.  I was already going to buy it.  If you don't hate yours after a week, I'm sold...lol

Hahaha - you placed the order didn't you?
I ordered the e3d and while waiting for them I'm printing only in PLA (not that anything else would print with the provided heads).
Yesterday tried a .1 and the quality was decent (lines barely visible and no significant feeling when touching) but I had to set the speed really low, down to 30 mm/s.
I probably need to redo the belt tensioning and some vaseline on the rods would probably help but I'm not spending anymore time on this until I get the new heads and mount them (hope I can do it - never did it before!)