I think ive done it! (Skein Rep 2 Profile)

[Peter McDade]

I think I finally cracked it!  Got my rep 2 dialed in today with Skein and RepG40

Profile enclosed :) Pictures to follow.

[whpthomas]

Hi Peter, 

Can you give us a broad run down on what you did.

[Peter McDade]

I started out by tuning the filament feed and speeds, and found out that I could use a few other tweaks to get it printing just right.  This profile for me has given me many consistant prints :).

[Peter McDade]

Still printing strong with this profile, just tweaking my filament sizes after every print to make sure :)

[Michael Masterson]

I have been plagued with nothing but problems with my Rep2.  That being said.  What do I do with this file to use it?  I am curious to try it.

[Justin Leone]

If you open ReplicatorG and select Edit Profiles under GCode, you can select an existing profile and click "Locate".  This will show you where the profiles are saved.  Then just unzip this one and put it in the same folder as the others.  When you generate your GCode, this profile should be available in the pulldown menu.

[whpthomas]

The left one was printed with my 100 micron profile, the right one with my 200 micron profile - you can download this surface calibration test shape here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:39050

[Avandss]

Hi Peter, could you also post your usual settings?

infill = ?

layer height = .1

shells = up to the user i usually use 0

feedrate =?

travel feedrate= ?

and print temp= ? 235 i am guessing?

thanks!!!! 

[whpthomas]

I have moved my Replicator 100 and 200 micron profile zip files to thingiverse to make it easier to keep them up-to-date - that way if I discover any new tweaks I can update them. If you are interested in downloading them they can be accessed here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:39050

They are similar to Peter's but have a few more skeinforge modules enabled.

[Avandss]

Thomas i did not see your 100 micron one! i was sure you only had it calibrated for 200 with the skin module!!!

i will go test both on my bot right now and report back with some calibration results

!!!!!

[Avandss]

Hi Thomas, when i use your 200 micron profile i get errors

i have attached the pictures with the details, with the 100 and my profile it works fine

On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:29:18 AM UTC-5, whpthomas wrote:

[whpthomas]

Well that is curious - I have never seen any errors like this before. Two things to check first - it was saved from my Mac so there may be compatibility issues between platforms - I know that the alteration and home modules have file names in them which may be different on the PC - causing problems.

Alternatively - step though each active module in my profile and do a screen shot of the editor window to save the profile settings in a folder for future reference - then duplicate your default profile and compare with mine to see what's different in the screen shots. I did this a while back for a PC profile I downloaded because all the initialisation start/end codes were missing.

[Avandss]

Hi Thomas, its really odd as it initially worked perfectly, i will go ahead and load it on my laptop to compare, i started a new thread not to hijack this one

(btw  your 100 micron profile .... amazing!!!!)

thanks, 

[Dan Newman]

On 26 Dec 2012 , at 1:57 PM, Avandss wrote:

> Hi Thomas, when i use your 200 micron profile i get errors
>
> i have attached the pictures with the details, with the 100 and my profile
> it works fine

Those are warnings which you can ignore. RepG is a little lame about those
warnings: if the magnitude of the speed vector exceeds the max feedrate for
*any* axis it issues that warning. RepG fails to look at the projection of
the speed vector onto each axis: it's that projection which matters. Net
result is tha that warning is 99.99999% of the time wrong. And even when it
is correct, it doesn't matter anyway since RepG then handles things correctly
when it generates the s3g commands to send to the bot.

Dan

[Peter McDade]

Very nice!  When I have some time tomorrow I am going to take a look at these :)

On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:29:18 AM UTC-5, whpthomas wrote: