Rolivers

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Well. I’m not sure I fully understand it. The way I calibrated e steps was to tell it to extrude 100mm of filament and then measures how much filament was pushed through the nozzle. This resulted in a value of about 680 steps/mm.

    This always overextrudes and setting it down to 640 steps/mm made it much better.

    Setting flow rate in the slicer does not seem to have the same effect.

    Lowering e-steps gave the result I wanted but with a lower value than was calibrated for.




  • Hmm. I bought it a few years ago when there weren’t many all metal hotends. It’s never caused any issues.

    Back then it cost me about 80 euros which was a bit steep but acceptable.

    Back then my reasoning was that I didn’t want any PTFE close to the hotend, fearing offgassing and limiting my options for filament types.







  • That doesn’t really matter too much and is mostly personal preference.

    The biggest difference is which package manager and how up to date each program in there is. Arch and OpenSuse Tumbleweed will have quite up to date packages as they’re rolling release models while Mint and Ubuntu tend to be a bit slower and more stable.

    I suggest going through the installation process of Arch linux at least once because it does teach you the basics of Linux but for usability you’d be better off with a distro that has a GUI installer.





















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