Editors Needed - Revised Beginner's Guide for the Rev.E

[Jules]

Need a couple of volunteers again....take a quick look, (particularly in the Appendix B: Slic3r/Repetier setup to see if I have the processes right for getting started using those), and let me know of any changes.

If something you are excruciatingly familiar with no longer appears in the guide, it's because the new Rev.E machine users don't have to do it.

The Rev.E machine and Getting Started App handle a lot of things for them now.

(And i think that questions in the future are more likely to be plastic properties related - no more gap issues. Hallelujah! )

Anyway - take a quickie......i'm going to try to get this put up quickly, within the next day or two...having them going to the old version of the Guide is going to frustrate the living daylights out of them....the Z-Offsets, etc. don't work the same way now.

Thanks guys!

......(Oh, and I'm still waiting on a couple of things before incorporating them into the guide - Josh's final version of the Z-Adjust App, and I'm reworking the Dual Profiles, so it's not completely done yet....those will get put up when they're ready.)

Jules

[Jules]

Okay, does anyone have any additions, questions, comments about my horrific punctuation and run-on sentences? Any tips you want to add for the newbies? This is your last chance to get them in - I'm going to upload the final version tonight. (With any luck.)

[Hugs]

I read through it and nothing glaring jumped out at me. It is well-written and a definite "you gotta read this first...twice" document.

I've had great success using your original guide's suggestions and forum links. The only question I haven't explored/experimented with is I still have my extruder temp for PLA set at 220C as per the Quick Start App. That's what the app dictated and it has worked for me. But the more I read on the forum, 220 seems like the absolute upper limit and may be too high (or more correctly...I could get better results with a lower temp).

Oh...and I have lowered my bed temp to 60-62C with only positive results.

I'll post some pics to the "Printed Object Showcase" subforum soon for what's possible "out of the box" with the M2. This thing from Thingiverse was my 5th or 6th print (about 30 hours total print time) and I couldn't be happier with the results.

[Jules]

Yeah, I would recommend lowering the PLA print temp if you can. It should print fine in the 205-210 range, and there's less chance of carbonization. (If you want it less shiny, you would print even lower than that - 190-200 or so.

(And thanks for contributing your process for Repetier.......I know a lot of people are going to want to use that method as a cheaper alternative to S3D!)

[Jules]

Okay, it's up......thanks go out to the gentlemen who played editor for it, and contributed information, suggestions and recommendations. They did improve it greatly!