u/dfishocc

I’m just wondering. I have been on compounded tirzepatide for 18 months – down 80 lbs, but I’ve been on maintenance for the past 4 months. My PCP has submitted pre-authorization for Zepbound. I qualify under Tier 1, as I started GLP-1 with a BMI over 38. Tomorrow I plan to check with my PCP to see if he can give me a current status of the PA. Is there anyone else on this group who is waiting for PA? Has anybody received the authorization already? My pharmacy shows a Rx for Zepbound awaiting insurance approval. I just checked my pharmacy’s website, and it shows the estimated price as “pending” and the script as “estimated ready by Friday, July 10 at 1:45 pm.”

Anybody else awaiting approval for the Medicare Bridge Program?

I'm getting a nozzle mismatch error message on my Kobra X. I'm pretty certain I have the standard 0.4mm nozzle and that matches the slicer setting. Has anyone else seen that message?

I posted a question yesterday about taking apart my ACE Gen2 Toolhead because of reports of clogging. I have not yet done that. What I HAVE done, has been to turn off reports of AI detection and clogging, then send the printer through a calibration, then turn them back on again (both AI detection and reports of clogging), after which I have successfully printed a First Layer print.

https://preview.redd.it/k3cmg98mh42h1.jpg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04a1c936715eff56cd54199a61d561845e73aa01

Does that mean that all is well now with my printer? Is it possible that I actually do have filament clogged somewhere? Or does a successful first layer print job after a new calibration of the printer mean that all is well?

I am at a loss. I am hopeful that I will not need (at least at this time) to take my printhead apart, or replace it.

Those of you who are more experienced than I am, what do you say?

Statue with base is about 6.5 inches high. I had an AI make a 3D image of the dog from a photo. The resulting stl had LOTS of non-manifold edges. I use a Mac so AnycubicSlicerNext does not FIX those errors like the Windows version does. I did a lot of attempts with Blender and Meshmixer to fill in those gaps. Finally I got an stl that I could load into AnycubicSlicerNext. I used the paint function to paint the eyes and nose, and to color the different color of the dog's face.

The total print time was probably somewhere around 8.5 hours, on 3 plates:

1. dog
2. base
3. Name plate

I made the Name Plate separate, because I couldn't get the dog's name to emboss correctly (at least to my satisfaction) on the front of the base, so I printed the Name plate on the PEI plate, and embossed the dog's name on the plate.

She liked the gift quite a bit.

I'm uploading the 3D print and the photo from which the 3D stl was made.

The Kobra X is my first 3D printer. I ordered it on Jan. 14 (deposit on Jan. 2) and took delivery on March 11.

3D Printed model for my daughter

Photo used in making the 3D model