oxenham1
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Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:24 am

multiple profiles..

Not sure if this was covered, but I didn't see it anywhere on here.
If I want to combine multiple profiles on a print using the "start printing at" and 'stop printing at' in the advance tabs, how exactly do I compensate for the additional height of using a raft in the first profile. I always get a vertically misaligned print when using the raft setting.
I'm sure it's an easy fix, I just can't find it!
Thanks everyone!
Jamie
Manufacturing creativity for film, television and displays!
http://fromaspiretobeyond.blogspot.ca/
http://www.oxenhamdesign.com/
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KeyboardWarrior
Posts: 480
Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:02 pm

Re: multiple profiles..

Multiple profiles with rafts is currently not supported. I think I saw another thread talking about it in the Troubleshooting forums a while back. What you can do, is replace the raft with a brim, and then just make sure your bed is leveled and that you're using an adhesive on your bed (glue stick, blue tape, hairspray, etc).
dennisjm
Posts: 343
Joined: Wed May 07, 2014 9:51 pm

Re: multiple profiles..

One thing I've done is to not use the brim or raft feature at all, but instead I modeled a circle and square to about .2mm tall and whatever x/y dimension is unimportant. I just import those depending on the shape of the models and scale them in the x/y direction so that all the models fit. That then is my raft.

I should point out if you have different processes for different models with this method you have to be careful about printing them over each other on the 1st layer. Like maybe on the 2nd model that's the 2nd process you need to give it a .2mm z height.
oxenham1
Posts: 2
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:24 am

Re: multiple profiles..

Thanks for your awesome advice guys! I will try all the suggestions!
Jamie
Manufacturing creativity for film, television and displays!
http://fromaspiretobeyond.blogspot.ca/
http://www.oxenhamdesign.com/

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