{"id":448,"date":"2019-01-04T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2019-03-14T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:45:57","slug":"a-3d-printer-diary-printing-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/a-3d-printer-diary-printing-other-things","title":{"rendered":"A 3D printer diary &#8211; printing an accuracy test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We bought this printer in a sale. It was missing a few important parts, including the SD Card with software on it to control it from a laptop. Without that software, we would be limited to the four models that were already in the printer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to find the contents of the SD card, but I found some software online. <a href=\"https:\/\/digilab.dremel.com\/3D-software\">The Dremel 3D printer website<\/a> must have changed since the instructions were produced, because the software it referred to has vanished, and there was something else instead &#8230; which also requires a firmware upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connecting the USB cable, the printer wasn&#8217;t recognised by my ancient laptop. I cheated and borrowed my wife\u2019s laptop (newer version of Windows, newer hardware), in order to install the firmware. Once that was done, I re-installed the Dremel3D software on the ancient laptop, and it detected the printer OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0580-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"3D printed brick\" class=\"wp-image-380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0580-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0580-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I imported a Lego-compatible brick (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:1729056\">Thingiverse item 1729056<\/a>), and printed it from the Digilab 3D slicer software, via the USB cable. Using \u201cstandard\u201d resolution (0.2mm layer height, 25% infill, 220 degC), it took 18 minutes to make a 2&#215;4 brick. The software estimated 0.88m of filament. The brick is mostly compatible with real LEGO, which suggests it is a remarkably good test for the accuracy of the printer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought this printer in a sale. It was missing a few important parts, including the SD Card with software on it to control it from a laptop. Without that software, we would be limited to the four models that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/a-3d-printer-diary-printing-other-things\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[25,49,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}