r/snapmaker

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This was quite the adventure. Took a few days of printing on a couple of machines to complete it, a couple of orders from various suppliers for magnets, glue and the clear plastic windows. I already had the LED, power supply and the connectors to make the lights work.

Overall it was a good design, though the designer was a bit optimistic about some of the print settings. It came with everything already setup on plates and pre-supported with manual tree supports.

Had a couple of issues:

I am not a fan of putting 4 relatively tall items on a single plate . Risk of one falling over and destroying all of them is too high(It happened to me. Lost a few hours when a tall item fell over), so I spread out the stls to a few different plates. May have added some time, but worth it to prevent a big catastrophe on a single plate.

The supports were mostly ok, but for some reason the designer supported a 1.5 mm bridge that was only 10 layers above the build plate. The tree supports were nearly impossible to remove. Even a bad printer can bridge a couple of millimeters and after removing those supports it printed cleanly.

Final item is the dxf for the acrylic. I had them cut and the original DXF in the file had identifiers on the sheets, so my vendor cut the letter designation into the windows. Not a big deal and it has already been fixed with the new DXF file having the letters removed.

Final item is the doors fit quite tightly. Too tight, actually, I will need to shave them a bit to account for this slight errors (likely caused by me) during assembly so that it ended up not quite square.

Overall I am very happy with it and the lights make working much easier on the print bed. total price, including filament, magnets, led, power supply, self-tapping screws and $85 in acrylic cutting was about $140.

If you are interested, this is where I got the STLs for this project. FYI, no affiliate link on this. I paid full price for it.

https://www.cc3dprojects.com/snapmakeru1-pod-topcover

Printed on an H2D, Snapmaker U1, X1C

First I will say I exclusively use a Mac so this may be part of the problem. But there is a reason I stopped using Orca slicer with my bambu printers and stayed with Bambu Studio. My goodness the most basic shit in Snapmaker Orca crashes it. Like trying to place text on a vertical surface that is curved.

This is the second time this has happened to me. Something causes it to crash repeatedly, in this case the vertical text I mention above. So I bring the file into Bambu Studio, do what I need to do without crashing the app, then open it back up in Snapmaker U1. As soon as I open it up, the device tab no longer works and has a message that you need to reinstall the network plugin. If you install it, it pulls the official Bambu Labs network plugin, which will not connect right to the U1. The only way I have found to restore it is uninstall Snapmaker Orca and reinstall it from scratch with the package from Snapmaker.

Has this happened to anyone else? My lord this thing is buggy as shit.

Hi there Snapmakers! I want to tell you about one of my first projects I did for my U1. I use PETG for most of my work and this stuff is known to be hygrscopic, more or less.... And I think that it is not very good for the filament reels to hang in the open for probably long time, especially at my place because I also have a tropical aquarium that will evaporate water thereby increasing the humidity in my room. So I decided to crate protection against that and I designed a cover that will prevent this. The cover is printed in parts on my Anycubic Kobra 2 max because this printer has a 45x45 cm printbed wich is just big enough to make the parts in one piece. All in all it took me around 3 reels of 1 KG of white PETG and one reel of black PETG for the two baskets that have to contain the silicagel bags that come with every reel that I get buy. So NEVER dispose of them anymore! So here are the photo's I took today of my first prototype.

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