I am going to test parameters with Flashforge in Taipei Hackerspace. The firmware of Flashforge is simular to MakerBot Replicator Dual so that I could download MakerBot desktop software to export sliced X3D files to SD card.
In order to test the limitation of printer, I used a test file Test your 3D printer! v2 by ctrlV. In this task, we might know what can printer improve, such as cooling and precision frame.
For my first file printed in
Exturder Temperature: 200 °C
Platform Temperature: 40 °C
Travel Speed: 135 mm/s
Z-axis Travel Speed: 23 mm/s
Infill Density: 20 %
The result looks really nice because this printer always be well tuned by Mr. Friday, who is the member of Taipei Hackerspace. He set a quite stable frame and improved the cooling system while printing.
Then I printed two more tests with different travel speed.
Actually, the three tests all look really awesome and I cannot even tell where is the difference. What a nice printer!
In my second week assignment, I had designed a lamp head and had decided to make a documentation assistant lamp for my final project.
There is one servo motor mounted within the lamp head. The servo mount has many overhanging structure which means it is barely made by subtractively milling or manufacturering. Even if we have 5-axis CNC machine, it still needs proper drill bits and tool paths.
I was going to scan with Structure Sensor but I cannot have found a right case to mount my iPhone6. So then the result looked like...
The most amazing thing is that I did not do the visual calibration on my phone. It still scanned well.
Well, it is me!
But the disadvantage is that, for almost all the optical 3D scanners, it is quite hard to complete all the meshes in scanning so that I have to fix top and bottom meshes manually. Furthermore, with only optical sensors it can barely scan whole object immediately.
And then I had to modify in Meshmixer to fix incomplete mesh of my 3D model in Analysis > Inspector > Flat Fill.
When all set, I exported STL file to MakerBot and started printing me.
Nice work!