Vulcanus

This printer is owned by Josh Conway.

3D printing filament costs approximately 30 USD per roll (per kilogram). Please donate an amount proportionate to your usage, there is a box in front of Vulcanus to accept filament funds.

Using Vulcanus

• Connect to its Octoprint server within our network at http://vulcanus:5000, with username and password "bloomingcad"
  • The ip is also 192.168.1.18:5000
  • From here you can see the current state of the printer, see the webcam, etc.
• The bed is ginormous on this printer and takes 10-15 minutes or so to get up to temperature. You can start pre-warming the bed from Octoprint
• Verify the filament material installed is what you want and/or change it over to the filament you want to run
  • There are several kinds of material that get used on this machine so verify this before every print (ABS, PLA, PET-G, etc)
  • This printer uses a Bowden tube extruder, if you are unsure how to change the filament get help

Slicing - Generate g-code for Octoprint

To get models into Octoprint you will need to install a slicer program on your laptop to render the g-code.

• Download and install https://slic3r.org
• Download and install this config file for slic3r, it provides the settings for Vulcanus
• Load your STL file of the model you wish to print into slic3r
• Double check which filament material you will be printing with and update your temp settings in slic3r accordingly, this will affect the g-code generated
• Send the g-code to Vulcanus/Octoprint
• Back over in Octoprint, load the model you sent to it and then start the print

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