Looks like I’m a little late for this post. But when I got my Replicator 1, I had a model already prepared for my first print. I have to say that when it finished, it wasn’t satisfactory and I began questioning my purchase decision. But (and a big one at that), with the improvements to Skeinforge and especially the release of MakerWare (with MiracleGrue), my machine has been printing like a champ.
You can see my first print ever on the left and a remake of the same model about a year later on the right in the pictures below. They’ve both gone through an acetone treatment. You’ll notice the first version is very “gummed-up” due to excessive supports. Now the default configuration sets the support material just far enough so it doesn’t attach to the model. This can typically be manually set, for MakerWare (or MiracleGrue) it is the “supportModelSpacing” property in the JSON profile file.
