<div>Hey Rachel!</div><div><br></div><div>The cupcake on the right side (whiter) working well.</div><div><br></div>does version 0027 give you default option with cupcake? if not, use replicatorG 0026.<div><br></div><div>We are at toorcamp and the network here is so fucked up, that we are not able to get online all the time. sorry for that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>try out and see what happens.</div><div><br></div><div>also, if the plastic not stick to the heating build platform, try lower down the z axis manually by turning the handle on the top of cupcake.</div>
<div><br></div><div>good luck! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all, I'm at NB now and have not quite been successful in printing out a small test object although I feel I'm so close.... Is anyone with Makerbot knowledge still in SF and planning to be at NB on Monday or Tuesday morning/afternoon, or possibly Sunday evening? (I'm speaking at Dorkbot this Wednesday so have to miss that.) I know lots of ppl are at Toor now so maybe I'll just have to wait another week.<br>
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Or if anyone has thoughts on what I should try, here's my current state. I can get a print to print out (with a hack I probably should solve better) but it doesn't stick to the platform, it just gums up around the nozzle. With gcode generated with a different option set it doesn't extrude at all...<br>
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I successfully installed replicatorG 0027 for Mac as instructed by the NB wiki at <a href="https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Makerbot" target="_blank">https://noisebridge.net/wiki/<u></u>Makerbot</a>. After that, I had the following issues:<br>
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* machine on the right end, with "DIY" sticker, produced a "Toolhead 0: Not Found" error. I did some minor messing around, checking cables and so forth, but from my research the solution seemed to be to reinstall the firmware... so I changed machines to the one marked "<a href="http://NBURL.NET/ASSET001" target="_blank">NBURL.NET/ASSET001</a>" (btw this nburl doesn't exist) which came up in ReplicatorG as "NutJob".<br>
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* Was able to control the machine through the control panel of ReplicatorG, heat up the print head and platform, move the axes around, reset to 0, run test extrusions. I tried a print, and ran into the problem where the machine got up to the warm-up position and just stopped (I waited more than 7 minutes). It was exactly as described here: <a href="http://wiki.makerbot.com/forum/t-373061" target="_blank">http://wiki.makerbot.com/<u></u>forum/t-373061</a><br>
I edited the PID settings as recommended on that page but it still hung at the same spot. I tried commenting out the gcode line where it waits for the head to heat up (for all my attempts I knew the head and platform were hot enough because I checked using the control panel immediately before starting the print). With that line commented out I got behavior that looked like it was attempting a print, but the plastic would not stick to the platform. I tried repositioning the Z axis 0 several times to get the head as close to the platform as possible but it never stuck. I tried a raft... that started to stick a little but then it all came up and gummed to the print head.<br>
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The gcode I generated using the base profile "SF35-cupcake-ABP". I'm not sure what that means as this is an older version of ReplicatorG and the <a href="http://replicat.org" target="_blank">replicat.org</a> site documentation doesn't apply. I guess the SF35 refers to SkeinForge3.5 but I don't know about HBP and ABP. I tried generating it using the "SF35-cupcake-HBP" settings instead, and got different problems. After doing a successful test extrusion, the HBP version ran through the motions in X, Y, Z axes but without extruding anything more.<br>
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I might attempt to combine the startup from HBP and the rest from the ABP version but not now. Any advice anyone has is welcomed!<br>
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thanks,<br>
Rachel<br>
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