Help with Documentation

deckingman

Tony,

Just noticed that M558 is missing from the list of gcode commands. It's in the rerap.org Wiki but not the duet3d.com wiki.

Ian

hairy_kiwi

Some extra detail and examples scenarios where M500 / M501 / M502 gcodes would be useful.

Slight thread highjack with a number of questions - but hopefully also illustrates the kind of info that would be useful:

In the RRF WHATS_NEW.md release note on github for 1.17, it says:
"You will need to add M501 in your config.g file, at the end or just before the T0 command if you have one, if you want to load saved values automatically at startup."

I do, but aren't these settings loaded via my config.g?

Is config-override.g useful for experimental configurations?

I'm not sure when I would want to save any settings in a separate file or indeed which settings are included in each save, so ran the M500 command and in the config-override.g created I see the following:

; This is a system-generated file - do not edit
; Heater model parameters
M307 H0 A90.0 C700.0 D10.0 S1.00 B1
M307 H1 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H2 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H3 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H4 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H5 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H6 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
M307 H7 A340.0 C140.0 D5.5 S1.00 B0
; Z probe parameters
G31 T1 P500 X29.0 Y0.0 Z0.35
G31 T3 P500 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.70
G31 T4 P500 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.00

Are there any other groups of settings I might expect to see in config-override.g - or only the ones for Heater and Z probe?

I recognise the G31 settings above - these are identical to the ones in my config.g, but the M307 settings - where did they come from? (My M307 H1 settings in config.g are currently commented out, while I was investigating the PID tuning issue with (layer 1+) part cooling air affecting my E3Dv6 heater block.

dc42

The M307 commands have the default values because you didn't have any M307 commands in config.g, nor did you run auto tuning before you did the M500.

If you set custom PID parameters using M301 and you don't override them by auto tuning, you will alse see M301 commands in config-override.g.

On a delta printer, you will also see M665 and M66 calibration parameters in config-override.g.

The point of M500/501/502 and config-override.g is that you can run heater auto tuning or delta calibration and then send M500 to save these values, instead of having to hand-edit them into config.g.

3dprinting meathead

how about a direct and easy to find link to the reprap configurator-even though it might be down right now because It wouldn't compile a zip for me the past few days.

hairy_kiwi

@dc42:

The M307 commands have the default values because you didn't have any M307 commands in config.g, nor did you run auto tuning before you did the M500.

If you set custom PID parameters using M301 and you don't override them by auto tuning, you will alse see M301 commands in config-override.g.

On a delta printer, you will also see M665 and M66 calibration parameters in config-override.g.

The point of M500/501/502 and config-override.g is that you can run heater auto tuning or delta calibration and then send M500 to save these values, instead of having to hand-edit them into config.g.

Thank you.

T3P3Tony

@3dprinting:

how about a direct and easy to find link to the reprap configurator-even though it might be down right now because It wouldn't compile a zip for me the past few days.

Good Idea!

I just tested the configurator and it generated and downloaded a config zip ok, what errors did you get?

T3P3Tony

@deckingman:

Tony,

Just noticed that M558 is missing from the list of gcode commands. It's in the rerap.org Wiki but not the duet3d.com wiki.

Ian

Thanks Ian, David added it in, and I then added the next 5 Gcodes which were also missing, rather odd since the Gcode page was based on the RepRap wiki one.

3dprinting meathead

@T3P3Tony:

@3dprinting:

how about a direct and easy to find link to the reprap configurator-even though it might be down right now because It wouldn't compile a zip for me the past few days.

Good Idea!

I just tested the configurator and it generated and downloaded a config zip ok, what errors did you get?

I didn't get any errors, it just sat in the same place frozen forever. I clicked download zip and the icon shaded out and when I hovered over it it gave me the no symbol.
It was probably my settings being wrong, but I ran it a few times before without issue.

dc42

Which browser were you using?

3dprinting meathead

@dc42:

Which browser were you using?

Google chrome, like i said, I had no problem doing it earlier that day, in fact I had no problem downloading the non zipped version either. I havn't tried again, I'm trying to learn how to do everything through g code now.