@wstuck As far as I know the answer is no. The panel just does what it does which is very little. If you find a good solution please let me know the Marlin bed leveling is also not working and available. MH I think did that to make the pulse barely operational without using Mattercontrol Nothing of the regular features seem to work without Mattercontrol, filament runout, power resume etc at least not on mine

@markland Biggest I printed in anything is about 400x400x400 but with pretty much anything and especially any Nylon you will need to up the Ambient so have some kind of heated enclosure. Now I'd probably would got a different route I'd probably print multiple pieces smaller out of something light like Hips or abs, glue them together - just use it as a skeleton and then wrap it in Fiberglass or CF here is an example almost 400 mm long L frame pieces being printed out of Hips with 1.2mm wall thickness 1 wall with a .8 nozzle
And then wrapped in 12oz FG for a test

Note No sanding or filling actually not even completely dry when the picture was taken it was just a proof of concept. Just to see how well the FG and epoxy bonds to the 3DP parts and it bonds well. Now if you want it real stiff I'd probably use some CF cloth and put some ribs in somewhere to give it stiffness Kinda like a milk crate Just an Idea. CF Nylon is stiffer than regular Nylon but has worse layer adhesion and tensile strength due to all those chopped up CF particles in it

Delivered 51 today got the printing time down to 6 every 4 hours 52 minutes.

@pverdin We could make the shields but someone else took on that job we will help in assembly though too. I played a little with the settings and now can print 6 at a clip (both top and bottom) in about 5 hours and 12 minutes on the Chiron (.8 nozzle and HIPS filament) I found another good thing with HIPS for a test of sanitizing it I boiled one for 15 minutes and took it out while the water was still boiling and it was still as solid as always.

We have teamed up to fill a local need related to Covid and have pooled our 3DP capabilities and in cooperation with some in employ at Picatinny arsenal we started to 3D Print the brackets for the Prusa Face Shields. The first ones are coming off of our printers today, I bought another one to up production and so did one of the teachers (both Anycubic predators I think we got the last off of Ebay they were out of Chirons) We also have some students involved who own a printer. We were asked to donate them so we are also fundraising to pay for the parts and contacting all of our sponsors and also put out the “word” in local FB groups and other social media. The first batch we were asked to provide is 900 which is about 40-45 kg of filament which we already ordered. Well we already had a litttle over 20kg so we placed orders for the rest. We were told that there will be more batches needed in about 1000 ea lots. As soon as the new printers come in and the 2 that are being rebuilt right now are done our goal is to do at least 100 a day (some maintainance is necessary after running 70kg of filament through them about each over the past 18 monts. Well with that Covid situation I figured I had time to tear down, inspect, replace, upgrade before having them run 24/7 again). Guess 3dp never rests

As our season got canceled/postponed indefinitely due to COVID 19 I put up some pics/short videos from our build season might do more when there is a chance to do so you can find it here

https://pirringers.com/3dp/?p=36

Enjoy

Was going report how our 3DP robot was doing in this weekends competition. We were about to pull out of our parking lot when we were informed that the competition was canceled due to COVID19. Bummer - hope it goes away soon.

@pverdin Exactly PETG sometimes does that. I had better results though with copper nozzles. Also use the torque wrench and check the nozzle once in a while as they do tend to come loose

First climb test with our 3DP winch setup
https://grabcad.com/library/frc1989-infinite-recharge-1
Interesting part is that the hook deploy uses a GT2 belt like most printers and the GT2 pulleys were printed with a .8 nozzle it was an experiment as to how fine a line you can do with a .8 and the answer in this case was a .48 wall (required a little tuning)


The torque of the lift itself is taken by the parachute cord wrapped around the winch depicted above its driven by a 1/2 in hex shaft.

@cheapo lol happens to the best of us