Printing from replicatorG

[MTO]

I tried to print an object in replicatorG and it failed to generate G-code for it, which is a problem that's been plagueing me for months... So I installed superskein to see how it handled the object, and it made some g-code. great! it was fast too. But then I couldn't get replicatorG to send the g-code to my ToM. It says "gcode parser is null, can't print". How are people using SuperSkein to print?

[MTO]

On Apr 30, 2:57 pm, MTO <emte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed superskein to see how it handled the object, and it made some
> g-code. great! it was fast too. But then I couldn't get replicatorG to send
> the g-code to my ToM. It says "gcode parser is null, can't print". How are
> people using SuperSkein to print?

Ok... so I made progress here: Turns out that the gcode problem was
only a problem under windows (XP, 32bit). It worked fine when I
switched to linux. Now the print is just terrible, but I think I'm
using superskein wrong:

The plastic coming out of the extruder was too thin. I think I should
probably be using a higher flowrate.
The extruder head hits the build platform (does anyone else want to
call this a head crash?)

I haven't tried again... its kinda a pain replacing the belt on the
APB, and I haven't convinced myself I don't like it, yet.