the printer has found it's new home and is sort of available. the room can for the moment be booked via me.
so, the next step will be the one you are all craving for: printing! fair enough and you shall do so, but as none of us has much experience it would be nice if you would document your printing and the tricks and tweak you find out. here is the perfect place for this.
please document your printer usage and your experiences. the printer queue is a schedule, where you can sign in for printing. with your name, the name and a picture of the thing you are going to print, the estimated print time. And when you are done a print report: featuring the settings you used, the time and amout of material it took, what issues you came across, how you fixed it ... the amount of material you used...
remember to always obey the two rules: do not break anything! do not hurt yourself!
The printer queue
| Image of file | File Name | Print date | and time | Name | Print report (Material, temperature, time, feed rate, etc.) | Amount of time needed | Amount of material used | Issues | Fixes | Image of printed object |
| Datei Name | Druck Datum | und Uhrzeit | Name | Druckbericht (Material, Temperatur, Zeit, Vorschub, etc.) | Gebrauchte Zeit | Verbrauchte Menge an Material | Probleme | Und wie sie gelöst wurden | ||
| test.bfb | 25.8. | Robert S. und Florian M. | extreme warping on the spire | higher print resolution, cooldown by fan in the critical phase, rasp and sand paper | ||||||
| test2.bfb | 26.8. | Robert S. und Florian M. | improved testprint, based on this, we startet printing the complete animation cycle of 16 frames | |||||||
| animationcycle01.bfb (Frame 1-4) | 26.8. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx 140 minutes | |||||||
| animationcycle02.bfb (Frame 5-7 +12) | 30.8. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx 140 minutes | |||||||
| animationcycle03.bfb (Frame 8-11) | 31.8. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx 140 minutes | |||||||
| animationcycle04.bfb (Frame 13-14) | 1.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 60 minutes | |||||||
| animationcycle05.bfb (Frame 15-16) | 2.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 60 minutes | |||||||
| zoetrope_cap.bfb (cap of the zoetrope) | 15.9.-16.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 10 hours till abortion | imprecise printbed complicates printing of large objects (20x20x1cm), ABS warps too much (high temperature?) | optimizing the .stl file, trying the same with PLA | |||||
| zoetrope_cap.bfb (cap of the zoetrope) | 21.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 20 minutes | problems with the .stl file and imprecise printbed obviate the 2nd try while printing the raft and lead to an early stop | no existing image of this try | |||||
| Eindrucken Variante 2 | 29.09.2010 | Katharina E. | Due to the extensive work needed preparing the LEDs the test print will be the final print. | |- | ||||||
| zoetrope_cap_pla.bfb (cap of the zoetrope with pla settings) | 28.9.-29.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 8hours | structure was a bit week and the material feed was blocked due to mechanical problems with the PLA material roll (approx 30minutes of printing without material(!), cause the extrusion was kind of blocked) | slightly higher printing temperature might help, fixing the problems with the material roll will be necessary. | # | ||||
| zoetrope_lamp.bfb (construction for the led lamp) | 29.9. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 2hours | everything went perfectly fine | ||||||
| crankhandle_p1.bfb (part of the gear) | 13.10. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 20 minutes | everything went perfectly fine | ||||||
| gearshell.bfb (part of the gear) | 26.10. | Robert S. und Florian M. | several hours (only troubleshooting | problems with the printbed level (was too close to extruder), flakes of PLA were sometimes extruded together with the ABS | leveling the bed, cleaning the extruder | no acceptable result, therefore nothing to photography | ||||
| gearshell2.bfb (part of the gear) | 9.11. | Robert S. und Florian M. | approx. 3,5hours | everything went perfectly fine |
