Sorry, their web site is not 100% informative. The USB thumb drive is maybe better than an SD card.
One more question. How do you post-process the printed parts? Do you use a separate UV lamp or sunlight. Same with cleaning? Just use a bucket of alcohol? I know they make SLA post-processing equipment, ultrasonic cleaners, and UV booths. I'm thinking I might "borrow" my daughter's fingernail polish UV curing lamp gadget but I'd lose that argument. If you do happen to have a PDF user manual could you post it? I could not find anything on their website. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:16 PM Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> wrote: > Some misinformation in Chris' post. > > The QIDI Shadow 5.5S has a USB port, just like most 3D printers, but the > lack of an SD card does not imply that data is dribbled across a USB > cable as the printer needs it. Instead of an SD card, I plug a USB > thumb drive into the Shadow. There's a very nice graphic touch LCD for > a user interface. When I select PRINT from the touch screen, the > contents of the USB card are listed in little buttons on the screen. > The writing is too small for my old eyes without magnification, but > there are images of the parts to be printed which is very cool. Touch > the image I want to print and it prints from the USB thumb drive. > > I replaced the supplied (possibly fake) Toshiba thumb drive with a tiny > 64GB Sandisk (they're awesome, Gene :-) Cruzer Fit thumb drive (Amazon > ASIN: B07MDXBTL1) that's almost flush with the side of the printer so it > won't snag and banjax the printer's USB port. > > > > > On 6/4/20 2:25 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > > I looked. They have their own slicing software that runs on Mac or > > Windows. The interface is USB only, no SD card. So on Linux you'd be > > using a virtual machine to host a Windows image and then their software > in > > that. Windows runs well in a VM if the host machine is powerful enough. > > > > I would prefer a printer that accepts SD cards as that is more reliable > and > > does not tie up a computer for possibly 20 hours. > > > > Here is a very good unbiased article comparing 3D printer types from a > > company that makes all three types of printers. I would start with FDM > > as it will do 90% of what I want. Then SLA for the other 20%. If > you > > must have a solid-built FDM printer These guys have that or you > Utilmaker > > printers are well made but at literally 10X the price. > > https://ultimaker.com/learn/comparing-fff-sla-and-sls-technologies > > > > SLA is limited to small parts and is a mess to work (goggles, apron, and > > gloves required) with but worth it if I want to build a mechanical hand > > with 5 tiny motors inside. The cost of the material is high but if > > only making small parts maybe it does not matter. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:09 AM grumpy--- via Emc-users < > > emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >>> I bought a QIDI Shadow 5.5S a few weeks ago for US$289 > >> i see it is available now for $259.00 and free shipping > >> what slicing software is needed > >> does it run under linux > >> is the manual available > >> i would like to read up on this > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
