Re: [MakerBot] end of print behavior

[Jordan Miller]

yes, the end.txt file in skeinfox goes back to absolute coordinates 0,0,20 and keeps the nozzle hot for aiding in mass manufacturing. just open your .gcode file and look at the last Gcodes and change the position(s) from 0,0,20 to 0,0,X where X is some integer taller than your object. You may need to open the stl file in something like Blender to see the height.

Note that saving changes in ReplicatorG somehow do NOT get written to the hard drive, so you may have to edit your .gcode file in something like textedit or textmate to make sure your edits are committed properly to the file.

Jordan



On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:40 PM, matt wrote:

> When a print finishes, and then the extruder attacks your tall object
> (say hypothetically, smushing the middle finger of the thingiverse
> hand) - is the best solution to always remember to modify some final
> bit of gcode in a file before you print? Or is there a default final
> behavior I should tweak? (I'm using SkeinFox...)
>
> thanks, -matt
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[jet]

Jordan Miller wrote:
> yes, the end.txt file in skeinfox goes back to absolute coordinates 0,0,20 and
> keeps the nozzle hot for aiding in mass manufacturing.

feature request: It would be nice if there was multiple start.txt and
stop.txt support ala the various skeinforge settings. (Maybe there is
and I'm being clueless. :-) When I'm printing something big, I do a
boundary test in g-code to make sure my platform is perfectly centered
and I won't hit the clamps, but it's not something I want to do every time.


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[Jordan Miller]

hmm, I'm not sure i could do this, the file lives inside skeinforge
tools which is inside the .app, and writing to those files can cause
lots of strange effects. if you can figure out how to change absolute
to relative coordinates we could maybe make it always go up 5 mm from
wherever it is.

jordan

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[jet]

What I'm thinking of is some way to pick arbitrary start/stop files, or
at least associate them with high-level options like "raft", "no raft", etc.

So you could have a variety of choices for a single foo:
foo--Raft
foo--noRaft
foo--Production # keeps the heater on
foo--Test # a version of Production where I'm trying new things

--jet