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1. #MONOPRICE MAKER SELECT PLUS 3D PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR MAC MANUAL#
2. #MONOPRICE MAKER SELECT PLUS 3D PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

The Maker Select Ultimate offers good, though not spectacular print quality. 3D printing is never a speedy process, and the Maker Select Ultimate does nothing to change this. A similar print on the XYZprinting da Vinci 3-in1 took about 14 hours and 13 minutes, so Monoprice's printer is a little bit slower. Printing with PLA filament at Normal quality with a layer height of 0.1mm, our 4.5-inch Thinker test sculpture took about 16 hours and 40 minutes to print. In terms of speed, the Maker Select Ultimate is a fairly average 3D printer. This didn't cause the print to fail, but it's somewhat alarming to see. This is when the first layer of material doesn't stick to the bed and peels up as subsequent layers are added. Even after adjusting the print bed, I noticed some prints peeling rather alarmingly. This is an overly finicky process, and another argument in favor of automatic print-bed leveling. To get them to stick, I had to turn the knobs slightly to adjust the print bed, then try a print and adjust again if required. In my first few prints, the first layer of material didn't stick to the print bed, causing them to fail.

#MONOPRICE MAKER SELECT PLUS 3D PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR MAC MANUAL#

The manual print-bed leveling process described above didn't quite cut it. I did find that getting the all-important first level of the print right required some tweaking, though. Once the printer was configured correctly, the print process turned out to be largely straightforward and trouble-free.

#MONOPRICE MAKER SELECT PLUS 3D PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

If you are connected over USB, the software handles most of the process, heating up the print bed and nozzle and starting the print. If you are doing the latter, you then have to choose Print from the menu on the printer and select the model from the list on the printer LED screen. Once the print is ready to go, you can print it directly over USB, or save the print file to the SD card. The Maker Select Ultimate struggled somewhat with ABS, with several prints failing because the layers didn't stick together properly. By setting the software to expert mode, you can get access to a bewildering number of options and settings and create custom profiles for different materials and types of print. This customized version of Cura also offers the ability to get into the more technical details of 3D printing and tweak them. You can view the model in several different ways, including the layer view that provides a preview of the 3D print as it is created layer by layer. You can also move and scale the model, but since it's not a full-on 3D modeling program, you can't create models from scratch. It is pretty simple to use, presenting the user with a rotatable 3D view of the loaded model. This is a customized version of the open-source program Cura, although it is a few versions behind the latest release of Cura. The Maker Select works with a software package called Cura IIIP Edition that comes included on an SD card that ships with the printer. Print Process: Straightforward with one catch This was disappointing: One of the selling points of the Maker Select Ultimate over cheaper models is this flexibility, so we would have hoped for better performance out of the box with ABS. We did most of our testing with PLA filament, but we also tested with ABS filament, another material used frequently for 3D printing.