Thanks Grant.
I was thinking of making interchangeable bodies for it - the railcar passenger compartment as supplied and a railtruck body which looks like it will fit the same tractor unit. .
Rik
Thanks Grant.
Hi Greg
The cheapest on eBay. It says it's a Prusa i3, but it ain't. It's a CTC DIY i3. I've finished putting it together and wired it up. Struggling to get the computer to communicate with the printer at the moment. It knows it's there but doesn't want to talk to it. The printer does, however, have an SD card reader so I'll try that next, just to see if it works.
My Qidi doesn't have any communication skills of it's own, so I have always had to do things via an SD card. It seems a bit of a pain at times but in reality it only takes a few seconds longer to save a drawing and walk over to the printer and put it in.
Forget about connecting it to PC much easier just to transfer the gcode files to the printer on a SD card, I do my drawing/slicing on my main PC in the house then just take the card out and plug it into the printer in the workshop.ge_rik wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:36 pmThe cheapest on eBay. It says it's a Prusa i3, but it ain't. It's a CTC DIY i3. I've finished putting it together and wired it up. Struggling to get the computer to communicate with the printer at the moment. It knows it's there but doesn't want to talk to it. The printer does, however, have an SD card reader so I'll try that next, just to see if it works.
Rik
I'm coming round to that way of thinking. It also means I can put the printer anywhere in the workshop rather than worrying whether I can hook it up to the computer. It's dead easy to print from the card, which is one aspect of the design I do admire.SeamusOD wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:48 pm Forget about connecting it to PC much easier just to transfer the gcode files to the printer on a SD card, I do my drawing/slicing on my main PC in the house then just take the card out and plug it into the printer in the workshop.
Snag with using the PC to do the communications is its normally a pain to get working, plus depending on firmware you sometimes have to keep it connected when printing, None of my printers have ever been connected to a PC apart from my old Davinci and it used to just send file to built in card as it had no external SD card port.
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