The printer won’t do any leveling with a fully heated nozzle.
The MK4’s we use at work and my personal MK4 all heat up to 170 before bed leveling, and if you previously swapped filaments before leveling, the printer will pause and wait until the nozzle has cooled down to the target range before initiating bed leveling.
Yeah, this stuff is already pretty brittle to start with, but once it’s been out in the air for a day or two it becomes even more brittle. You can easily snap it with the slightest effort.
It’s pretty tedious to work with, but we have to use it.
We have access to a decent amount of tools at the lab, it’s definitely feasible. We tossed around the idea, and honestly I may prefer that to a food dehydrator as all of the dehydrators I’ve seen have a cut off timer whereas the filament dryers we have can be run indefinitely.
I’ll have to pitch that to my boss and see what he thinks. I’ve seen some people convert some water proof/resistant totes from Target to become filament dryers.
Thanks! I’ll add this to the list. This looks like it could work well.
My boss and I discussed that, he’d rather not have to pay the labor to have us respool the filament when we could just drop it into a dryer.
But I’ll show this to him, he may be open to the idea if it speeds up the process. Only potential problem is this ESD PLA filament is pretty brittle, I don’t know how it will enjoy respooling.
Specifically a potion that dissolves only clothing.
It’s a pain in the ass to set up and navigate, but I use Solidworks for hobbyists. It’s $99/yr and it gets the job done for me. Since I use Solidworks at work, it’s nice to have the same software for home so I don’t have to worry about learning to navigate another CAD software.
I tried FreeCAD as well, and it’s what pushed me to try the Solidworks subscription.
Had this happen as well with the GR86 trunk handle file that’s on there as well. I made a make, tried to mark it as such, but was given the same error. Like with your case, the creator doesn’t have an option for purchase/support.