@masonwheeler said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I've had one notable build fail. I got home from work yesterday, 2 days into a 5-day build, and found that one of the build plate clips had come free, causing the plate to slip an inch or so, which ruined the build. I'm looking into what can cause this and how to fix it, and will start over tomorrow when the new filament arrives. But other than that, I've really enjoyed working with it.
Once I got the filament, I restarted the build, with additional binder clips to hold the plate in place. After a couple days, it failed again in a new way, and I think I know what went wrong now. The extruder started striking the model during certain movements, until it got peeled off of the raft and knocked out of alignment. (I assume that, had the reinforcement clips not been there, it would have knocked the plate loose instead.)
Two failures at about the same stage of progress means there's something going wrong at that specific point. So either the slicing tool is generating bad gcode, or this brand new, very expensive printer has some problem with its Z movement and isn't moving down as far as it needs to be.
Anyone know how I figure out which one it is and what to do about it?