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THANK YOU! I suspected there was something I didn't understand about the user interface. I tried all sorts of things, and now I have it working. I found it VERY non-intuitive.
For those who may have the same issue, the process is to hover your mouse pointer over one of the empty boxes just above the "-Z" down arrow. When you do that, the appropriate movement size will hi-lite in the column o
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
Your screenshot shows what mine does. Just to the right of the circular part of the graphical jog control, you have vertical section with buttons for positive Z movement, and below that, there is a "-Z" displayed, but but there are no corresponding 0.1, 1, 10 buttons displayed to execute negative Z movements.
My machine homes at the maximum Z value of 200 mm. and I can command the Z axis to
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
I homed the Z-axis, and then tried sending it a relative move command to change Z by -10. That should be what the jog wheel would be sending if the buttons worked:
G91 (set to relative mode)
G1 Z-10 (Move up 10 mm)
That worked exactly as expected. Everything appears to be working as it should, I just don’t get the negative move options displayed on the jog wheel graphic.
If I set it t
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
The Z axes is operating in the right direction (+ Z is down, lowering the build platform). The limit switch for homing is on the bottom end of the platform travel (Maximum Z). Clicking on the Z homing button runs the platform in the right direction (plus Z), and it stops when it gets to the bottom and trips the limit switch.
My Z-axis settings are:
Height: 200
Z offset: 0
Z home pos: 200
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly..
I ran the program, connected and clicked on the Z-Home button. The platform went down to the bottom and stopped. I sent the M119 command, and received:
Reporting endstop status
x_min: TRIGGERED
y_min: open
z_min: open
z_max: TRIGGERED
If "z_max" is triggered, I don't understand why it won't let me reduce Z. I have no trouble increasing X, even tho
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
I have a MakerGear M2E printer, and I'm going to upgrade the firmware. I want to be able to test it a bit before I run a print, and was planning on using Pronterface. I've installed it, and set all the parameters I can find. If I click on the three "Home" buttons on the jog control wheel, all three axes go to the right place. The +/-X and +/-Y commands all work as they should. HOWEVER, the Z axis
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
I've been using Simplify3D's control panel with my printer since I bought it in 2017, and it works fine. However, I don't think S3D is long for this world, given the multi-year delay in releasing any updates. If the company goes belly up, the server that authenticates the software could get shut down, and that might be the end of it.
As a backup plan, I have installed Pronterface, and I have i
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gwhite
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Printrun/Pronterface
