Stuff I have been printing...

[bplemmons]

Here is some of my prints scince I have had my machine running, Some of them are with the .7 nozzle before I found out it was supposed to be a .5

Any tips are more than welcome. I want to learn......

Bill

[Jimustanguitar]

Those look amazing!

Mind sharing your Slic3r settings?
http://jotform.us/form/31195391043147

[bplemmons]

Funny you should ask me that, I have been using cura and kisslicer but when I tried to go back to slicer, the nozzle comes down and then shoots off toward the z tower, crashing hard it I don't shut it off...

I looked at all my setting and reloaded my firmware after checking it but I don't see why it does this, I used it fine about a week ago...

Bill

[Flateric]

I thought I was the only one, I am having this strang behavior out of slicer too suddenly. I can't explain it. All my others, kiss and cura are fine, but slic3r is crazy now, odd.

[bplemmons]

What firmware are you running? Johns repetier here...

[elqisqeyano]

Funny you should ask me that, I have been using cura and kisslicer but when I tried to go back to slicer, the nozzle comes down and then shoots off toward the z tower, crashing hard it I don't shut it off...

I looked at all my setting and reloaded my firmware after checking it but I don't see why it does this, I used it fine about a week ago...

Bill

If you recently installed Repetier Firmware, check the EEPROM settings and make sure your XYZ movement is not reversed in the firmware. Just my 2 cents. I just switched to Repetier Firmware and noticed, after done installing, that the extr 0 movement was reversed, so had to go in and change it to false. Could be the case with you accept it's probably your XYZ is reversed, or just the Z.

[Flateric]

This still would not make any sense because then other slicers would not work, they would all not work.

Repetier here, but Poly's.

[Polygonhell]

Check the slic3r GCode that's causing the issue, the firmware is dumb it will just does what it's told.
Problematic Gcode are things like
G28 X0 Y0 Z0
G92 - anything referencing X, Y , Z
if it does it at the start of a print, just post the first couple of dozen lines of GCode from slic3r (after the comments)

[bplemmons]

Found the problem, Slicer was placing a skirt outside of my build zone. fixed that. now when I go to print, the head comes down and the retracts like it's done. Is slicer even worth the trouble? Cura is nice but it does a huge retraction at the start of the print unless I turn it off completely.
Starving the first layer of the print...

Bill

[Polygonhell]

I thought cura did a retract and prime at the start of the print, they ought to offset, I don't use it much. It has the best path optimization of any of the slicers, but I usually run KisSlicer.
Slic3r is convenient if you want to do something quick, it should be producing usable gcode unless there is something bad in the configuration.

[bplemmons]

If I look at the cura gcode for retracting the filament back like 50mm as soon as the nozzle comes down, what would that command look like?
I have retraction set to 10 but when I start printing it pulls it out of the head...
I could remove it if I knew...

[Flateric]

I find they each have their strengths and uses, slic3r, cura and Kiss. I wouldn't go without any one of them.

[bplemmons]

What is slicers strength?