I’ve grown EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED by the lack of help from SeeMeCNC. You only get the awesome forum members who, with the best of intentions, always suggest the same laundry list of 10 to 20 things that can be checked, all of which I think I’ve covered by now. Except for an exorcism, which I haven’t tried… yet. You have to wonder how many more SeeMeCNC customers have this issue but don’t notice because they always print smaller objects. Or they simply buy a second printer for the big prints, not wanting to deal with this headache. I don’t doubt the 11” diameter print volume works for many people, but I see that it does not work for many us as well. It is worth noticing that most delta printers have a print bed that does not stray away from the triangle described by the three towers. I think there is good reason for that. The SeeMeCNC printers are more ambitious in that the print bed is a lot larger than the triangle, only it doesn’t really work for many of us. But they advertise that it does work.
It is possible that if a play with the many EEPROM variables NOT MENTIONED IN THE MANUAL I may eventually get it to work, but there are just too many variables. I’ve dabbled in it, and there is nothing on the manual on this. This is more a job for a computer, which is what is being attempted with the smoothie board z-probing. I can’t continue to sink money and time into this thing, only for the possibility of having it work as advertised. I have a wife and family I've been neglecting in my obsession of trying to get this thing to work. Smoothie board, z-probe sensors, trick laser arms, metal frame, just to see if it works as advertised. That’s basically a whole new printer, which incidentally, is what I see most of the veterans here have. I read they are always working on a “new build”. I would never consider a “new build” if the thing performed as advertised. I feel I’ve paid my dues in money, and most of all in time and effort. With my mechanical engineering background and the ridiculous amount of hours I’ve spent on this thing, I am owed a printer that can print the full 11” that was advertised. If I can’t get this POS to print per spec in around 50 hours of troubleshooting, the problem is with the printer, not me. To be clear, all would love and praise on my part, as it was in the beginning, if the spec sheet mentioned the print volume had a diameter of 6”. But that is a hypothetical scenario because I would have never put down $1k and the very long build time, for that print volume. I would have instead purchased a different printer. If I can’t get this to work soon or sell it, I’ll probably be doing a Rostock Max V2 bonfire at the beach and posting it to Youtube, exorcism included. I own a small video production company on the side so I know a thing or two about creating compelling video. This POS has tortured me so that if it goes, it will go out with a bang. At least this way it will serve to entertain thousands of people; it certainly hasn’t entertained me as of late. Instead of me spending countless more hours messing with EEPROM settings, I’d rather spend those hours editing a professional video. At least I’ll know the result I’m going to get at the end of my 50 hours of work, and I won’t need to spend a dime. If you’ve ever seen Groundhog Day, feel like Bill Murray when he loses it and kidnaps the groundhog
Anyway I’ve read many here have had similar infuriating thoughts of tossing their printer out the window, or in the trash. A more sensible poster simply turned his SeeMeCNC delta into a cartesian printer. I wish I had the energy, but I’m exhausted at this point. I forsake the day I chose a delta instead of a cartesian. KISS is always the best policy, everybody knows that. I’ve regretted a few things in my life, and buying this printer is one of them. In this day and age where one is accustomed to being able to return defective items, it is infuriating not being able to return this printer, (for obvious reasons). Going into it, I KNEW building this printer and setting it up was going to be a challenge. But at this point, with all the time and effort I've put into this printer without seeing the expected results, this must be considered false advertising.In one of the older unsolved threads complaining about this very issue, someone expressed that he did not see Rostock Max V2 as a product. Instead, he saw it as just a kit “facilitated” by SeeMeCNC. I think SeeMeCNC may not agree, but for myself, I could not agree more with this statement. Repeated here for emphasis: The Rostock Max V2 is not a product. It is simply a bunch of parts cobbled together that “mostly work” when assembled. And this my friends, is the crucial piece of information that I DID NOT KNOW coming in. I thought I was buying an unassembled product. Like a Lego for adults. Boy was I ever wrong. I’ve done several DYI builds before, but this caught me completely off guard because to me it looked like an unassembled product. On my previous DYI builds, I've had to source all the components myself from shody websites that accept only PayPal, and the instructions were all scattered, there was no build manual. Everything about the RMAX V2 looks like a product, only it isn’t. I feel deceived. Well live and learn I guess. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Still, the pink elephant in the room must not be ignored any longer. This needs to get addressed, and serious consideration must be given to changing the print diameter on the spec sheet while this gets addressed.
