Slic3r Thing-O-Matic Fix
Description
These settings works great for me, although I haven't really measured and calibrated the result yet. Feel free to share your experience and improvements!
UPDATE:
Now tested and modified to work in Windows
Files are also available in this gist:
gist.github.com/4250182
Instructions
2. Place tomfix.py in the same directory as Slic3r.exe (on Linux you might have to add the entire absolute path to the script in slic3r's config)
3. tweak your speeds and anything else you might want to.
4. Generate g-code and check that the post-process script ran correctly (the first line should contain the following: "Processed with tomfix.py", otherwise you will have to check your console output for errors.
4. Load g-code into ReplicatorG and press Build
Please note that the speeds are adapted for accelerated build with the jetty firmware. If you use the vanilla firmware, you will probably have to decrease the speeds a bit.
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If anyone is wondering, I have done some modifications to the script to make it work on Windows. Will post the updated script and instructions soon!
will it work for a cupcake or if you could make one for my botmill glider 3.0 I would appreciate it.
I suppose it will work for the cupcake. As far as I can tell, the G-Codes are compatible, so the post process script will work. However, you will most likely have to tweak the speed settings and the start and end gcodes.
You'll have to try it, and see what works for you. I'ts hard to know what to do without access to the printer.
Don't know anything about the Glider, so i'm afraid i can't help there.
Thanks for this, and keeping stuff up-to-date for us Thing-O-Matic operators. :)
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I can confirm that the updated script does work on Windows. Thank you very much for this, I have been wanting to try out Slic3r with the TOM for quite a while now!
The settings had to be changed a bit for my machine of course, and now it prints great. But retraction doesn't seem to be working. There is very obvious stringing in all places that it should retract. Do you know how to fix that?
I'm glad that you like it! Make sure that it generates all three of the commands: M101, M102, M103.
You need to make sure that "use relative e-distances" is checked in the extrusion settings. Otherwise the script won't work.
The script never modifies the extrusion speed. The speed is set once in the start.gcode. Perhaps that is the problem. You can always try modifying the extrusion speed there though. I'll try to fix this in a later version.