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I have been seeing a lot of people struggle and asking for help when printing the Marvin with their Da Vinci 1.0’s. On the Da Vinci Talk channel we’ve been getting some input on how to print a great Marvin so I thought I’ll summarize it.

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But lately I’ve been doing it so often that I thought it’d be great to summarize it in a separate post.

@trueinnovations Made some great rules of Thumb:

  • Clean the glass very well.
  • Manually calibrate.
  • Use the glue stick.
  • Import 4 Marvins in four different corners so that the plastic can cool down @Jozef had an idea of putting a hollow cube next to the Marvin for this purpose as well.

Use these settings:

  • Normal Shells
  • 30% Density
  • Standard speed
  • 0.2 Layer height
  • Raft (optional)

@Jozef also mentioned that DaVinci has the potential to be equal to the much more expensive printers but you may have to stick to the custom firmware. Slic3er + Reptier host can be the tools that could turn everything around. with your print.

Here’s his print which is indeed quite an accomplishment!

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@Andreas_15 If any other Da Vinci owners have anything to add that’d be a great source of help!

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Nice community effort :slight_smile: Thanks for summing them up, Arnoldas!

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Good pointers mine came out excellent just like your pic on my Davinci 1.0 A.i.o with your settings.

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Cool stuff! Would you share a picture of your Marvin?

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I printed a lot of this marvin but none came out good , if I use the xyz software the extruder ooze onto the print leaving dots of plastic that I have to remove when it finished printing (210° extruder and 90° plate + abs ), but if I use slic3r I can set the retraction and it doesn’t ooze , but still with 4 marvins at the 4 corners I can’t still have a good print cause the hole for the keyring doesn’t came good , in the pic is the best one till now

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Thanks for this post! been running into extensive trouble with my first marvin, will give it another go this evening with this help. Thanks again!

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  • Normal Shells
  • 30% Density
  • Standard speed
  • 0.2 Layer height
  • Raft (optional)

There’s absolutely nothing I get from your settings. The normal shells settings range from 1-10 layers. What is your TOP SURFACE and BOTTOM SURFACE? And what is “Standard” speed? There are 10 individual settings in the SPEED tab. Nothing is mentioned for RETRACTION settings or EXTRUSION RATIO.

Please Advise!!!