1 Topic by dinosaurcam (edited by dinosaurcam 2013-12-12 08:43:43)

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Topic: Weird printer behavior After moving to surface pro 2

I just got a surface pro 2 to use with my solidoodle 3 and I am having some weird issues compared to using the printer on my desktop windows machine. I copied all the settings as far as I can tell, but a couple of odd things. When I submit a print job the print goes to the center of the bed and basically touches the center of the bed and stays for like a 1-2 minutes before going back to start position and printing. All temps are up so it doesn't seem like its waiting for that. Then when the print finishes, after the bed is lowered the extruder moves to complete opposite end of start position and basically rams into the other corner of printer. It is basically smashing into it. So bizarre. I am using windows 8.1 pro and before was just using 8 I believe so wonder if that has anything to do with or is there something I am missing in settings. I had been using Mac OS X 10.9 but thought the only way to adjust my extuder feed rate was in in windows, maybe I'll try mac again.

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Re: Weird printer behavior After moving to surface pro 2

I know that MS added 3D printing support in Win 8.1, so I'm wondering if that interfering with the normal printing process. 

I don't have Win8 installed on any of my systems, but perhaps someone that has it, may be able to chime in with their experience.

To print or, 3D print, that is the question...
SD3 printer w/too many mods,  Printrbot Simple Maker Ed.,  FormLabs Form 1+
AnyCubic Photon, Shining 3D EinScan-S & Atlas 3D scanners...
...and too much time on my hands.

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Re: Weird printer behavior After moving to surface pro 2

If it is ramming the sides then you need to change one or more of the settings that define the size of the printer, in RH under 'printer settings' then 'printer shape'... you may need to lower the nunbers a mm or two. Oh one other thing, if it is ramming a side with the limit switch you need to shim the switch so it trips before part of the carriage hits.

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Re: Weird printer behavior After moving to surface pro 2

So I had gone back to using windows 8 and those problems went away. But I wanted the latest OS so I installed windows 8.1 enterprise trial to make sure my printer runs well on it. And it does the same thing my surface does. 

When it starts a print the extruder goes to center of build plate and touches the plate untill its ready to print. Which creates a big blob on the center of the plate. Then when it starts printing it doesn't do a dump blob like on 8 and then at the end it ram to front left of printer the sides without  the  limit switch.

So it seems to be a windows 8.1 thing. Not sure what printer setting I can do to counter act this.