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I had hoped things could "just work" in 2024 but I guess that would be too easy!
It can't and never will, simply because of the process.


Do you have any specific recommendations model wise for beginners machines on a low/medium budget.

I have no experience of any specific machine, but from ...

I'm pretty good at problem solving and figuring out how to set things up but I'd rather just buy something that works.

IMO the most important thing to realise is that 3D printing doesn't "just work". The issue is finding an acceptable compromise between competing demands, usually by trial and ...

Oxalainen wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:03 pmAm I going to die?

Time will tell, but we won't know if you do (except by your absence)!

I don't see how you can work with a touch-type Z probe sitting higher than the nozzle. Surely the carriage will ground before the Z probe manages to sense the print bed? Therefore, you need to get the Z probe down so that it can contact the bed before the nozzle does.

Z offset is the gap between ...

DBenz wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:26 pm I wouldnt even entertain the idea of heated filament. OMG.

SLA comes with its own set of problems. I wouldn't recommend it for a casual hobbyist.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Hopefully somebody with SLA experience can reply with some insight.

Unfortunately this is something you have to work out by trial and error. Rather than print the whole thing each time, run up a test piece with the same features.

Assuming you are designing in FreeCAD, you can make use of the parametric dimensioning. Key dimensions can be defined as formulae rather ...

Welcome aboard!

saghog wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 9:35 am The 'recommended' software (Creality Print) can be a bit flakey at times, I'd rather be using Cura, but it works fine 90% of the time.

I don't understand why, if you would rather use Cura, you don't use Cura? Doesn't Cura have a configuration for the K1 Max?

So what's happening then – the first layer just strings and builds up on the nozzle? Or does the first layer print reasonably and then detach later? I'll assume the former.

The print is start perfectly.. But it gets further into the print, and it detaches from the bed...


So it's the latter ...

So what's happening then – the first layer just strings and builds up on the nozzle? Or does the first layer print reasonably and then detach later? I'll assume the former.

Just ideas, because I have no experience beyond Tina2 (and as you have plenty of experience I'm sure it's just a case of ...