Quote Originally Posted by EagleSeven View Post
Would be nice to have friendly , intelligent, & knowledgeable people to talk to, on 3D-forum websites,
but I'm starting to think there are Not any of those in the 3D community.
Simply put, there are not a lot of people who are extremely knowledgeable about every 3D printer and the multitudes of software that go with them. It's a fairly new technology with a hugely diverse community. For example, if I Google "CTC Model-05204", this thread is literally the first link that Google provides. There's not even a page on CTC with details about that model. Furthermore, CTC is a Chinese company that blatenlty copies American designs and provides little to no documentation.

Many of us built our printers and found all electronics, firmware and software from scratch. We are very intelligent, just not completely knowledgeable about Chinese printers.

As for your problem...you should look into what version of Firmware CTC is using on the controller board. Can you connect using pronterface?

I would look into Slic3r. It is a very popular slicing software, especially in the reprap community. It is what I use and has both advanced and simplified modes.