I’m opening this thread as a dialogue/brainstorm to help improve 3D Fabrication and decrease the amount of maintenance needed on the Poly Printers.
Recently, I’ve noticed an increase in traffic in 3D Fab. Much of this traffic is coming from unfamiliar, new faces. I have begun to question the membership status of some these new faces or their authorization status on the Poly Printers.
Case in point, I just had to stop two people from using the Polys. One claimed to be a member but admitted he wasn’t authorized to use the printers. The other claimed to be a former member with printer authorization. I made sure the 3D Fab computers were locked out. But, this won’t stop an actual member without authorization.
These newer people–whether authorized or not–are causing increased issues with the Polys. The machines are going down at a higher-than-expected rate, much as the result of clogging. I’ve been performing much more frequent maintenance on the machines, as have others (shout out to @themitch22 and @maxk68 and the others doing the same).
So, I wanted to float the idea of putting additional lockouts on the printers, possibly RFID (though, I’m not sure how that would work). Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I’m just tired of having to constantly unclog the machines.