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Topic: CTC Creator Dual connection help.

I recently purchased the CTC Metal version. It has a mightyboard clone for those not yet familiar with this model. The mightyboard is the controller used in Makerbots.

I have spent three days and even reinstalling windows trying to get this machine to connect to ReplicateG .40 as well as Makerware and Makerware Desktop all versions. Nothing sees the specified port even though windows sees and identifies and installs correct drivers. It just seems that no client works and I am suspecting a bad board even though it works great from SDcard. I just dont want to be limited to SDcard printing only.

So has anyone had connection isdues and corrected them or does anyone have suggestions? I want to upgrade to sailfish but if I cant connect now then I cant record and save my EEPROM values to put back into sailfish.

Printing since 2009 and still love it!
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Re: CTC Creator Dual connection help.

So I played around some more an still no luck. Even on Win8.1 no luck. I went to the xml file in ReplicatorG and manually forced the port to the port the PC was showing and still no talky. The guys that I bought it from have gone silent on me now that I mentioned the letters RMA to them. I think I might just pick up a RUMBA board and start from scratch. I just wish I knew what the extruder offset was.

If anyone was a CTC dual and has ReplicatorG installed please look at the firmware settings if you can and tell me what the extruder offset is..

Printing since 2009 and still love it!
Anycubic 4MAX best $225 ever invested.
Voxelabs Proxima SLA. 6 inch 2k Mono LCD.
Anycubic Predator, massive Delta machine. 450 x 370 print envelope.

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Re: CTC Creator Dual connection help.

Hi. This is an old post, and perhaps the issue has been corrected, but for the sake of other users facing the same problem, I'd like to post my opinion on the cause of this strange behaviour.

If you use the Makerware application, it installs a server service. This server "grabs" all arduino-like serial devices that you connect to your computer. So if you connect your CTC then try to launch Replicator, it will fail to connect to the printer as the serial port is already opened by Makerware's server. You have first to launch Makerware and from the server menu, select to stop the service. I'm not at home right now so I don't know the exact menu names.

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Re: CTC Creator Dual connection help.

DonJuanito wrote:

Hi. This is an old post, and perhaps the issue has been corrected, but for the sake of other users facing the same problem, I'd like to post my opinion on the cause of this strange behaviour.

If you use the Makerware application, it installs a server service. This server "grabs" all arduino-like serial devices that you connect to your computer. So if you connect your CTC then try to launch Replicator, it will fail to connect to the printer as the serial port is already opened by Makerware's server. You have first to launch Makerware and from the server menu, select to stop the service. I'm not at home right now so I don't know the exact menu names.


Actually it was corrected, this printer actually required Windows XP. Nothing higher would work. I tested on an XP lappy I had and no issues. I have since changed the controller to a different one and now all issues are gone.

Printing since 2009 and still love it!
Anycubic 4MAX best $225 ever invested.
Voxelabs Proxima SLA. 6 inch 2k Mono LCD.
Anycubic Predator, massive Delta machine. 450 x 370 print envelope.