QuoteOhmarinus Oh, and buy a cutting mat theres always tears in my heart when I see someone use their desk as a cutting surface Its not a desk, its a work bench. :-) A cutting mat that size would cost a fortune.... If that bothers you, you should see the solid oak end table I have my reprap bolted to. I'll check the plugin out... Thanks for the tip.by agirgen - Printing
Quotegmh39 Depending what slicer you are using, there may be a setting for extra length after retraction. I know it is in Slic3r cause I had to use it the other day for the thin wall calibration cube I was printing. Hey, thanks for the reply. I was using Slic3r, latest version.. whatever it is. I tried using the extra length after retraction feature and it did help a little but not much. I sby agirgen - Printing
Hey everyone... Have a question... Today I printed some calibration cubes and found that they were slightly undersized. I calibrated the extruder and came up with a new steps_per_unit number. After making the change to firmware, I reprinted the calibration piece and found that while my measurements were pretty much spot on it now seems to be taking longer than normal to start extruding filamenby agirgen - Printing
Working with RC2 both 64 and 32 bit versions and I'm still getting the alternating support/structure layers.by agirgen - Slic3r
Ok, I got my problems sorted out and now things are working really well. It was a rather silly mistake on my part; I didn't take G28 out of my G-Code. So I would run the auto calibrate function, then hit print. It would home and dump all the calibration data. So now I'm down to tweaking my offsets to get the hot end to bed spacing correct and I should be in business. As for the servos, I havby agirgen - General Mendel Topics
Quotevarjis I'm having trouble moving the servo. I have ATX power supply and I'm trying to get the 5V power from the HD molex connection (red wire) which I've connected to Ramps 1.4 5V connection (next to reset switch) and I can measure and see that servos are getting 5V. But if I try to move the servo nothing happens. Hello varjis, Are you saying that you connected a 5 Volt source to the 5V Vby agirgen - General Mendel Topics
Quoteuncle_bob For what ever reason, people seem to have switch troubles. A real Micro Switch (yes it's a trademark) should get you below 0.01 mm. You can set up with a micrometer and check them pretty easily. Yeah, I checked my switch with a meter this morning. I got inconsistent results with every switch actuation. Unlike a normal switch, the one i was using would read a very high resistby agirgen - General Mendel Topics
That's what I was thinking, but it's a pretty high quality switch. I have a couple of others... I'll try them in the morning. Thanks for the quick replies... And sorry if I came across a bit brash. It's frustrating and I've been drinking.by agirgen - General Mendel Topics
Uggh, I don't know... Inconsistent results? I followed the instructions and it worked once. After that it didn't. I have attached a video as well as my Configuration.h file. In the video, you can clearly see that the gap between the extruder and the glass isn't constant... And this is with the bed very level. Just doesn't seem to be doing what it's supposed to... Maybe I'm missing somethingby agirgen - General Mendel Topics
So far I have spent roughly 10 hours trying to get this to work properly. I could of manually leveled my print bed 60+ times in that amount of time. Not sure this is worth it.by agirgen - General Mendel Topics