First let me confess that I am new to 3D printing! I'm finally at

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First let me confess that I am new to 3D printing! I’m finally at the stage where I can start to print on my smoothie board Cartesian printer. I have everything working and I am trying to print a test block. I am using Simplify3D to slice and prepare the g code. This is what is happening. When the printer starts to run a print, the print head does a cleaning cycle with the z axis at the correct level. It then moves to the center of the bed raises the print head approximately 5 or 6 MM and starts to print. Of course all this does is make a mess and I abort the print. I’ve tried to adjust the Z offset in Simplify 3D, but this doesn’t seem to help. Any ideas to correct this problem would be appreciated. I can do a video if that would help.

Thanks Dan

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Hey @Daniel_Benoit
We really need to know what the start of your gcode file looks like, and probably what your config looks like, to make any sense of the situation.
Cheers.

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Thanks Arthur, I’ll get that organized today!

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Well guys, after several weeks remodeling my kitchen I’m back on my printer. Still can’t figure out why the Z axis retracts before it starts to print. I drew up a little test piece in Alibre and sliced it with Simplify3D. Could you please look over these files and see if you can spot anything weird. I’m a complete newbie and this is my first print on my converted unit. Here are the files: http://pastebin.com/VrRGJFRY

http://pastebin.com/q2apA1Lx

Thanks again for all your help,

Dan
http://pastebin.com/q2apA1Lx