[Fab] help with the cupcakes

[Hao]

Hey Rachel!

The cupcake on the right side (whiter) working well.

does version 0027 give you default option with cupcake? if not, use
replicatorG 0026.

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.

try out and see what happens.

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.

good luck!

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> Details:
>
> I successfully installed replicatorG 0027 for Mac as instructed by the NB
> wiki at https://noisebridge.net/wiki/**Makerbot<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Makerbot>.
>  After that, I had the following issues:
>
> * 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 "NBURL.NET/ASSET001"
> (btw this nburl doesn't exist) which came up in ReplicatorG as "NutJob".
>
> * 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:
> http://wiki.makerbot.com/**forum/t-373061<http://wiki.makerbot.com/forum/t-373061>
> 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.
>
> 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
> replicat.org 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.
>
> 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!
>
> thanks,
> Rachel
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