X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=reprap-play.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTRUCTIONS;h=58d095ab3e38c8702fedd97bdd2e60fa142f1b0d;hp=bfb651542a7ace8c6c6f643538840f9d5bcf1ba3;hb=4a21d8d71430dfbb98d532b664cbfd948dec6ae2;hpb=fddb76eac9ae8c382a134ded52ce6ef6b055060c diff --git a/INSTRUCTIONS b/INSTRUCTIONS index bfb6515..58d095a 100644 --- a/INSTRUCTIONS +++ b/INSTRUCTIONS @@ -4,29 +4,34 @@ To print: * Start pronterface cd /home/reprap/reprappro-software.git/ ./pronterface.py - * Select "connect", wait for printer to connect + * Select "connect" (make sure it's ttyUSB0 115200), + wait for printer to connect * Turn on the hotend and bed heaters - * "Load file", select the .stl file. It will be sliced. - * "Load file", select the _export.gcode file. It will show up on the RHS. - * "SD" / "Upload", accept the suggested filename (but remember it) - and when it is done, turn on the hotend and bed heaters again - * Home all - * Pick ooze off nozzle with fine-nosed pliers + * Remove MicroSD card from printer and copy the file to it + (give it an 8.3 filename ending in .G) + * Insert MicroSD card back into printer * Wait for bed (and hotend) to get up to temperature - * Pick ooze off nozzle with fine-nosed pliers + * If there's lots of ooze, pick off nozzle with fine-nosed pliers * "SD" / "Print", select the file you uploaded earlier - * While waiting for it to start (~1min?) - pick ooze off nozzle with fine-nosed pliers * Watch while it starts and make sure that the skirt sticks to printbed and nothing gets tangled * Check that filament feed path from feedstock coil looks good. ------------------------------------------------------------ +make these symlinks ~/.pronsolerc -> /home/ian/things/Reprap/play/pronsolerc (adjust to taste) openscad - use wheezy -Slic3r - is from slic3r-linux-x86-0-8-4.tar.gz +ie + schroot -pc wheezy + openscad +or + schroot -pc wheezy openscad + +Slic3r - is from slic3r-linux-x86-0-9-1.tar.gz + +repsnapper - only used this so far for its gcode viewer ------------------------------------------------------------