Handy with a 3D printer?

My printer is a Flashforge Creator Pro 2. This comes with its own slicer known as Flashprint. Flash it is not. Very few settings to play with. I have now discovered a profile for Cura that allows it to talk to the printer, something it could not do previously ( FFCP2 does not understand G Code ). OK, this creates problems of its own, as now I have heaps of settings... There are very many people who talk Cura on YT etc. Most of them seem to assume I already know the slicer, but I don't. Any of you experienced 3Ders point me at a good place to start?

I like the versatility of the dual extruders, but at some point there will be another printer in my life and I'd like to just need familiarity with one piece of software.

Is anyone else using Overture filament? I got some of their PLA Professional from Bezos, and I am quite happy with the print quality so far. I also got some Glow PLA, which needs care or it snaps when feeding. Once that's sorted it also prints well. Glow in the dark dragon for the 8 YO, skull for the 12 YO.

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Originally Posted by Tombie

My cheapo 3Dp has been ticking away for the last few weeks.

Not making Landy gear, but things for ballistic sports.

Primer catcher for RCBS

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Now for some plastic.. errr, projectiles...

Just an update with history.

I spent up big to buy a 3D printer that I hoped was smart enough to help with my ignorance of the field.

This has proved to be a big waste of money.

After numerous e-mail conversations with QIDI, and some short lived improvements, I was trying ( for about the 100th time ) to print a run of small containers.

I could get one or two runs and then the settings would need to be changed.

Then about 6 months ago, again I was trying to print a number of runs when on the second run the hot base rose to the print position and the drop straight back to the start and a message came up say hot bed sensor not responding.

So I turned the 3D off, gave it a break and tried again and again, same thing EXCEPT, this time the hot bed lead was sitting on top of the bed. It had unplugged and was probably never plugged in properly in the first place.

WRONG, on inspection of the plug, it was still plugged into the socket and the socket had desoldered from the base of the hot bed.

On closer examination, it turns out the socket had only had 3 of the 8 pins properly soldered from the factory and the other 5 pins had dry solder joints.

This would account for having to continually reset the print perimeters.

I resoldered the socket properly back to the hot plate and tested it.

It not only worked perfectly, the very first print gave me the best print I had ever had.

I e-mailed QIDI and I informed them of what I had found.

Their reply “ as your printer is out of warranty you will need to buy a new Hot Base”

So much for their backup.

Thanks to moving, I have not had much time to LEARN again, from the start, how to properly use this gross waste of money.

QIDI must get their Customer Response training from Land Rover.

My Prusa is ticking along nicely at the moment.
Continuously printing since December to produce parts for reloading equipment.

I’ve got enough on the go the new Prusa XL 5 head unit has been ordered.

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I use the Aldi shopping trolley token to open mine. Always in the console ready to go.

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