we finally got our hands on a high-end fdm or fused deposition modeling printer
from ultimaker called the ultimaker extended 2 we're a little late to the
game in terms of 3D printing but that's because honestly just printing from
shapeways was always kind of a great solution for us ultimaker offered us to
an ultimaker 2 to send to us and it's kind of too badass to deny so hang out
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what is an fdm printer essentially what happens is it squirts filament out of a
hot end and lays down layers on layers and layers on layers of this stuff to
eventually create your modeled object this type of printer is typically what
you would find for a home use style printing scenario not necessarily
industrial applications as they would very likely have a much larger printer
with a different printing style that being said this isn't a cheap printer
you could go pick up a cheap 3D printing kit for like what like 500 bucks plus or
minus a couple hundred but when you get into the really fancy high-end printers
like this it can get really expensive for example this guy is about 2700 is us
with an expensive printer you get a much bigger print volume meaning that the bed
you print on is relatively large and especially with the extended version
that we have the object you can print can actually be quite tall you will get
a better print resolution in terms of speed and precision so you'll get a
better looking print in the end with less of those obvious levels from where
it was moving you get a machine that doesn't make as much loud aggressive
noises oh my God and then the rest of the improvements are largely going to be
more subtle and hard to detect things that are actually still very important
those things are like the specific bearings that were used the hot end the
steppers the belts and their tightness Etc which will both contribute to the
longevity of your printer and the quality of the final print I wouldn't
say that ultimaker 2 is an entrylevel printer if it's your first freay into
the 3D printing world I might start with something cheaper but for the high-end
printing buff this may be your target now without further Ado let's get to
some printing the first thing I tried to print was a little GoPro handle my idea
for this was that it wasn't an overly complicated print for a first print and
it would actually be useful in our day-to-day day work on the modeling side
of things I just downloaded this model but in the future I could just take the
bit off the end that connects to the GoPro and model whatever I want behind
it so we can make specifically tailored GoPro mounts relatively quickly and
inexpensively which is awesome I created two of these one at maximum quality and
the other at minimum quality the maximum quality one took just over 4 hours
minimum quality just took over an hour and a half one thing I'd like to note
here is that the time the ultimaker shows on it self is incredibly
inaccurate but if you're using the cura slicing software it will give you a
pretty accurate time estimate before you start the print next up we started
printing the fire Poes which were conceptualized by me and then designed
and modeled by Taran the first one was very small model that we built with
scaffolding enabled this was an interesting print because of how much of
the printing platform was extended over an overhang the printer made quite a
mess with the supports after a very minor amount of work I was able to cut
the excess away and the final product looked quite good but it was still a
little funky next up we printed one of that was four times as large as the
previous fire Poole this was an interesting print for a few reasons I
turned off the scaffolding and Taran took the top plate off and built it on
the side which makes way more sense while adding notches so that we could
put it together later on the reason for this was to avoid the scaffolding mess
we had earlier and to see how accurate the printer was when making small
intricate notches and this last one oh oh look at
that awesome that's really good awesome
it didn't take much sanding the only issue we ran into here was the top of
the fire Poole platform sat on the heated bed for so long that it actually
started warping an unfortunate and avoidable problem if you take the right
precautions but I wasn't experienced enough yet next up we have the first
part of a shroud that will be used in a build log Linus is doing for a oneu
server the shoud was conceptualized and modeled by Taran and this print went on
without a hitch and it was impressive to see the printer deal with the slanted
Edge that easily then I tried to do a few prints of some random things and
change the filament before the last big print which is where disaster struck the
printer started acting really weird and due to my inexperience I wasn't able to
identify what was going on and after about 5 hours of troubleshooting I was
getting close to giving up there seemed like there was a separate problem with
every freaking part of the printer but with the help of twitch chat who
affectionately named the printer aren and had been watching for about 20 plus
hours at this point at twitch.tv/ lukor
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solve the various problems that were going on and keep on printing I have to
give ultimaker a point here because even though I had a vast amount of
inexperience it was actually pretty easy to kind of take things apart and Tinker
with them to try to identify the problem so that's pretty cool the last leg on
this journey was the large part of the Shroud that I mentioned Taran had
modeled earlier for the server at this point both I and the twitch chat had
learned a lot more about 3D printers and things ran smoothly or are running
smoothly as there's still about half an hour left on that 18-hour print in
conclusion 3D printers are great but this whole process is rather expensive
and at this point on the practicality or hobby side it's definitely both but I'd
see it leaning more towards towards hobby it will eventually be a practical
tool for your house but right now unless you have the extra cas I don't know if
you want to get ahead of the game it might be a good idea I could see these
being standard issue devices in people's homes in the near future and I'm sure
ultimaker will be here to see that happen as the ultimaker 2 is a thing of
beauty in both Aesthetics and an engineering
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