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reprapdiscount LCD display....cant upload the firmware

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  1. Mike Kelly

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    Alright I'll try it when I get home. Thanks
     
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    upload_2014-7-8_16-41-46.png

    It's not particularly intuitive. First slice your file. Then mouse over the object in the queue area.
    Options of view copy export remove will appear towards the right side of the box. click on export and export as gcode and save to your SD card.
    Note that you will need to have your printer selected (next to the connect icon) or it won't let you export the gcode.
     
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    cool thanks. got it to print, but the bed leveling checking is a little off. it looks like its off bout a half of an inch
     
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    I still haven't had enough time to really dig into the bed leveling. It doesn't work perfectly for me.
    If you're getting half an inch off, you may want to check to make sure you're putting the G29 and M565 in the right order.
     
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    in the mastercontrol i put it in the way it said on the paper.
    now im trying to use the repetier-host program and im trying to figure where or what line to put the numbers in
     
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    You have to go into slic3r and edit the start code
     
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    then type in?
    G29 and what else?
     
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    You can enter the G29 right after the line that say something along the lines of

    G28 ; home all axis


    something like this


    G28 ; home all axis
    G29 ; start autolevel routine



    You can also ad the offset in here as well it is useful to know in case the software you are using does not have a working Z offset param you can use.

    then it would look like this

    G28 ; home all axis
    G29 ; start autolevel routine
    G1 Z(whatever your offset is)
    G92 Z0.00 ; sets current level of Z to 0.00

    The G1 simple moves the z axis to your offset level and the G92 simply sets that height as the new 0

    Any other gcode can now be entered if you have a startup routine and then the code for the actual object should begin
     
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    cool thank you very much
     
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    no problem are you setting the offset in software or here in the firmware
     
    #51 tesseract, Jul 13, 2014
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    like this?
     

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    not sure how it responds to blank lines so I would remove that but yes that is how you do it according to the you have a 1.2mm offset
    make sure if there is a software param for the offset that it is set to zero
     
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    That's how it was when I sliced it.
    How can you tell if I have a software param ?
     
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    Should that Z1.2 be Z-1.2? A positive number means that your nozzle is hitting the plate before your switches, which is impossible.
     
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    I'll need to check that when I get home
     
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    Initially it sets it to what it thinks is zero and that would not be good first layer so in order to get the first layer to be the right height it will be a positive number in my case I used .9 on one printer and .5 on another to get the first layer to be what I want
     
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    When I get home I'll take a picture of the picture and post it
     
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    ok that didnt work. when i cleared the spacing. it keeps on saying waiting for user.
    i went back to try to use mattercontrol it messed up my printer. when it did the auto leveling the stepper motors were going the opposite directions from one another.

    is there any way to get the factor settings back for mattercontrol? i tried to uninstall and re-install it kept the same settings i had before
     
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    Do you mean that at one probe point it went up and at one it went down??
    I hae seen that before and the reason is completely different let us know
     
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