FlyLai
September 13, 2015, 10:35am
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oh so i cant use a spool that i have used (with chip) and then spool the sample on it…It wont work then?..It must be a new chip?..fully unused? Sorry for the many questions btw
cleyton
September 13, 2015, 12:01pm
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No, it’s me not explaining myself properly. You can use the old spool and new or old chip, but only if the chip hasn’t run down to 0 meters left on it. Once the chip measures that the spool should be empty, you can’t use it any more.
FlyLai
September 13, 2015, 3:36pm
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Awesome its working! Thanks
Can’t wait to try other materials also. Thanks once again!
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FlyLai
September 25, 2015, 9:22pm
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Hey!
I have made some very nice prints with other filament. But when switching back to Da Vinci Filament my prints are terrible. I have cleaned out my extruder and also nozzle etc. Tried many things but still the same. Have u experienced that?..I hope i have not messed up my extruder now due to other filaments?..
cleyton
September 25, 2015, 9:39pm
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When you say terrible, what do you mean? I did find that I needed to tweak the z axis setting a little after changing filaments. The worst was the bronze and wood fill filaments, which were very difficult to print with and needed the most adjustment when I went back to proprietary filaments. I also found that I get much better quality prints using other filaments (not da Vinci ones).
FlyLai
September 25, 2015, 10:07pm
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My prints starts fine(ish). But then while building it extrudes too thin. So the build gets messed up and i have to cancel my prints. I have had that already 3 times. I find that my filament does not come out well. Nice and easy without any clogs etc. I am also have a hard time Loading my Filament. It wont load till may tries.
Ok so I just got my Da vinci JR yesterday and I plan on using off brand filaments. I wanna know if there is a way to bypass the chip that tells the printer to print and how much filament it has left.Now if I feed another filament while leaving the old chip in place would it not just tell the printer it is running empty and stop it from printing if so how can I bypass this or trick the printer so that i may use other filaments.
Ethan1
September 29, 2015, 8:41pm
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No Problem
But to be honest i’m a 13 yr old with a Da Vinci 1.0 and I was able to flash it with minimal problems. But I can understand why you might wanna stay clear.
cleyton
September 30, 2015, 9:20am
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I’ve been running some big prints using the DaVinci filament after changing back from the non-davinci stuff I bought, and they’re coming out as expected, so I’m not sure what’s going wrong for you. At a guess, it sounds like it could be that you need to tweak your z-axis setting a little. I’m told that this z-axis tweaking is a fairly regular thing. Also, on one of my very first prints I did when I first got my printer, the filament clogged up the outside of the nozzle behind the silver plate, and I just couldn’t get a good print. It was only after I removed the plate that I could see how much filament was clogged up behind it. I cleaned big lumps of it out and instantly got better quality results. I’m not sure if this is helpful to you.
FlyLai
September 30, 2015, 4:07pm
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Thank you so much for your reply. I appreciate it. I indeed tweaked my Z-axis. I moved it up abit and indeed the clicking is way less. I also removed the plate. There was nothing clogged but the extruder head was a but dirty/smudges so i cleaned it off.
I tested a print. Its started out fine. But after an hour my print got brittle. See attachment. You can clearly see where it starts to go wrong. I am just getting tired now. I have tried so many things i dont know what to do anymore…siigh
I had a random thought for this. I’ve been looking at the printer, and trying to determine where it measures the filament. If it’s at the feeder…ugh, but if it’s at the coil itself, wouldn’t it be possible to spoof it simply by locking a nearly empty roll in place, and just feed from an external roll looped around the empty and into the feed? Idk, I’m waiting for my new filament to show and I’ll see if it works.
Ethan1
December 12, 2015, 1:31am
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What I noticed in my da Vinci 1.0 is that the printer doesn’t seam like it measures filament use, I think it calculates the usage in the slicer and basically subtracts it from the cartridges chip memory. There is an optical sensor in the extruder but I don’t think that it would be able to measure the use because the filament is always one color through out. I’m not sure if this is different in the da Vinci junior but it would be interesting to see how the printer does that. I’ll look into it more soon.
Hmm,.that could be, but how would it cope with a cancelled print if things went bad? Still deduct the filament even though it wasn’t all used? That would be unfortunate. Looking at the build, I can see 4 wires going to the feeder assembly. It may have a micro counter there which keeps track, and then writes back to the chip… Which sounds pretty feasible… Ugh… Well, its just a starter printer until I get better stuff down the road. Getting pretty decent prints off of it at least
Ethan1
December 13, 2015, 2:32am
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You make a very good point. I didn’t even think about that. Hopefully someone figures out how to replace the firmware or how to trick the cartridge chip. They have some great people on the solid forum site working on it. Hopefully they will figure out something soon.
Yup, after doing some fiddling about, and ending a couple of prints, it looks like its measuring the amount of filament run through the feeder mechanism, probably as a measure per rotation setup, and then deducts it back from the chip until you hit zero. As long as there is a chip, that hasn’t hit zero, I’m pretty sure that you can run whatever through, but the chip has to be in location above its reader/writer . if the chip isn’t there, and it goes to write to it, bam, no more print, and you get a spool error. And the job gets cancelled . so its going to have to be some sort of spoof, sacrificial roll of filament, or software hack to be able to use other filament.
Ethan1
December 18, 2015, 2:16am
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Maybe there is a way to trick the measuring mechanism. There is a small chance that it only uses it to measure the amount of filament being used and not for if filament is actually being moved through. Small chance, but it may be worth looking into. If that doesn’t work, easy solution thrown out the window. Other options are, faking the cartridge chip with an RFID tag, completely rewriting the firmware to the printer, or resetting the cartridges chips. Hopefully one of these are figured out soon. I’m hoping for the firmware rewrite. Due to the nature of XYZ’s software.
That sadly does no good on a davinci Jr. Due to the way they’re chippd, won’t work.
I saw this video on youtube where a guy bought clear pla and sprayed painted it different colors
I saw this video on youtube where a guy bought clear pla and sprayed painted it different colors
