If your filament is getting eaten up by the gear before it enters the extruder channel to be heated up (AKA “grinding”), the most likely cause is an entirely or partially clogged extruder. If this is the case you will need to consult the tips on “How to fix a clogged extruder”. If the […]
That “squished” bit of print materials that occurs right where the print touches the heated bed -that’s what we call “Elephant Foot”, and if you are a very detail oriented user, or if your specific print, and it’s after print use requires of you to be very precise, you may want to use a few […]
You can browse through different designs on: https://www.thingiverse.com/ https://www.myminifactory.com https://pinshape.com http://www.yeggi.com/ If you have a custom print and wish to share your work, feel free to upload it and pass the joy along!
This is a measure of the accuracy in which the extruder moves along the X,Y axes. It is not the layer height (which the CraftBot is able to print at 50 microns/layer when a .25mm nozzle is used). This Positioning precision value however, can be as low as a 4 micron accuracy!
While regular 2D printers only print in X,Y dimensions (and usually deal in only texts), 3D printers allow you to create physical objects by using melted materials, quite often in the form of a filament; they build these objects layer-by-layer. In the end the only limitation is your imagination!
