Dr Footleg (he/him)
They’re Otterly adorable! Magnets in their hands make them posable. #ERCFv3
(Model by McGybeer: https://www.printables.com/model/889097-magnetic-otter)
Otters down. It’s carnage on the build plate! So glad I managed to get object exclusion configured.
#ERCFv3 #3dprinting
#ERCFv3 #3dprinting
These required all day monitoring to deal with occasional misfeeds and more than a few false alarm filament run out triggers (I need to disassemble my print head to look at why the switch is not detecting the presence of filament during printing), but I ended the day with 3 armadillos! Design by McGybeer. Another successful from my #ERCFv3 #3dprinting
Today I hope to confirm my successful prints were not a one off fluke. Go armadillos! #ERCFv3 #3dprinting
Finally success with the #ERCFv3
A #3dprinted trio of the tiny owls by McGybeer in 4 colours. 199 layers and the first 98 printed without any problems before a colour change was halted due to filament not quite fully unloading and preventing the selector moving. Quickly resolved and a few layers later a filament clog paused the job again. This time the reason was the nozzle had come slightly unscrewed. Once that was cleared up the rest of the print completed with no manual interventions needed!
A #3dprinted trio of the tiny owls by McGybeer in 4 colours. 199 layers and the first 98 printed without any problems before a colour change was halted due to filament not quite fully unloading and preventing the selector moving. Quickly resolved and a few layers later a filament clog paused the job again. This time the reason was the nozzle had come slightly unscrewed. Once that was cleared up the rest of the print completed with no manual interventions needed!
Now I have confirmed my design works in operation, I have published my custom mounting bracket design which I needed to enable the ERCT filament buffer to work with the #ERCFv3 #3dprinting #ercf
https://www.printables.com/model/1554025-erct-filament-buffer-mounting-bracket-for-2020-ext
https://www.printables.com/model/1554025-erct-filament-buffer-mounting-bracket-for-2020-ext
After much problem solving I have completed a 4 colour print on the #ERCFv3 with just a single wrong colour (green layer on the blue X). I think that was me manually selecting the wrong gate when the printer paused due to a filament unload not fully completing. But no clogs (a first for a long print on this MMU), no filament tangles and no incorrectly selected colours where the printer continued without realising there was a problem.
#3dprinting #Voron
#3dprinting #Voron
I have spent the evening tuning the flushing volumes to determine the minimum purge amounts needed to ensure clean colours. Here you can see the purge block transition from black to green (it gradually changes over several lines), and from green to red (happens more abruptly over just a few lines). I think I am nearly ready to attempt another full print to see it it can complete without interventions. #3dprinting #ERCFv3
