On 6/4/20 8:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Someone was right, I did have "mold" checked.
You can save yourself all kinds of grief if you get in the habit of previewing each print in Cura before printing it, so you can see exactly what the printer will print, layer by layer. It's a great way to spot support material where you don't want it, unsupported portions of the part that will cause a print to fail, mistakes in a part you created, mistaken configurations of the slicer parameters and gross errors like telling the slicer to print a mold instead of the part. I'd also second the advice to print simpler objects to learn how the printer works. I bought my 3D printers for serious structural parts and I'm not into printing baby Yoda, but it's very helpful to first print the known good G code file the manufacturer supplies on the SD card so you aren't trying to learn SCAD, understand the various file formats, teach yourself Cura, and learn all of the tricks of 3D printing at the same time. That's too steep a learning curve, even for quick witted youngsters (which we are not). It's tempting to get a new tool and immediately attempt to press it into service making the parts you need, but you'll run sooner if you don't try to run before you learn to crawl. If you want a resin 3D printed pulley (60mm / 2.5" OD or less), email me the STL and your USPS address. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
