I figured I’d throw #IGentUS a curve, placed 9 items in Cura, sliced, and pressed ‘Go’.
8 of the 9 items started well, the 9th didn’t adhere, making sure it flung good all over part 8, which got all globby and burnt looking, breaking it loose. I stopped the print as item 8 was doing it’s level best to take out 7.
It’s at this point where it’s obvous how far we still have to go. It’d be awesome to have a screen where you can see the preview of the print and say ‘that item right there? It failed. Continue to print, but don’t print that.’
That would be so cool. Way better than sequential print, which misses much of the point of printing things together.
Better yet: camera software that could track the growing blobs on the build platform (we’ve already got the 3D image, after all) and do something when one of them stops growing as it should.
Of course you are right.
But big printers, I am getting more and more convinced building a big printer was a very, very, very, bad idea. multiple prints at once sounds nice, but it takes forever to finish. And printing small things on a big bed is a huge waste of energy. And don’t get me started on the problems that arise from trying to lift a heavy bed with small motors. Oh, and printing huge parts with ABS? Instant warp hell.
My next printer will be tiny.
Next printer will be a project with the kids. 8x10 would be good with 10ish inches high. Whatever reasonable envelope will also contain the power supply and brain.
