In maker hell tonight

Don’t know if it helps or not…the new Simplify3D version 4 is out, and it gives you the opportunity to weight the base infill (you can set up variable infill zones) so that really tall objects don’t get top heavy and get knocked over or topple.

I haven’t upgraded to it yet, I just got the mail-out. (So it might not be ready for Prime Time yet. But it looks like it might be helpful trying to print something like that.)

(And you could try adding an attached skirt or raft on that design…really broad at the bottom, to give more surface adhesion area to the shape. It looks like it might be top heavy.)

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This was using V4… Just that wax is very slippery…

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Bummer. (Let me know how you like v4 otherwise though - I haven’t installed yet.)

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This is not cheap non-name filament, but essentially it’s paraffin wax which is really slippery stuff. I normally get fantastic adhesion (I have plenty of tearouts on my glass where the part stuck so well that while cooling tore a flake off the borosilicate…

I did get a successful print in E3D scaffold (modified PVA) I designed the model to not need supports.

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weird, why did @discourse not show the image?

I was able to fix your image. I’m not sure why it don’t post like your previous one, but it might have something to do with your markdown changes. I think it is best to keep it as the html <img> tag when uploading an image.

@discourse I tried 4 different browsers, but could not get this video to play/display

@henryhbk Also, what device, software and settings are you using to record this?

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Do you mean how did the time lapse get recorded? Via octoprint on the rpi built into the printer

And the uploaded into vimeo

What are the bitrate and sampling settings for the video? Is the codec in Octoprint using a video standard?

Also, are the videos being recorded at custom height and width?

I fixed the video onebox that was on this post: In maker hell tonight - #12 by henryhbk

This is exactly what I was going to say :stuck_out_tongue:
I’ve had those days, they are exhausting. hope it works better!

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Did you just resample the video to the following settings or ???

Frame width: 480
Frame height: 360
Bitrate: 456kbps
Frame rate: 25 frames per second

If you did resample, do you know what the original settings were?

BTW: Thanks for making it work. The link played properly.

Ohh nothing like that it was just a weird vimeo link issue and I just had to repost the link for it to correctly get oneboxed.

If @henryhbk copies the link from your fix and pastes it in place of the original, that should solve this, correct?

Are there some other posts that have broken videos? He might just need to add an extra blank line before the link so that the forum server sees it as change to the post and actually updates the html.

@henryhbk has posted many videos (enjoyable to watch) which sporadically appeared and disappear. Some played and appeared in different browsers and not in others.

If memory servers, they have been via Vimeo. Others were post produced, but didn’t seem to have issues like this video has.

Yes, this is observed behavior. If you edit it and resave it works for “a while” then goes dead again…

The movie was made at 480p

I just pressed the upload image button in the iOS browser…