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February 18, 2014
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  • February 18, 2014
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I am thinking about buying a Markerbot Replicator 2 will it be compatible with PTC CREO 2.0?

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Inoram14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
February 18, 2014

Compatible in what way?

Years ago I ran a Stratasys FDM, and the way it worked with Pro is you export your model as STL, and then import it into the software (I think it was called Quick Slice?) and the software generated the path and sent it to the printer.

It appears Makerware is similar.

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BillChapman13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
February 18, 2014

We have a replicator 2x and Creo Parametric 2.0. Creo makes the .stl file that will go directly into the Makerware software provided by Makerbot. This is smooth and works well.

I would not recommend the replicator 2x machine that we have, the end parts do not come out dimensionally correct. We generally have to print, measure, scale and print a 2nd time to get it right. I think the replicator 2 you mentioned will be a better machine as it prints PLA which is more stable.

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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    February 19, 2014

    We have two Replicator 2X with the dual print head. We have had many problems getting it to print well, mostly with getting the raft and support to separate from the part cleanly. The part surface where the raft & support were attached had very poor surface quality.

    We even bought a service contract and tech support has been pretty bad. They don't seem to know these new machines very well at all and haven't been able to help us solve the problems.

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