Petalys

PrusaSlicer 2.5 has been released, and it has some great new features. The beauty of open source is that some of these...

This is just an FYI for any Canadian customers that need a replacement part sent under warranty. My splice core suffered...

I went to the online store to order some spare parts; 4 tubes, a pack of splice tubes, a pack of little brass couplers,...

I am using Canvas/KISSlicer/In Place Side Transition. I am using the 22.02.09.0 firmware - things are much worse with...

The Slic3r announcement https://www.mosaicmfg.com/blogs/technolo...-a-new-engine-option-for-canvas indicates that the code...

I see a few people reporting this problem. For me it happens every time I try a long print. I start a print in accessory...

I put a G4 P5000 command in my AfterSideTransition gcode to introduce a 5 second pause when the purge is done. If a ping...

My Palette 3 Pro thinks it is a Palette 3 and only shows 4 inputs. The firmware is 22.02.09.0. I have tried a Factory...

Just a thought, but what if it is just not possible with the physical design of the Palette3? A lot of people are still failing with basic PLA, and firmware fix will make flexibles work? We keep hearing that they are working on a firmware fix, I would like to understand what more can be done beyond the current control of temperature, compression, and cooling? Can Mosaic at least give us a hint what the biggest hurdle is and how they are trying to get around it? Is it the splices? Is it the path through the palette? Can they give us anything? The ability to do materials other than PLA has been part of the Palette 3 advertising from day 1, and the ability to handle flexibles is still on their marketing page. Think of how long they have had to work this out. Now think of their track record and lack of transparency and ask yourself what they would do if they had determined it is just not possible. Would they admit it? They just raised the price $100, it would be hard to admit that such a key feature will never...

I have had the same thing happen several times. I have an 800mm tube and 50mm offset. It happens when I have a lot of short splices to start things off. As near as I can tell it happens if I have a splice between 1600mm and 1700mm, and that splice is made a short time before the palette is trying to push the filament out of the tube. It looks like there is a zone just after the core where the splice can’t sit, so it pushes the splice out of that zone and as a result it pushes too much filament out of the tube. I have to go add a skirt etc., to change the splice locations a little bit.

I don’t think that Palette cares about nozzle size. I can slice and print with a .25 mm nozzle (I don’t because it generally leads to more splices). You do have to set the nozzle size for the printer in Canvas and use appropriate line widths and heights. Palette generates filament for consumption, and that consumption is defined by the g-code, which in turn is generated by the slicer which takes things like nozzle size, line width and height into account. I don’t think there is anything special about a .4mm nozzle when it comes to the Palette, as long as the slicer knows the size.

But what if I am in accesory mode and want to send the mafx file to the palette? Right now I have to download to usb and insert into palette, why can't I just transfer the mafx to the palette from Canvas? If you take the time to read the original post I am pretty sure that is the question.

If the Palette uses a raspberry pi (or something similar), then how about running klipper and fluidd right on the Palette? Too bad things are not a little more open.

80% of my PLA comes from spool3d.ca (I know how to use it, I get good consistent results with it, and I live 20 minutes from the warehouse). So far I have only been doing plain PLA to plain PLA splices and I have not had a single problem or failure due to splicing. So far I have used 6 different colors, but have not covered all combinations. I have had my share of issues with the P3Pro but splices has not been one of them. Reading the problems people have with splices I have always wondered why I am so fortunate. It might be due to the spool3d.ca brand, but I think that staying with one type of PLA from a single brand might be what really matters. Once I can get consistent results using only spool3d plain PLA I will start to mix brands (hatchbox, prusament, etc) and types (silk, transparent, etc) and see what happens. I am curious what others observe. Does Overture Blue/Overture Red work better than Overture Blue/Eryone Red?

I am using In Place Side Transitions with KISslicer, but I have to add g-code to the Before Side Transitioning sequence to move the nozzle to the purge location (for me this is: G1 X-9 Y0 F7200). I do not have to do this if I use Along Edge. I also have to adjust the feed rate used for ping extrude- it is 70mm/s! That is not an extrude only feed rate, it is an xy movement speed. The ping extrude uses 20mm of filament - no hot end is going to extrude 20mm of filament in 2/7ths of a second (mine sure gives it good try :-) ). I manually update the g-code file to a more reasonable rate of 4mm/s and everything is good (I replace G1 E20 F4200 with G1 E20 F240).

I can confirm that 22.03.29.0 is a P3Pro killer.

It is called a Purge Block. When the Palette transitions from one color to another there is a period in which the colors are mixed and that needs to be purged. Here is a great video explaining the ins and outs of purge blocks - https://youtu.be/lR_c-zxW2D8 It does not matter if you are using a Palette, Enraged Rabbit, or Prusa’s MMU you will get a purge block.

On Friday I reported that my new Palette 3 Pro was only showing 4 inputs in the palette menu system. One way to see if you are suffering from this problem is to look at the Info screen. In the Filament section there should be 8 circles indicating ‘how many out of 8’ filaments have been loaded. Mine only showed 4 circles. Any attempt to start a 5+ color job in accessory mode failed (I do not use Canvas). Hana reached out to me right away and we began trouble shooting. The problem was resolved Tuesday afternoon. I was given a temporary firmware to install, and it convinced my Pro that it really has 8 inputs. I then reverted back to the current firmware and so far everything is looks good. I am very impressed with how fast this problem was resolved - a big thanks to Hana and the engineers at Mosaic.