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Topic: Centering a print

I received my printer yesterday.  I have been able to print a few things so far, but everything (all downloaded from thingiverse) gets printed to the front right quarter of the bed.  This wouldn't be any big deal if I didn't want to try to print something larger then that area, but I had a request from my son to print a toy off for him.

So I guess my real question is what methods people use for centering the prints.  I tried (using the versions downloaded from solidoodle themselves) opening the STL in pronterface and hitting the "Put at 100, 100" button and that moves it to the back right, but I can't get anything to move it to the left.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Centering a print

Hey man,

The easiest way to to center a print is to download ReplicatorG from here: http://replicat.org/download

Open your STL in ReplicatorG, click on the "move" button, then click "center", then click "put on bed", and click save. It will save the centered stl over top of the original, so now you have a centered stl you can import into skeinforge and make your gcode.

Then, just like normal, open your gcode in pronterface, and enjoy your centred print!

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3 Reply by fizzatbeyond

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Re: Centering a print

It looks like it works, thanks for the info.

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Re: Centering a print

For me this (using Rep-G to centre) doesn't work sad

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Re: Centering a print

For anyone that finds this in their seamingly hopeless search for a solution to the frustration of Pronterface trying to destroy their printer by slamming the extruder into the front-left corner, here is a solution another Solidoodler and I figured out (maybe it's old news or majorly noobish but I couldn't find it anywhere)

Check your syntax in Pronterface's [settings>options>build_dimensions] section.

I had mine set to [159x150x150-75-75+0] which I thought was fine. I then changed it to [150, 150, 150,-75,-75, 0] as advised by devilman2075. It centres the print well enough and should only need slight adjustment for large items smile

Hope this info helps someone else as much as it helped me.