Attendees: Ted, Mike R, Rod, Tom, Bill. The Club took a look at retraction settings and did a small workshop on manipulating parameters and seeing the results. Everyone did a nice job in bringing samples of retraction towers. Bill led…
The Club took a look at a Powder Printing machine and discussed the process and looked at a few samples. See the workflow document for a video on the process. Some discussion about Onshape. Tom posted his class notes workflows…
Filament types and uses and precautions was the special topic for this meeting. See the workflow document. Also some discussion on spool holders. Attendees: Ted, Mike R, Rod, Robert, Tom, Bill.
The Club had a chance to see a powder printer up close. Here is a video showing the process in action.
Direct Drive and other control board embellishments. Thanks to Mike for bringing his Ender and showing us the neat stuff it has. Attendees: Ted Mike Rod Robert Tom Pat Bill.
The Club had a clinic on good extrusion testing and bed alignment. Everyone learned something including how a lousy aligned machine can still make a decent print. Mike and Tom found strange thickness parameters when printing surgical mask clips. You…
The group expressed interest in 3D scanning. A Scanning Workflow document was developed and Mike volunteered as a scanning object. See the stl below. A combination of ReconstructMe, Meshmixer, and Cura went from scan to 3D print.
Mike and Tom found strange thickness parameters when printing surgical mask clips. See the background by clicking here. You can download the workflow document from the clinic here. We have several squares printed and available to borrow for the club…
