The old 'Freedom units conversion' nightmare! I have a friend who is a little older than me but works in inches and thou' as all his work machines before he retired plus his lathe and mill are all imperial
Yeah, thats common, its the main difference between STL and STEP is STEP's have integrated units. I always used to get it with parts that were in meters and I use mm, so they'll be 1000 times bigger! Rescaling would nearly destroy my machine! Can you change to mm then export and see if that fixes it? Most CAD had the ability to easily swap between units.
Realizing I would just have to draw stuff completely in Sketchup... Let's just say I feel like I've been let out of a cage. I'm drawing all kinds of mad sh*t again that I know would be a nightmare to print. I'm Currently re-skinning Pudidium because the shell would accommodate a full-sized GPU. I want to do the whole thing in mechanical Celtic knot. I have another variation that will be greebled to heck and hopefully look like an oil refinery. I should just make a plain one... Somehow I can't.
Experiencing my first failed print (possibly) - the tree supports inside an urn have collapsed mid-print. Other than spewing out additional filament as it tries to continue printing the trees, the rest of the print is progressing reasonably well, but I don't know how it will cope when the urn closes in near to top and the supports might be needed. I enabled supports out an abundance of caution because its a new filament (Sparkle PLA). 80% of the way through a ~8 hour print, so I'm inclined to let it continue, although that means babysitting the damned thing. [edit] on the plus side I've paused the print several times, to clean up loose filament threads that were destined for the supports, and it has resumed flawlessly every time.
Well, got away with it, kinda. Missus wanted a better place for our dog's ashes, so I made a bid for some husband points. The only real scarring from the failed support material was this: You really have to be looking for it in normal light, and it's at the back anyway. Result.
I have reverse engineered an old, all-plastic door mechanism to build a low profile doorknob. The current house I'm working on has an awkward closet/ main door layout, and I'm tired of patching the holes in the door and wall. with this the closet door can be folded neatly behind the main entry door. I just need to change from a knob to lever handle. I also managed to print a porch light.
So Elegoo has announced the Centauri Carbon 2 on their Chinese site and is reportedly removing marketing references to an AMS for the original CC from their site. No confirmation from Elegoo yet but it's not a good look.
Yeah that wouldn’t surprise me, Qidi did more or less the same thing. After the Q1 Pro launched they promised updates about an “upcoming” multi-filament unit many many times. When said unit was eventually announced, it was only compatible with the higher-end Plus4 printer… and the newly-announced Q2. Fine, kinda assumed that would happen. Automated filament swapping would be handy, I’ve done it manually and it’s a bit of a PITA, but I’d prefer to have something off-the-shelf. But the Q1 Pro runs Klipper that’s relatively close to stock, so community/open source designs for Klipper machines can be made to work. I’ll see if Qidi announce/discuss/hint/etc anything at Formnext in Frankfurt next month.
I've been torn on the idea of buying an AMS unit anyway, so it's not really much of an impact on me but promising then reneging after that promise probably drove so many of the sales...
Yeah, it’s unfortunately how a lot of manufacturers often operate. Bambu Labs tends to be much clearer in that regard, and there’s a lot of backwards compatibility. The brand new P2S, for example, is fully compatible with all AMS models except the AMS Lite, which has only ever been compatible with the A1 and A1 Mini anyway. But I have fairly strong moral & ethical objections to how Bambu Labs operates, so I’m highly unlikely to ever buy one of their printers. The price I pay for making that decision is a fairly capable machine but failed promises and poor ongoing support, and I kinda expected it when I originally decided on the Q1 Pro.
Yeah, my CC hasn't suddenly gotten worse as a result. In fact I love the thing, but Elegoo have gotten worse and I'll be far less likely to buy anything from them in the future. Thankfully, I have 4 or 5 spare nozzles - not sure if the CC2 uses the same ones but the chances of them discontinuing spares cannot be ignored.
I need to do a bit of an overhaul to my printer, I keep putting it off. Just routine maintenance stuff like bed tramming, cleaning & lubricating, check/adjust tensioners, etc. I do also want to do some mods. The chamber exhaust fan currently dumps that air into the area where the electronics live, which isn’t exactly ideal. There are some TPU gaskets available which help to seal up the build chamber and alleviate heat loss when using the chamber heater. I really want to swap the PSU to a Meanwell unit that’s a lot quieter, or swap a quiet fan into the existing PSU. In fact all the fans are noisy as hell. I could probably do with some kind of particulate filtering. And I’d like to replace the build plate with something that doesn’t cause me so many issues with getting PETG off it; 3DLAC works well enough as a release agent, but getting those little nozzle priming lines off can be a real bitch.
I’ve no doubt that people already have worked out how to get a filament switching unit to work with the Centauri Carbon. The printer is very likely using some form of Klipper, so the main question is how far it’s been modified from “stock” Klipper. But that won’t be the Elegoo filament switching unit, or a Bambu Labs AMS, or any other proprietary system.
I don't doubt that for a second and, if Elegoo really does a full rug pull, it will probably fire up the community even more and drive more people to find solutions.
Elegoo have published their firmware, and it is indeed a fork of Klipper https://github.com/elegooofficial/CentauriCarbon Someone has already created "OpenCentauri" for it https://github.com/OpenCentauri
