Makerbot 2x(Sailfish) Basic setup

[Phgeis]

okay seems to be an artefact which doees not affect the build, extrusion works fine now but I dont get the heatbed to heat at all! Any idea?
already put some heatup into the startcode so it gets at least hot before the build!

[taerog]

Did you do "In the firmware I changed the heater gcode in the FW setting from m109 to m140 (do to how gpx responds to this and per Wingcommander's recommendations.)"??

gpx does not seem to like the 109 command.

[Phgeis]

Thx now I got the right extruded and the HBP working. Tweak now the setups... To get some nice finish. Looks nice so far. Gone post my settings as soon as I am satisfied wih the results.

[Phgeis]

ARGH eith the new sailfish fw th HBP wont work but heatup the left extruder instead! WHY?

Do you /tearog) work with the new sailfish or the custom sailfish right now and which impostation do you use for the Bed?

[Idefix]

Hi,

I'm testing the 2X profiles (thanks a bunch taerog) and found the following:

- Extruder Temperature Setting
S3D does not recognize the T setting in the temperature window it seams. If I select T1 for the first extruder listed, it will always heat up T0 instead.
Instead of the temp setting by selecting the tool, I found that the position of in the list of temperatures matters. So in order to control Right Extruder (T0), Left Extruder (T1) and Platform I had to create 3 entries in this order: Right Extruder, Left Extruder, Platform. This way the temp setting are added correctly as T0, T1 and T2 in the start code. Remaining issue is that each needs a temperature. In order to only heat up the left extruder, I had to set the temp point for the right extruder to 0 in the Right Extruder Temp Setpoint menu.

- Offset
while the G10 and G54 offsets work fine for the right extruder they are somehow ignored for the left extruder in my case.
Any idea what the issue could be? Offset in the G-Code Offset mask is set to 0 for all Axis, Script windows includes

G10 P1 X-135 Y-75 ; set local offset for Creator
G54 ; enable G10 offset

Preview shows up correctly in the middle of the platform but when I start the print with the left extruder I run into the right rear endstop as soon as the actual print starts (after the scripted start.gcode is complete).

Thanks,
Eric

[Idefix]

Figured out how the left extruder offset works.
In order to get both left and right extruder to start in the middle of the platform, P1 and P2 both need to be addressed in the startcode.

Added this as part of the startcode in the scripts window:

G10 P1 X-135 Y-75 ; set local offset for Creator
G10 P2 X-135 Y-75 ; set local offset for Creator
G54 ; enable G10 offset

With this now both extruders start at the right place.
The temperature issue remains but can be addressed by creating the 3 entries as described above. In order to keep one of the extruders cold during the print, the temp at setpoint 1 for that extruder needs to be set to 0.

[Phgeis]

Hi Taerog, hi Idefix!

Anybody of you managed to connect the printer direct with creator?

just get:
Attempting connection at COM3...
Attempting RTS reset and trying again...
Attempting RTS reset and trying again...
Connection failed.

No change whatever I do!

[Idefix]

no, I'm using the SD only for printing.
Now that I have my ABS gap issue solved I'm trying to get the left extruder to work.
Sad that the product still does not support the 2X properly "out of the box" till now