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Re: is there life

July 11, 2015, 2:21 am

Which slicer are you using. I'm using Simplify3D, their latest release has an ooze shield. not sure what cura and slic3r have in their latest release.

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Re: is there life

July 13, 2015, 4:13 am

I've been looking at Simplift3D, but whilst they do a lot for dual extruder printers their tri extruder printer support is not too hot, it does have some nice features though, will look forward to...

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Hey bgkdavis , Have you been to HSBNE? (http://hsbne.org/) I haven't been there personally, but it could contain a lot of 3D Printing activity for you Maroons ;). It looks like a very well presented...

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Re: is there life

July 13, 2015, 10:33 pm

Yes, I highly suggest checking Hackerspace Brisbane out. I've only been once, but I can definitely say it is an awesome space with quite a few RepRap printer owners (and some other types of printers).

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Re: is there life

July 17, 2015, 11:54 pm

well Ive given Simplify3D a go and this is what the print looks like with the ooze shield still on the bed, you can see there are a lot of ooze artifacts, but they are all attached to the shield...

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Re: is there life

August 2, 2015, 6:54 pm

YES! I have a RepRap (recently purchased) which I am trying to get to run with Ubuntu 14.04. This is not being very successful so far (still haven't printed anything as yet). I am working through...

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Re: is there life

August 3, 2015, 6:23 pm

Have fun, I know its not trendy to still use windows, but it works.

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Re: is there life

September 15, 2015, 4:34 am

Hi OzzieEngineer, did you get it working yet? I have connected my printer to ubuntu and got it working, right now my printer is running off RAMPS connected to a raspberry pi running Octoprint. It's...

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Re: is there life

September 15, 2015, 5:15 pm

Hi dansxmods, Good news and bad news. Good news is that I got it all working and it prints great! I found that dust had accumulated in the extractor. Once I had totally cleaned it, it was extruding...

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Re: is there life

September 16, 2015, 2:56 am

Of course I now realise that by running on ubuntu, your actually using computers to drive the printer, I don't have that problem, both my printers are fitted with Duet controllers and run completely...

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Onshape Users - Brisbane Meetup - 29 September

September 17, 2015, 6:42 pm

I just got an email that there is an "Onshape Meetup" at the Brisbane Hackerspace on 29 September. I'm not sure if I'll make it along, but I thought I would share. If you're not familiar with it,...

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Re: is there life

September 17, 2015, 6:58 pm

ozzieengineer, Assuming your machine uses a standard control board (RAMPS 1.4 or similar), I strongly suggest getting a "RepRapDiscount Full Graphic Smart Controller" [reprap.org] which has an SD Card...

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Re: is there life

September 17, 2015, 7:31 pm

My board is a Melzi Ardentissimo with an SD card slot on it. The manual instructions (in Chinglish) says I can load a gcode file in the root directory and run it from there. I am yet to try it out....

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