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What is the 3D printing community/group looking for?

Nate1616

I just wanted to get the communities opinion on what would be of useful content to have.  With the 3D Printing 101 courses being put on hold because of unfortunate events i would be willing to put something together.  Now this could be anything related to printing.  From how-to, maybe new product reviews, training courses...  Let me hear your thoughts.

 

Nate

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  • Hi Nate,

     

    I for one would like to know more about how a 3D printer functions so that I can continue to diagnose the problems with the one I have.

     

    I know logically what needs to be done, but my knowledge of the tools such as slicer is insufficient for me to make changes that I can track to results.

     

    So if you could help share your experiences, it would enable others like me to make better use of the tools they might have, plus provide valuable guidance to people who are looking to buy or build a unit of their own.

     

    DAB

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  • Hi Nate,

     

    I for one would like to know more about how a 3D printer functions so that I can continue to diagnose the problems with the one I have.

     

    I know logically what needs to be done, but my knowledge of the tools such as slicer is insufficient for me to make changes that I can track to results.

     

    So if you could help share your experiences, it would enable others like me to make better use of the tools they might have, plus provide valuable guidance to people who are looking to buy or build a unit of their own.

     

    DAB

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    DAB-

    Thanks for the response!  The slicing software can/is a very complicated tool, especially since there is unlimited number of flavors out there.  It seems like every manufacturer wants to have their own that is customized to the printer for ease of use for the  end user.  I think having a general settings and how it effects prints is a good.  My go to slicer is Slic3r or Kisslicer (hasn't been updated in a while but still very good).  Of course the most common question i get is how to setup the firmware on machines such as Reprap's so that would also be a good topic.  The 2 most common is Marlin and Repetier when your talking about the typical 8bit controller.  The newer boards are 32bit and are able to perform much better.  These are boards such as the Smoothieboard and Azteeg.

     

    Nate