Pitsco Design Solutions Curriculum by Pitsco

@tgmacall The shipping weight is 170 lbs.

Yes, but you will need a hardened steel nozzle as the wood material is abrasive.

Hey @mbsllc!
Thank you so much and always more than happy to help!

Also for TPU can only print from left nozzle. Distance from hot end to hobbed bolt is much shorter on the left side than the right.

Other TPU settings: No retraction and have all speeds the same slow speed, perimeters and infill.

This is why the Raise 3D printer is not for the occasional business user. The first responder here lays out tweaks and subjective things to do to get filament to print.
The moderator acts as if that is common knowledge shared openly with users. This is not the case. Build it into the templates if the settings are right for a good print.

These machines are a tedious nightmare for the occasional business user that wants to load a file, press go, and get a good print. You know like you can with a low end Stratus.

No, you will need to use Raise3D's Slicer, Ideamaker.

The Raise PRO2 series of machines use Bondtech Extruders that are original, they do not use aftermarket copies.

I have two of these machines and can confirm that the stock hotend is superior to anything E3D manufactures. Retrofitting this machine with "open source junk" or "Marlin" is a tremendous waste of money. Why spend $4,500 on a machine just to cripple it?

I cannot say I have seen that done on this machine before.

Hi @Glenn G!

Yes.

Yes. Don't think simplify has published a profile yet, but I found one on line.

Just watch the speed on some prints. The online profile is 3600 mm/minute which works pretty good for layer 2 and up (PLA and .4mm nozzle). Had to drop to 25% for first layer.

For the 1mm nozzle had to cut speed in half to let the infill stick where it was supposed to. At full speed it pulled it off.

Hi @Robert!

Unfortunately, this is untrue. The filament path is 1.75mm for this machine.

This is a great question!

not well - I've been using both the pro2 and pro2 plus. While the print quality is really impressive, some of the best prints I've ever achieved - the maintenance and design when something goes wrong is pretty frustrating and underwhelming. nozzle and hotend replacement is more work that necessary and overall tower design for print head overly complicates things. I would not purchase them again.

I dont find it hard, I change out hotend in about 10 mins. it depends on your skill set. I even changed the panel. that took about 20 minutes. the print quailty is excellent.

We absolutely love our pro2, we've been able to get 4-5 different pieces printed a day in excellent quality(abs, and nylon) for the past month straight.

We absolutely love our pro2, we've been able to get 4-5 different pieces printed a day in excellent quality(abs, and nylon) for the past month straight.

I agree with other response that starts with: not well!
The print quality is fantastic. Everything is great until you get into an issue. The maintenance is not easy. The manufacturing company’s tech team are not very responsive and they do not have any support team in our state. The peinter is so big and heavy that you cannot sent it back to them to repair.
I love this printer when it works. When it doesn’t, I wish it was in a working condition

Terrible.
This Raise 3D printer is not for the occasional business user. This printer requires tweaks and subjective things to do to get filament to print. The machine requires someone to be an expert Raise operator to get it to work properly. Over 3 years we have maybe had 4 trouble free prints- terrible.

These machines are a tedious nightmare for the occasional business user that wants to load a file, press go, and get a good print. You know, like you can with a low end Stratus.

Yes. It includes the warranty!

*As an add-on feature though

ideaMaker is a free software designed for Raise3D printers.

To our knowledge, no.

No, We use ours on the guest network and keep it behind an extra layer of passwords.

Hey @Maxwell W!
You can use 1.75mm 3kg spools with the Raise3D Pro2, however, the spool would not fit within the filament side compartment. You would need to obtain or create a filament spool holding solution for the spool sitting outside the side compartment.

I do not recommend you try to add large spools unless you're willing to fab a custom spindle to hold them and they can sit outside the printer. I have found the weight of larger spools is too much for the spindles and stepper motors of this printer, leading to "cobwebby" prints as less plastic can get into the extruder. Not to mention the gap between the door and the metal frame is too narrow for larger spools, so you would not be able to fully enclose the printer (no biggie with PLA...).

It feels like one could make/buy a spool rack that stayed above this printer and held bigger spools, or perhaps other fancy setups. But out of the box, I wouldn't go much bigger than the size of spool that comes with the machine (which I think is like a 1kg).

I am not sure why it is not listed. It is compatible with PCA support material.

Works fine with PVA, we use it extensively.

Yes those are very helpful, but don't address things like take lid off, etc.

Okay should be site not sight. I spell like an engineer ;)

Hi @ Bill Pickl!

Thank you for your suggestion!
We do currently have articles on how to best print with various materials that can be found here by typing:

How to print with (material)

When/what type of materials would you need to take the lid off for?

We do offer financing through a company called Affirm. During checkout, under payment options, you can select Affirm.

I have done this a couple ways. The most straightforward is via Chrome Remote Desktop, since that just pushes your desktop to really any device you like. That works great for most things.

The fancier method is to use a packet sniffer to identify what IP address the camera is using. You also have to find the username and password the printer expects for access, which is also included in the packet and not obfuscated in any way. Once you have this you can open a browser straight to the camera feed on your local machine, or write a relatively simple app to retrieve the image from that feed and send it to the web location of your choice.

I did that second method for a while, but after changing my household networking I'd have had to do it all over again, so I went back to CRD. :)

The PRO 2 comes with 0.4mm nozzles

Does this include offsets in the z direction? I can only find software offsets in the x and y direction.

Hey @ btpickl!

We would be more than happy to assist you with this!
Please send us an email to Support@MatterHackes.com

For those who don't want to start a whole email chain to sort this...

On the Settings tab on the printer itself, you need to make sure you've selected and activated the camera. You do this on the touch screen, not through Ideamaker. Once that connection is set up, you can then see the camera icon in Ideamaker and can look at the print.

Note that you'll probably have to do this more than once, it seems that setting gets thrown when the power on the unit goes down.

@Guest The Pro2 does not have an automatic bed leveling system.

The printer is quite heavy weighing between 120-130 pounds roughly. We ship it via freight on a pallet to prevent any tilting or damage while being shipped.

@Cory There should be an option during the checkout process to input an APO!