A small text about 3d printers in generall
First of all! watch this:
Everything he’s saying is spot on and is applicable on our printer.
The Mother of all forums!
http://forums.reprap.org/
Manual
BOM (for a classic Prusa i3)
building a prusa-i3
Building a classic Prusa i3 video
Hotend used in our workshops!
(We have a 3mm to 1.75mm filament adapter if you want one)
http://reprap.org/wiki/LulzBot/Budaschnozzle
Connecting the cables from the 3d printer to the ramps 1.4 shield
http://reprap.org/mediawiki/images/6/6d/Rampswire14.svg
How you 3d print
Print: Check if the first lines of extruded plastic sticks to the bed.
Firmware (Marlin)
This is a link to our firmware
Documentation on our firmware (only the configuration.h file)
Firmware basic configuration-set-up-guide
This is some feedback from one of our participants concerning the firmware:
I have had some problems with the Z home point not being detected correct every time.
The way I have mounted my Z endpoint micro switch, the hysteresis if the micro switch was longer(1.6mm) then Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM. this had the effect that after the 1mm retraction the end stop was still engaged and homing would stop 1mm wrong in some cases.
I saw other people having the end stop placed in a similar fashion. So I would recommend setting the Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM to 2 or even 3.
It might be added that you find this line “Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM” is not in the same “tab” as the other configurations. It is located in the Configuration_adv.h
Software to run a 3d printer
Slic3rs and control software:
Cura
Repetier Host
Slic3r
3d modell postprocessing software
Meshlab
Netfabb
First of all! watch this:
Everything he’s saying is spot on and is applicable on our printer.
The Mother of all forums!
http://forums.reprap.org/
Manual
BOM (for a classic Prusa i3)
building a prusa-i3
Building a classic Prusa i3 video
Hotend used in our workshops!
(We have a 3mm to 1.75mm filament adapter if you want one)
http://reprap.org/wiki/
Connecting the cables from the 3d printer to the ramps 1.4 shield
http://reprap.org/mediawiki/
How you 3d print
- Make or download 3d model
- Import into netfabb or Meshlab (optional but sometimes necessary)
- Import into a slicer or a Host-program with a slicer.
- Adjust temperature,layer height and printing speed to match your filament and desired quality.
- Export to SD-card or print from host program with USB
- Check if the filament is inserted erted properly into the feeding mechanism and that there plenty of filament on the spool.
- Check if the print bed is level
- Preheat printer
- Choose the file on the sd card to print and the printer starts to print.
- Adjust the speed with the nob if it looks sloppy. Turn it counter clockwise to turn the speed down.
Print: Check if the first lines of extruded plastic sticks to the bed.
Firmware (Marlin)
This is a link to our firmware
Documentation on our firmware (only the configuration.h file)
Firmware basic configuration-set-up-guide
This is some feedback from one of our participants concerning the firmware:
I have had some problems with the Z home point not being detected correct every time.
The way I have mounted my Z endpoint micro switch, the hysteresis if the micro switch was longer(1.6mm) then Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM. this had the effect that after the 1mm retraction the end stop was still engaged and homing would stop 1mm wrong in some cases.
I saw other people having the end stop placed in a similar fashion. So I would recommend setting the Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM to 2 or even 3.
It might be added that you find this line “Z_HOME_RETRACT_MM” is not in the same “tab” as the other configurations. It is located in the Configuration_adv.h
Software to run a 3d printer
Slic3rs and control software:
Cura
Repetier Host
Slic3r
3d modell postprocessing software
Meshlab
Netfabb