Question on 3.1 and Smoothieware

[Dekker]

The 3.1 release notes list as a feature
Improved support for latest Smoothieware firmware and USB communication protocols

How do I specify that I am using a SmoothieBoard? I do not see any setting for a printer based on SmoothieWare/SmoothieBoard.

[CompoundCarl]

I don't think you need to make any special changes. Once you connect it, the software just detects it and communicates appropriately

Have you already tried connecting your board?

[Dekker]

I have not tried it. My printer is in pieces at the moment.

My hope is that one of the fixes is for Simplify3D to fix the bug- producing a huge number of infinitesimally small moves - which causes SmoothieWare to hang on some parts. This seems to be a problem on SmoothieWare but not other firmware. I have a part which hangs at the same place each time - 4 hours into a 6 hour print. The hang happens at the same time in the print when the Simplify3d gcode file is downloaded by Simplify3d or Repetier-Host.

There are programs to post-process the GCODE generated by Simplify3d but it would be nice to print without a manual step and another program to download the code to the printer.

If there is no SmoothieWare setting the elimination of the problematic movement would have to be a general change and not a smoothieWare specific change.

[CompoundCarl]

The release notes say "Improved filtering for small movements during toolpath generation", so I'm guessing that has been added
https://www.simplify3d.com/software/release-notes/

[tpete61]

Smoothie ware/Smoothieboard still hangs after last update to 3.1 and current firmware of smoothieware!

[Dekker]

tpete61, which release of SmoothieWare are you running. The stable release or the edge release?

[tpete61]

The edge release. I was told by smoothie to not use the stable edge it is very old.
That is if you are referring to the one from like a year ago.