Flashforge Creator Pro bed not heating

[3Dprintergear]

Hi All,

I'm having some problems getting my bed to heat up on the creator pro. I have tried selecting FFF creator single, right or dual with no change.

Can someone please clarify a few things.
1. In the preferences it shows T0 for both hot end and bed. Shouldn't this be T2 ( ext1=0, ext2=1, bed=2) ?
2. In firmware I selected "sailfish" as this is what the Pro comes with standard. It also lists bet as T0.

Lastly, the bed will work fine in Makerware, and also if I connect directly over USB, just doesn't seem to work when saved to SD card.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I have selected the box to tell it to wait until bed heats to temp.

Thanks
Jamie

[RichWebb]

Works fine on my FFCX. I think that selecting "heated build platform" in the Temperature tab overrides the T[0:3] combo box selection. It "knows" that there's only one heated build platform [*].

Have you tried deleting the default layer/temperature setpoint and then adding in a new one? That may do the trick.


[*] although I've seen references to some experimental bots with two platforms, one in XY and another in YZ for a choice of either long or tall builds.

[dennisjm]

Here is my start code. I have the Creator X. I believe it should be the same.

Heating the hotbed is still T0 but a different M code. easy to see below M140S[bed0_temperature] T0

; **** Replicator 1 dual start.gcode ****
M103 (disable RPM)
M73 P0 (enable build progress)
G21 (set units to mm)
G90 (set positioning to absolute)
M140 S[bed0_temperature] T0 (set HBP temperature)
(**** begin homing ****)
G162 X Y F2500 (home XY axes maximum)
G161 Z F1100 (home Z axis minimum)
G92 Z-5 (set Z to -5)
G1 Z0.0 (move Z to "0")
G161 Z F100 (home Z axis minimum)
M132 X Y Z A B (Recall stored home offsets for XYZAB axis)
(**** end homing ****)
G1 X-110.5 Y-72 Z50 F3300.0 (move to waiting position)
G130 X20 Y20 A20 B20 (Lower stepper Vrefs while heating)
M134 T0; (wait for hotbed)
M104 S[extruder0_temperature] T0 (set extruder temperature)
M133 T0 (wait for toolhead
and HBP to reach temperature)
G130 X127 Y127 A127 B127 (Set Stepper motor Vref to defaults)
M108 T0
M135 T0
G0 X-110.5 Y-72 (Position Nozzle)
G0 Z0.6 (Position Height)
G92 E0 (Set E to 0)
G1 E4 F300 (Extrude 4mm of filament)
G92 E0 (Set E to 0 again)
M73 P0 ;@body (notify GPX body has started)
; **** end of start.gcode ****

[3Dprintergear]

Thanks Richwebb and Dennisjm.

I found the issue. It was in the firmware configuration. Under X3G tab, replicator2 was selected, which of course doesn't have a heated bed! Once I selected Replicator 1 Dual the bed starting heating as before.

I think that because I am using different printers with different firmwares I must not have saved the settings when swapping between them. Too bad the profile doesn't incorporate the firmware settings also.

Cheers
Jamie

[jasonnunley]

I was reading the thread and was able to fix my bed not heating by changing it to the Replicator 1, but now I have issues with the extruders not heating. I am new to 3d printing but not to gcode.. Am I missing a setting?

Thanks,

[CompoundCarl]

I was reading the thread and was able to fix my bed not heating by changing it to the Replicator 1, but now I have issues with the extruders not heating. I am new to 3d printing but not to gcode.. Am I missing a setting?

I have the same printer. You don't need to do anything besides going to Help > Configuration Assistant, and selecting the FlashForge Creator Pro profile. Their stock profile already works correctly. Have you done that already?