Two-color print on Replicator Dual
I continue to experiment with 3d printers.
The guys from the “3D Printing Lab” were given a “play around” with the MakerBot Replicator Dual.
It is for sale and until it was bought, I wanted to print such a handsome man here:
Short theory:
In addition to the excellent workhorse "Replicator 2", there is its predecessor, and two-tone. This allows tricky frills to be done - from plastic printing of 2 different colors to printing by 2 types of plastics with different properties (for example, water-soluble plastic can be used as one plastic, which can then be “washed” with water, which opens up the scope for creativity of TRIZ sheep).
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The printer itself looks like this:
The fact that the printer has two extruders (two “print heads”) can be used as a) to print two objects at the same time:
b) print one object with two types of materials.
I stopped at that to print two-color octopics.
The first thing I encountered was that I had to calibrate the printer so that extruder2 started printing from the same place where I finished printing extruder1, and not from where the extruder2 stopped at that moment when the extruder1 finished printing.
While I was sorting through the options, I learned the ReplicatorG program far and wide and the options for connecting the printer via USB. (and not via SD card)
(I also learned how to spin up the platform on the fly, so that extruder1 would not pick out what extruder2 had squeezed out of itself and vice versa)
Print settings are configured flexibly - you can print quickly, but not accurately, but you can slow down, but the layer to the layer will go to bed with high accuracy.
So, I finally set everything up and ... the printer gave me a print time of 6 hours!
Having checked that the plastic from the coils is fed smoothly, I started printing from an SD card (it’s safer, the computer doesn’t distort the print, otherwise it will happen in 6 hours) and went about my business. A couple of hours later I called the guys from the laboratory, they said that "the process is proceeding normally."
As a result, the next day I beheld such a pretty one:
Yes, yes, it is so, this is called “fulfilled by 99.7%”
In general, I believe that the experiment was a success.
The fact that the printer can work 6 hours without supervision indicates the reliability and reasonableness of the technology.
(For some reason, I recall the times with ROL 20 cards and night downloads and the same “99% uploaded”)
The feeling of when you hold an octopus in your hands is some kind of magic (although I have been “talking” with 3d printers for half a year) and what a juicy combination of colors.
Thanks to the designers of the NervousSystem.
Bre Pettis hacker for making great printers
Open library of 3d models http://www.thingiverse.com/
and the guys from the "3D Printing Lab" for access to the Replicator Dual.
P.S.
And I was advised to process the octopus with sandpaper, and then with acetone, so that it was smooth and shiny, but I prefer the embossed texture (with stripes), well, or just laziness, and so it will do.
P.P.S.
I am very pleased that my figure was in the center of attention at the open lecture in Huxspace "Neuron", which was organized by the "Greenhouse of social technologies" on May 31, 2013.
And what else would you like to read / experiment with / what else to print?
The guys from the “3D Printing Lab” were given a “play around” with the MakerBot Replicator Dual.
It is for sale and until it was bought, I wanted to print such a handsome man here:
Short theory:
In addition to the excellent workhorse "Replicator 2", there is its predecessor, and two-tone. This allows tricky frills to be done - from plastic printing of 2 different colors to printing by 2 types of plastics with different properties (for example, water-soluble plastic can be used as one plastic, which can then be “washed” with water, which opens up the scope for creativity of TRIZ sheep).
')
The printer itself looks like this:
The fact that the printer has two extruders (two “print heads”) can be used as a) to print two objects at the same time:
b) print one object with two types of materials.
I stopped at that to print two-color octopics.
The first thing I encountered was that I had to calibrate the printer so that extruder2 started printing from the same place where I finished printing extruder1, and not from where the extruder2 stopped at that moment when the extruder1 finished printing.
While I was sorting through the options, I learned the ReplicatorG program far and wide and the options for connecting the printer via USB. (and not via SD card)
(I also learned how to spin up the platform on the fly, so that extruder1 would not pick out what extruder2 had squeezed out of itself and vice versa)
Print settings are configured flexibly - you can print quickly, but not accurately, but you can slow down, but the layer to the layer will go to bed with high accuracy.
So, I finally set everything up and ... the printer gave me a print time of 6 hours!
Having checked that the plastic from the coils is fed smoothly, I started printing from an SD card (it’s safer, the computer doesn’t distort the print, otherwise it will happen in 6 hours) and went about my business. A couple of hours later I called the guys from the laboratory, they said that "the process is proceeding normally."
As a result, the next day I beheld such a pretty one:
Yes, yes, it is so, this is called “fulfilled by 99.7%”
In general, I believe that the experiment was a success.
The fact that the printer can work 6 hours without supervision indicates the reliability and reasonableness of the technology.
(For some reason, I recall the times with ROL 20 cards and night downloads and the same “99% uploaded”)
The feeling of when you hold an octopus in your hands is some kind of magic (although I have been “talking” with 3d printers for half a year) and what a juicy combination of colors.
Thanks to the designers of the NervousSystem.
Bre Pettis hacker for making great printers
Open library of 3d models http://www.thingiverse.com/
and the guys from the "3D Printing Lab" for access to the Replicator Dual.
P.S.
And I was advised to process the octopus with sandpaper, and then with acetone, so that it was smooth and shiny, but I prefer the embossed texture (with stripes), well, or just laziness, and so it will do.
P.P.S.
I am very pleased that my figure was in the center of attention at the open lecture in Huxspace "Neuron", which was organized by the "Greenhouse of social technologies" on May 31, 2013.
And what else would you like to read / experiment with / what else to print?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/181982/
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