coryBlair
Ireland
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Many of you have been asking for 3D Printing to have its very own section. Well Here it is!
I'm very excited to see what amazing Designs everyone has been creating and printing.
There have been a few changes to the robots recently, and the EZ-Bits STL's will be published online in the EZ-Cloud shortly. The Revolution Shipping Update video showed some of the changes to JD. Here are some photos up-close.
This is our 3D Printer Farm!
We have 5 Makerbot Replicator 2's. They have reached a collective run-time of over 3500hrs
and my desk were I design all of our plastic parts.
Don't forget to share your 3D printers with the community we would love to see them
Hey @rryerson Most Makerbot users like to use Autodesk's free CAD tools called "123d". Do a search to see whats out there and what will work best for your needs. A couple of popular one's are LibreCAD, openscad, and Blender.
@coryBlair... thanks I will have a look... cheers
@cory Nice 3d printing farm. From what I have seen the makerbot printers are top knock and you can print from a sd card.
The Makerbot Replicator 2 has been really good to us. They do misbehave every once in a while but I have had enough long nights of troubleshooting and research that any issue we run into is now easily fixed within a hour. We even been able to get a faulty circuit board repaired and resembled in that time. Is it cheating if you have one of the most talented Electronics Engineer (@skater_j10) 10 feet away ?
We are printing now at a 83% success rate. Which is up from 30%. That's a huge improvement. The next step is to take everything we have leaned and make a bunch of tutorials. My expectations for these tutorials are to be very helpful to a starter and act as a reference for the more advanced user. Some will be written and others will be video. How many are video will depend on how much time I can steal from Jason our media guy. He has been very busy making the Revolution videos. Our first and foremost priority is to get your orders shipped. This means you wont start seeing tutorials until after the manufacturing rush.
As a side note. The new 5th Generation Replicator no longer uses a SD card. You can use a USB drive or over WiFi using a computer or smartphone.
How do you get such good resolution with the rep2, is that at 100microns?
I printed a JD with the old design parts and it turned out ok but not like your pics. What material do you use, brand etc? And do you just use the print specs listed in ARC?
Thanks
@Robo-doc, did you get your Flash-Forge yet? I absolutely LOVE mine. There was a certain Learning Curve for me.
Already had the FlashForge Create, I just upgraded to Sailfish 7.6 and Replicator 40r.23
me too. But, mine has been down for the last 3 weeks. LCD board or cable. I bought the parts and expect them next Tuesday.