well aaron over at nwreprap contacted me today and helped me tons! we seem to have the height issue worked out, in marlin even. a few more tweaks and ill have it printing like it was in sprinter....
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well aaron over at nwreprap contacted me today and helped me tons! we seem to have the height issue worked out, in marlin even. a few more tweaks and ill have it printing like it was in sprinter....
true ill be over a little later this afternoon thanks!
latest cubes after switching back to old firmware (sprinter) left to right -- block before marlin - test blocks with marlin -- and after reupload of sprinter
my screen problems are basically: 1. couldnt find all of the code niblets the instructions said to enable. 2 screen lights up with no data displayed. 3. printer is not picking up the sd card slot....
ok this morning ive made up my mind that i would rather be able to print stuff than have a working screen and not be able to print stuff so im going to reup my original firmware and fix the bedsize...
just finished printing my cube... its now shorter by about 1.5mm than the last one!
ive changed the values in arduino, re-uploaded the firmware, and am printing another cube now. ive yet to talk to a human at nwreprap, they have a nack for calling back while im at work and have just...
roxy thats the wierd thing, with that setting for z-axis default steps when i move it up 100mm in pronterface it measures out to 100.02mm but when i go to print something i get 50% print height
heres the results:
left cube was printed the other day under sprinter
middle cube today first print
right cube last print
#define DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT {98.98, 98.98, 4007.32, 700} // default steps per unit for ultimaker
#define DEFAULT_MAX_FEEDRATE {500, 500, 5, 45} // (mm/sec)
#define...
i double the numbers in the 3rd position from 3993.9 to 6k and the shafts spun in the coupler, so i dropped it down to 5k and got a vase print that was supposed to be 79mm tall and got this:
just so you see what i mean the green cube is 20mm the rest have been printed since changing the firmware:2902
x and y output is good but i get about half the height i should be ie 12.8mm instead of 20mm
i have a nwreprap prusa i3 (nwreprap.com)
originally i misread the instructions and installed the sprinter firmware and managed to get it printing fairly well. i picked up a discount reprap extra...