MakerBot Industries

Hi all. I tried passim's idea of printing the pulley that has a known Gcode. I'm still having problems with all axis moving randomly. Its even doing it in the raft build now. some times it goes left when it shoud go right and so on. I canceled a print a few min ago, and went into control panel and told the z stage to raise 10mm and it did only the Y stage did the same. I never told the Y stage to move. Can this be a problem with the mother board? how can I know?could it be a problem with replicatorG? Should I try to reinstall it? I installed it a week or so ago before I even got my bot.

I would like to talk with someone if they have ideas.

Frank Cox
605-941-3332

THANKS

That sounds pretty unhappy..

I always restart ReplicatorG after aborting a print. At least on my machine, it gets a bit weird if I don't.

I'm not at all an electronics person but I'd power it all down, unplug it and recheck all the cables. Make sure they're plugged in nicely and that the cables aren't crossing any more than they have to be. If that doesn't help and somebody else can't help here, you might want to ask at the google group (look on the left of this page)..

Thanks for responding ddurant. Ive tryed every thing that you sugested several times. I see were you are comming from, it definitly seems like a wireing or interferance type problem. Its mostly the x Axis thats messing up my prints. I'm kinda wondering if it could be that the stepper is losing its place. ( bad stepper? ) Ill try swapping two steppers and seeif it follows the motor.

it working much better after swapping Z and X moters. I got through 5 layers then it stopped extruding and moved into a new spot ( off to the side of the print ) and tried to keep printing with no plastic. the next print was about one more layer than the first and then it stoped moving and kept on extruding. repG was frozen up. I had to abort both prints.

Succes!!!! Ive just compleated my first print of the Z crank Knob. Looks great except the part that you hold to crank it is kinda crappy. I had to move the Z a little each time by hand. It must be in the code.

I tried a couple more prints last night,( tool holder 100727 ctr.stl ,and insulator retainer.stl ) but they did not finish.The retainer made it till almost the end, less than 4 min left. The build looks great but they just stopped and repG said something like "trying to resend comand" or something like that. I shut everythig down last night and went to bed. I got up this morning and tried to print once again but could not get the heater to heat up. there is no light on the extruder board for the heater. the only light is the power light. I did try the extruder motor for a sec and it did turn. Any Ideas why I'm having so many problems that don't seem to be related? The one print that finished was after I restarted everything including my PC. I'm useing a new HP with windows 7.

Thanks wulfdesign you have the answers that I think will help. I'll try them after work. Will you be around after 5:30 or so tonight, in case I need more help or just to say thanks if this works?
By the way how do you post pics on the form? Anyone?

Cool that is easy. Thanks