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OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 8:51

22-Sep-21 8:51

I'd agree with Mike - that looks like the base temperature, or possibly the settings you used to get rid of the Elephant | [mastadon]

's foot has meant that the initial layer is slightly too high and as a result the bed adhesion just isn't enough.
It looks like the top left corner has lifted free and that's what created your birds nest.

Check the settings of your PETG - the manufacturer will supply them, normally with the roll.
My PETG recommends 220~240C, but I ended up running 215C at the hotend with a base of 60C. If I go much higher on the hotend it tends to "run" a bit and I get a hairy print every time the extruder moves without printing. If I go much lower on the base, it detaches.

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Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

raddevus22-Sep-21 9:56

raddevus

22-Sep-21 9:56

Great info. I will look on the spool of PETG again and see what I find out.
Thanks so much. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

raddevus22-Sep-21 10:00

raddevus

22-Sep-21 10:00

Oh, I'm a complete idiot.
Here are the details I found in 2 seconds after actually looking.

Recommended Extrusion/Nozzle Temp: 230°C - 250°C (446℉~ 482℉)
Heated Bed Temp: 80°C - 90°C (176℉~ 194℉)

Mine are way off from that.

This is my material : OVERTURE Rock PETG Filament 1.75mm, Marble PETG Roll 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05 mm, Fit Most FDM Printer (Rock White)[^]

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 10:07

OriginalGriff

22-Sep-21 10:07

Ah ... well in your defence you are a developer, and we never RTFM! Laugh | :laugh:

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

raddevus22-Sep-21 10:12

raddevus

22-Sep-21 10:12

Thanks very much. I found the place to add teh settings in my slicer:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/PlpZc.png[^]
It may actually work now. Laugh | :laugh:

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 10:33

OriginalGriff

22-Sep-21 10:33

That looks like Cura - I think you can set that as a "Custom material" so you can give it a sensible name for that specific filament. (Different colours may need different settings)

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

raddevus22-Sep-21 10:56

raddevus

22-Sep-21 10:56

Thanks again. I will look into that, because I was thinking, "Hmm...I'm going to need an Engineer's Notebook to keep track of all of this." Smile | :)

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

raddevus22-Sep-21 11:03

raddevus

22-Sep-21 11:03

It's not perfect, but at least it finished this time.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/GqXQR.png[^]

I had some cleanup but otherwise that's maybe as good as it gets. Not sure.
Also, my plate is very rough -- which I'm assuming is good for binding but then it creates that kind of ugly pattern in the face of the item.

Thanks again for all your help. You sent me in the right direction and got it working for me when I was a bit desperate. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 11:38

OriginalGriff

22-Sep-21 11:38

Any time!

Re: 3D Printing pt 3: How's it going?

Richard Andrew x6423-Sep-21 7:04

Richard Andrew x64

23-Sep-21 7:04

Very nice

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Thanks MS

Kevin Marois22-Sep-21 6:26

Kevin Marois

22-Sep-21 6:26

So I downloaded and installed VS2022 Preview.

Now, when I go back into 2019, various "features" that I turned off are now back on, like Preview Tab, CodeLens, and other usesless BS.

Thanks MS

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Re: Thanks MS

OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 6:34

OriginalGriff

22-Sep-21 6:34

Well, if you will install pre-Alpha software releases ... Big Grin | :-D

Re: Thanks MS

Kevin Marois22-Sep-21 6:44

Kevin Marois

22-Sep-21 6:44

Ya, but to revert an OLDER version's settings to the NEW version Confused | :confused:

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Re: Thanks MS

Dave Kreskowiak22-Sep-21 7:01

Dave Kreskowiak

22-Sep-21 7:01

Yeah, well those options are all saved in user registry/%APPDATA%, so what did you think was going to happen? Smile | :)

That's why I ALWAYS install pre-release stuff in a VM first.

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Re: Thanks MS

dandy7222-Sep-21 8:40

dandy72

22-Sep-21 8:40

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
That's why I ALWAYS install pre-release stuff in a VM first.

Pre-release or not, all versions of VS, if I have to have more than one, go into their respective VMs on my system.

I realize MS says it should all work side-by-side nowadays...but then you get reports like this.

Re: Thanks MS

Dave Kreskowiak22-Sep-21 8:43

Dave Kreskowiak

22-Sep-21 8:43

Yep, and that's why I now only run one version of VS in production.

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Re: Thanks MS

Vikram A Punathambekar22-Sep-21 20:32

Vikram A Punathambekar

22-Sep-21 20:32

Still, reasonable to expect that different versions would have their own configs. This is just laziness on part of the devs.

Cheers,
Vikram.

Re: Thanks MS

David Crow23-Sep-21 2:18

David Crow

23-Sep-21 2:18

Agreed.

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Re: Thanks MS

Gary R. Wheeler24-Sep-21 14:32

Gary R. Wheeler

24-Sep-21 14:32

Indeed it is. The best way we found to ensure a proper 'root' to our application's registry tree was to force everyone to use the same wrapper class for registry access. The class requires everyone to use relative subkeys.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Thanks MS

Richard Deeming22-Sep-21 21:26

Richard Deeming

22-Sep-21 21:26

Recent versions of Visual Studio are supposed to store their settings in a private registry hive, to allow side-by-side installs:
VSProjectSystem/examine_registry.md at master · microsoft/VSProjectSystem · GitHub[^]

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Re: Thanks MS

CPallini22-Sep-21 20:47

CPallini

22-Sep-21 20:47

Uhm 'Preview Tab' ?
Surely he turned it off by mistake!

Uhm, 'CodeLens' ?
Turning it off was a big mistake!

Uhm....

Big Grin | :-D

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OriginalGriff22-Sep-21 6:19

OriginalGriff

22-Sep-21 6:19

Or is that not how you spell it?
Back in January, I posted this: Oh dear, looks like another small energy supplier is going bust?[^]

I just had an email from them: they have.
OK, it's not just the cash flow, there are loads of extra reasons recently:

Green wrote:
The current market conditions are unprecedented, with record wholesale energy prices pushing the cost of energy above the price cap. The fire at the National Grid interconnector site in Sellindge on 15th September led to wholesale electricity and gas prices reaching new record highs. Beyond the fire, 2021 has seen incidents at other production sites, unplanned outages, high demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tankers, Brexit, the Suez Canal incident, and the Beast from the East II to name but a few.

But ... I think they would have gone soon anyway ... That's a PITA, it's switch time anyway, but gawd knows who I will be allocated to ... Laugh | :laugh: