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M3D Crane Quad blog

​Resources, Thoughts and Comments about the M3D Crane Quad Printer. 

Some helpful links:
M3D Quad Owners Facebook Group

Youtube video on loading filament into your Quad extruder.

​Post processing Script by Juan Rosario
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Some success some setbacks 6/10/19

6/10/2019

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So far, my experiences with the Quad has been mixed results.  I plan to document this in more detail with a video in the next week or so.

Much of this I would attribute to the learning curve associated with a new machine.  Some, I am beginning to believe may be simply that the software is still in development.  I also want to acknowledge Josh N Bee for setting up a very helpful Facebook group for M3D Quad Users. 
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Josh has also posted a youtube video that shows the process of loading filament.  I strongly recommend that new Quad owners watch this video before attempting to load filament for the first time.  These are both very helpful resources that I have posted at the top of this page.
Some early success:  The quad has proven to be quite effective at printing gradient fades where the color transitions between filaments gradually.  So far I have printed successfully printed several knights from my organic chess set and a phone case.
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Some Challenges:  One challenging that has been vexing me is stringing, particularly with PLA filament. This has resulted in unintentionally  fuzzy chess pieces and dice.   I conducted a stringing test with increasing retraction and it appeared that the printer was only retracting on about half of the non printing moves.  I suspect this may be an issue with the Voxelizer Experimental software but that warrants additional experimentation.  I am currently experimenting with using Slic3r and a post processing script by Juan Rosario.  
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