New user configuration questions

[Joymaker]

I tried my first serious print yesterday. Replicator G. comes preconfigured for ABS printing, I tried cloning my profile "Replicator 2 slicing defaults" and modifying to suit PLA printing. Several problems happened:


1. It is determined to the plate to 110°C before printing the model. I really don't need the plate heated at all, I've done plenty of PLA printing on another printer without heating the plate at all. Even if I do want to heat it, I certainly don't want it that warm, it makes things messy. Where do I go to change or turn off the heated plate setting?? It seems to be really well hidden. I actually tried editing start.gcode to remove the plate heating command, but even that didn't seem to work.


2. Cloning the profile had another problem: it randomly turned on skeinlayer. This problem has been reported for Windows, but it turns out to be a problem on the Mac. Wasted many precious minutes while I sat there waiting for it to proceed, not understanding that it was waiting for me to close skeinlayer !! )):


3. The cloned profile, when put to use, actually printed nothing! It set up the printer, heated things,, move things around, and then quit without making 1 cubic millimeter of anything. I had made some changes. I turned off Raft, because it was a large object with a big flat base and I saw no need for any raft for any reason. Or support. Is this fatal? Does this module have to be turned on, no matter what?

[curious aardvark]

don't use rep g.

either use makerware or buy simplify 3d.
makerware download thread: http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...8702#post68702

You'll find that makerware slices much faster than rep-g and gives better results all round. If it wasn't for the bloody resetting some of the settings every time you look away from the screen it'd be really really good :-)
My other gripe is that once yuou've created a custo profile - it can't be tweaked. That's annoying.
But rep-g is just massively out of date and cumbersome by comparison.

I'd recommend simplify 3d - but makerwware will do the job acceptably.