peitzgreene wrote:w34 wrote:peitzgreene wrote:W34 Got a quick question for you here. So got the exe replaced and everything worked fine. Gcode would upload and it would start heating. Would get up to the proper temperature, then move to about the center about 1-2in above the bed, then would heat up again. After all of that would start printing, but 1-2in to high. In XYZware it looks fine.
I have no idea why it is doing this, any ideas?
I have tried Cura and Slic3r
Cura does what I listed
But Slic3r will not start printing, but it will move to the center and start heating and then stay there and keep heating.
Thanks
Great work by the way.
If it is above the print bed to far you can set the z-offset in slic3r to a negative number to compensate for the height difference or try recalibrating and shoot for z-offset of 230-250 on the machine. You can also do the paper method of leveling the bed.
As for the file not starting for slic3r, it may be take a bit depending on your settings in slic3r. For instance if the heat and bed temperatures is set to 210/80 and slic3r is set to 230/100, it will heat for the cartridge temp first, then begin executing the gcode and wait for temp to reach the 230/100 set in the gcode, then it will print. If it does nothing after the 2nd heating to reach your target temps, then something is wrong in the gcode. Check to make sure all start code is removed in the slic3r settings. If that still doesn't work, upload the gcode so I can take a look.
Humm, I can not find the Z offset in Cura. Also 230-250 is the z-offset I have on the machine. And how would one go about doing the paper method on the stock firmware? Here is a gcode that I sliced up with Cura (I really like using Cura other then Slic3r)
Thanks.
In cura, select plugins->tweak at z->then set the z offset to something like -0.2 or however much it may be off by.
For the paper method I turn off the print, put a piece of standard printer paper on the heat bed and move the print head over the corners of the bed. Adjust to where all four starts to barely grip the paper, but you can still move the paper.
I will check out the gcode and see if I can replicate the issue.
Edit: tried the tweak at Z and it looks like it does something different. You will have to manually add it to the start code e.g.
G1 Z0.2
G92 Z0
Edit: Try this file.
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