Also all the beeps are very loud, although I printed one of these which helps with that. Noise reduction - The fan noise is quite annoying during a long print, and on the Cetus 3D printer the fan is always running when the printer is powered on, even when it's not printing. Be compact - I have an old office filing cabinet in my room which would be ideal for storing the printer on. Be easy to open to access the printer - It mustn't be awkward to remove parts, change filament, change extruder etc. Provide a low dust environment - On my desk without any enclosure the printer quickly gets dusty and is fiddly to clean. All of these are free to use and can be found at the end of this Instructable.Īfter searching photos online I sketched a few ideas but before I jumped into the detailed design I came up with a list of what I wanted from my new enclosure: stl files for all the 3D printed parts and schematics for the electronic parts. I made engineering drawings to help with making each part and for easy assembly. I researched a few different designs online but couldn't find anything that was quite what I wanted so designed my own. I decided the best solution was store the printer in a zero-gravity vacuum chamber, but as I couldn't afford that I instead decided to build a simple enclosure. The printer is loud, not ridiculously loud but enough to be annoying when I'm trying to watch YouTube on my laptop next to it. Like everything in my house the printer quickly gets covered in dust, which doesn't really affect the function of the printer but doesn't look very nice and it's a fiddle to clean all the small parts. The extruder head drops when the printer loses power, everyone with a Cetus mkI knows this and in June 2017 an official fix was released which solves it. Although I was very happy with the printer I've found a few things I wanted to improve: I've played with a few materials and found which work best for me and the printer (PLA for quick prototyping and PETG for more durable parts). Over the past year I've printed several useful items (and many useless ones). The Cetus seemed to bridge the gap between reasonable value and sensible quality. In May 2017 I bought a Cetus 3D printer, I'd wanted a 3D printer for a while but didn't want something that I'd spend more time fixing than using. Only_retract_when_crossing_perimeters = 1 This is my final config: # generated by Slic3r 1.2.9 on Sun May 6 21:52:40 2018Įnd_gcode = M109 switch off extruder\nG0 Z-2 \nG0 X-178 Y2 \nM2 end of program Here ( ) you can see a comparison between prints using the Cetus slicer and g code generated in Slic3r with my settings. My settings are far from ideal and just a first step to use this amazing little printer at it’s full potential The initial idea behind this was to even out a slightly uneven bed. I printed the first layer of the raft at 350% thickness to close the gap between the nozzle and the bed. To read the actual value I used the calibration function in the cetus-program. To ensure that the nozzle won’t crash the bed I manually wrote some g-code to move the nozzle to all 4 corners and approach the bed slowly to 0.5mm, then I measured the gap between the nozzle and the bed with a feeler gauge. My Z-offset is 0.2mm above the print bed. The additional homing seems not to be necessary because the printer has to be initialized after startup anyway. After removing the additional “G28” (homing commands) everything worked fine. When I started to find the correct settings I first ran into the problem that every g code I wrote tried to move the x axis out of the limits. After playing with my new Cetus MkII for a few days I finally managed to find some useful settings for Slic3r.
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