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Printing Jd

I had purchase a EZ-B developer kit about 1 year ago. I was able to build some basic robots and had a blast. I wanted to build something more solid, so my wife gave me 3D printer for fathers day. I have downloaded the STL for JD Humanoid and I have started to print some of the parts. I have a Da Vinci 3D a printer and am wondering how many cartridges it will take to print the hold robot?

I am using the XYZprinting PLA Filament Cartridge, 1.75 mm Diameter, 600g, Nature to print.


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#9  

Thank you again for all the replies... Well after calling XYZ support twice and been "disconnected" as they where about to transferring me to "tech support" for the second time, hmmm.

I found a youtube video where they spoke about an Android application to help you calibrate the printer, did some research took a drive down to T-Mobile, purchase a pay as you go Android phone, purchase application from Amazon, and ..

6 hours, 28 minutes, 2 calls to customer support, 1 trip to t-mobile with a purchase android phone and the calibration application ... the printer is calibrated!

YAY Let the printing begin!

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Will purchase the recommended software tomorrow.

Thank you again, next step LETS PRINT!

#10  

Oh my goodness! Well, don't feel too bad, it took me 12 hours over two days to get mine calibrated with no app the first time. That 12 hours was mostly my fault as I did not understand what I was doing and tried to do it in a hurray and frustrated.

I've seen people resort to making their own tools to calibrate their beds, using calipers and dial indicators. A dial indicator is not a bad idea, I'm going to research that more my self in the future.

#11  

The problem with having fun is that live gets in the way... finally got some work off my back and I am able to play again. Purchase the software and am printing a small piece to see if it works. (Here is some background, move the printer from my living room to the upstairs office, it lost the calibration, re-calibrated much faster this time, hehehe; let the fun begin...)

Am like a little kid, I keep on pressing OK so that the light turns on and I can see how is going:)

printing P6 A-01 a small piece to make sure its working:)

#12  

So I printed a small piece and it looked really good. Then I decided to print something bigger. It took all night, and what came out just looked wrong.

The outside look good, the inside looked like spyder webs?

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#13  

@cfernandez Did you print that with or without supports? If you printed with the open side down you will need a crap load of support... From what I am seeing it looks like you printed with the open face down and without support...

#14  

And did you use the included DaVinci software or Simplify3D? It's a world of difference with Simplify3D, there are a lot more options for support. But more or less a part like that needs supports. If you get the Simplify3D software the video tutorials from their site are very helpful. I learned a lot from them.

#15  

Which DaVinci printer are you using? I have the Jr. 1.0 and you only get to use their software with which is limited. That's the one downfall with it for me. I think that their next model up, would allow you use something like Simplify 3D which I too have heard is really good. I also like useing Tinkercad to view the EZb parts before printing.Am just starting to learn 123D now, should be fun.:D

#16  

I did not know that you could print it with the open side up. I will try that