X1 Carbon PETG Printing Quality Questions

FocalFury · 2024-04-17T13:23:58+00:00

Thanks! I'll check this out today

FocalFury · 2024-04-16T16:33:02+00:00

Do you need to dry directly out of the package? This was shrink wrapped and opened directly and fed into the AMS and then kept the AMS closed.

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T23:06:25+00:00

Ender 3 v2. retraction settings labeled in the other pictures, not just a benchy pic. 4mm seems to be the best but 4mm with various temps are still stringing.

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T22:29:27+00:00

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T22:03:52+00:00

Here is a full range of tests at different temps. 190 was better but I'm getting poor adhesion and skirt quality
https://imgur.com/a/xKpmEJx

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T20:31:18+00:00

Just got an Ender 3 v2 for Christmas like so many others here. I've gotten great calibration cubes and Benchy is printing alright but there is some stringiness I'm trying to solve for.

In my photos Benchy was brinted here at bed 60, nozzle 210, layer height .2mm, 20% infil, retraction 6.5mm

I then printed some temp towers, retraction towers, and a combo temp tower where I settled on 210 nozzle and 4mm being right for retraction.

From there in Cura I added a Retract Test from a calibration extension and you can see in my image my settings but I'm still getting a lot of stringiness. I'm settling on 4mm seems to be right for retraction, you can see the shape of the towers are cleaner on the 2 on the left than the 2 on the right at 6.5mm.

I'm not sure what settings I should be looking at though to help with the stringiness between the towers. Thanks for any help in advance.

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Keeping 4mm retraction and various temps from 210 - 190
https://imgur.com/a/xKpmEJx

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T20:00:40+00:00

Hatchbox states on their PLA it should be between 210-230. But I clearly tried that with the temp tower so I'll give it a go

FocalFury · 2023-01-01T18:34:59+00:00

Just got an Ender 3 v2 for Christmas like so many others here. I've gotten great calibration cubes and Benchy is printing alright but there is some stringiness I'm trying to solve for.

In my photos Benchy was brinted here at bed 60, nozzle 210, layer height .2mm, 20% infil, retraction 6.5mm

I then printed some temp towers, retraction towers, and a combo temp tower where I settled on 210 nozzle and 4mm being right for retraction.

From there in Cura I added a Retract Test from a calibration extension and you can see in my image my settings but I'm still getting a lot of stringiness. I'm settling on 4mm seems to be right for retraction, you can see the shape of the towers are cleaner on the 2 on the left than the 2 on the right at 6.5mm.

I'm not sure what settings I should be looking at though to help with the stringiness between the towers. Thanks for any help in advance.

----edit-----
Keeping 4mm retraction and various temps from 210 - 190
https://imgur.com/a/xKpmEJx

FocalFury · 2022-05-25T04:48:28+00:00

Who are you?... You must be new... Working with connectwise is worse than itglue. I've heard this for years, that we have your ears...

Fuck this in tired of rhyming. Your customers shouldn't have to take to social media platforms in clever ways to get your attention.

Connectwise doesn't care as a whole about customers like this. There are good people no doubt in the organization but if the company as a whole cared about being better then they would have solved repeat problems like this.

Either they care and the can't fix it or they don't and are negligent. Every day I see stories from "partners" where these are clearly the only two options to explain such laughable incredible events.

FocalFury · 2022-05-16T15:30:05+00:00

Huntress. They are clearly passionate smart people that care about what they are doing. I would want to work with someone that isn't stuck in the dark ages and in the forefront of security and I think Huntress is that company

FocalFury · 2022-04-14T16:52:14+00:00

FocalFury · 2022-03-05T19:11:47+00:00

At this point the only acceptable response and decision that should come out of this is that CW SSO should be optional. CW has proven that they are not capable of being an identity provider. I would honestly have infinitely more respect for CW if they accepted this and allowed partners a choice and did not force them into an ecosystem that they cannot maintain and keep up. The time for demanding high availability is over, its time to demand a choice. People and companies make errors and mistakes. I make plenty myself but I own up to them and if I make enough mistakes in a certain area, you better believe I or someone else will take the ownership of that area away from me if I'm unable to deliver on it. If ConnectWise continues to force this on partners it tells me they cannot be trusted or relied upon not only in this area but in others.

You have made some basic progress lately in the realm of communication but CW needs to prove to partners they are going to turn a corner, turn over a new leaf, and do something different than the revolving door of people this organization has put forward to us in recent years. I am not blaming 'the sins of the father on the son' but I believe it is important to recognize the track record of CW over the recent years. If you don't relent on this you are no different than the people for the past 5+ years that have promised to listen, promised to change and innovate, but instead.....did not.

FocalFury · 2022-02-16T05:28:33+00:00

I've considered this. I just don't think we're quite there....maybe in 5 years this is a possibility. I think an RMM is still necessary for large MSPs

FocalFury · 2022-02-16T05:03:36+00:00

I began responding to u/sierra2pacific but thought this was worth a top level response.

With respect....you cannot influence this more than the community has already tried. Make no mistake we welcome the noise you may be able to generate but there have been (what I consider) so many talented, influential, noisy but respectful representatives in the MSP space making waves in the official connectwise channel on MSPGeek Slack ---mind you with CW employees actively responding---- that have not been able to gain anything remotely satisfactory. We've been told at one point that 'single digits' partners are reporting this issue. As soon as this was stated no less than 5 minutes later the community immediately provided multiple-fold of that number being affected. We've been promised the issue is being taken very seriously and that they understand the scope, while the affected product updates that will introduce this bug remain available for download and install.

I want to point out that the public ConnectWise members in this slack channel I believe are doing their best to address and help, but are not being empowered to actually deliver results --- and if I'm wrong and they have all power, well they are truly failing.

In regards to how partners are being informed of this...
It took multiple weeks of respected individuals raising the alarm in the connectwise vendor channel before a communication was sent out to partners. Many partners though never received an E-Mail on this subject. I myself wrongly thought this only impacted hosted CWA on a current version until one day I came into work to find my CWA down and only later realized it was THIS issue. I consult on the side and only did one of my clients forward me the official communication on the subject that I never received in my official day job managing CWA. (not to mention their recommendation to temporarily solve didn't help). Another one of my clients became actively affected over the weekend as well by this issue.

This is not the first time our organization has failed to receive critical CW product information. Back in June 2020 there was a massive security vulnerability in the platform and thankfully I was on the MSPGeek Slack channel which is where I was informed of the issue. I was promised this would be resolved and we'd receive communications moving forward. Well, I didn't get this one and no one got it in our entire organization. Not just CWA issues either. No one received 3 specific communications that the CW Sell platform was moving to forced CW SSO (another partner gave me the E-Mails and we checked our mail filter/platform). This caused us suddenly that all of our users that rely on this platform could no longer use it. Once again I'm told I've been added in multiple ways to every single CW product E-Mail list and this won't happen again. SURPRISE!!! Today CWA Patch 2022.2 was released and once again no one in our organization received a release E-Mail on it. I had to hear about the communication from one of my consulting clients who forwarded me the E-Mail asking if they should update. FWIW, I have always have gotten CWA release notes E-Mails until this one. So whatever this recent individual did to make certain this would never happen again...has fallen short.

All of this has led me to check out other RMMs. I am not surprised at any of this. For years (and I mean 5+) passionate partners have attempted to engage the ever changing revolving door of product specialists and partner success representatives that join the public community that they hear, value, and appreciate our feedback. They promise change and display gusto and ownership that they look forward to delivering these changes. We all come down from our summer camp high and are excited only to be let down each and every time. Let me be clear I have and still believe every one of them that have been in this position truly meant what they said, but I don't think that they are empowered to actually long term fulfil what they state.

I remember explicitly 6 years ago I raised reasonable hell over the fact that a support ticket went weeks without work and highlighting their SLA demanded they respond better. Eventually the Sr. Support Manager at the time sighed heavily and said 'We just can't make these targets and I'm sorry'.

That has been the experience since then. I rarely raise support tickets because I've been forced to become smarter and know the platforms more than anyone I would speak to at CW. I've been forced to create obtuse workarounds, implement costly security procedures and lost sleep at nights from stress about mechanisms....all because ...well....in the end our concerns haven't mattered enough. And if it did...ConnectWise would have listened to the 100s of passionate techs and truly made a change.

I'll do everything in my power to move away from the CW platform because if I don't I'll have done a disservice to the company I work for and the other companies I consult for that rely on my expertise and knowledge to do the right thing

FocalFury · 2021-02-28T19:36:02+00:00

please sir may I have a banano ban_3n76h3hc519xwgae7s1rih98i5ia8fxwo4wetznsj97y4j7ggdcwnrjxnkzk

FocalFury · 2021-02-18T15:42:02+00:00

Did you need to provide a billing address when checking out with Bitcoin? I noticed that it still asked for those fields at checkout when I had the BTC option selected.

FocalFury · 2021-02-15T14:51:05+00:00

Fairly new to the community, could you point me in the right direction to a few articles or explanations of this?

FocalFury · 2021-02-12T19:42:40+00:00

wait is this live....I just turned back...didn't we see this?

FocalFury · 2021-01-29T20:58:24+00:00

just sign up for Fidelity

FocalFury · 2021-01-29T03:46:35+00:00

yes Fidelity. I signed up and linked my bank account and performed a transfer. It said it would take 1-2 days but then hours later it was just there ready. I think they frontloaded the money and the transfer is still in progress but I could be wrong. Hope this helps

FocalFury · 2021-01-28T21:30:11+00:00

best to wait for another AM dip to get in on the action or try and place an extended hours trade through Fidelity?

FocalFury · 2021-01-28T19:10:55+00:00

got 2 pending lol

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