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Thought others would like to see the latest video from Stefan @ CNC Kitchen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xP53y3T2U

@milesthomas I’d say look at a Prusa for ease of use.

@arnold_r_clark fair point I have boxes of various printer (spares), just in case.....

@droftarts @ddtunder

Here is the original slicing software https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f1yuOidiOxlcGvqfJhKm9rftpKGLOB2k/view?usp=drive_link

It's old and clunky. You can use a slicer like Cura or Prusasclier with the printer with a little bit of work. If you want to update the printer then as @droftarts says look at one of the current duet boards.

If I can help let me know, I'll try asisst.

Give Prusaslicer a go. I’ve moved to it from Cura and I’m impressed with it

@TF_Sinthoras You can use the retraction tab here to tune it.

https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html

Hi, hope this is the right place to raise this. It would be great if we could search within Jobs. It would make finding old prints a lot easier. Thanks.

@Sindarius Thanks! Something new I've learnt today.

Interesting videos. New gear design required. I had the thought of using two motors to drive in unison but that comes with it's own issues.

@BattleDroid said in Not homing in correct direction.:

@fcwilt

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense now. Thank you. You guys have been super helpful. I just closed about 30 tabs since those questions have been solved for me. haha

I am now trying to see if I can get the probe to work. I am googling how to change the mesh grid(?) when it probes. I noticed when it first tried to probe it wasn't quite on the bed. I am assuming its coordinates on the m557 line. Still searching. The other thing I have to find is why it doesn't deploy the probe when it starts homing. It is lit up, it will kick in and out when I turn the printer on. But I need to find what I change to make it deploy when it goes to home.

Do you have a deploy probe and retract probe script? M401 should deploy it and M402 retract. I was in a very similar position to you just the other week so this is all very fresh and familiar for me!

@bearer Thanks. I'm making some progress now with this approach. testing my dexterity for sure

I would say date order is preferable to alphabetical, it is for me at least.

@zapta cant believe you've not linked to this vid on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iII25DGIdA

I'm interested from a learning perspective but currently have no use for it. I'd actually like to know what people will use this for? To test drivers and steppers I assume but to what extent?

@Veti said in Servo deployed probe on Duet Maestro:

@Blacksheep99 said in Servo deployed probe on Duet Maestro:

I can only apologise.

no problem. i hope this helped you a bit to understand the commands and what they do.

Yes it's definitely improved my understanding. I will likely leave things for now. After a long day at work maybe a fresh mind tomorrow will allow me to get a first successful print.

Needed more top/bottom layers but happy with this part.

First layer (0.2) and a calibration cube

@tecno sounds like you’ve well versed in the challenges of your printer then. Hopefully your current prints come out well

@gip_86 Have you got a config-override.g in your sys folder with the output of the tuning? You also need a M501 in your config.g if you do.

@Phaedrux thanks for all the help, the support here is excellent and meant I could get a printer working again

@bot I’ve added the T0 to config.g as suggested above. Using reprap FW in settings. First few test prints look good to be fair. A benchy looked better than from Cura

@phaedrux said in Looking for ABL ideas:

@terbospaghetti said in Looking for ABL ideas:

I don't have the 5 pins to spare that it would require.

That depends, 2 of those are 5v and 2 ground. You might be able to piggy back off existing pins for those. Otherwise the BLTouch requires 1 wire for trigger signal, and 1 wire for servo signal.

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Connecting_a_Z_probe#Section_BLTouch

Or something like this? I think it was you who pointed me to this in the past.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3303618 As said, take the 5v and grd from two wires and then a signal for the deploy/retract.