Comments for Pleasant Hardware

Comment on Raftless by joheinz

joheinz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:59:38 +0000

Hiya, I am still having some difficulties in handling the raftless plugin.
Usually without HBP and raft, I would put the nozzle really, really close to the platform to get a real sticky raft. I assume that I can lift the nozzle higher again with raftless.
The perimenter usually turns out fine, but for the infill I get lots of ooze. I take that as a sign, that either my distance to the platform is still to low, or that I should turn down the flow ratio. The later would make sense to me, I just wonder why the default is “1.0″ somehow indicating that this is not strictly considered necessary. Can you give me some advice on parameters and nozzle distance, please? Regards Markus

Comment on Pleasant Future by Henkka

Henkka — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:07 +0000

Great work !

I got it working, I compiled an example tool in XCode 3.2.2 and it is visible in Toolbox. I also copied ReplicatorG machines.xml-file to the machines-folder – it’s now showing those machines in the dropdown menu ok, and showing few dialog-boxes when I press “Print”. So everything is setup nicely.

Is there anything I can do to help to implement actual printing and/or driver to CupCake ?

I have CupCake and has previously worked with CNC-machines too (participated in EMC Linux CNC-project years ago as a coder & FAQ-writer). I can write Bash, Ruby and Perl scripts to test things up and have been doing SW development for my living for a 15+ years. Not much of that is directly for Mac OS but I’m using solely Macs as my VMWare-host etc.

Comment on My Mendel’s birthday by Tony Buser

Tony Buser — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:22:34 +0000

Have you seen this page that shows a description of all the RepRap Host software preferences?

http://reprap.org/wiki/Java_Software_Preferences_File

I’ve only just got my extruder working reliably myself, so I haven’t started to play with optimizing the gcode it generates yet.

Comment on Chipboard screws are the new nuts and bolts by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » Boxing (Round 2) - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:23:34 +0000

[...] working 3d printer in the house, I needed an extra filament spindle box. It was easy enough to build the first one for my Makerbot, so why not build a second, improved [...]

Comment on Back to the extruder… by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » My Mendel’s birthday - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:34:56 +0000

[...] the Mendel (which generally works great). However, I used the Printruder II to test an experimental “insulator less” hot end – … which was a fail [...]

Comment on Well,… no! by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » My Mendel’s birthday - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:31:10 +0000

[...] a reader of my blog (“renoir”, thank you!) wrote a comment on my blog post “Well, …no!”, linking to Tony Buser’s “RepRap host on [...]

Comment on No luck – … yet by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » My Mendel’s birthday - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:30:53 +0000

[...] experimental geared extruder designs followed. None of them really [...]

Comment on Black Beauty by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » My Mendel’s birthday - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:10:25 +0000

[...] 2 days ago, my Mendel printed its first object (finally). About 8 months after printing its first parts on my Makerbot, back in December. [...]

Comment on The power of vacuum by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » Test Drive - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:30:43 +0000

[...] you know, I’m working on the long term project, using Mecanum wheels for a robot with omnidirectional driving [...]

Comment on It’s printable! by Pleasant Hardware » Blog Archive » Printed Jig - 3D printing with MakerBot and other hardware

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:15:17 +0000

[...] Now that the filament spindle is operational (and I have a little bit more time than the last 8 weeks), I continued with my Mecanum wheel project. [...]