Slicer speed: S3d is faster then ideaMaker?
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@arhi
I am in the same boat with S3d, and hope to move to iM. I just wish I stumbled upon it sooner. If I had known the main screen was setup like S3d, I would have started playing with it at least 6 months ago. Saying that, it does seem iM is a bit more complicated... a steeper learning curve then S3d. I have high hopes my transition to iM goes well. Once I stop doing test prints, and actually calibrate the extrusion multiplier for iM, I think I will feel much better about using it.
Also, I am am thinking about building another printer in the next month+ and if so, iM seems to be a bit easier to manage multiple printers then S3d would hae been.Fun, that 3 letter word with "u" in the middle.
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@BlueDust Chris Warkocki has a YouTube playlist on iM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpCn3DiZKgA&list=PLwRi4UU5eIHOQd7N5Mj8gasNTctZV5694
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@BlueDust I try them all from time to time, still like the visual's and the organization of the craftware the best, also, the communication I had with different dev teams, craftware team was quickest to answer, most open and friendly than any other team I talked to, but while really eye candy and best gcode preview out there as a slicer they are not IMHO on par with IM.
I have this toolchanger sitting next to me for 9 months now and still not being turned on
( that now seems to be a mistake on my part, purchasing it from e3d but who knew the year would go to #%^$^#&* like 2020 did ) so I can't say how IM will behave with multiple tools. With dual nozzle it behaves "ok-ish", there are some things that I dislike (like left/right distinction, what's primary etc etc) but could work around .. I just hope it will work as expected with multiple tools when I need it to .. -
Thanks for the help guys!
Where are the settings to adjust X or Y dimensional accuracy?
I printed a calibration cube, and X is a tad larger than expected, while Y is also a tad smaller... -
Is the dimensional accuracy evident regardless of which slicer you are using?
If it is evident, regardless of slicer being employed, I'd think that would mean that you should check your steps per mm in config.g with settings of M92? -
@Kolbi
No... It worked fine in S3d. I checked two cubes I printed in S3d to confirm before I asked.
I just measured everything again and S3d was off by .03 or .04 mm difference of X and Y cube. iM seems more like .07mm+, but one of the walls is also thicker than the other 3, so that may be the problem. But it's only thicker by .05 mm (between thinnest and thickest wall)... I didn't have this much of a difference using S3d. The difference between .01 or .02 mm between walls was expected/normal. I will keep playing with this later, and not sure if I am being too picky or not. Will try and check belts ect. As I did complete a long print between these sets of cubes testing iM, something maybe lose.
I know where the setting is S3d is to adjust dimensional Accuracy and confirmed it was set to 0, so I never had to touch it.Fun, that 3 letter word with "u" in the middle.
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@BlueDust Ah, ok. Try going into printer settings and then the advanced tab.
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@BlueDust said in Slicer speed: S3d is faster then ideaMaker?:
iM seems more like .07mm+
need to calibrate flow rate for the IM, you cannot use the same value as with S3D as I think they do the calculation differently
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@arhi
I think I read some you or someone else already mentioning that???? I was printing 2 wall calibration cubes and found after a small change to the extrusion multiplier, I had 3 walls at .95 (should be .96) but the 4th wall was 1.00 and I didn't want to adjust it further until I fixed that. At the same time, I noticed the cubes Y was over 20mm and X was below 20mm, and asked for where settings were to fix that.... I really like the fact that iM will allow me to adjust both X and Y separately, as S3d only allows you to change Y if needed.
After I was able to get the cube to be perfect 20x20 mm, I noticed that a single corner was bulging out and obviously effected my measurements. I have to do this again, but as it was late I just printed a Mini to see how well it came out. This morning I found it was super stringy, and now want to run a temp tower in iM as the retractions I am using is way too high and putting holes in the print... Has to be a temp thing... Hopefully by the end of the day I will have enough prints done to get this situated. Just have to figure out how to make the proper temp tower/temp changes by layers in iM. I think I know where the setting are, just haven't try to mess with it yet. -
@Kolbi
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Is there a way to see the temp changes per layer like I can with speed, when looking at the preview? In S3d, I could do this by just setting it to color code each process, and temp change was per process... I don't see an option like that in iM and hoping I just don't know where it is.
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@Blue, not that I know of.
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I tried ideamaker but i could not find a way to connect it to duet, the doc's show a wlan setup but i could not find it, looked at all the settings it did not show a custom printer and if i was to enter a IP address it was also looking for a serial number, or wouldn't work.
Is there a way to connect to a custom printer?.Thanks
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@gorf26 said in Slicer speed: S3d is faster then ideaMaker?:
but i could not find a way to connect it to duet
there is no way, you "show file in folder" after you export g-code and then manually upload to duet. all the network stuff in IM is for their own reise3d printers that use some special protocol themselves
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I thought so but i was reading a doc file it showed a custom printer option and a wlan but it may have been an old version and haven't updated the doc..
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@gorf26 said in Slicer speed: S3d is faster then ideaMaker?:
I thought so but i was reading a doc file it showed a custom printer option and a wlan but it may have been an old version and haven't updated the doc..
I didn't even find a way to call external script to upload file like I'm doing with s3d. If you figure out how, please share
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You could figure out a way to make the external script monitor a specific folder that, as soon as you save a gcode file to, it will upload to the duet/whatever.
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@bot said in Slicer speed: S3d is faster then ideaMaker?:
You could figure out a way to make the external script monitor a specific folder that, as soon as you save a gcode file to, it will upload to the duet/whatever.
yes but that's not something I want to do. not on Linux/OSX and especially not on Windows
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@arhi
You could create a scheduled task to run every 60 seconds (windows or Linux) to start a script that checks for a file in a folder. Once a file is there, ftp file and delete original.
You could also create a script that start when PC powers on and just constantly checks same folder. -
@BlueDust yes but NO
