I'm in the same boat as you, but I'm right at the beginning of this journey. Mine just arrived earlier today. Thanks for posting your findings.
The first thing I noticed (after installing the provided Up Plus config file) is that the X and Z axes are backwards and crash into the ends of their travel when trying to home. That didn't happen to you?
Alright so I'm slowly finally getting this figured out.
The default config is much too fast to print anything reliably.
I've dropped all config values for speed significantly and getting somewhere.
Defaults for the config are
XY axis max speed: 30000, set this to 8000
Leave Z axis at 1200
Change the Alpha and Beta max rate to 8000 as well
Drop default_feed_rate and default_seek_rate to 1800
drop Aceleration to 500
Drop Extruder.hotend.default_feed_rate to 400 from 600 and acceleration from 200 to 100
Everything else seems to be OK. I'm trying to get it cleaned up to the point where I get crisp clean lines when printing like I got with the TierTime slicer, but so far it's getting better. I printed a bunch of the CaliCat model with the TierTime software to try and find a way to get it to bond the surface to the edge without any success which is why I finally installed my tinyFab processor. So far CURA actually gets them to bond, but I get unclean edges on a couple of sides. Not sure if this is due to my slightly warped bed or something else.
I would highly recommend swapping out the perfboard that comes with for a glass plate or something else that can help compensate for the Tiertime build plates warping that happens when it's heated up.
No need to make any major changes to the CURA default Custom FFF settings. Plug in the build plate size and follow the Tiertime G-Code tutorial but leave the defaults for the G-Code that comes with a generic CURA FFF printer (Don't put in the tiertime G-Code for start & end print)
I'm in the same boat as you, but I'm right at the beginning of this journey. Mine just arrived earlier today. Thanks for posting your findings.
The first thing I noticed (after installing the provided Up Plus config file) is that the X and Z axes are backwards and crash into the ends of their travel when trying to home. That didn't happen to you?
Alright so I'm slowly finally getting this figured out.
The default config is much too fast to print anything reliably.
I've dropped all config values for speed significantly and getting somewhere.
Defaults for the config are
XY axis max speed: 30000, set this to 8000
Leave Z axis at 1200
Change the Alpha and Beta max rate to 8000 as well
Drop default_feed_rate and default_seek_rate to 1800
drop Aceleration to 500
Drop Extruder.hotend.default_feed_rate to 400 from 600 and acceleration from 200 to 100
Everything else seems to be OK. I'm trying to get it cleaned up to the point where I get crisp clean lines when printing like I got with the TierTime slicer, but so far it's getting better. I printed a bunch of the CaliCat model with the TierTime software to try and find a way to get it to bond the surface to the edge without any success which is why I finally installed my tinyFab processor. So far CURA actually gets them to bond, but I get unclean edges on a couple of sides. Not sure if this is due to my slightly warped bed or something else.
I would highly recommend swapping out the perfboard that comes with for a glass plate or something else that can help compensate for the Tiertime build plates warping that happens when it's heated up.
No need to make any major changes to the CURA default Custom FFF settings. Plug in the build plate size and follow the Tiertime G-Code tutorial but leave the defaults for the G-Code that comes with a generic CURA FFF printer (Don't put in the tiertime G-Code for start & end print)