i’ve worked with highly competent programmes and sysadmins whose houses are entirely connected. they do exist.

yeah sorry should have clarified

it says they use ai right on the page you linked. their other application is ai-first.

i determined that slowing down and decreasing cooling is the most promising path forward but i found an issue with the model so i’ve been spending the past days in cad. belt tension has not been an issue for me, i followed the set-up instructions for tensioning and it has held. i’ve only had one pick-up failure in 345 print hours and 8000ish head changes.

now that’s a good note. orca doesn’t seem to have one setting for that, it has a span to work within depending on how long a layer takes to print:

this is how it’s set up by default on the “generic PETG” profile. compared to they have it set up for their own “Snapmaker PETG HF” profile the fan speeds are definitely higher.

maybe i’ll try running those numbers instead.

it means talking down to people.

what, you didn’t know? are you stupid?

yeah the ams is not a solution for multimaterial prints. there’s so much that can go wrong with mixing filaments in the same nozzle. i’m really happy with my snapmaker though, it can do the material switch as well if you mount two spools with the same material. the only thing i’m missing is being able to tell it “switch to this head” if there is no matching spool mounted, and getting it to notice new spools being loaded during a print.

on a toolchanger it probably makes a lot more sense. i’ve also seen that transparent filaments “bleed” a lot more for a better effect.

the reason it’s so hard to find studies on whether people want it or not is because that’s not a question being asked. the only ones that did were duckduckgo and those answers were obviously self-selected. i cant remember which of the four articles it was now but one of them actually gives a number on how many actually want to use it and it lands somewhere around 35%.

the datasheet for this one recommends 255, which is also within range of the preset in orcaslicer. common wisdom on the web seems to be to go above the specified temps for petg, rather than below, with some people recommending 280 degrees.

that sounds worth trying! does it affect the surface finish?

that levelling tidbit is interesting. good to know.

i was thinking something along those lines too, but i’d have to build them into the model. petg is a bitch to clean off of the pei plate.

well it does bind, just not hard. the surface area of the central piece is enough to make it stick pretty well. it’s just these thin parts that are giving me trouble. but yeah, slowing down probably helps.

yeah it looks amazing! haven’t had time to try it yet though.

fluency. languages are hard to learn but when you know them you communicate better. same as touch-typing, or mobas.

it’s the basis of orca fullspectrum!

orcaslicer allows you to add filaments needed for a print and paint your model with them, and the snapmaker fork simply picks the closest match of the colors and materials you’ve chosen to the ones it has loaded. you don’t really need to care about which extruder has what, as long as you set the right type of filament on the printer. and if you use rfid spools that’s also automatic. you can of course override that in the slicer if it selects the wrong filament.

the easiest way to start with is to simply fetch the loaded filaments from the printer and use those. when snapmaker orca is connected to the printer you get a “loaded filaments” section in the selection dropdown.

several studies over the past few years have shown that a majority of people do not use ai and actively pick products without ai when given the choice. going after the majority feels like a better business decision.

oh believe you me i am incredibly concerned about all of it. but they didn’t listen to feedback, is the point. it’s still there, it still pops up randomly due to no accessibility research, it’s still blue.