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IMPORTING A CURE PROFILE

Quick How-To Guide to walk through the steps of importing a .curaprofile file into your Cura Application, and enable it.

Download and install the latest version of Cura. In my case it is 4.6.1

Click Settings

Select Printers

Select Manage Printers

Click Profiles

Click Import

Navigate to your .curaprofile and upload it

Now, create a new Cura project

In the Top Right of your screen click Printer Settings

Click the drop down arrow next to Profile

Select your Profile (the one you just uploaded)

You can now slice using the imported profile

3D PRINTING – HEAT TOWER

To find out the proper temperature to use with a filament, i highly recommend you print a heat tower for each manufacturer, and color. To setup Simplify3d for this you will need to do the following

First download the heat tower
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2223651

Open up the Heat Tower Zip file and we are going to work with the heat tower with bridge for this test

Now open Simplify3D

Import the heat tower in the designated area

Navigate to the Processes area
Edit your Process
Go to the Temperature tab
Navigate to the Temperature Controller List
Select Primary Extruder
In the Per-Layer Temperature Setpoints box you will want to change the following
Layer 1 – Set the temperature to 240
As you add Setpoints, each subsequent layer will be +25 higher and -5 for Temperature. For Example
Layer 1 – Temperature 240
Layer 26 – Temperature 235
Layer 51 – Temperature 230
You will continue on until your last temperature is 190

You can then click OK to save the settings for this print

Slice the print

And send it to your Printer.

Once the print has completed, review which temperature had the best look and feel (no stringing, cleanest lines, etc)

This will now be the temperature you use for this Manufacture with this filament type, and this filament color. Yes each of those 3 things matter. If you change any of them, re-run this test to get the new baseline



ENDER 3 PRO – OCTOPRINT – BED SIZE ISSUE [SOLVED]

When you send a print job to your Ender 3 Pro, using your Octopi, it starts to print, and the hotend does not recognize the correct size for the bed. The hotend is pushed off to the side, begins clicking, and the print is a mess.

Solution:
Make sure your Slicer has the correct bed size set in it
Make sure the OctoPi has the correct printer setup in it
Turn OFF your printer
Turn OFF your OctoPi
Disconnect the USB Cable in your Ender 3, from the OctoPi
Wait 30 seconds
Turn ON the printer
Turn ON the OctoPi
Wait 1 minute
Plug the USB cable back into the Ender 3
Login into your OctoPi
Click connect so the OctoPi works again with the Ender 3
Send the print job that failed before

And now it works!

Unable to connect to Octopi.local on Windows 10 [SOLVED]

So you can connect to from your Apple device (iPhone, Mac, iPad, etc) but you cannot connect to it from your Windows 10 computer.

This occurs because Microsoft doesn’t natively recognize .local extensions.

Solution:
Install iTunes onto your Windows 10 computer. This will add the bonjour service which will allow you to connect to octopi.local

After you install iTunes, visit http://octopi

You can now use your Windows 10 system with OctoPrint

ENDER 3 PRO – EXTRUDER CLICKING [SOLVED]

When you begin printing, your extruder starts to click, and continues to click for the first few minutes

This happens because the filament is unable to be pushed through the nozzle.

Solution:
1. Check the temperature of your nozzle and make sure it is hot enough to melt the filament. For PLA that would be 185C.

2. Level your bed. If your bed is too high the filament cannot extrude. By re-leveling the bed, and lowering it a notch, your issue should be resolved.