Ultimaker 2 Extended - Our First 3D Printer
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,585 words · ~7 min read
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we finally got our hands on a high-end fdm or fused deposition modeling printer
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from ultimaker called the ultimaker extended 2 we're a little late to the
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game in terms of 3D printing but that's because honestly just printing from
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shapeways was always kind of a great solution for us ultimaker offered us to
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an ultimaker 2 to send to us and it's kind of too badass to deny so hang out
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to watch t and I print some random stuff and please like the video for more 3D
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what is an fdm printer essentially what happens is it squirts filament out of a
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hot end and lays down layers on layers and layers on layers of this stuff to
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eventually create your modeled object this type of printer is typically what
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you would find for a home use style printing scenario not necessarily
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industrial applications as they would very likely have a much larger printer
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with a different printing style that being said this isn't a cheap printer
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you could go pick up a cheap 3D printing kit for like what like 500 bucks plus or
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minus a couple hundred but when you get into the really fancy high-end printers
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like this it can get really expensive for example this guy is about 2700 is us
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with an expensive printer you get a much bigger print volume meaning that the bed
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you print on is relatively large and especially with the extended version
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that we have the object you can print can actually be quite tall you will get
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a better print resolution in terms of speed and precision so you'll get a
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better looking print in the end with less of those obvious levels from where
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it was moving you get a machine that doesn't make as much loud aggressive
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noises oh my God and then the rest of the improvements are largely going to be
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more subtle and hard to detect things that are actually still very important
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those things are like the specific bearings that were used the hot end the
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steppers the belts and their tightness Etc which will both contribute to the
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longevity of your printer and the quality of the final print I wouldn't
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say that ultimaker 2 is an entrylevel printer if it's your first freay into
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the 3D printing world I might start with something cheaper but for the high-end
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printing buff this may be your target now without further Ado let's get to
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some printing the first thing I tried to print was a little GoPro handle my idea
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for this was that it wasn't an overly complicated print for a first print and
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it would actually be useful in our day-to-day day work on the modeling side
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of things I just downloaded this model but in the future I could just take the
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bit off the end that connects to the GoPro and model whatever I want behind
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it so we can make specifically tailored GoPro mounts relatively quickly and
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inexpensively which is awesome I created two of these one at maximum quality and
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the other at minimum quality the maximum quality one took just over 4 hours
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minimum quality just took over an hour and a half one thing I'd like to note
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here is that the time the ultimaker shows on it self is incredibly
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inaccurate but if you're using the cura slicing software it will give you a
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pretty accurate time estimate before you start the print next up we started
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printing the fire Poes which were conceptualized by me and then designed
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and modeled by Taran the first one was very small model that we built with
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scaffolding enabled this was an interesting print because of how much of
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the printing platform was extended over an overhang the printer made quite a
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mess with the supports after a very minor amount of work I was able to cut
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the excess away and the final product looked quite good but it was still a
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little funky next up we printed one of that was four times as large as the
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previous fire Poole this was an interesting print for a few reasons I
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turned off the scaffolding and Taran took the top plate off and built it on
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the side which makes way more sense while adding notches so that we could
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put it together later on the reason for this was to avoid the scaffolding mess
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we had earlier and to see how accurate the printer was when making small
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intricate notches and this last one oh oh look at
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that awesome that's really good awesome
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it didn't take much sanding the only issue we ran into here was the top of
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the fire Poole platform sat on the heated bed for so long that it actually
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started warping an unfortunate and avoidable problem if you take the right
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precautions but I wasn't experienced enough yet next up we have the first
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part of a shroud that will be used in a build log Linus is doing for a oneu
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server the shoud was conceptualized and modeled by Taran and this print went on
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without a hitch and it was impressive to see the printer deal with the slanted
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Edge that easily then I tried to do a few prints of some random things and
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change the filament before the last big print which is where disaster struck the
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printer started acting really weird and due to my inexperience I wasn't able to
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identify what was going on and after about 5 hours of troubleshooting I was
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getting close to giving up there seemed like there was a separate problem with
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every freaking part of the printer but with the help of twitch chat who
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affectionately named the printer aren and had been watching for about 20 plus
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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
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give ultimaker a point here because even though I had a vast amount of
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inexperience it was actually pretty easy to kind of take things apart and Tinker
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with them to try to identify the problem so that's pretty cool the last leg on
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this journey was the large part of the Shroud that I mentioned Taran had
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modeled earlier for the server at this point both I and the twitch chat had
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learned a lot more about 3D printers and things ran smoothly or are running
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smoothly as there's still about half an hour left on that 18-hour print in
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conclusion 3D printers are great but this whole process is rather expensive
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and at this point on the practicality or hobby side it's definitely both but I'd
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see it leaning more towards towards hobby it will eventually be a practical
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tool for your house but right now unless you have the extra cas I don't know if
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you want to get ahead of the game it might be a good idea I could see these
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being standard issue devices in people's homes in the near future and I'm sure
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ultimaker will be here to see that happen as the ultimaker 2 is a thing of
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