i am getting cloers to my settings i need with repsnapper. but i am still having issues with Skeinforge, i have learned that i need to use the mimension option, but i am not sure if i am supposed to turn off speed, it moves very slow and the extruder barely gets anything out of the tip. so i cant figure out how to get it to move faster just yet. and if i turn speed off it did not even try to extruded, i can understand the settings in repsnapper and most of them in skeinforge but i still cant see what i have to do just yet.
a test box 50mm x 50mm x 40mm
for me i found this green tape from cantech works good.
better than the blue, i found the glue came off too easy with there blue stuff.
this was my first pretty much round gear. but because i am not using skeinforge the teeth are not has clean has they should be.
this was my first workable part so far, only 2 of the holes on the top there needed allot of work to get that 3mm bolt into them. but i think it might be just good enough to work.
Keep at it Mike. The box looks pretty good.
ReplyDeleteNice work Mike! That box does look really good.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem you may be having with the extruder is that Skeinforge 40 (and later) expect your firmware to have the e_steps_per_unit set to the number of steps required to feed 1 mm of filament into the extruder. This is typically up in the high 500's for a Wade's type extruder. From what I've read, that's not what Repsnapper or many other tools expect when generating the G-code. I'm only at about the same stage you are with my Prusa Mendel, and I haven't tried anything other than Skeinforge. So I may be off base. But if you think this might be the answer, let me know and I'll post links to the info that I found very helpful in setting up Skeinforge.