rambos @ rambos @lemmy.world

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To answer your question from title:

Too hot is when your stepper driver is overheating and skipping, or when stepper motor is too hot to touch. There are more, but if you can be in the same room its not likely. Tbf using AC can only ruin your prints with uneven cooling. You want stable room (enclosure) temp

Yeah mate clean the plate, I wipe my glass with 60% alcohol before every print. Most people recomend 90% isopropyl alcohol and sometimes dish soap and hot water for deep cleaning.

I dont think you have problem with too hot room, but you might need to lower bed temp a bit to get the same actual surface temp. What temps are you using? Printing pla?

Too hot bed can help with adhesion, but can cause lifting, so I print first layer at 60 and rest on 56 C for example. Big prints are more likely to lift mid print, its not bad to use brim and maybe even mouse ears. If you surface is not clean it might be painful tho

Im just guessing, but did you increase the number of active torrents? Any chance your firewall is blocking it? Try disabling firewall.

Btw you dont need alternative, qbit is perfect especially if you want to use *arr stack (highly recommended), but you can try transmission

I print on clean glass so it might be different. For some reason 99% isopropyl alc is not good for me, nothing sticks to the bed. 60% pharmacy alcohol is perfect, just quick wipe and im set. Didnt remove glass from printer for few years.

Thank you mate

PLA is much harder and more brittle. Also PETG loves moisture and printers hate wet PETG, just saying

Nice, that guide is quite detailed. Btw, duckdns cant provide remote connection on its own. Wireguard can if you know your home IP. Since most users dont have static IP, they can use dynamic dns service like duckdns that tracks your home IP and nothing else. Many home routers also support dynamic dns and/or VPN server.

Also more info about printer and settings. Are you using preassure advance or coasting? Temps, speed, retraction settings

Hard to tell, but obviously your printer is struggling on layer change and/or retraction. Assuming its not play in your mechanism, Id fitst try printing just that part of the model without retraction and see is the problem gone. If it is, maybe you have too high retraction distance that can cause partial clogs. If the problem persist maybe you are overextruding a bit and then nozzle drags that corner out of the position. Tiny overextrusion can be a pain when printing "walls only" models. Its more guessing than anything, it would be useful to see your calibration models

I dont have experience with vorons, but seen a lot of good examples. Deffo something Id consider if I ever decide to build another printer.

3D printers are slow by default and then if you add dual extruder its even slower. Bigger printer requires bigger cross-section of all HW (frame, rods, etc) and that adds weight and then you have to lower your accelerations. On the other hand, if you build bigger size printer with same components you will have to reduce accelerations due to decreased rigidity.

You want speed? Get smaller printer and dont get multi-material printer (and yeah avoid bed slingers, but 50 mm/s should be doable with any printer). Your printer cant go above 50 mm/s? Get bigger nozzle and print thicker layers and line width (cheap and easy upgrade that speeds up 12h print to 8h). Just my 2c

Please tell me more about your setup. Solidworks is the only app that holds me back from full switch to linux. I never tried windows vm in linux, hows the performance? What distro are you using? What vm? Version of windows and SW?

CAD on linux is far behind proffesional tools unfortunatelly. Even SW 2008 is amazing, but FOSS will need another 10-20 years to reach that level Im afraid

Switched from millvad to airvpn recently for same reason. I even got some assistance to config gluetun, great and quick support

It works just fine for me, but I've heared scary storries so now Im using:

1. Kopia to backblaze b2 (all data)
2. Kopia to local disk (all data)
3. Duplicati to google drive (only 1 folder)

Yeah it had, but not anymore...

When you connect printer to PC using USB cable you need (assuming you have windows):

1. Driver for usb serial port(might be already installed, but check device manager. Look for guides how to install Arduino USB driver or maybe you can just install Arduino IDE which is not bad to have anyway
2. Software to controll printer (pronterface, cura, etc)

In software like pronterface you have to select serial port (1.) and correct baudrate. Baudrate is set in your firmware, but if you dont know you can try all possible options. Most likely 250000 or 115200

If its not working try another USB cable. USB cable can be a pain, make sure you dont guide it close to stepper motor wires or some other electrical equipement. Get quality cable and not too long, even if its working it can cause problems.

Its better to use SD card to avoid USB problems, but SD card must be formated as FAT32 within size limits of your printer board. Just in case, make sure you dont have weird symbols and file name is not too long, use simething like filename.gcode. And again, use quality SD cards.

Both ways should work, but you can make extra step and get device like raspberry pi and connect it to a printer with usb cable. Raspberry can be connected to your network and you can install software like octoprint (super nice web UI for controlling your printer)

All compact atx cases were too expensive for my liking, so I decided to make one. I should probably not suggest a case made of plastic, but if you have access to a 3D printer check this out. 288x207x343 mm in size and it can house full size ATX mobo and PSU and 3x 3.5" or 7x 2.5". Colling is silent and good, but I didnt test with more powerfull CPU or 3.5 HDDs

Well done mate. Even if you did a lot of postprocessing its still amazing

I've been torrenting for almost 20 years and no one cares here where I live. I got VPN few months ago anyway, paying 5€/mo and I sleep better. The problem is I had to change provider already (Mullvad -> AirVPN). Its not easy to find proper VPN with port forwarding and Im afraid there will be even less providers in the future. Maybe I'm wrong, but feels like I'll have to ditch PF in near future.

wow is this FDM printed? I mean, you said that, but it looks unreal. Is that a real picture? Sorry for asking that :) Damn...impressive !!