Today we're here to teach you about 3D print quality and some of the easy ways you can improve surface finish with minimal effort. Above are two 3D prints of the same exact GCODE done back to back on the same printer with the same filament. In this article we'll discuss what caused surface blobs seen on the left and how you can avoid this in your prints!
We will be making some pricing adjustments on the monthly Pro plan as of July 8th, 2020.
The monthly Pro plan for the first printer will be adjusted from $5.5 per month to $6 per month.
For each additional printer, the monthly Pro plan will be adjusted from $2.75 per month to $3 per month.
Nothing else changes.
We have made some important changes to how you can help The Detective get better at her job:
Port-forwarding is a technique that gives you access to your OctoPrint from anywhere on the internet, not just when you are on your home network. This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step to show you how to set it up.
Important note: Port-forwarding may be a potential security risk for your home network. Please avoid it unless you know what risks you are taking by setting up port-forwarding. You may want to check other options for accessing OctoPrint from the internet.
Here at The Spaghetti Detective we are in the unique position where we have watched a lot of 3D prints on a wide variety of different 3D printers. A question we get asked frequently is "what is the best 3D printer?" While generally we try to stay agnostic to the type of printer, and catch print failures on any setup, for this series we wanted to try to provide an unbiased, data driven 3D printer review.
By publishing these statistics we hope to give everyone a better insight into the current state of the 3D printing industry and a look at some statistics of the best 3D printers at scale. The statistics generated below are aggregated from a sample size of over 1,000 unique 3D printers, over 100,000 unique print attempts, and over 10,000,000 hours of 3D print monitoring. If there are other metrics you'd like to see computed on some of the best 3D printers let us know in the comments below and we'll try to include them in future 3D printer reviews.
So you went to sleep with your 3D printer running. Excitedly, you wake up and run to go take a look at your beautiful new creation. To your dismay, something has gone horribly wrong. You've had a failed 3D print. It didn't just create a fresh plate of filament spaghetti, but it has fully encased the hot end of your extruder in a PLA / PETG blob.
We've been there -- the racing heart, the panic, the fear your 3D printer will never run again. While it is possible you've damaged the 3D printer, it's more likely you can get everything back to normal working order by following these steps. The most important part in 3D print clean up is to stay cool and don't rush. Damage is more often caused by frustration and impatience when trying to pull off the cold hardened PLA / PETG blob with force than by the print failure itself.
TSD users have been active in helping the world fight COVID-19 by printing crazy amount of PPEs. Their heroic effort is also supported by TSD's offer that gives each of them 2 months of Pro account for FREE!
By popular demands, this offer is now being extended to people without a pre-existing TSD account, as long as you are a member of a group dedicated to printing PPEs.
In just a couple of days, the number of hours that The Detective has watched will cross the 10-Million mark.
This incredible milestone, first and foremost, is a clear demonstration of the heroic actions taken by the makers around the world to fight against COVID-19. In the past two months, TSD users have been printing Personal Protection Equipments (PPEs) days and nights. The daily print hours on TSD has more than doubled.
This milestone is also the direct result of TSD's contribution to this collective fight against COVID-19. Yes it costs us significant amount to serve those hours, but as a member of the 3D printing community, we want to help out since we are lucky enough to be doing just fine during the time of this pandemic.
To celebrate this incredible milestone, as well as to give our users some dopamine while we are all stuck home, we will give away some goodies and prizes.
This guide is out of date. The steps to install The Spaghetti Detective private server on a Jetson Nano have been greatly simplified and as the result, this guide no longer works. Please head to the updated guide.*
Reddit user MidnightLink took the time to write and post an awesome guide on Reddit. Re-posting it here with his permission. Thank you MidnightLink!
Hey all! The other day I decided I wanted to run a dedicated TSD server at my home as I have 4 printers that I want to monitor, and no real want to send out a bunch of info to an unknown server. Looking into the options, and not wanting to have my PC on 24/7, I picked up a Jetson Nano and started working on getting it ready.
The instructions on the official GitHub for doing this are very lacking, and a lot of the commands don't work properly. (docker-compose for example is a MASSIVE pain as it's not native to ARM64, and there are a decent amount of missing dependencies) so here is the complete guide on how to set up your own Spaghetti Detective server on a Jetson Nano!
This is a guest post by Steve Wynveen. Steve Wynveen is a mechanical engineer that is a technician at heart.
As you are probably well aware, there is a shortage of PPE for hospital and other medical field staff. Froedert & Medical College of Wisconsin have posted plans for people to sew 100% cotton face masks. Several other patterns for sewists exist as well.
The Froedert ask for public help:
The Froedert mask plan:
https://www.froedtert.com/sites/default/files/files/2020-03/MaskInstructions_V2.pdf