Welcome to the SeeMeCNC Community

i'm an industrial designer, just purchased an Orion to help with that

i'm running it through it's paces for the first time, have printed parts from repable and a few of my own so far with decent results
ABS was unpleasant due to smell in the office today, running PLA at home right now and it's not too bad
i view everything as raw materials, even finished goods, so the machine, while very economically constructed is also easily modified based on it's modular format.
i can see a dozen or so upgrades already, if i'm lucky one or two of them might actually happen, lol

the only 'problem' i can't seem to solve for the moment is that the extruder assembly sometimes heads to an extreme 'home' somewhere off the grid from time to time, i first encountered it when i killed a job, fairly certain it still wants to do it at the end of a job as well.
it hasn't had an adverse affect, but it doesn't seem right.

i use Autodesk Inventor most often for 3D modeling > STL > Repetier > Slic3r > Orion

thanks in advance for any tips/tricks/help you all might provide, i'm very glad we all have the forum as a resource
in turn i'll converse and help with anything i can for all of you
~brian

Welcome to the Forum. I'm glad you decided on the Orion as your printer, it is fairly new but we have very few reports of problems.
As far as the printer wanting "to go off grid", check and make sure nothing is interfering with the slides contacting the switches at the
very top of the rails. There have been reports of the switches having problems during the unpacking of the printer. Visually inspect
these switches and verify everything looks okay. If you continue to have this problem let us know and we can troubleshoot a little
deeper.

SDI wrote:so the machine, while very economically constructed is also easily modified based on it's modular format.
i can see a dozen or so upgrades already, if i'm lucky one or two of them might actually happen, lol

That's my favorite thing about the SeeMeCNC design. You can hack, upgrade, and modify whatever you want. This is especially obvious while assembling one (not the Orion) but since you're so inclined, I think you see it too.

Have fun!

gracias amigos, much appreciated.

Eaglezsoar, I didn't unpack the machine myself so there's a moderate chance it may have had some unintended handling around the slides.
I will have a look tomorrow and see if there's anything obvious there.
As far as I can recall it does the exit-stage-right thing right from where it's working, not when it rises to the sliders.
For example I'd hit the kill job command, mid-print and the head immediately stops printing, two arms go hard up, one goes hard down, which results in the print head going to the glass and hard right, it ends up virtually at the very edge of the glass.
At first I half expected some of the FRP arms to bind and break, or the extruder tip to break the glass, but I've kind of gotten used to it and just hit the 'home' button after it does it's thing, it returns to home, hits the sliders and settles down properly.
Thanks for your attention on this.

If you would like me to keep my intro and intro and post the tech issue elsewhere just let me know, thanks.

@Jimustanguitar:
I'm thinking we have more in common than just additive manufacturing, lol.
I do indeed see mechanical frames as a good thing, I wish everything in the world was modular!
Lemme see, blond, 5.0', smart .... ohhh, TMI sorry

SDI, since the problem you are having makes little sense considering the printer prints okay as long as you do not "kill a job"
I have submitted a trouble request to SeeMeCNC support to find out if they have an idea what would cause your printer to
react the way it does. Should have an answer soon. Hang in there and try not to kill too many jobs, I don't want your new
printer breaking. You should feel special, this is the first time I have submitted such a request to SeeMeCNC. We can usually
figure out the problem without involving them we kind of take pride in that.

SDI, I have received the answer from SeeMeCNC support.
Do the following:
Open printer settings in repetier host, and uncheck the "go to park position at job end/kill" box

Thanks go to the rapid, fantastic support of SeeMeCNC.

That's specifically mentioned in the manual as well.

g.

geneb wrote:That's specifically mentioned in the manual as well.

g.

Should have read the manual!

Eagle, you're a hoot, lol. SDI, did that fix the issues? If not, shoot me an email to support@ and we can dig deeper

johnoly99 wrote:Eagle, you're a hoot, lol. SDI, did that fix the issues? If not, shoot me an email to support@ and we can dig deeper

You are supposed to be enjoying your Christmas party. BTW owls hoot, eagles screech.

Party Enjoyed, check! We'll post some pics of the whole crew here at dinner tonight on our facebook/twitter tomorrow

i don't mean to derail your party thread, lol

the eagle has landed
all issues resolved
i did read it in the manual ... but i was pretty sure i knew better when it came to checking the box

printer is working very well, quite pleased with it overall!
thanks for all the support mi amigos
~brian

I'm glad you are up and running correctly. Happy Printing!