You guys have cause ALL kinds of trouble now.

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You guys have cause ALL kinds of trouble now. I blame you for my sickness.

The following image displays, subtly, all the damage you’ve caused me over the past year.

  1. The printer is in the office, running #Octoprint
  2. It’s printing ABS on a heated bed
  3. The office is small enough that IT is my heated build chamber. :slight_smile:
  4. While it’s printing the Stop Job button, I’m designing the Control panel for the printer, thanks to your help (Offset Plane + Axis from two planes + extrude from sketch got me past my gap in knowledge)

Thanks to you I’m now making bespoke parts at will, and ruminating on things like ‘From a user interface design, where do I want to place the reset button, so that the user doesn’t accidentally kill a print in progress.’

Thanks a lot, guys! Just more stuff for my ADHD mind to work on! :smiley:

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Wow, that E3D is crazy tilted, you should fix that.

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Naw man, at the important part, it can be handwaved away as a point source. :slight_smile:
(it’s the clip that holds it to the carriage that’s up for a redesign…one five things at a time, man!)

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I have never understood the groovemount concept. Everything must be perfect to 1) fit 2) not wobble. Wish folks would work a heat resistant flange just above the tip into their hotend designs so we could just screw it onto the effector.

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And the admittedly clunky carriage was never meant to be a permanent solution. (Note the lack of direct part cooling)

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I somehow refuse to feel guilty :wink:

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Are you suggesting that we are all ‘enablers’ to your addiction ?

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@William_Frick We are all co-enablers.

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I like to think of it as dementia prevention, if you are thinking you reduce your chances of getting it. So we are doing you a favour ;)
The fact it is becoming all consuming is not directly our fault :slight_smile:

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At the least it builds character or makes you into one …

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I can print characters.

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A tilted extruder will certainly cause issues with bigger prints and small supports. I’d be surprised if you could run pillar supports at all for example.

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I think you guys are blowing the extruder tilt thing waaaay out of proportion.

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Well, consider this. Your goal should be to reflect your machine to your gcode rendering as close as possible, otherwise you get more variables the farther you get into it. A lot of software assumes you are extruding straight down unless you start going crazy with 5+ axis control.

I have printed with accidentally tilted heads before. They tend to scrape up or break prints, then eventually knock the print head out of alignment in one axis mid-print. We’re just trying to save you from some major frustration in the future to know this now. Even with an overly rigid machine (which is not always a good thing anyway), it’s just not the ideal.