im thinking it might be time to clean up my work space
thankfully today a friend gave me a label maker. so the first thing i did was label the label maker 🙂
<<<Wonders what the label on the label maker said??? I've never thought of labeling my label maker, but I do currently have dozens of labels made up for labeling my sorting boxes once I build the rack for them
Did you get your Anet A8 Plus yet and have you started assembly?
Got back home late yesterday, but it'll be tomorrow before I can get back to troubleshooting my printer.
The fact the it auto homes to a location not over the print bed seems off to me and that the X-Axis then shows a negative value is real puzzling! Seems like the X, Y, and Z Axis would all be zero in the home position, even if it wasn't over the print bed!
The old model that I have uses end-stop switches to know where the end points are. If it's wrong one way or another on x and y, the belt would just slip, no big deal. But, if it's wrong on the z, (which doesn't use a belt, it uses screw gears) it could go down too far and try to punch thru the bed. And with a glass bed, you could break the glass if it goes down too far
I had to modify the x adjuster to use a screw that meets up with the end-stop switch so that I could simply turn a screw instead of having to actually loosen the end-stop mounts, adjust them up or down, then tighten them again. The screw also gives me more granular control
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That's funny …”
Author: Isaac Asimov
Take your time. Don't want to rush it and maybe make a mistake.
How about starting a seperate thread on the forum for your assembly?
Pat
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That's funny …”
Author: Isaac Asimov
So the slicer takes a scanned image and converts it into g code ?I thought someone actually wrote code duh....... There goes my idea for printing bikinis with built in wardrobe malfunction lol?
So the slicer takes a scanned image and converts it into g code ?
Not from a "scanned image". If you're starting from a scanned image, you first have to turn it into something else. There are lots of file types available, some are program dependent, while others are fairly generic. STL for instance, is generic, and probably the most popular, followed by svg and obj, then 3Ds, DWG, FBS, collada, then there are some aimed more at higher end CAD designers, like SLDASM and SLDPRT, which I believe are created by a program called SolidWorks, which actually does things differently, but I wouldn't know anything about that because that's just far too complicated for me to have even the slightest beginnings of an inkling of an understanding
Your STL will ultimately consist of triangles. LOTS and LOTS of triangles, the size of the triangles depends on the definition you request. Hi Def will obviously have many more very small triangles, and Lower definition will have fewer and larger triangles
It is this file that you send to the "slicer" program. The slicer program builds a virtual image of the item you want to print, at the desired definition, and then breaks it down by layers, in slices, exactly the same way an MRI of a brain scan works, or those flip books we had as children. It calculates each layer and the moves that the nozzle will make, how much filament to push, and when, and when to not push any at all
The output of the slicer program is the gcode file, which is then sent to the printer or laser cutter, or CNC machine. They all use gcode
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