Kisslicer Manual

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Anyone interested can download my current versionn (WIP) of a Kisslicer manual.

http://3ntr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ks_qr_190814.pdf

Feel free to report any error, misunderstanding or gross mistake.

Best regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[Lawrence LaRocque]

Nice work. This will def help a lot of people and it even helped clear a few things up for me and I've been using is for years

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Do note that is absolutely not THE LAW: please feel free to report anything that "stinks".
For example: I've yet to understand what NEXTX or NEXTY stands for.

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[C-Line]

Thanks, Davide. In the Support section, you might want to clarify that the Gap setting is the horizontal, not vertical, distance between the support structure and the object.

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 6:48:16 PM UTC-4, Davide Ardizzoia wrote:

Anyone interested can download my current versionn (WIP) of a Kisslicer manual.

http://3ntr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ks_qr_100814.pdf

[Bo Herrmannsen]

Gab.... that reminds me of a calibration thing i sliced with kisslicer, it had a wall as thick as the nozzle

the purpose was to set extrusion multiply right

it came out with gabs in it, the gabs had strings in it. But i messured it with calibers without taking it off the bed.

but i know it should not have those gabs.

it was this one: https://github.com/ahmetcemturan/SFACT/blob/master/calibration/_40x10.STL

settings attached as zip and pics of how it should come out and how kisslicer outputs it 

sorry for hijacking.... it just seemed fitting on the subject of gabs

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[Davide Ardizzoia]

Thank you, C-line for your help !

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[L Robinson]

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 6:48:16 PM UTC-4, Davide Ardizzoia wrote:

Anyone interested can download my current versionn (WIP) of a Kisslicer manual.

http://3ntr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ks_qr_140814.pdf

Feel free to report any error, misunderstanding or gross mistake.

Best regards
Davide Ardizzoia

 

Thanks Davide, just what I have been looking for. 

[Andrea Pirazzini]

Grande Davide! :)

Ci stavo effettivamente pensando anche io a crearne uno... ma non avevo troppe balle di farlo!

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Thank you!
Stay tuned for Italian version, too !

Ciao
Davide

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Posted new version...forgot to mention raft and brim options....

http://3ntr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ks_qr_190814.pdf

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[Davide Ardizzoia]

New version on-line:

http://3ntr.eu/?page_id=385

Save paper and the environment: don't print it, rather keep it on your smartphone !

...adesso anche in italiano, con nuova traduzione dei nuovi comandi:

http://3ntr.eu/?page_id=381

Rispetta l'ambiente e risparmia risorse: non stamparlo, piuttosto tienilo sul tuo smartphone !

Salute
Davide Ardizzoia

[funBart]

Davide: you did amazing work!  It looks like a standard work IMO. Very nice written, for the new user as well I think.

I only miss a part to describe the Extruder Mapping functions, or am I wrong?

If wanted I can contribute, so you can add it in your own style?

Bart

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Bart,
anybody can contribute!
And your contribution would be higly appreciated.
Extruder mesh/mapping, you mean ?  Yes, it WAS missing: next manual release will have it.
By the way, there is currently no way to translate it yet....

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[Tarjei Knapstad]

Excellent work Davide!

One small suggestion: it would be nice to have some examples of the GCode customization and use of tokens (in particular, I don't quite understand how <NEXTX>, <NEXTY> and <%> can be put to good use?). 

I'll probably come up with more questions/suggestions as I get more familiar with KISSlicer, but I have to say your manual really helped getting me started, so big thanks!

Regards,

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Tarjei

[Davide Ardizzoia]

As I have zero experience with those three tokens, I hope some more skilled user is willing to share some knowledge about them (that I will put on next manual release)

Anybody: PLEASE report any mistake or misspelling!

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[max72]

Great work!!

Many thanks!

Davide, I have to meet you, and offer you a foamy drink, maybe at the microbirrificio Lambrate?

My writing skills are terrible.. I'm glad there is a much better writer around.. :-)

If I can of help please let me know.

Post process infos (maybe a little bit outdated):

http://kisslicer.wikia.com/wiki/G-code

Massimo

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Hi Max,
I am on the "other" side of Milan (near MXP, but in Piedmont).
Any "foaming dispenser" is OK, there is one know to be preferred by many reprappers in my area...

http://www.tripadvisor.it/Restaurant_Review-g1078291-d4178717-Reviews-Circolo_Sant_Eugenio-Lonate_Pozzolo_Province_of_Varese_Lombardy.html

Noted the wiki... will update manual accordingly.

Bye
Davide

[Amit Garg]

Yo...you went above and beyond here. Sweet manual. 

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 6:48:16 PM UTC-4, Davide Ardizzoia wrote:

Anyone interested can download my current versionn (WIP) of a Kisslicer manual.

http://3ntr.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ks_qr_190814.pdf

[Maurizio D'Angelo]

ciao,
la mia domanda sembrerà banale!!
come si fa a ruotare un pezzo lungo una direzione x y o z prescelta??

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Replied as PVT message in italian.

It is a request for rotation on XYZ or arbitrary axis.

It is on wishlist, currently you can only rotate on Z axis, using the controls on the STL items window (top right).

New version coming soon, along with machine & filament calibration!

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[PenskeGuy]

Actually, as has been illustrated previously, all axis rotation has been possible for a long time. It isn't directly rotatable on a given axis, but by a sequence of rotations you can orientate a part in any way you want. Just takes a few steps.

Personally, I prefer to think ahead just a bit and orientate my part in my modeler, where I have far more control, and not ask a slicer to do this essentially redundant task.

[Davide Ardizzoia]

I completely agree.
Once you realize that you MUST model into space as you should print, you can avoid a lot of time wasted into model placement.
IMHO the actual KS rotation tools (and axis inversion) are more than adeguate.
The real pain, for me, is upon support generation control: KS is light years ahead on support generation, but lacks control on raft thickness, support structure geometry (i.e.: having very high straight supporting structure is the perfect recipe for collapse).
 
Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[Vlad O]

Davide,  Great Job on manual !

I have read once but will print a latest version and keep reading.

A few simple advises to improve.

First - add a Quick Start Chapter - just for beginners, who do not use to read manuals but would jump to details.  If it will be references to certain pages with explanations, would be a kind of "manual overview in short form".  In future would be add more pictures and some advises there...

Also -> terminology.  In the 3D printing world is not established yet a terminology set which uniformly represent a same features in different slicers and even hardware.  Moreover, it is difficult to start translation without a development vocabulary of the future translation. So, a terminology need to be expanded to almost any term in the screen (perhaps ask developers to give a list of inputs and messages, which would be a good start to generate terminology list).  Also, as separate chapter would be a hardware terminology.

Nice approach to make pictures, explanations under pictures really help !
So far from the manual I do not figure-out how to rename "simple printer", 'style", etc.  - do you know how?  please explain.

Very confusing a first experience in KS with a Style and Material tabs - all fields need to be explain in details.  I even start to create my own guide how to manage those tabs. perhaps something like that would be in Quick Guide section.

I personally like how you explain with pictures Skirt, Grid, Brim, etc.  All need to be explain a similar way.

I know, It is difficult to write a close to complete manual and it always a continuum rather then final product. So, I offer my help - if you can determine a specific area, which need to be done and frame work what need to be done, I am personally would participate in this work.
Further more, you can posted a list of open areas which need to be done, and i think people would be donate time, which will shorten a total delivery time and would be benefit to community.

Vlad

[Davide Ardizzoia]

Hello Vlad,
Thank you for all your remarks, nice to hear positive feedback!

So far, one of my biggest problems is the partial possibility to translate the user interface (i.e.: last time I checked, there is no translation available for the mesh/extruder pop up window).

I am cooking a new release of the manual with

-Printer calibration
-Tip and tricks
-LOTS of pictures

...stay tuned !

Best Regards
Davide Ardizzoia

[PenskeGuy]

On Thursday, October 16, 2014 3:07:12 AM UTC-7, Davide Ardizzoia wrote:

I completely agree.
Once you realize that you MUST model into space as you should print, you can avoid a lot of time wasted into model placement.
IMHO the actual KS rotation tools (and axis inversion) are more than adeguate.

Just to clarify, and for those coming along later, being a person who always endeavors to have backups, I model the parts as they will fit together. THEN, for each discreet part, I create a build file, from which the slice will be made. My modeler has a pair of functions where you can hit one key and center the part on the Origin and rest it on Y = 0 (ground—which is the bed surface). Often, it will be standing on an edge or a corner. Select one poly and hit another key and the part rotates so that this poly is now on the ground; exactly and accurately in the orientation I want and that it needs to be in. No arbitrary guessing and readjusting how many degrees, or portions thereof, to rotate it. The print is a separate process and has nothing to do with the modeling; nor should it. Printing has its own limitations and preferences. They should be accommodated, without further constraint.