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Steve N 1 year, 8 months ago.
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@i3randon There’s a way to heat the bed using g-commands:
M140 S115
would start heating bed to 115º.
M104 S190
would heat the nozzle to 190º.
After reading some previous posts and you here - I started wondering why is that important? To achieve ambient temperature?
Someone complained because ambient temperature not reaching what was needed and we suggested heating up bed and leaving it until it warms up the air in the chamber.
I did try it but my patience didn’t last too long - chamber’s temperature didn’t go up (it actually felt from 40º to 38º @ bed’s temperature of 100º) so I am not sure if that’s the way. On the other hand - start heating nozzle without pushing material through it might, again, not be the best idea. Not sure why - but maybe keeping plastic runny for long time and head really hot might cause some issues.
So, again - why do you think it is important? Why preheating bed + nozzle at the start of the print is not enough? I am just asking - not judging nor telling that it is not important…O : )
@click …@clicky ??? you started a new profile after your account wouldnt post ?
@jack-strong - that was the easiest fix for WordPress insisting that I am a spammer (maybe software knows better…)
Pete suggested me to create a new account and then moved all clicky’s posts back to this one. So, click, clicky - it is all the same. ‘click’ is, after all the oldest ‘alias’ I’ve ever been using online. I was going under that name on QSD - a French chat service around 1991/92 (on X.25 network)…
@i3randon Apparently there were some users that were abusing the manual controls and causing problems with their machines so the controls were embedded with G-Code and the GUI option removed. It sucks, but keeps the people who can’t keep from clicking boxes from wrecking their Robox. It does make things challenging and hopefully we can get all the G-Code commands put together in an easy guide for those of us who need them.
I operate two Betas and one Production Robox.
See my 3D Hub site at https://www.3dhubs.com/phoenix/hubs/benThere’s already an easy guide: http://roboxing.com/gcode_console The settings are also in the Appendix of Robox Manual.
@click WordPress is idiotic. I hate that software. It’s even causing me trouble right now because one of our developers can’t get it to use permissions properly.
@gid how do you re find that page once you leave it as can’t see it linked from any other page so not one to find easily
mentioned this a few weeks back - CEL need to get off WordPress onto one of the mainstream forum platforms such as phpBB
The lack of a New Posts feature has led me to write a tiny web page that opens ALL the forum sections in one go, one tab for each - then I can just step along the tabs and see if there is anything new in each.
If anyone wants to use it, its at http://stevenicklin.com/robox/openforums.html
I’ve tested it in Google Chrome and IE11 - you will be prompted to allow popups from my domain - you need to always allow that to make it work - and then basically opening or reloading that page will cause a string of NEW tabs to open 🙂Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical
I can confirm your link works on Ubuntu/firefox
java (EE), JavaFX, HTML, GIS) programmer, database wizard, framework inventor, looking for a job ! http://roboxing.com/wizards
@streatsi : http://roboxing.com/gcode_console?do=backlink I didn’t make the GCode page too prominent, as it’s an advanced subject, and one that CEL have found important enough to remove the easy-to-use features from AM itself.
@discosteve : Ugh, hopefully not. I can’t stand phpBB… awful, awful software. I use RSS: Leaf on my Mac, and Feedly elsewhere. I set up FeedBurner to proxy CEL’s feeds. http://roboxing.com/keeping_track_of_the_forums
phpBB may be awful software (in your words @gid) but it delivers the RIGHT end user experience for forums (and is used EVERYWHERE) and is a million miles better than WP
see http://www.cmscritic.com/resource-lists/forum-list/
And I’m going to say that the Feedburner / RSS solution is as clunky as my ten line html page, and it doesn’t work in your webbrowser of choise and is only papering over the giant cracks provided by WP anyway…!?
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This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Steve N.
Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical
That’s a very subjective point. I can’t stand WordPress — or indeed bbPress, which is the forum extension being used — but in my opinion, phpBB’s even worse and far less usable. Honestly, I’d be less likely to participate if this forum used phpBB… there are a number of forums I’d otherwise be an active user in if it wasn’t for phpBB. Internally they’re both horrifying and literally cause me sleepless nights.
You say phpBB is better, and I say bbPress is better. It’s subjective. Who’s right? Statistics leave me dry on this point because a world that rates WordPress as one of the most popular CMSes clearly isn’t a world whose judgement I trust.
Regardless, the CEL website was put together by another firm, and I very much doubt that major reconstruction of it over a matter of personal preference is very high on CEL’s priority list. I expect bbPress was chosen over other solutions for its integration with WordPress as a functional CMS, whereas phpBB never integrates cleanly with anything. Suffice to say, I expect it’s here to stay… and if the CEL website gets rebuilt, I’d expect it to be on a more capable CMS than WordPress, along with better integrated forum capabilities.
As far as RSS is concerned, you can run it via Feedly, which will then run in your webbrowser of choice. If your aim is to see what’s changed in each forum, the only significant problem with Feedly is that the Robox feeds all come up as “All posts” rather than named by forum (see attached). Still, as I read all the forums anyway, it’s not a concern for me.
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