{"id":14864,"date":"2018-04-15T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2018-04-16T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:48:14","slug":"flashprint-except-without-the-prints-falling-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/15\/flashprint-except-without-the-prints-falling-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashprint except without the prints falling over"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use a FlashForge Creator Pro<\/a> 3D printer for work. It’s okay, but I wouldn’t recommend it: you have to manually<\/em> level the print bed (\u00e0\u00b2\u00a0_\u00e0\u00b2\u00a0<\/span>)<\/strong>, you can’t print via USB, it pretends to be a knock-off MakerBot<\/a> (same USB ID: naughty naughty) and its slicing software is a mishmash of GPL and other code all bundled up in one proprietary lump. It also doesn’t used g-code, which is a bit poo.<\/p>\n

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As Vik said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flying Spaghetti Monster has cast forth His noodly appendage and made output in His own image.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been having endless trouble will tall prints losing adhesion, falling over, and leaving a noodly mess everywhere. I’ve fixed it by making some manual changes to the config file, the process as described here: Flashprint advanced print settings by editing the default.cfg configuration file<\/a>. What I changed was:<\/del><\/p>\n

[brim]\r\nenable = true                  # valid range {true, false}, default is false # CHANGED\r\nextruderId = 0                  # valid range {0, 1}, default is 0\r\nmargin = 10.0                    # valid range [1.0, 10.0], default is 5.0   # CHANGED\r\nlayerCnt = 2                    # valid range [1, 5], default is 1           # CHANGED\r\nspeed = 60                      # valid range [10, 200], default is 60\r\nexcludeInterior = true         # valid range {true, false}, default is false # CHANGED<\/del><\/pre>\n
This makes a colossal double-width, double thickness brim around the prints so that they will not topple. I’m very happy with the results so far.<\/del><\/p>\n
Rather than mucking about with config files, if you enable “Expert Mode” in Flashprint’s preferences:
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\nThen you can make a brim that stops prints coming off the print bed.<\/p>\n
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expert brim settings = prints not fall over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
And lo, there was much rejoicing \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
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23\u00c2\u00bd hour print job done! (They’re LipSync<\/a> shells, btw)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I use a FlashForge Creator Pro 3D printer for work. It’s okay, but I wouldn’t recommend it: you have to manually level the print bed (\u00e0\u00b2\u00a0_\u00e0\u00b2\u00a0), you can’t print via USB, it pretends to be a knock-off MakerBot (same USB ID: naughty naughty) and its slicing software is a mishmash of GPL and other code […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2963,3133,3132],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-3dprinter","tag-flashforge","tag-flashprint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3RK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}