Hopefully everyone is having a shiny day.
Induction:
- I will try my best to get an induction session setup for the 5/12/2017.
- we need an other 3dtechs any volunteer welcome.
- Any member who as been inducted and confident in using the 3d printer could induct other members from the short induction waiting list.
Really simple- The rules of usage, filament etc …
- The risks assessment
- how to use the 3D printer
- finally drop me a PM and I’ll add the permission
3D printer:
- Bed is calibrated
- Bed as been primed with dimafix
- Working condition: Acceptable
- Somehow the printer is really often grinding the filament on loading material. I’ll need to look at this in a bit more details I don’t know if this is related to material or just the extruder gear being dirty yet.
- Please clean up a bit and tidy up the workstation (a rather huge amount of skirts leftover found in the printer and on the floor around the workstation)
CURA slicer:
- Profile
I’ve noticed that the profile loaded onto CURA was just wrong and producing really poor print so I’ve re-initialized the profile settings. So note to anyone customizing the default profile, don’t expect those change to be persisted in the future as I will regularly reset the profile to make it more friendly for everyone to use the 3d printer. - Software Update
FYI A new version of the slicer as been released and I will updated it soon. It’s pretty much the same things with added feature and improve slicing performance.
Fillamentive Material:
I’ve been doing a bit of material testing from the filament that was sent and so far it seems really nice. Will be doing more testing and submit a more consequent feedback
NOTE: someone as extensively use that material, so it will be nice if you submit a bit of feedback for us to get back to the filament producer that gave the filament to the space.
SD card:
The SD card as been wiped. Just In case for the one who master the organizational skills to save their file only on the SD card duh I made a backup! (the directory is on the mac document folder and as a common sense name like backup or something like that)
Workstation:
After multitude little moment of frustration using a window keyboard on a mac I managed to get a free mac keyboard for the space. It’s not much but the 3D printing station Mac as now an apple keyboard yeah, however there is a missing key (tilda) I was told to threw it away so I decided to recycle it instead. (do I need to do anything for this donation to be official)
Happy making everyone