I'm like a stone's throw from the border, if they're cheaper very much consider crossing for that (closest looks like Detroit though, wrong crossing :/) at least for the tap carriage and mount.
Layer lines are unavoidable imo, I've sorta just come to terms, I think I run a tad hot and haven't fully tuned my profiles, but happy with it for my purposes, and definitely heat soak as well, got a process where I do it right after plate prep/cleanup, then I go do my plating and slicing, gives lots of time.
LEDs I'm mixed on, I moved my gantry cam because they seemingly were aimed right at it and you couldn't see anything. I keep thinking about a nozzle camera, but with my current setup I really don't feel like running another umbilical and I'm not 100% sold that it'd survive or really be that handy.
How is the rapido? I'm using dragon HF/UHF for spares and using my existing v6 nozzles, have heard the rapido has some good results.
These go back to 2012 and these are just some cherry picked headlines, entire program needs to be dismantled, or at least fundamentally changed. We've known about these issues for years, there's no excuse.
Are those machined idler blocks‽ if not you have some really solid prints! Impressed with how clean everything is! Just took a shopvac to mine friday, printing parts for a Stealthmax, so lots of buildup.
Need to get into that good enough mindset, definitely caused myself some headache (grabbed a Knomi for the heck of it, tons of interference issues with the blowers I use (sunon and gdstime) but got it going on the fanken-prusa
Instead of running LEDs to the toolhead. It's cheesy and heavy, but rule of cool right?
If you don't feel like printing parts, could run the usb umbilical through the chains.
Is your other printer still up? Having a backup has come in really handy.
My dad was big into Sierra an Apogee so of what I can recall, be one of the incredible machine, king's quest 6, duke nukem 2 or command keen. Also remember playing math and word rescue at like... 5, shareware was more than enough to keep me occupied at that age. First console game though was altered beast on the genesis.
If you're not committed, you don't actually need an appliance for it, have had great results with a Dutch oven and a programmable BBQ thermometer monitoring the water temp. One of my burners goes really low so just a matter of adjusting to keep in range. You don't get forced circulation (get some natural circulation though) and it's not set and forget, but you can do with stuff you probably already have on hand. Done with heavy freezer bags before I was gifted a vacuum sealer.
Fair enough, visually the ModernUI made it similar to what I was used to, I pretty much bounce between part design, sketch and assembly workbenches for everything I do, been a bit but I think ondsel swaps automatically to sketch from part workbench and the dimension tool is way nicer, general freecad doesn't really have that smart dim tool, but the keyboard shortcuts make it better.
Workflow wise, I found it pretty much exactly the same as I used SW and other parametric cad packages, make your sketches, extrude your base and then build sketches for other features. Toponaming fix seems to make external geometry references a bit more reliable, have a few cleanups if I change way back in the tree, not all sunshine and rainbows though, definitely had some frustrations and clunk. What's sold me honestly is I dove in with a largish project (more than I expected tbh, I'll post it when it's more mature) and it's so far totally met my needs.
That sucks! Seems to work on my oldish laptop, can't recall if I used on my really old one too but they both have 16gb of ram and running an appimage on Debian for those, windows seems to be happy with it. Running the python 3.11 versions as well, idk if that makes a difference
Seriously give Ondsel a try if you haven't, has a different ui on top of freecad and a few workflow changes/sketch tools that make it less clunky. I use realthunder + modern ui for freecad and while yeah, there's clunk, it's useable and importantly, no limits on your files. Modern UI gives freecad a ribbon bar and some other enhancements that I like, swapping between benches took a bit to get used to, draft at least the hotkeys are kinda sorta intuitive and make the flow a lot nicer.
I switched cold turkey off of SW Maker for that reason, it limits where your files can be opened on that license, plus kept trying to save my files to a cloud storage by default. I've said it before, yeah freecad isn't perfect, has clunk, but it's provided to me free of charge with no limitations on its usage, I'll gladly accept that.
I've used MultiMC forever, it's open source and has linux support. Like it because I tend to have a few different modpacks/versions, keeps things organised.
Klipper will halt if a canbus toolhead disconnects anyhow, or at least how I have it configured it seems to, will handle packet loss just fine, outright disconnects? Nah, it wasn't happy.
Klipper wise, imagine you could do something with the can uuid, I have a macro that I found that sets offset based on sheet (replicating prusa's sheet selection in marlin, I like to have a bit less squish for nylon for example, more for textured sheets), offsets stored in a config file but you could easily swap that for an actual database if you wanted to.
There's some klipper extensions like spoolman that are kinda sorta that for material management, yes relies on manual entry afaik, but supports material changes so presumably multi toolheads and more importantly, can share across printers, have it running on my server.
Obligatory I am not a patent lawyer, but quick glance at the description, how the heck did that pass the novelty requirement?
A method for making a playlist available to the public, in which the playlist comprises user-defined descriptor information. The user-defined descriptor information is entered as free form text or prose.
I have the belief that ADHD is both over and under diagnosed. If you mask or compensate, even hyperactive or combined get passed off as "quirky behaviour", loss of structure was massive for a lot of people getting diagnosed during the lockdowns, while I was in that boat too I had already been working towards getting an eval for years.
Also super annoyed about the hoops we have to jump through to get treatment, feel like I'm a criminal for having my meds and I have to call in a refill every single time I need them, the entire processes to even get diagnosed is almost hostile to ADHD (multiple appointments, evaluations, shit my psych gave me homework)
There was, however, no clear increase in the risk of dementia associated with adult ADHD among those who received psychostimulant medication, and evidence of reverse causation was mild.
That's def manufacturing in general, worked for a while in a flat roll steel mill originally in galvanizing and eventually some plant wide stuff. A new galv line is easily in that range (they'll go for the cheapest bid and then spend twice that remediating design/QC issues), large scale production isn't cheap!
I really dislike the locking of the taskbar to the bottom, having to click twice to see all my right click options, having to dig through multiple layers of menus to find a setting, not a fan of copilot being pushed in the OS (though I did totally use cortana back in the day, had some somewhat nice assistant features like traffic monitoring to recommend when I left for work), generally not a fan of for lack of better term "streamlining", it's mostly minor annoyances and the like but they add up.
I do really like Auto HDR, winget being there ootb (I think? Was amazing when I migrated work computers), windows terminal is straight up fantastic. It's still definitely useable, it's just only on my work machines (no choice, but I live in the terminal, text editors and browser for almost everything so OS doesn't really matter much to me) and my desktop, run linux on everything else.
Ups staffs their warehouses (or at least did when I worked there as a temp) heavily with temp agency staff who they can toss at any point, they don't give a shit and while my experience was on the packing side (shrink wrapped bundles, barcode stickers, in store displays) some people did do the shipping side, it sucked and they talked about people throwing things around to meet targets, the quotas were unreasonable, paid next to nothing and the threat of termination was used as a "motivator", by far the worst working experience of my life and I expect FedEx does the same thing. Met some cool people though so not all bad.
Fair, a wire break can be annoying though, often they're intermittent, and the display often doesn't respond fast enough to show that, but thermal protection will.
I'd totally consider taking a look at the connectors to the board for the heater cartridge, see if there's good contact being made, check for any signs of things like scorching check end-end continuity. Looking at the schematics for that mainboard Btt skr 1.4 it looks like there are LEDs on all of the MOSFETs, it will give you a visual indicator of the board state, to help narrow down your troubleshooting.
I'm like a stone's throw from the border, if they're cheaper very much consider crossing for that (closest looks like Detroit though, wrong crossing :/) at least for the tap carriage and mount.
Layer lines are unavoidable imo, I've sorta just come to terms, I think I run a tad hot and haven't fully tuned my profiles, but happy with it for my purposes, and definitely heat soak as well, got a process where I do it right after plate prep/cleanup, then I go do my plating and slicing, gives lots of time.
LEDs I'm mixed on, I moved my gantry cam because they seemingly were aimed right at it and you couldn't see anything. I keep thinking about a nozzle camera, but with my current setup I really don't feel like running another umbilical and I'm not 100% sold that it'd survive or really be that handy.
How is the rapido? I'm using dragon HF/UHF for spares and using my existing v6 nozzles, have heard the rapido has some good results.