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Brass_Machine:
Oh.... it is easy to fall into the modify the hell out of it hole...

I am there right now myself. Already added a BLTouch for auto bed leveling. Reflashed the firmware on the current mother board... However, I have a 32bit board and touch screen ready to go in as soon as the new housing is done printing...

AdeV:
Hi Eric,

Mine came with a glass bed, although I haven't used it yet, it also came with the sandpapery bed, but not the flexible version  :scratch: So far I've just used that, and it's been OK so long as I use a raft. Auto-bed levelling is definitely on the want list, but I'll get to know the machine a bit better before I go crazy on the updates... As it's Amazon Prime Day (*2), I've gone a little bit mad and bought a pile of pla filament in various colours, I'm going to try my hand at designing a nice "media centre" box for my Raspberry Pi - there's lots of boxes out there already, but none which do what I want them to do (i.e. all the cables on the back, any LEDs on the front).

BTW, I presume your "32 bit board" is a Raspberry Pi running Octaprint? I've heard this mentioned a couple of times, also something I'd like to look into... but not with any serious designs on using it just yet.

Tom - paint.... for some things maybe.... but IMHO it's a lot easier to just print it in black plastic & have it immediately match the rest of the stuff in the cabinet :)

awemawson:
I rarely get stuff off Tingyverse - I tend to draw what I want in Fusion 360

Here is an example that's been printing over night - a rack insert module for VDI 40 tooling. I have had a pair of racks for year that had Morse Taper 4 inserts, so it was a relatively easy job to copy the inserts in Fusion but slightly modified!

 . . .only another eight to go at 5 hours each  :bugeye:

AdeV:
Like you Andrew - I'll probably design stuff. I use Solidworks, apparently there's a plug-in for Cura which means I won't need to convert to STL before printing... but I've yet to find it.

Printed off a little "prop adapter" I drew up ages ago for my long-in-the-build drone.... it worked surprisingly well after a bit of sandpapering... and MUCH easier than turning it on the manual machine out of Ali  :thumbup:

Brass_Machine:

--- Quote from: AdeV on July 16, 2019, 01:15:29 AM ---Hi Eric,

Mine came with a glass bed, although I haven't used it yet,...

BTW, I presume your "32 bit board" is a Raspberry Pi running Octaprint? I've heard this mentioned a couple of times, also something I'd like to look into... but not with any serious designs on using it just yet.
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Use the glass bed. So much better than the other that is supplied.

Nope. By 32 bit board, I mean mainboard. Replace the 8 bit board with built in drivers with a 32 bit SKR 1.3 mainboard and drive modules. Octaprint is a future item...

This Guy has a lot of interesting videos about upgrading the firmware on the existing 8 bit mainboard to a vanilla Marlin plus videos on replacing the mainboard with something that has bit more power and memory. You will find that as you add on to he Stock ender 3 board, it starts to run out of memory...

Thinigverse is nice for the "toy" stuff I print for my kid. He is into table top gaming so we print miniatures and such for D&D. everything else I design in Alibre.

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