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06-15-2015, 09:18 AM #11
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The X3G thing is a drag, I am contemplating putting Marlin on mine.
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06-15-2015, 10:11 PM #12
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By the way, to upgrade sailfish you need a couple of other things after getting past the owned port bit. One is that you need a new version of RepG from the sailfish thing on thingiverse. As far as I know that's the only place to get it. Reason for that is that there were changes in the way the new firmware has to get fetched. RepG40r30: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:32084/#files
Also, you run RepG to download the firmware and install it on the bot, but do *not* connect RepG. That is, boot it, but don't click the "connect" button. Or if you have, click the "disconnect" button. The reason for that is that RepG boots up another program (avrdude) to talk to the bot and update the firmware. And that thing can't have the port if RepG has it.
A lot of the big stuff in newer versions of SailFish is to support new bots or bot mods. But there are some things for r1d clones like ours: LCD Monitoring is better. It shows current and target temp in more places than it used to. Build stats computes an estimated time to print. Plus some bug fixes.
But mostly I'm staying current because eventually there's a couple of firmware changes I'd like to make and I figure when I get around to it, it'll be better to do it off the new stuff. I've got one of the flashforges with extra memory (2560) so there will be room.
Which reminds me of another thing, you want to make sure you get the version of SailFish for your FlashForge because it has a turbo heating bed and the firmware PWM's it to reduce the voltage, otherwise it pulls too many amps.
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06-16-2015, 05:49 AM #13
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06-16-2015, 06:41 AM #14
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06-16-2015, 10:38 AM #15
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Does Sailfish work with Makerware generated files? Connect with Makerware Desktop?
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06-16-2015, 01:58 PM #16
yes that's way round isn't a problem :-)
With Marlin on it will not need X3g it will be able to decode Gcodes. The problem with doing it is that Marlin does not support I2C potentiometers which you need for stepper motor current control (G130) and adding it is somewhat complicated.
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06-16-2015, 02:08 PM #17
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06-16-2015, 02:16 PM #18
well geoff changed out his mighty board for a ramps, I think. Which doesn't use 3xg files.
So that problem goes away.
I have no idea what different problems it would generate - but it does solve the x3g file issue :-)
Kind ofa microsoft apporach. solve one problem while creating many others at the same time :-) Being a linux user, you wouldn't think along these lines ;-)
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06-16-2015, 02:52 PM #19
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06-16-2015, 02:57 PM #20
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I like being able to control the stepper motor current. All ramps will do is have it on or off, a big loss in my opinion.
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