Slic3r Help Please
Posted by KimBrown
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 21, 2014 05:43PM |
(Earing........)Someone asked if the printer seems to stutter in one of the threads. At the time I said no, but the perimeter is a series of bloby dots, not a smooth circle..... I'm using the 16th Jan 2014 firmware.
The second gear print was very similar to the first.
I'm printing the smaller gear now, with a Fill Density of 0.7 instead of 0.4
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 21, 2014 05:51PM |
Have you set your filament diameter (in slic3r filament settings) to 1.75mm (or the amount you measured)? I recently deleted my defaults and forgot to set it back to 1.75 (it defaulted to 3.0) and I got weird printing until I noticed
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 21, 2014 06:41PM |
I printed some gears last night and had similar issues.
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 21, 2014 08:36PM |
Here's the result of printing from the SD card.
Great quality. Flat ok in hole...
But hole not attached to gear...... Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
Bed time got an audit tomorrow....Yippee!
Could someone send a g code file please that they know is ok, then I can try printing that, as I'm sure it must be Slic3r troubles.
I'll try a 100% fill tomorrow.
Good Night..
Kim..
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/2014 08:54PM by KimBrown.
Great quality. Flat ok in hole...
But hole not attached to gear...... Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
Bed time got an audit tomorrow....Yippee!
Could someone send a g code file please that they know is ok, then I can try printing that, as I'm sure it must be Slic3r troubles.
I'll try a 100% fill tomorrow.
Good Night..
Kim..
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/2014 08:54PM by KimBrown.
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 22, 2014 08:30AM |
Hi DC, thanks again for the small gear g-code.
It's proved the point I think that I have setting wrong in side Slic3r.
The circle isn't quite a circle, so I need to look at my belt tension I think, not the fault of the machine, and the gear is very nearly perfect just two tiny holes (maybe I'm being picky). I think the temp of the extruder needs to be lower by 5-10' maybe, but I could use this gear.....
OK, so would you be able to send me a copy of the ini files you used for Slic3r please.
I was using Slic3r 0.99 (I think) but they have just upgraded the software so it version 1 now.
Still waiting here for the dreaded auditors..... So playing while I wait.
Kim..
It's proved the point I think that I have setting wrong in side Slic3r.
The circle isn't quite a circle, so I need to look at my belt tension I think, not the fault of the machine, and the gear is very nearly perfect just two tiny holes (maybe I'm being picky). I think the temp of the extruder needs to be lower by 5-10' maybe, but I could use this gear.....
OK, so would you be able to send me a copy of the ini files you used for Slic3r please.
I was using Slic3r 0.99 (I think) but they have just upgraded the software so it version 1 now.
Still waiting here for the dreaded auditors..... So playing while I wait.
Kim..
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 22, 2014 10:21AM |
Hi Greg, thanks I'll fish around and find the file in a minute...
I'm chuffed to bits here, as the printer has just printed the large gear sliced using DC42s settings and it's perfect....
The hex in the hole is nice and sharp, it's as good as the gear that came in the kit....
Thanks again guys... We've cracked it....
Kim
I'm chuffed to bits here, as the printer has just printed the large gear sliced using DC42s settings and it's perfect....
The hex in the hole is nice and sharp, it's as good as the gear that came in the kit....
Thanks again guys... We've cracked it....
Kim
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 22, 2014 06:50PM |
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PaulHam
I printed some gears last night and had similar issues.
Hi guys.
After some playing tonight I've still not got any further with mine. I've printed the z gear 3 times now, one with the normal ormerod slic3r settings from GitHub. One using dc42's settings and another when I put the extrusion multiplier up to 1 (instead of 0.95) on dc42's settings
All look basically the same and with hollow teeth like the picture I attached previously.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Paul
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 22, 2014 10:20PM |
Hi Kim - thanks - I was suggesting those things to PaulHam, I forgot to invoke his name at the start of my reply He's having similar problems to you and had used dc's settings to no avail, so I was suggesting that he check that he'd actually applied the settings to the current slicing.
Glad to know that it's not just me who's fumbled over slic3rs interface though
Cheers
Ray
He's having similar problems to you and had used dc's settings to no avail, so I was suggesting that he check that he'd actually applied the settings to the current slicing.Glad to know that it's not just me who's fumbled over slic3rs interface though
Cheers
Ray
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Re: Slic3r Help Please January 22, 2014 10:33PM |
Oh it was driving me nuts Ray... I have a bald patch to prove it....
I knew the printer was good, because I could print the example G code files ok, but every time I sliced... No good.
Being new to it all, left me fumbling around. I'd installed the default Ormerod ini files, but for some reason they don't seem to work here. In the end I had to ask for help.
I'm wondering if we can print on an Ally sheet instead of the taped glass. In which case the IR probe might work better as it's shiny.
Right bed time for me I think.... Brain hurts thinking about to much stuff here. One idea is fine.... Two ideas overload the one cell processor as it can't multi task late at night, and it shuts dow.................ZZZZZzzzzzz
I knew the printer was good, because I could print the example G code files ok, but every time I sliced... No good.
Being new to it all, left me fumbling around. I'd installed the default Ormerod ini files, but for some reason they don't seem to work here. In the end I had to ask for help.
I'm wondering if we can print on an Ally sheet instead of the taped glass. In which case the IR probe might work better as it's shiny.
Right bed time for me I think.... Brain hurts thinking about to much stuff here. One idea is fine.... Two ideas overload the one cell processor as it can't multi task late at night, and it shuts dow.................ZZZZZzzzzzz
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