dennisjm
Posts: 343
Joined: Wed May 07, 2014 9:51 pm

Very Large Raft

So I have this part that is a very large base area. It fills a good portion of my 11x9 hd2x. Also, this part is mostly support on the bottom so I print on a raft so the support material will stick.

The net result is I have this first layer that is really just a bunch of lines across the print bed at a little bit slower speed.

Anyway, this is the first time I've ever seen this, but it did it in the exact same place a few times in a row. The printer says "Waiting for Input" on the control panel and in the S3D communication window it says "Firmware Unresponsive, attempting to continue."

It's like it queued commands but they took so long to process that the queue filled up and S3D does something with the timeout the printer doesn't like. Just a guess.

Any thoughts? I was able to get around it by watching attentively till it happened and pressing continue right away. Annoying though. I wonder if printing from the SD card also have the issue or not.
JoeJ
Posts: 1435
Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:52 am

Re: Very Large Raft

If the movements are taking a REALLY long time, you might be exceeding the default communication timeout in S3D. I think it's 10 seconds by default, but it only applies to normal printing, not the preheating and homing.

If you want to increase that limit, just go to tools --> firmware config, and click Communication tab

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