Noob in SW Ohio

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Ross_Customs
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Noob in SW Ohio

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Spend a very hard working weekend at the Mid West Rep-Rap Festival building the Rostock MAX. It took about 30 hours to solo build as well as helping others where I could.

Big thanks to all that were involved in putting on that event!

Got 4 test prints done without getting into serious calibration - she works well!
I do have a script that can be pasted into the GCode editor "Script xx" and saved that will make sending commands to get the end stops dialled in a little easier

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; This is written for a Rostock Max with an Onyx bed - if you have the smaller square beds the 
; extruder head will be off the side of your bed!

; Make sure you have your Z0 set and stepper directions set correctly otherwise 
;    you might crash the extruder into the bed or the sliders into the ceiling
g28                       ; Home all axes

g01 x0 y0 z20 f7500  ; Drop to centre of bed (~20mm off)
g01 f500             ; Slow moves

; ****!!! DANGER make sure this won't crash the extruder DANGER !!!***
; I suggest starting with Z10 and eyeballing it the first time, then reducing the value.
g01 x0 y0 z1      ; Drop closer to bed (~1mm)

m1 s10               ; Pause ten seconds

g01 x-103.92 y-60    ; Go towards X pillar
m1 s10               ; Pause ten seconds

g01 x0 y0            ; Centre carriage 
m1 s3                  ; Pause three seconds

g01 x103.92 y-60     ; Go towards Y pillar
m1 s10                     ; Pause ten seconds

g01 x0 y0                ; Centre carriage
m1 s3                      ; Pause three seconds

g01 x0 y120          ; Go towards Z pillar
m1 s10                  ; Pause ten seconds

g01 x0 y0              ; Centre carriage
m1 s3                   ; Pause three seconds

g01 x0 y0 z20 f7500  ; Raise carriage for adjustment of end stops
m1 s20               ; Pause twenty seconds
m84                  ; Stop idle hold (Releases steppers)
The computer I am using it with runs Fedora 17 64 bit. I have had a sod of a time getting the USB serial port to work reliably - permissions problems for Reptier and the port was created on another address when power or USB connection was cycled.

I found fixes here...
Create rules that automatically rename USB serial adapter to the same thing.
https://gist.github.com/cbrake/4337154

Automattically reset permissions each time the device is created (Plugged in)
http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/win ... ccess.html
Last edited by Ross_Customs on Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:37 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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Flateric
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Re: Noob in SW Ohio

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Damn handy script thankyou.
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TheMOX
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Re: Noob in SW Ohio

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Thanks for the script. It saved me a lot of time and frustration tonight.
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