Mine started life as a Tricolour Mendel 2 (with master/slave Melzis), so the Duet 0.8.5/DueX4 was a bigger upgrade for me than it would be for you. Any of the usual upgrades for any printer work for it, too. I currently have an E3D v6 and two RRP QuickSet hot ends mounted on a custom X carriage but need to resolve ADC crosstalk on the DueX4 channels before using the second QS hot end or mountinby IMBoring25 - General Mendel Topics
As the tooltip for start g-code says, if you put an M104 in your start g-code, it will do it when you insert it rather than inserting it where it feels like it.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
It will be up to you to not use this approach on a print that goes within 20mm of the edge of the bed, but G92 with a Y parameter will set the y position at that time to whatever value you set. You can use that to force an offset just after your home in your start gcode.by IMBoring25 - General
Looks from the Repetier v0.92 configurator that the firmware only has a toggle for mixing extruder or no mixing extruder, with no provision for a hybrid configuration. RepRapFirmware is fully configurable for any configuration but only works on Duet or RADDS and your configuration would require a Duet and DueX4 expansion board.by IMBoring25 - General
If everything is configured right, you just pass T*, where * is the zero-indexed number of the extruder (I.e., T0 for the first extruder, T1 for the second). After passing T1, extrusion commands will command the second extruder.by IMBoring25 - General
There are newer versions on the github if you don't mind compiling your own. Not sure why they haven't been issued as binaries since they sound like they fix several of the big complaints.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
Start gcode ends before the nozzle moves to the point where it will begin extruding. To avoid editing each file manually you'll need a post-processing script...But a pretty easy one.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
Repetier-Host is not a firmware, but its documentation suggests it supports some host-based not-exactly-gcode that may help. It also increases the likelihood you're running Repetier firmware. You can leave Slic3r open after you generate the gcode and use its preview window to show the layers and get the Z dimension you want. Open the gcode in a text editor. Immediately after the Z move that pby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
Not all firmwares have gcodes for a gcode initiated pause and, for those that do, it's a simple enough implementation you really don't need the slicer to support it. What firmware are you running?by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
Slic3r doesn't know your jerk and acceleration settings, so it can't make a good guess. I wrote a macro that builds an estimate from the gcode assuming instantaneous acceleration and it usually takes 50 to 100% more time than that estimate on my Mendel using 3D Honeycomb infill.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
I've not used Slic3r embedded in Repetier-Host but it looks like it's coming from the End G-Code (Printer Settings --> Custom G-Code --> End G-Code in the standalone version of Slic3r). If you've found that parameter and it's not there, R-H also has a habit of inserting its own start/end g-codes when you run something not off the SD card or when you load something to the SD card with defauby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
If you've not found a clone that would print PLA, that would suggest they're not the equal of the original, as most people seem able to print PLA out of a genuine v6, especially if we restrict the analysis to the subset of the population who assembled it correctly and use suitable retraction settings.by IMBoring25 - General
What kind of bed level sensor are you using? Have you actuated it manually to make sure it works?by IMBoring25 - General Mendel Topics
Some extruders actually work better with slower retraction. There is something called pressure advance, where the extruder starts underextruding shortly before retractions and slow-downs. It can be implemented either in the firmware or at the slicer level. Some hot ends like that better than others.by IMBoring25 - Printing
100% infill. The layer view won't look solid because it doesn't depict the thickness of the extrusion, but it will be (or close, depending on other settings). Supported patterns at 100% are rectilinear, concentric, hilbert curve, Archimedean chords, and octagram spiral.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
No problem. The X axis is a carriage, so it moves the nozzle in the direction it moves the nozzle. Since the Y axis moves the bed, the motion of the nozzle relative to the bed is the opposite of what the bed is doing.by IMBoring25 - Printing
The brushes are an intriguing thought for the slot for the X axis but they'd probably interfere with the belt unless you built guards. Deltas and H-bot/Core** configurations are a lot easier when it comes to schemes to enclose the build volume without the electronics and motors.by IMBoring25 - General
How much retract (and how fast) are you currently using? I'm not familiar with your specific machine but most hot ends don't usually use more than 5mm and E3Ds often experience problems with more than 2.by IMBoring25 - Printing
Another option that's not usually really considered a RepRap but which uses two printed parts in stock guise and can use more modded would be the Rostock Max. Stock, its build volume is (roughly) 280mm diameter (some have better luck getting to the edges than others, depending on how well they built their machines) by 375mm, and the height is fairly scalable with longer extrusions and wires.by IMBoring25 - General
All filaments are different, sometimes even from the same supplier. PLA has a tendency to allow heat to creep into the heat break and heat sink if you use a lot of retraction or have a less-than-ideal hot end fan configuration, so that may be contributing. After you've checked retraction, for most PLA, 210 is quite hot (and for all PLA, 80 is really hot on the bed).by IMBoring25 - Printing
Yes, all the variables and the values you were using at the time of the slicing are commented at the bottom of the generated g-code file. The only other variables are applicable to the layer change g-codes, where you can use and , and the tool change g-code, where you can use and . Slic3r does not at this time support doing math with these variables, as far as I know. You can hard-code speciby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
If you hover your mouse over the input fields it will bring up a tooltip that explains the function. External perimeters are those visible on the finished part if you're using opaque material...The outermost ones. If more than one perimeter is generated, the remainder will use the other setting. Yes, the comments at the bottom are the values you put in the configuration files. The ones at theby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
G-code for what you describe would be G28 X G28 Y G1 Y10 G28 Z Through Slic3r you can just replace the G28 in your start g-code setting with that sequence. If you're running RepRapFirmware you can replace the contents of the homeall.g file on your SD card with that sequence, which will change the machine's default behavior whenever G28 is called. Any other firmware of which I'm aware wouldby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
Slic3r won't use the areas outside the defined bed during the print but the slicer has no role in the actual homing. It just commands the firmware to home the machine. The point of homing is to find where the machine is. Until you've homed, it doesn't know where it is, so it doesn't know what areas to avoid. You can develop a more sophisticated homing routine and put it into your start g-codeby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
The company name was RepRapPro. Not sure if you can edit the title at this point, but that would likely yield more response. They also offered several green PLAs by Filament Print UK in their webstore, but the only eSun green they offered was Pine Green. That's also the filament they say was used for two of the sample prints on the Fisher product page (the Benchy boat and the ghost), and theyby IMBoring25 - Reprappers
Without going in and looking at each one to compare individually, it looks to me as though 1.2.9 comments ALL the configuration parameters at the end of the g-code file.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r
It's probably related to the memory leaks recently identified. Windows 10 seems to have dramatically improved things vs. 8.1 (on one machine) and 7 (on the other). Machines with more memory help too. The fewer settings I change after loading part(s), the more likely I am to get through the slicing without a crash. My workflow is to make all my settings changes, open Slic3r anew, load the partby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
There are two ways to interpret the post: 1) You have a modifier volume that has a hole in it. The slicer is making the hole with the expected number of perimeters but making what you percieve as extra perimeters where the modifier volume interfaces with the rest of the part. This is normal behavior. Modifiers essentially turn one part into two parts, so at the interface of the modifier and tby IMBoring25 - Slic3r
If you're using relative extrusion coordinates it's a pretty trivial programming exercise in the language of your preference to extract all the E dimensions from the G1 moves and sum them. Then you'd just need to programmatically recognize layer changes. If you're using Z hop you'd need to disregard any Z moves that are immediately followed by a move in X and Y and then a negative Z move. If yby IMBoring25 - General
Right click the first part after you add it. Choose Preferences (I think). Add Part in that menu. This does depend on all the STLs being built in the same coordinate system.by IMBoring25 - Slic3r