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  1. gunsmoke132

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    why do some prints say theyre only going to take a second and the printer never prints it?
     
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    Sounds like the slicer fell down.
     
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    what does that mean
     
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    It means the slicer failed to slice it.
     
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    well shit
     
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    do i try again? how do i get it to slice ?
     
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    What slicer are you using?
    And also if you would like to share an stl so we can verify that it's not a problem in the model (by slicing it on our end)

    Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
     
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    -Try slicing it again (maybe tweak the settings)
    -Try another slicer.

    And like @TomerO asked -- what slicer are you currently using?

    Most slicers can stub their toe (even on a good model) if the slicer settings don't make sense for the model. (If, for example, you had walls <0.4mm with a 0.4mm nozzle -- a very gross example, but you get the idea.)
     
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    That sounds like matter control. Rotate the part 90 degrees. I dont know why it helped but when i used matter control 50% of my models did that, rotate and good to go
     
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    That counts :)
     
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    It was so frustrating lol. Load the model 10 times always a1 sec print fail...rotate and it would print....man I love not having those issues anymore
     
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    Hey guys thanks for having me, I'm new at everything and I have the same problem but rotating doesn't work. I have Matter Control 1.5 and my file was created from blender and when I brought it in to print it was very very small. any advice? should I post in a different robo forum? Thanks in advance.
     
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    Hi there and welcome. Ill be totally honest matter control is glicthy and pretty much crap. It fails way to often. If rotating and reslicing doesnt help id suggest you try a different slicer :)

    Cura, slic3r, etc. Not the options in matter control but the actual host program.

    I ditched matter control when the rotating didnt help. I wish i could help further but that was my only trick before getting fed up and buying a slicer.
     
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    Wait... You mean prints are supposed to take longer than 1 second? I think you guys all have broken printers.
     
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    This is a subtle, but simple problem to fix.

    The slicers (MatterControl, Repetierhost, even Simplify3D) assume the units of the model are metric (STL files do not contain a definition of what units they were modeled in). So, when you import a model done in SAE (English) units.... it is really, really tiny (25.4x too small)

    Change the units in the model (re-export the STL afterwards) or in the slicer.

    You can cheat and scale the model in the slicer by 25.4
     
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    I completely forgot people model in sae lol.
     
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    In the 3D printing world, not many :)
     
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