Any experience with K8400 and Simplify3D?

Bought the program and decided to try out your files Mavraven. Is running the first print atm. So far it seam to work nice. I changed the temp setting thow. Sins my experiense so far is that i need to have a higher temp for the PLA filament that im using.

// Marlark

ok finished the print and it turned out nice. have to say i like your files Mav.

There is one thing that could be looked at and that is the outer walls on z axis layers they should maybe be a couple of % thicker.

But i have to say the result turned out fairly ok. My print had one issue thow when Printing and that was i forgot to recal. the nozzel so when i printed the top layer i managed to scrape the layers with the second nozzel i have due to leftovers from another material.

// Marlark

I stand corrected on my own hehe. Noticed that you had dif settings for this bet normal and high qual. so forget what i wrote before :wink:

Salut raby,
j’ai ce soft, j’ai vu que le dernière version embarquait la config K8200/K8400.
Pour la K8200, c’est nickel, j’ai simplement quelques paramètres à modifier.
Il y a certes quelques bugs et il manque un remplissage style honeycomb.
Un atout majeur, c’est que tu peux définir plusieurs processus d’impression, comme par exemple, le 1er centimètre en layer 0.2 rempli à 80%, puis le reste à 0.3 rempli à 15%, etc…
L’autre plus c’est le support de matériel, tu le mets où tu veux et surtout, il est ultra facile à enlever et sans laisser trop de traces.
Si tu le souhaites, je peux te slicer quelques modèle, que je te posterai le gcode en MP sur l’autre forum ?

Salut raby,
j’ai ce soft, j’ai vu que le dernière version embarquait la config K8200/K8400.
Pour la K8200, c’est nickel, j’ai simplement quelques paramètres à modifier.
Il y a certes quelques bugs et il manque un remplissage style honeycomb.
Un atout majeur, c’est que tu peux définir plusieurs processus d’impression, comme par exemple, le 1er centimètre en layer 0.2 rempli à 80%, puis le reste à 0.3 rempli à 15%, etc…
L’autre plus c’est le support de matériel, tu le mets où tu veux et surtout, il est ultra facile à enlever et sans laisser trop de traces.
Si tu le souhaites, je peux te slicer quelques modèle, que je te posterai le gcode en MP sur l’autre forum ?[/quote]
Merci pour ce retour:)

Hi,
I mostly agree with you Tag, multiple print processes is a really good thing. But to me the main advantage with this software compared to Cura is the flexebility of support material generation.
It is super easy to generate the support you need, or just manually add it and remove it from any unwanted places e.g inide a tube or other areas where it would be impossible to remove after it has been printed.
Once printed, the support material is super easy to remove and leaves no or very few marks on the printed object, this is a huge step up compared to Cura IMO.
I also find the surface end result beeing slightly better with Simplify3D compared to Cura.
I’ve defined a foundation layer process for the first few layers that I use to get really good adhesion to the print bed when using 0.1 mm layer height.
Sure, the honeycumb infill could improve and I am sure that it eventually will.

Cheers,
Mikael Granberg

Je serais aussi intéresser par un slice d’un objet quelconque ? j’aimerais tester les support matériel qui sont “pain in the ass”

j’ai un k8200 avec un e3d v6 0.4mm nozzle

si ca tiens tjrs biensur je suis prenneurs :slight_smile:

Avec Meshmixer il y a moyen de faire des supports qui s’enlèvent facilement et c’est gratuit…

I really like MeshMixer too. I’ve had some very nice experiences with it and I can really recommend everyone to try it out. The support is the most efficient in material use by far and there is a real good chance to get a reasonable result using it. However for me, especially for tall models, it required some manual tweaking to print properly and in addition the marks it left once removed was more noticeable than both Cura and Simplify3d. But I guess I need to play around with it some more and I definitely will.

Ohh, as much as I love free software too, I do not mind paying a resonable fee for a good well written software either.
It keeps food on the table for software developers like myself… :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Mikael Granberg

Hi there,

I just bought simplify 3d too.
Do you keep the Vertex K8400 settings from simplify?
How good are they compared to the original repetier settings?
For example the retraction speed in repertier-host is 70mm/s * 60 sec =4200mm/min.
The retraction speed in Simplify3d is 3000mm/min.
What are your experiences?

I use the simplify3D setting at 50mm/s workes fine for me so far. Have been meaning to change it and see the diference. But i see no reason why you shouldnt be able to use the repetier setting for it. Dont know what the max supported retraction is on this printer. My gues it is a litle higher then 70mm/s.

// Marlark

Has anyone been able to confirm that S3D is capable of printing a part with correct dimensions?

When I try to print a calibration cube with curaengine, the outside dimensions are OK but the inner dimensions are too small.

I would be tempted to go for S3D if I know that it is able to print what you design. eg a washer of 10mm with an ID of 5mm comes out with an ID of 5mm and not with a hole that is 0.mm too small as curaengine does.

Thanks
Jan