Simplify3D User Forum

LeonMF

This tool might be helpful for you: http://mikk36.eu/SimplifyS3D/ Here's my imperfect osx desktop app that does the same thing: https://github.com/leonmf/S3DFix It's designed to filter short moves out of the gcode file after it's been generated. It reduces the risk that a bug in the smoothieboard mo...

LeonMF

Wait, the profiles are stored in the registry? That is one of the craziest things I've ever heard.

Simplify3D simply has no rational profile management plan, which is tragic since the rest of the software is so good.

LeonMF

The Smoothie devs are working on a fix for the problem caused by too small moves generated by Simplify3D. In the mean time, there are a couple of options to post-process your code before printing if you experience the problem described in this thread. Option 1 Use Mikk's parsing program: http://mikk...

LeonMF

I've been working with the Smoothie developers on the print lockup bug. They are working on their end but the reason it only happens with S3D is because there are moves that are smaller than the resolution of the machine. This results in floating point math errors in the firmware. They are fixing th...

LeonMF

All, The smoothie team has posted a potential fix over in the smoothie forum here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smoothieware-support/2r0JLV3G5i8 The text of the post is here. It appears that Smoothie generates too many moves with some models and it's a significant problem but the team was...

LeonMF

FYI, there is a test build here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smoothieware-support/Gz2VbP7muoY So far in (all of) one 13 hour print of a complex part, I didn't get the problem. In the past, this was a high likelihood of failure. There are no guarantees but, if you have issues, it's worth ...

LeonMF

How big do you really need? IIRC, the last time I looked at reviews for the Gigabot, the only thing it had going for it was size and it's print quality wasn't that great. Hopefully, it's improved in the last couple of years. To use that build volume really needs the ability to change rolls of filame...

LeonMF

If you have a cartesian printer, there's no compelling reason to go 32 bit. If, however, you have a delta, the speed tops out at a pretty slow speed.

For me, going to smoothie means I can go from 60mm/sec max for anything with an arc in it to as fast as my mechanics can handle.

LeonMF

It could be "ground loop". I had a really weird similar problem with my smoothie randomly stopping. You need to have the printer on the same outlet/power strip as your computer controlling the board. This is a very specific problem with S3D and Smoothie. No ground loops here as I'm printi...

LeonMF

razster wrote: But back to the topic, I don't think you need the software anyways. Just run the gcode file from the SD card. Sounds like it's really repeatable.

I've uploaded my gcode files. I'm not sure why that is not good enough for the devs.

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