Hey guys, just wanted to let you know DMS qualifies for special pricing on Simplify3D. A while back I was talking with @themitch22 and @axeonos about the software, and after discussing with them decided to email the company for more information. Here’s what they said:
We do offer discounts to folks who are training others to use our software. This falls under our EDU Teacher Discount program with a 25% discount. So this would help you with licenses for your staff and teachers, but not for the members who want to purchase additional licenses.
Do you have several “open” computers that are in the MakerSpace? We could look at a discount for those licenses. Let us know.
~Simplify3D Education Support
From:
John Syrinek
Short Description:
License(s) for Dallas Makerspace
Issue Details:
Hi, I’ve purchased a personal copy of Simplify3D for myself. I recently joined the Dallas Makerspace, and after demoing your software to the 3D Fabrication committee chairs, we decided we would love to offer Simplify3D to the members of the space. Unfortunately, we don’t have a huge budget, and I was curious if you offered any kind of discount for non-profits like ourselves.
Wow, thanks for looking into that. It would be nice to have on the 3D fab PC’s, I think we need to get a good PolyPrinter profile for S3D as well. I need to teach a few more classes before we can purchase a license. I’ll keep this in mind though. If you would like to teach 3D fab classes that would be appreciated too.
Cool! I know I mentioned teaching a class a while back, but then I got swamped launching a new product at work. Things have slowed down now, so I’ll see what I can put together.
I am all for a S3D profile as I’ve found the software rather easy to use but I seem to be missing a gcode setting somewhere as any gcode from S3D that I ran seems to almost grind the PolyPrinter with very jarring printhead movements. I also tried getting the three dot priming from the pre-processing gcode in Kisslicer but wasn’t able to get the S3D gcode to do it.
I used the default profile for ABS on one of the 'space polyprinters and it was slow but worked fairly well. It definitely could be optimized for speed settings. I’m not sure about the custom g-code either. @edkman probably has a S3D profile that he tested we can try, I know some of it might be due to the post-processing in kisslicer that is not in S3D.
I really like the ability to change profiles per part on a build plate, and the custom supports, which I haven’t had to use much, are nice and break away easier.
Ya, the column-based support is nice vs thin towers in Meshmixer (that become part of the STL model, so their properties can’t be changed) and Kisslicer support that leaves a thin fuzz of support material once it gets to the model interface.
So did we ever buy a copy of “Simplify3D” for the DMS? I just watched an episode of “Layer by Layer” on Adafruit that said Simplify 3D will drastically reduce your print time. It makes the support material slicing more efficient, too.
No we haven’t yet, we have to contact them to ask if it could be used as a per computer license and not a per user. Each user that logs in would have to use a username and password to activate the product, which I wouldn’t want to just hand out to people since it’s one purchase license for two computers (we’d need 2 licenses for the 3 3D fab PC’s). Another option would be to install Simplify3D on the Jump server, again if it could be auto-activated for each user.
I’m hoping we can just do deep freeze again and go back to general login accounts and it would solve these licensing issues, but that’s up to Infrastructure (@bscharff).
If you want something sliced @sciborg I’m always willing to do it with my license.
I’d also wait until we reimage and upgrade these PC’s to Windows 10. Lets also hope a deal with Dell goes through.
Thanks @themitch22 ! We bought a copy of S3D at my makerspace, and will use it with the PolyPrinters. I reached out to Ed at PolyPrinter, and in awesome spirit, he is updating the profile and post-processing for slicing there! He said it should be ready sometime next week for users of Simplify3D. Yay! I can’t wait to compare the detail / overhang on prints.
So I tried to install my personal copy of Simplify 3D on one of the computers in 3D fab and when I log in under another profile it prompts for a username and password again so I don’t think it works like that. I emailed S3D’s support and they just told me I’d need to purchase one license per computer. I would just have a general login but I’d be worried about members activating it on their personal computers. I’m going to email them back and confirm about multi-user account activations.