<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/5397/solidoodle-2-calibrationh-file-does-nothing-for-me/ Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:48:16 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48562/#p48562 You don't need it.  The extruder steps are saved to the EEPROM configuration from within Repetier.  Do your calibration, then once you figure out what your stepper value should be you can save it to the EEPROM. 

What I do is mark the filament with a marker every 10mm (about 6-7 marks), then I extrude 10mm.  If it extrudes more (past the next marker), I use the retract command set at 1mm, and back up the filament until I see the marker it overshot, while counting how many times I clicked the retract button.  Lets say you over extruded 3mm.  From the original E Steps setting (eg. E138), substract about 10 for every mm that you went over.  So in the example above, you would have  138- (10 x 3mm) = 108.

On the Command Line, type M92 E108, hit ENTER, then extract 10mm again.  Is it close?  Work with this back and forth until you find the exact value for your machine.  Once you're happy with it, you can save the value to your EEPROM like it was mentioned beore, or you can enter the value as part of your start GCODE in the slicer settings.

]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:48:16 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48562/#p48562 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48556/#p48556 Hi so im trying to adjust my filament intake but i cant find  the ide file with arduino can anyone help ? smile

]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:10:52 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48556/#p48556 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48479/#p48479 qw623 wrote:
COASTER19 wrote:

If you are using Repetier Host, just adjust the eeprom configuration.  If you are using the arduino ide, then make sure you are uploading the sketch after you adjust the values.

I've actually been thinking this might be the easiest way to do that, I really have no clue why I haven't tried that yet.

This worked perfectly for the extruder, now all I have to do is calibrate the X Y and Z axes.

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:59:20 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48479/#p48479 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48440/#p48440 Well if you are familiar with programming on the arduino chips then it may be the best way to go... I have my boxes all setup for programming and compiling and everything else to push firmware to the arduino boards but I find it a lot simpler and less time consuming to just issue a few mcodes in the repetier gcode entry box on the manual control tab.

M92 E102   ; sets the E axis(extruder) to 102 steps.

M500  ; saves the setting in eeprom.

M501  ; reads it back so you can see the change.(optional)


This method will work on all SD printers(marlin f/w) regardless of the platform RH is on and is not dependent of the arduino environment for compiling the only thing that matters is RH is connected to it for sending data.

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:41:32 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48440/#p48440 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48438/#p48438 COASTER19 wrote:

If you are using Repetier Host, just adjust the eeprom configuration.  If you are using the arduino ide, then make sure you are uploading the sketch after you adjust the values.

I've actually been thinking this might be the easiest way to do that, I really have no clue why I haven't tried that yet.

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 04:58:46 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48438/#p48438 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48437/#p48437 ronsii wrote:

Here qw623, easy to adjust filament numbers ---> {I had to remove the link}

that's actually the video I went by, it worked with my printer the first two times changing filament, but it doesn't seem to work using the Arduino IDE anymore.  Thanks for the suggestion though big_smile

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 04:56:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48437/#p48437 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48425/#p48425 Here qw623, easy to adjust filament numbers ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZGdMc2ebPo

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 01:50:03 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48425/#p48425 <![CDATA[Re: Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48421/#p48421 If you are using Repetier Host, just adjust the eeprom configuration.  If you are using the arduino ide, then make sure you are uploading the sketch after you adjust the values.

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 01:30:46 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/48421/#p48421 <![CDATA[Solidoodle 2 Calibration.h file does nothing for me]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/48418/#p48418 I'm not sure if this has been posted here before, sorry if it has, I couldn't find it.  Anyway the problem that I'm having is changing the configuration.h files steps/mm values doesn't change anything.  If the extruder for example was pulling in 3mm to much and I brought the steps/mm down about 97% it would still pull 3mm more than it should

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