Anyone have a good guide for setting up a new printer that you designed and built yourself, like size, speed and endstops and such? Got allmost everything done on the repstrap (made of mostly zip ties and hot glue, but it should last long enough to print it self new parts)
It was built with the old printrbot starter kit, (not the 8mm rod one I don’t have one of those)
A personal design? I would look up printrbot adjustment commands if you stuck with the RevF5 firmware. Speed is relative- acceleration and jerk are a board matter but the mm/s for printing generally is a sliced thing. Endstop a should be already done in the firmware again. What in specific in terms of those things do you need help with? I’ve been there done that 34 times with my fellow students.
@Griffin_Paquette I have to basically configure the firmware so it knows the size and such of everything.
For most commands:
http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code
For sizing bed and messing with current levels and whatnot:
https://printrbot.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200273190-Getting-Started-Guides-Documentation
M501 and M500 are good for seeing and saving your jerk, accel, and other values. Those will show you the command you need to change their values.
Printrbot did a great job making most stuff easy to adjust through eeprom.
Lemme know if you need anything else you can’t find.
@Griffin_Paquette OK… thanks, what do jerk and acceleration do? I am not quite familiar with their effects. Should I just leave those as they are?
The jerk and accel should for sure be altered. https://ultimaker.com/en/community/6438-question-about-acceleration-jerk
I can’t describe it very well. Read that^ Jerk getting messed with can get corners more squared off but its adjustment that is on a per machine basis.
OK so how do I tell how much travel each axis has?
You measure the distance it can travel on your machine. Google and the reprap community is your best friend for a lot of info.