Got this today for $25 no power supply. Not sure what version this is ether of anyone has any ideas

I am a newbie, and am instead buying a used, but ready to print Monoprice Maker Select Plus 3d printer for me and my son to work with.

I got my hands on a used solidoodle press. Upon attempting to print, the y axis was unable to move. I discovered that the y axis stepper motor controller chip on the motherboard was blown. Upon further disasembly I discovered the previous owner had put a screw through the cable. This shorted it out and killed the driver. I am working on converting to ramps 1.4. Im sure I will have many questions to come. Right now, im am wondering what the steps per mm is by default. If anybody can help I would be very thankful.

Hi folks, I just picked this up from someone who no longer wanted it. My extruder motor seems its struggling at times and not turn the gear with slipping clutch clicking as if the nozzle is blocked.

Any tips?

Gosh I hope someone replies…

Hi,

I have a problem with my hotend ; the temperature seem too low and badly calibrated.
My idea is to update the firmware and tweak the limit to accommodate the offset.

I found an easy way to do it thanks to St0rmingBr4in :
https://github.com/St0rmingBr4in/printrboard-updater

I found the link in Soliforum:
https://www.soliforum.com/topic/18458/instructions-on-how-to-ugrade-solidoodle-3-to-marlin-20x-on-linux/

This might be helpful for some early adopters.

I researched all info previously but I didn't follow along at the time.
This method is simple enough to give a try and it might help less tech savvy people.

Does anybody use the standalone Cura as a slicer? It has a lot more features than the one built into Repetier. Was wondering if somebody could share their printer settings for cura. Thanks

TL:DR - can I replace my SD3 mainboard with an unused ender 3 mainboard (4.2.2) and LCD?

This sub looks pretty dead but figured I'd see if anybody out there might have some advise. I've got a SD3 that never really worked well, I always had issues with what appeared to be the main board or stepper motor drivers. I got some replacement drivers from the company prior to them going under but I recall that didn't fix the problem, so I boxed up the printer and stashed it in a dark corner of the garage. That was like 6 years ago now, I recently bought an Ender 3 (what a world of difference!) And am getting into 3D printing. I'm planning to upgrade to the silent mainboard and was wondering if I could repurpose the original 4.2.2 board to upgrade the SD3. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks!

I inherited my uncle's old solidoodle 2 pro. He has been gone now for quite some years and I just now got back into printing. I did my fair share of digging to find software to run the printer and had it in working about as good as the poor thing could. I upgraded the hotend to an E3D V6 and continued to play around with what little ABS I had. running close to the end of my spool I decided to look online for more filament and noticed that the "new" ABS required a higher printing temperature. having just upgraded my hotend, I wasn't concerned, but looking online the firmware on the controller limits the printer at 210. I tried looking for a way to bypass the limit but given the printer has the ATMega 644p on a Sanguinololu board, no one has made a firmware to flash to it. I was wondering if there is a printer board that is more or less a one to one swap that could allow me to print at these higher temperatures or if I needed to get a new board and go through setup like I built a RepRap and if so, what board should I get.

I Have a Solidoodle 2 printer and cannot manage to connect to it. I had the printer up and running several years ago but since then it has been gathering dust. I just pulled it out, cleaned it up and wanted to get back at it. I had a windows system running it before but that is now gone and I have a mac. I've downloaded the drivers from the wiki and repeiter host but when I go into printer settings and try to select the port it is not there. Can anyone help me?

Is there anyway to change out the firmware to get it to be recognized by Cura, or change out the board maybe and use a newer controller?

I'm hoping I can find a little help even though this sub/company is dead...

I work for a university and was just asked to get a Solidoodle Workbench back into working order. Unfortunately, this is the first printer I've ever really worked on and I'm kind of lost to get it working fully.

Originally Extruder 2 was encased in PLA, presumably after somebody left it unattended for a whole print. I removed that by heating it and cleaned it up some with a brush. Extruder 1 with ABS seems pretty clean, though not perfect.

After getting it cleaned I started at getting it recalibrated. I started by relabeling the bed some with a dial indicator. I started to try at z-offset calibration using soliPrint and immediately ran into trouble. The extrusion heads were actually running into and scratching the bed, the filament wouldn't stick as well. After the calibration finished, the application would crash and I wouldn't be able to complete the calibration. Because of that and a few other problems, I switched over to Repeater-Host, and eyeballed a z-offset of 1 mm. This helped some, but I still can't get filament to stick.

Currently I'm trying to print with ABS with the extruder at 215ºC and the bed at 110ºC, I have gone as high as 220 and 115 with no better luck. I have also tried with and without kapton tape on the bed. It seems like I'm still scraping the bed occasionally and even when a layer does stick, it usually gets pulled off on the next pass.

If anyone has any tips I'd greatly appreciate it. Fortunately this isn't a necessary piece of equipment and more of a "if it'll work that'll be neat," deal. Thanks!

Does anyone have engineering drawings of the solidoodle 4 metal hotend parts? I'm trying to make a model of part that holds the hotend in place but I only have a cheap plastic calliper and I want to get my dimensions correct.

I would appreciate any dimensions that any of you have :)

I recently upgraded to an E3D hot end, and ever since, I can only print a few layers before the whole thing decides to shift on me after just a few layers.

I've tried printing a few different objects, and some let me get further than others, but the most I've been able to get is about 10 layers up before the machine decides to shift my print nearly an inch, meaning that it just starts extruding onto empty space.

Here's an image of what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/E1yMc3C.jpg

This print was especially weird, because if you look at the middle one, I tried printing without the raft, and not only did it shift the print, it shifted every two or four x-axis passes about 1/4 inch. AND, it decided that instead of moving for each y-axis pass, it would just go over the one it just did a second time, compressing the object to half the size in the x-axis.

Like I said, I've now tried printing 3 different objects, and I get similar results with all of them. It has to be something with the firmware update that I used when I upgraded the hot end, but I have no idea where to start looking for the problem.

The print on the top was created after I completely uninstalled Simplify3D and reinstalled it again to see if it was a software issue.

Some other info that might be important- Printer: Solidoodle 3 Hotend: E3Dv6 HotEnd - 1.75mm Universal Slicer: Simplify3D v3

SO my extruder stepper motor is just twitching from side to side and not extruding. Please check this post for more on what I have done.

http://www.soliforum.com/post/115419/#p115419

I have also tried adjusting the trimpots to see if the voltage made a difference and while I heard a difference in the loudness of the twitching it did nothing to resolve the issue.

It looks like it may be a wiring or motherboard issue. Can anyone help me please. I am desperate and since Solidoodles already non existant tech support is not ENTIRELY shut down I can't even submit a ticket for this.

They apparently haven't paid their zendesk bill which is who runs their ticketing system.

That's a bummer! My old SD2pro is still humming along, really a nice little machine, and getting it for $499 2 years ago is starting to look like a pretty decent deal. I'd been wishing for a bigger platform lately and was eyeing the 12"x12"x12" Workbench... but I guess that isn't happening.

I guess it'll go as long as it goes... but it's too bad, I wish they'd succeeded.

Pardon me for being a total noob here. I am fairly handy with computers and hardware, thought I could figure this out, but I keep hiting dead ends (starting with the dead links on the Solidoodle site). I am looking for a little help modifying the firmware on my SD2. I have been going crazy for weeks, just found /r/solidoodle and thought I would ask here as Solidoodle seems to be belly up, their support is long, long gone as best I can tell.

In short, I cannot find the modified arduino version to compile firmware for this printer. We did some upgrades to it and now we want to change the max temp to support the new hotend, but nothing can talk to this board over USB. After tons of tinkering, I seem to have bricked the board, but using an Atmel AT AVRISP mkII I was able to flash Solidoodle2_6142013.cpp,hex back onto it. The way I see it, I either need to modify the configuration.h file using Arduino 022 or find some way to modify the config in this Solidoodle2_6142013.cpp.hex file. I cannot find the settings in the hex file using hex editing software. I cannot find a version of Arduino 022 that will verify and compile for this board (AT90USB1286), the links on the Solidoodle site are dead. The links to the reprap version are dead here and here.

I could write a book about the journey I have taken to get here, but instead I thought I would start with this description and I see if there is anyone out there that could possibly help. LMK what you need to know in order to help point me in the right direction. Once I solve this, I will be sure to post the solution in the form of a YouTube video on my channel to help others out who might encounter the same frustration. Thanks for reading!

I just recently upgraded my SD3 (with sanguinololu board) with a E3D V6 hot end. At first it was fine, but after fixing an issue with the heatsink fan (I soldered the connections together since they weren't working so great just being spliced) the end stops aren't responding correctly, specifically with the z-stop.

Before I home the Z axis I can move the bed up and down as usual but once I home the axis I can only move the bed upwards, not down. This lead me to breaking my z-stop holder (thankfully just that). But also the x and y axis seem to have some issues as well, but less consistently. They'll randomly just go too far like the switches weren't tripped correctly.

Anyone have any ideas? Right now I can't adjust my z gap due to the end stop not working correctly, which means I can't ensure I won't get a head crash (and I'm really not trying to break a brand new E3D hot end).

Back in December of last year, I received a Solidoodle 4 as a gift, after not being able to use it for about 2 months, Solidoodle support finally decided to let me send my printer in and get it fixed, they charged me $100 in shipping and sent me a Solidoodle apprentice instead of a Solidoodle 4. Which, at the time was more expensive, but is now $300 cheaper. I wanted the larger build platform of the SD 4 but they were going to charge me an extra $100 to have it shipped again. Fuck that.

The SD apprentice blows dick, I have tweaked settings time and time again and after owning it for just under a year, have never once printed anything I am happy with.

All I ask is if there is a "build your own 3D printer" kit that I can use the parts of the SD Apprentice for. Or just some documentation about what I can do with these parts.

Source: http://www.soliforum.com/post/108522/#p108522

Former Solidoodle employee here, saw this thread and felt compelled to let everyone know what's going on - at least as far as I know, since Solidoodle doesn't say anything unless it's good news. You guys have pretty much figured it out though, Solidoodle is out of cash.

It started with the Press, which without getting into too much detail, was/is a complete disaster. Production tapped out most of our funds and the port delays meant that we weren't able to re-coup those costs as quickly as we needed. Plus, the Press pre-order campaign meant that we were pretty much shipping the printers at a net loss. Around this time they started sporadically missing payroll here and there, but there was talk about bringing in investors so I figured we would tough it out until the round closed and once we had some operating capital we'd be able to recover. Well we closed the round, hooray! I see another poster did some digging and noticed that we refiled as a C-corp, this was part of finalizing the investment. Turns out most of the funding was used to pay off debts and it wasn't long before the prospect of missing payroll again became a reality. Last month they called a company meeting and laid off pretty much everyone (myself included) except for those with shares and the accounting department (who were put on part-time). Obviously there's a whole lot more to the story but the bottom line is that things don't look good. If you have an unfulfilled order, unfortunately, I wouldn't get my hopes up. If you're looking for a refund, I would start exploring other avenues to recoup (bank, credit card, etc) because there isn't any money there, and even if there was, refunds are not very high up on the list of priorities. Spare part orders are a craps shoot depending on the part. So that's that. I wish I came here bearing better tidings but that's the truth. I love the community here at Soliforum and it was frustrating that we weren't allowed to share with you all the realities of the situation, so I figured it was the least I could do.

tl;dr - "If you have an unfulfilled order, unfortunately, I wouldn't get my hopes up. If you're looking for a refund, I would start exploring other avenues to recoup (bank, credit card, etc) because there isn't any money there, and even if there was, refunds are not very high up on the list of priorities."

Have a brand new 3D Printing project that you've printed with your Solidoodle?

Each week in September, we'll feature the latest and greatest from our community and we'd like to hear from you! Photos, videos, and details for each project will be posted on our social media channels, blog, and much more. This is an excellent way to get your projects noticed.

To be eligible for the contest, please send your details to product@Solidoodle.com.

Winners will be announced every week and receive a special prize package.

Good Luck and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.

I wrote a blog post with lots of pictures, the software settings, etc.

http://paulsaulnier.com/2015/08/16/3d-printing-a-platform-jack-on-the-solidoodle-press/

I decided to post this here, just in case anyone is discouraged by their Press results so far. This platform jack has quite an amazing design, and our printers are more than capable!

Over at Soliforum, one poster indicated he got even better results than mine, so there's hope for sure!

Solidoodle 2 Pro stuttering problem Short video showing the stuttering with the info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLS3EqLSWjY If any ones has any suggestions please let me know Thanks!

Every time my extruder nozzle is printing on the left side of the printer bed (beyond 45.00) on the x-axis, for some reason the motor retracts the plastic instead of extruding the plastic!!!!

WHY!?

It's not software, cable or computer problem. I've tested and re-tested. It is 100% a problem with the SD4 printer!

I'm using Simplify 3D and have a 12 hour print in motion with the SD4. Will the extruder and tray automatically cool when the print is finished? I will likely be asleep.

Also how do you change the "home position?"

Help.

I had to send my Press back for motherboard issue. It's been well over a month and the last response via email was 3 weeks ago. I've tried calling both the customer service number and their headquarters number and only get machines. I leave a message but nobody returns my calls. Are they still around?