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stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:23 pm
by ken cummings
I have a new orion printer with the factory installed software. Linked to a matter control touch. Yesterday I downloaded a cow pattern from thingiverse and printed it three times as well as a Dorus little dragon. When I added the cow again and sent Print all I get is : preparing to print . I expect I pushed a wrong button adjusting the settings or something like that. Also while printing the flattish cow pattern the drive has taken to clicking, possibly being driven too fast and back-lashing. I raised the temp to 215C and slowed the feed rate to 90% with no improvement.
Any ideas please?
Re: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:17 pm
by ken cummings
The old orange filament I was using has some twist in in from the reel and hours after I stopped printing it snapped apart on its own
Re: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:50 am
by Eaglezsoar
ken cummings wrote:The old orange filament I was using has some twist in in from the reel and hours after I stopped printing it snapped apart on its own
Thanks for letting us know what the problem was. That has happened to me before and I swore that I would never use that manufacturer again but then I forgot
who it was. Happy printing!!
Re: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:05 pm
by ken cummings
Um, that was not the problem. The stale filament was just an aside. The machine still responds to PRINT with preparing to slice model. I left it off over-night. When I turned it on it started to slice what I had left in the print queue. I didn't want that thing and stopped it. It then went directly to that preparing to response. Should I reset the tablet and reinstall the software?
Re: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 7:45 pm
by ken cummings
I tried putting two items in the queue and sent Print to the first one. It got as far as: writing layers 1/48 for a small wingnut. Maybe an error in the code somewhere. Any fixes?
Rebump: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 2:19 pm
by ken cummings
still will not start creating layers.
Re: stops at: preparing to slice model
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 8:21 pm
by ken cummings
My other half downloaded an update to our Mattercontrol Touch before we had resolved earlier problem. Now the Touch is completely locked up. We are taking the case directly to MatterControl.