SVN: Segement-pausing bug fix committed

Some new properties for you for the latest SVN:

Extruder0_ShortLength=1.5
Extruder0_ShortSpeed=1
Extruder1_ShortLength=1.5
Extruder1_ShortSpeed=1

Adrian's new code speeds up the nozzle for short segments. This work-around massively improves previous problems caused by segment-pausing (the pause between segments was causing a noticeable extrudate dump between short segments, over a radius for example. The new fast speed option evens things up a lot).

Temperature constraints for the extruder in GenericExtruder.setTemperature() have also been tightened from 10% & 20% to 3% & 6%.

Happy printing ;-)

Thanks, Ed!

It was inevitable... as soon as I released 0.8.3, someone would add a really significant fix to the host code :-) :-)

Jonathan

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Jonathan

Thats why I am a fan of monthly builds. Just need somebody to do it though??

Bruce

Bruce,

> Thats why I am a fan of monthly builds. Just need somebody
> to do it though??

The issue isn't so much the building, which is now highly
automated (I could build nightly and upload a .zip somewhere
from a cron job, if I wanted!). The time-consuming part is
that each release should be tested, and the original goal
(IIRC) was to have at least two core team members test and
validate a build on both Linux and Windows (and one person
on Mac) before releasing code "officially". People tend to
have higher expectations of a release than of code they have
grabbed from Subversion!

As we ramp up for a v1.0 Darwin release, I expect be doing
more frequent Host software releases, monthly is probably
about right at the moment. So, between now and when we
release Darwin v1.0, if I *don't* get one host software
release out per month, feel free to remind me :-)

Jonathan

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Jonathan