Not off to a good start with Simplify 3D

Just tried printing a super simple model using Simplify3D for the first time and came back to see this. No clue what happened, but this has never happened with MatterControl.

I'm currently heating up the extruder to 230c and am hoping it'll just pull off. Any other device on how to rectify this?

 

Heating up the extruder allowed me to pull it off and it's extruding normally, whew!

 

So I had to go into scrips and the offset was set to -1.0 I made mine around -0.76 I had to play around with it. I have had nothing but problems with the robo and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But good luck


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I've been printing a ton of stuff and it's been working pretty well. This is the first time I've seen this happen and also the first print I did with S3D. Might not be it's fault, but it does seem a strange coincidence.

 

Although I did notice that on the first layer of the reprint (still with Simplify) the infill isn't hitting the perimeter. Any idea why this would be?

 

You need to change setting under infill it's called outline overlaps. It takes a lot of playing around to get use to the app. I never had to change one setting tho when using simplify 3d with my dreamer tho.


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So in my starting GCode, I changed "M565 Z-1 ;" to "M565 Z-.8 ;". That should do it right? I didn't see any other settings for changing the first layer's height.

 

That's the easiest way to set the first layer height, yes

 

yeah I had to do the same thing when I got S3D. the GCode change "M565 Z-1 ;" to "M565 Z-.8 ;" did the trick. I'm printing better than ever now

 

Same here, it looks 1000% better now with that one small change. Now I just want to change the ending GCode so it kicks the build platform out and "presents" like it did with MatterControl.

 

I was actually thinking of doing the same thing. While I had some time at work I noticed I can add that code to the end of the gcode script

in S3D in FFF settings under the "scripts" sections and the "ending scripts" tab

It has this:
M104 S0 ; turn off extruder
M140 S0 ; turn off bed
G28 X0 ; home X axis
M84 ; disable motors

I figure I can add after turning off the bed
G1 X10 Y200

and commenting out - G28 X0 ; home X axis

Which is how mattercontrol knows to present the model at the end.

I was going to try this tonight. Will let you know how it goes. Unless you want to take a stab at it.

 

Yeah, that did it. Used the G1 X10 Y200 code in place of the G28 X0 and it presented properly.

 

Awesome - worked for me also

 

With S3D has anyone had the problem of it just stop communicating on the com port with win10?
If so is there a fix, other than printing from the sd card?

 

Make sure the arduino shows up as Arduino Mega 2560 in the device manager.

You need to install arduino ide from arduino.cc to install that driver.

 

That's probably the problem, I don't see a Arduino Mega 2560 and I installed Arduino 1.6.5 already then I tried their instruction to install the usb driver to no avail. I am using a Dell xps I7 laptop with win 10 on it. I see a com5 which is the port for the usb cable and an unknown device slightly above it in its own category but no matter what I do I can't get it to install right. I did right click and install as admin.
Maybe I need to back rev? Also I am not familiar with Arduino other than I know what it is.