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Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts

Posted by BogyX 
Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 02:48AM
Hello

I recently updated design of my ''Mendel''. I switch position of optoendstop from left to right and just change motor polarity, so it goes in the opposite way. So you can see what my problem is, now I'm printing mirrored parts (especially problematic when some letters are on the surface and you need to read from right to left).
What is the simplest way to correct that (without changing back to standard endstop position)?

Thank you and best regards.

Bogdan
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 02:51AM
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 03:02AM
I'm using GEN6 (mendel-parts) and their firmware. Need to check where to do that - any sugjestions?

Perhaps....

#define INVERT_X_DIR 0 change to #define INVERT_X_DIR 1 ???

Bogdan
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 04:00AM
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 04:18AM
#define ENDSTOPS_MIN_ENABLED 1
#define ENDSTOPS_MAX_ENABLED 1

This will enable all axis max endstops? How the printer then decides to go on x to + and on Y and Z to - when HOME is activated?
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 05:04AM
Not sure, I use Teacup personally and we have individual settings for all the endstops. If you can provide a link to the firmware and/or a copy of your Config file it would help.


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Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 06:27AM
There is my config file.
Attachments:
open | download - configuration.h (10.5 KB)
Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 07, 2011 03:28PM
By the look of it you're out of luck. You will need to move the endstop back to the side you want to be minimum. Or move the rest to max. Or look through the rest of the code to see if you can change it to home to the max on that one. Or put it back to the way it printed backwards and mirror all your parts before slicing.


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Re: Changing position of end switch and printing mirrored parts
September 08, 2011 04:15AM
Hmmm .... yes.

I will made a redesign of my printer.

Regards and thanks.

Bogdan
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