u/battle_axe143

Image 1 — Curving flat object
Image 2 — Curving flat object

Curving flat object

Currently wanting to print a replacement face seal for my VR, no replacements exist for this so I want to print it out of 65A TPU Air. I tried printing it flat but it curves too much and makes a weird kink in the part that messes up. The red line is for reference of what you are looking at.

I just want to move the center point of the sketch 1 inch in and leave the corners as is but can't figure out how I would go about doing it.

u/battle_axe143 — 8 hours ago
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Q1 stopped heating nozzle during printing

SOLVED: Found my old hotend that i had replaced before and it heated up no issue. Need to buy a new heater or complete hotend.

Already submitted a ticket to Qidi but its friday, starting a weekend, and 4AM for them so I'm posting this here in the mean time to get answers. I'll copy and paste what I wrote to them.

I was starting up a print on my Qidi Q1 Pro, it went through the startup process just fine. I heated up the nozzle and put filament in and purged the old filament. During the startup process it heated up in the back to wipe the nozzle. It then did the bed leveling and went to the front left corner to heat up before starting a print and tried heating up but never did, it was stuck at its temp and couldn't heat up. I already replaced the complete hotend in a previous ticket so this is the 2nd hotend I'm on and has around 200 hours on it.

Some troubleshooting I've already done so far:

  • Restarted the printer by powering it off and back on again with the power switch.
  • Restarted the firmware
  • Checked the connections are all sturdy and firm
  • Visually inspected to make sure nothing was broken or burnt on the hotend PCB (not the main board in the back)
  • Confirmed that it is not actually heating up, thermistor is fine as it reacts to chamber temperature changes. I have the printer on a battery backup UPS (APC Smart-UPS C1500) that I've always had it on. The screen shows me when the power draw goes up. For the heated chamber and bed temperature, the wattage power draw goes up. When I try to heat the hotend, it stays the same and doesn't change at all.

I can try and heat up the hotend and check the connector to the heater (black connector on the top of the hotend board) with a multimeter for voltage to see if it's going through or not but I do not want to do that unless I can confirm its ok to do.

u/battle_axe143 — 5 days ago