{"id":530,"date":"2016-12-29T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/?p=530"},"modified":"2016-12-29T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T23:03:22","slug":"first-prints-with-ultimaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/2016\/12\/29\/first-prints-with-ultimaker\/","title":{"rendered":"First prints with Ultimaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got the Ultimaker 3 Extended<\/a> set up a week before the holidays but I completed two prints before the break. <\/p>\n

The first print I did was a standard 3D printing benchmark, #3DBenchy.<\/a>  It came out really well, much better than the one I’d made earlier with the Makerbot.  Here’s the Ultimaker 3 print (white) next to the Makerbot print (red), both in PLA:\"2016-12-29-14-46-42\"<\/a> \"2016-12-29-14-47-02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ultimaker print looks better in many ways although the comparison is a bit unfair given that white is pretty forgiving while glossy red isn’t. <\/p>\n

In order to test out some of the capabilities of the new machine I wanted to do a two-color print.  There are many available to download but this two-color frog<\/a> has struck me as really nice looking and worth having around to showcase the printer’s capabilities.  Here’s how it looked after some post-processing (cutting away the “brim” around the outer perimeter mainly).  \"2016-12-29-14-29-18\"<\/a>\"2016-12-29-14-29-25\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It came out super well just using default settings on everything.  More prints to come, soon with one using the dissolvable support material (PVA). <\/p>\n

Since the Ultimaker has a heated bed we’re not having to use the blue tape anymore, even for PLA.  Keeping the bed pretty warm ensures good adhesion although it can help to add what’s called a “brim” around the base of the part where it attaches to the bed.  I did that with both prints, here’s a photo of the frog on the bed showing the brim.  \"2016-12-23-09-23-27\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see it even better from the underside.\"2016-12-23-09-24-24\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice the square post in the photo above next the frog? That’s the “prime tower” where the printer clears extrudes a little extra scrap material between colors.  Apparently this improves the quality of the print.  I’ll have to learn more but for now things seem pretty good.  Here’s a close-up of the tower which is interesting in itself. \"2016-12-29-10-03-17\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting the brim off the frog was rather labor intensive so I’ll probably skip the brim next time and put down a little glue using a glue stick on the bed before printing.  I believe that’ll be more than enough to hold this print on the bed. <\/p>\n

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I just got the Ultimaker 3 Extended set up a week before the holidays but I completed two prints before the break.  The first print I did was a standard 3D printing benchmark, #3DBenchy.  It came out really well, much better than the one I’d made earlier with the Makerbot.  Here’s the Ultimaker 3 print … Continue reading “First prints with Ultimaker”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[39,38,40],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-fab-labsmakerspaces","tag-benchy","tag-dual-extrusion","tag-frog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}