What was your first entry to DWC (serious question)

[Rushmere3D]

@mac Probably PID tuning.

[Phaedrux]

Did you follow on with those ender 3 guides?

[fcwilt]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

I’ve looked at DWC over and over, wondering what I should DO with it. And how? In what language? So, this is my question to you: what was the first thing you typed into DWC?

Or, what would you suggest a complete noob type in?

Mark

Do you mean after the printer was fully configured and ready to print things?

Frederick

[deckingman]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

I’ve looked at DWC over and over, wondering what I should DO with it. And how? In what language? So, this is my question to you: what was the first thing you typed into DWC?

Or, what would you suggest a complete noob type in?

Mark

Not sure I understand the question. DWC = Duet Web Control. That is to say, it's a way of controlling the printer using a web interface. Mostly it's just buttons for things like starting a print job, homing an axis, starting a heater, uploading a file, running a macro etc, and it also acts to display information such as axis position, heater temperatures etc. I rarely type anything in apart from maybe running a gcode command if I'm testing something. There are no languages to learn.

[droftarts]

@mac If you follow along the guides it gives you a good introduction to the features of DWC, particularly https://docs.duet3d.com/en/How_to_guides/Commissioning

DWC manual is here: https://docs.duet3d.com/User_manual/Reference/Duet_Web_Control_Manual

Ian

[A Former User]

@rushmere3d can you show the g code (I’m assuming) you used?

[A Former User]

@phaedrux not yet, but I will.

[droftarts]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

@rushmere3d can you show the g code (I’m assuming) you used?

Again, it's in the commissioning guide: https://docs.duet3d.com/en/How_to_guides/Commissioning#h-6-tune-heaters

Ian

[A Former User]

@droftarts In reading that entire document on my phone, I learned many things, including the following: you should move your hot end, your bed, and your X/Z axies to test them, but you can’t do that until you’ve homed them, which you shouldn’t do until you’ve tested them.

[A Former User]

@droftarts I believe you, and I appreciate everything I get from you. I’m also interested in peoples physical experiences, because the things we do physically are very good at creating memories.

[A Former User]

@deckingman thanks for that. I think I’m concerned about having a computer on full-time when I’m printing. That’s a big energy footprint (2 devices, both of which are pulling up to 20 amps) so it’s costly. I’d like to avoid that.

I know I can see the interface on my phone, but I’d like a bit more real estate to look at.

And what happens if my phone dies? Of my laptop? Or my desktop? Or the cable company decides to work on their system, which involves shutting it all down?

And given that the things I often print take a very long time, if I loose the net, do I loose the print?

Mark

[A Former User]

@fcwilt I do!

[fcwilt]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

That’s a big energy footprint (2 devices, both of which are pulling up to 20 amps)

Good grief! What kind of printer and computer do you have that is pulling that kind of power?

I have two computers and 5 printers and they don't pull that much.

Frederick

[A Former User]

@fcwilt it’s not the printer, but it’s power supple, and a computer with 12 cores.

[cosmowave]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

I think I’m concerned about having a computer on full-time when I’m printing

You can switch off the computer during printing!

[fcwilt]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

@fcwilt it’s not the printer, but it’s power supple, and a computer with 12 cores.

I have a computer with a 16 core CPU running off a 750 watt power supply which at most is going to draw 7-8 amps and everything - CPU, GPU, drives - would have to be going "full blast" - which is highly unlikely just connected to the DWC.

Frederick

[deckingman]

@mac As others have said, you can turn the computer off while printing. Everything runs off the sd card. DWC offers a convenient way to start a print, but from there on, unless you want to change anything such as the speed of extrusion factor multiplier, all it's doing is displaying information. You can dive in and out of DWC anytime you like and it won't have any detrimental impact on what the Duet board is doing.

[droftarts]

@mac if you don’t want to leave your PC on, and don’t want to monitor it on your phone, you can connect a PanelDue or 12864 display to the Duet for direct control. Unfortunately I don’t think your old display will work.

Ian

Edit: I see from your other thread that you already have a Fystec screen.

[droftarts]

@mac said in What was your first entry to DWC (serious question):

In reading that entire document on my phone

I'm starting to realise why you have so much problem finding the documentation, perhaps. If you are browsing the documentation wiki on your phone, the main menu is minimised. The main menu has the guides clearly shown, and within each guide the page contents shows each section:

If you're browsing on a phone, you don't see these. You can see the main menu; there's a round blue 'hamburger' icon in the bottom left of the page. Clicking this brings up the main menu. Unfortunately you still can't see the page contents.

Ian

[A Former User]

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