Posts made by handyandy

Hi,
I have a Prusa mk4 3D printer and also a printer that I designed and built myself.

My background is aerospce tooling design so (I think) the printer design and build is pretty good and very robust. It is a typical bed slinger, it uses a bear frame, Duet3 mini5 controller, Revo Hemera print head and a Prusa heatbed, and all other components are high quality.

It works fairly well using the Cura 5.9 slicer to produce code for printing models. However, I feel much more comfortable with Prusaslicer 2.9 and would very much like to use this for all future printing.

Can anyone on the forum help me with achieving this goal. Does any one have any example code for profile settings, start and end codes etc. that would get me started?

@gloomyandy Fair point. No one seems to write decent papers with details of settings etc. Apart from this forum you're verymuch on your own.

Is there any way the Duet 3 mini 5+ board can be programmed to rival the Prusa Mk4 for speed/accuracy?
I have a Prusa Mk4 and a Bear framed Prusa like printer I designed and made myself. on the latest iteration I have installed some of the Mk4 features such as the 10mm Z-axis rods, a Revo Hemera extruder assembly and based the 3d printed parts on the Prusa, but made them a bit stronger.
I would say my printer is easily as stiff and stable as the Prusa, so, would this be possible?

@OwenD
Thanks guys. I must be dyslexic?

@Phaedrux
Sorry I misread that, here is the start.g file... start.g

@Phaedrux
Thanks for your help. Requestewd files follow... config.g Cura-end.g Cura-Start.g

Whenever I start a print I always get an error message after a couple of minutes. I select start and the program begins with a cold bed levelling routine (in start.g) then running code I have in my Cura start code it heats up the bed to 80C. I then allways get this error message...

"Error: M190: Temperature too high for heater 0" in a red box at the bottom of the display.

This comes just before it heats the nozzle to 175C and repeats the bed levelling in hot mode. Everything in config.g for the bed (110C) and nozzle (300C) max temperatures looks correct.
After the ebd levelling the rest of the program runs perfectly; bed and nozzle temperature increase to the cortrect filament settings and I generally get perfect prints.

I just don't know what causes the error message. Help please.

@droftarts Thanks for that.

Hi, I hope someone here can help with this, as it's beginning to annoy me! Everything used to work fine when using Chrome, I ran DWC from the browser with no problems. If I used Edge it would very occasionally fail to connect in a similar manner.

The only thing of note that has changed is that in late February I had a dispute with Micosoft re 365, I ended up removing that software and totally re-installing Windows 11 and all my apps.

I am now trying to re-commision my 3d printer that runs via a Duet 3 mini 5 controller and has a PanelDue display connected. There have been no changes at all since before.

My problem is that, now when I try to run DWC from the browser I constantly get the error message 'This site ca't be reached 192.168.1.102 refused to connect'. The PanelDue displays all the correct messages to say it has connected with WiFi to 192.168.1.102

Please, any help with this would be great.

Thanks for that.

Hi,
I would like to echo the value of 'heat.heaters[1].current' in the following line of code as an integer (i.e. no decimal places). Currently it always displays it with to two decimal places.

echo "Heating the nozzle to " ^ global.filamentTemp ^ ", it's currently " ^ heat.heaters[1].current ^ "°C"

It must be easy but I'm feeling a bit thick today!

@jay_s_uk Hi, I've not uploaded files here before so I hope I'm doing it right!
config.g
homex.g
homey.g
homez.g
homeall.g
Whilst you are looking at these I also can't get the PanelDue to display.
Any Ideas?

Hi, I had been getting on fine with sensorless homing with my duet3mini5 board. Both the X & Y axis were homing almost silently and ultra-repeatable with just one contact needed to work.
However, I was getting an error message with the X-axis, it came up as...
"Error: Pin name needed for switch type end stop on X-axis ". I don't understand this homex.g is identical to home.y (except X's and Y's! of course). Why is it asking for a pin name when it's sensorless ?

@chrishamm thanks I tried that but the printout does not show all the details in the original web page. I could not find the PDF option anywhere. Where is it?

Hi, I have asked this before but didn't really get a reply.
Is it possible to split long lines of code, typically M291 lines over 2 (or more) lines of code?
These lines can easily stretch to 150 columns or more. When comparing files in 2 side by side windows it can make reading the code difficult.
I would like to be able to split these lines at some point so they are physically spread over 2 (or more) lines in my text editor ( I use sublime).

@chrishamm I was actually looking to be able to have a hard copy (printout)

Hi, Just a quick one.
Is it possible to get a full printout of the results from the Reprap configuration tool?
If I click on the open file and select print I only get parts of it printed. I really want a good print with all the alterations I've made.
I presume this because its a webpage not a text file as such.
Is this possible?

@Phaedrux , thanks for that.

Hi, I have a few 5V LED blades designed to fit into USB ports that I think are fabulous.
I would like to use one to illuminate the nozzle and surrounding area on my printer.
I am using a Duet 3 mini 5+ running with a 24 V supply.
How could I connect this, ideally being able to control it with gcode?
Any ideas would be very welcome, especially with with some coding suggestions.

@handyandy Hi, I have just spotted the solution to this at the end of the 'Getting Started' document. I should RTFM more!