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I just got back from a two week vacation and after my PC updated, FreeCAD will no longer export a STEP file. It gives this error message in a pop-up window: DLL load failed while importing ImportGui: An Application Control policy has blocked this file.

How do I fix this without turning off the security features of Windows 11? I'm running FreeCAD 1.1.3, I've tried reinstalling a fresh copy of the program, and have it installed for use by all system users, so it doesn't live in my local AppData folder. I tried the AI recommended solutions but they were all useless.

Thanks!

By following the instructions provided on https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=92266 about using msys2 to build FreeCad on my new Surface Pro 11, I was able to get it running, but couldn't adjust the display due to the known segfault crash when you open the Edit -> Preferences window. After putzing around with it for a while, I thought to try and copy over my preferences from my regular, non-Arm PC. That worked great, now I have the same display settings I use on my PC. All I did was go into my ~/AppData/Roaming/FreeCAD folder and copy it to my Surface. The default fonts wen you load FC on the Surface display are teeny-tiny, far too small for my old eyes. I'll just keep tweaking prefs o

I've noticed a behavior on my A1 w/AMS Lite where it seems to sometimes have a bit of a y-axis layer shift on the beginning of a color change sequence. I've been using the latest stable release of Orca slicer. I got lucky enough to watch the layer shift happen today, and there was no jamming of the print head, grinding noises, or any movement of the build plate on the heat bed. It happened right at the beginning of the second color change sequence in the print. It had printed a 4 color section of layers just fine, then got to another layer where a color change happens, and it shifted about 0.5mm on the y-axis towards the back of the printer.

Is this an issue I should raise with Bambu? Or th

I want to upgrade one of my old folding bikes with bmx style bars instead of the long stem and mtb style flat bars. I found the folding stem extension to use, but I can't find the same handlebars. It looks like they might be aluminum and have a 31.8mm clamping surface.

Anyone got a clue who they are buying these handlebars from? I'm sure they aren't making them in house.

I'm working on setting up a small server with 3 webcams, each pointing at one of my Bambu A1 series printers, so I can have a better view of the prints than the printers themselves provide. It will also be on ethernet for better bandwidth usage. I've got a small server configured already with Ubuntu server 22 and a web cam, but every tutorial I've tried to follow is missing pieces or the final ffmpeg command to start the stream returns errors.

I'm pretty familiar with Linux and comfortable with the command line and basic networking, but I just can't seem to bridge the gap fully. Any suggestions for an end to end tutorial that is current?

I've not seen any posts online about this, so I thought I'd post in hopes of helping other people running into the same issues. I ran a 20 hour 3 color print last night with about 400 color changes in it, 2 per layer for most of the print. When I got up this morning, I noticed that it had some small layer shifts. It was almost done, so I let it finish, as it is good enough for the toy I was printing, but definitely not up to standards. After some online research and looking at the print on the plate, I determined that it was hanging up while printing in the prime tower, causing the plate to slip a bit on the bed. I cleaned everything really well to make sure all grease/oil is gone, and I ten

I use Bambu Studio to do a lot of mesh manipulations for custom prints (adding 3d text to objects mostly), and I want to build a new PC that will get better performance from the app. It's currently processing a boolean difference operation that takes several minutes, so I looked at the task manager in windows to see if I could find the limiting factor. Based on what I see, it seems to be memory bandwidth bound? Does that make sense to everyone else? I've got an AMD Ryzen 5 5900 chip with 64GB of RAM, sitting at about 15% CPU utilization during the operation. I noticed that it is doing a ton of memory transfers and using up to 8GB at a time for the studio process. I use very high resolution S

We're looking for an electric scooter repair shop in the area, does anyone have any suggestions? It's a Voro Motors scooter, if that makes any difference. TIA.

I have two desks set up in my office, one for WFH, one for my own projects. On my work desk, I have my work laptop hooked up to one display and my personal PC hooked up to another display. On my personal desk, I have another pair of displays hooked up to the same PC, along with another keyboard and mouse Windows 11 seems to have learned which ones I use at which times of day and is automatically switching between them, possibly based on the input device. If the PC is at the lock screen, and I touch the mouse from the other desk, the display jumps to that desk's monitor(s), and when I unlock, that is the monitor it stays on. What kind of feature is at play here? This has been happening relia

I just finished spending an hour trying to figure out why part of my print was not sticking to the bed (A1) with the smooth PEI plate, when I finally watched the entire first layer go down and saw the layer # go up to 2 before it finished. I should have listened to the slicer when it complained about a floating part of the model. When I shrank the model to 90%, it made part of it float just enough above the plate that it's first layer was on layer two. Tweaked it so that everything is actually sitting on the print bed and now it's printing just fine. Lesson learned, the robot is more reliable than I am.

So, I was analyzing my poops, as one should, and noticed that the Bambu Labs PLA Basic Jade White filament poops are thin little strings spun into a little nest, while this Eryone PLA Silk Fast Change Rainbow filament makes thick lines of poop. What does this mean about the filament itself compared to the Bambu filament? Can it handle a higher flow rate? Or is this meaningless? This is only the second spool I've run through my A1, so I still have a lot to learn about it.

Decided to try out the scarf seam feature in the latest Orca slicer with my Ender 3 V3 KE, which generally behaves pretty well. I sliced up a basic round model with a curved outer profile, nothing fancy, and printed it out. On the g-code viewer, it looks great. When I print it, I now get two seams, the original vertical seam and a much less prominent curved seam that matches what I see in the g-code. Any idea what is going on here?

Just installed the 4.2.7 board in my old Ender 3 and it is shockingly quiet. Now I'm wondering if there is an upgrade for the KE that makes it quieter.

I've got my old Ender 3 running again. When I print from the Creality Slicer program, the prints are great. When I use Creality Print or Orca slicer, there are issues with retraction or something, as the prints are super stringy, even the auto-generated temperature towers. I've tried to adjust the settings around retraction to match the slicer that generates good prints to match, but it still seems to be stringing when I print from those programs. Any other things to look at in the slicer settings that would affect stringing?