7/26/2016 I received my first 3d printer, the Monoprice Maker Select (Wanhao Duplicator i3)

And my first two days have been quite fun, I have done several test prints, set up Octopint on my raspberry-pi which is a stunning piece of software and bit the bullet and bought simplify3d to begin working on printing recommended modifications to the printer.  After working through some initial problems I believe I am getting the hang of this and have began to really get this printer dialed in.

Out of the box the printer was super easy to assemble, took me 20 minutes.  I leveled the bed and inserted the provided SD card into the printer and printed ‘1.gcode’ and the print rendered a pretty stunning butterfly.

After that however when I moved on to printing things from Thingiverse I ran into some small problems figuring out the proper settings for new filament and just generally how to configure print jobs to get proper bed adhesion. Which was resolved by increasing my temps on my hot end to 200 degrees Celsius and the hotbed to 70 degrees Celsius.

Fixed other issues with retraction and nozzle wiping from settings within simplify3d

Once the optimal profile was designed I started getting alot better prints and moved on from calibration type prints to printing some actual functional parts.

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I look forward to continuing my journey into the realm of 3d printing, so far i love the machine intimacy. Each machine has its quirks and even each batch of filament varies slightly from my observations. I love that you need to know your piece of hardware to do this all right.