Silhouette Alta - Live Unboxing

Unboxing the new Silhouette Alta 3D printer. I wrote about the Silhouette Alta announcement on my blog at designmaketeach.com/2018/06/2.... Received this printer for free as part of a content creation deal with Silhouette to write a few project blog posts and a review.
Learn more about the Silhouette Alta at www.silhouetteamerica.com/sho...

[@paulshircliff]

Hurray!!! in the classroom I would like a 2nd print bed...Student 1 takes print bed off to remove their print and Student 2 can start printing

[@DesignMakeTeach]

Yep. I definitely see that being worthwhile. Hopefully they sell it as an accessory.

[@GregAtlas]

Hmm. Speaking of removing prints. While I'm assuming the surface helps with removal, I wonder how a school setting would handle a more troublesome part? Like would the typical paint scraper tool even be allowed in school due to their rules about bladed items?

[@reluttr2]

Does the print head have a part cooling fan for overhangs? Also do you have any macro shots of prints made on the printer?

[@GregAtlas]

That spool is weird. I can dig the machine, but its mechanics seem quite noisy almost as if the bearings are poor quality maybe? Kind of hard to tell through video. I really appreciate the curly/stretchy wire and I don't hear any sounds of fans for the electronics, which is very nice. If the sound quality were improved, I could definitely see a set of these being used in a classroom and maybe a Cartesian machine with a heated print bed for demonstrating different types of filaments and their advantages.

[@DesignMakeTeach]

That was just a loose starter coil of filament and a full spool. It is noisy but less than my old Printrbot Metal Simple. The noise is also deeper so I don't mind it as much.

[@UDoIt2]

SWEET BROTHER!

[@DesignMakeTeach]

Thank you sir.

[@shadowbanned-9577]

Thanks.🙂

[@rosg452]

I was disappointed with the software. You can't export your file in .stl.

[@MakersLabHQ]

Is this channel still alive?

[@gonzostwin1]

@25:59 I started to get worried.

[@DesignMakeTeach]

I fed filament all the way down to the print head. I should have just fed it past the feeder. It was trying to do a fast feed to bring the filament down to the extruder head. Instead it was trying to force all that filament through the extruder. Doh!