Extruder Drives in DWC
Posted by yoorek
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Extruder Drives in DWC May 28, 2016 05:24PM |
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Re: Extruder Drives in DWC May 28, 2016 10:32PM |
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Some printers have their extruders operating in an 'absolute' mode, where at the start of the print they read 0 and at the end they may read 16722.2, if yur printer was set up this way then one 0f the drives would currently read 2901.7 you an see this information elsewhere in your screen shot.
Most printers have the extruder operating in an incremental mode where it specifies a length of material to be extruded for that movement block, this method makes it a lot easier to adjust extrusion rates on the fly, and makes it easier to restart a print midway
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Most printers have the extruder operating in an incremental mode where it specifies a length of material to be extruded for that movement block, this method makes it a lot easier to adjust extrusion rates on the fly, and makes it easier to restart a print midway
RepRapPro Mendel 3 Tricolour
RepRapPro Fisher
-Carbon Arms
-Easy adjust Carriage+effector
-axis stiffness mods
HE3D -600 delta
-Duet 0.8.5
-PanelDue
-DC42 Height probe
-RobotDigg metal components
Simplyfy3D
RS Design Spark CAD
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Re: Extruder Drives in DWC May 29, 2016 04:00PM |
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Then regardless of the mode the extruder is operating in (relative or absolute) shouldn't these fields show the actual filament used? If the DWC is able to display the actual usage somewhere else on the screen then why isn't it showing anything in these fields? BTW I would have thought relative/absolute mode is a function of slicing program.
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Re: Extruder Drives in DWC May 29, 2016 06:17PM |
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yoorek
Then regardless of the mode the extruder is operating in (relative or absolute) shouldn't these fields show the actual filament used? If the DWC is able to display the actual usage somewhere else on the screen then why isn't it showing anything in these fields? BTW I would have thought relative/absolute mode is a function of slicing program.
Its hardly like this is a problem that has a negative effect on anything, yes slicers also have absolute/incremental settings too, and there is a Gcode that can set your printer to absolute/incremental mode.
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RepRapPro Fisher
-Carbon Arms
-Easy adjust Carriage+effector
-axis stiffness mods
HE3D -600 delta
-Duet 0.8.5
-PanelDue
-DC42 Height probe
-RobotDigg metal components
Simplyfy3D
RS Design Spark CAD
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