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  1. Thank you for those suggestions. I think I got the clunking noise to stop. One question on how to get the SD card working. The printer has a reader and when I save a file to the card and print from it, the auto bed leveling does not kick off and run, in addition, the nozzle comes in contact with the bed and drags on the surface and won't extrude any filament. I tried storing the Z offset from the number into the printer I got from the matterhacker software when I ran the bed leveling process. I've run it multiple times to see if it was consistent and it seems to be ranging from -.14 to -1.34. Whenever I store the number and run the SD print I get the same result, no auto bed level and the nozzle is dragging on the bed so no printing. Is there a way to activate the bed level through start G code? Here is the current code that I'm running. ;Custom Pulse XE start GCODE G21 ; set units to millimeters M107 ; fan off M140 S{material_bed_temperature_layer_0} ; start heating the bed M104 S190 ; start heating the hot end but not all the way yet M190 S{material_bed_temperature_layer_0} ; wait for bed temperature to be reached M109 S190 ;Wait for the hot end ; settings from the Matter Hacker start_gcode G28 ; home all axes M280 P0 S190 ;Reprap command that appears to set stepper motor 0 (the Z?) to 160 degrees rotation G4 P400 ;Marlin Dwell command 400micro-seconds M280 P0 S90 ;stepper 0 to 90 degrees M109 S{material_print_temperature_layer_0} ;wait for the hot end to finish heating G80 ;Bed Leveling. Marlin uses G29 or M420. According to the RepRap site nobody uses G80 but it's in Cura. G1 X5 Y5 Z3.01 F1800 G92 E-5 ; Set the extruder so the first move to E0 results in a prime. ;End of Start GCODE
  2. Greg, good news, it worked! Mostly all smiles from me. Slicing in Cura, printing through mattercontrol. I found a purge code to throw in as well and it is all working great. Can't thank you enough for helping me out. I've attached a few pictures or what I was able to do last night. First benchy print in blue was completed (first one), just stringy. I upped retraction to 4mm and also dried the white filament and tried it again. The white is the result. Much cleaner and it looked pretty darn good. There is still a little bit of slight blobbing on the side of boat. Any suggestions on how to tighten that up? Is that a flow or e-steps overextrusion issue? One other question. When the printer is not printing but travels on the X axis, there is a clunking noise that the motors/belt or something is making as it travels to the next point for printing. When it travels and reaches the end is when i hear the noise. Otherwise the printer is silent. I slowed down the travel speed from 120 to 80 which seemed to help some, but is there another setting that I should look at in Cura to help with that? I have a video of it but I can't upload it here. Thank you again for taking a look at this for me.
  3. This is awesome. I will try it tonight and see what results I get (hoping for the smiling portion). I'll let you know what happens and may ask for some additional insight. Thank you.
  4. Yes it does auto bed leveling. It is using Marlin 1.1.9 It is configured with a Ultimachine RAMBo Mini board, a Bondtech Extruder, E3D V6 HotEnd, BLTouch, 8 bit motherboard & LCD screen, Heated Bed with a layerlock magbase base plate and PEI sheet.
  5. I'm a new comer to the 3d printing world. Trying to get myself into it as well as inspire my kids to create and learn a new skill. I have a pulse XE printer from matterhacker. Being such, it wants to use matter control software. It is not giving me good prints as noted by many other user reviews on the software. Like to use Cura to slice it. What I'm not sure about is how to modify the start and end codes correctly in Cura to account for my machine firmware and Z offset (-1.06 currently). As cura doesn't have a pulse setting option, i'm using the Prusa mk2 as the pulse is a clone of that machine. This was recommended by a youtuber. I'm attaching a benchy file that sliced in mattercontrol and cura as well as the start and end codes from each software. Would someone be able to to tell me what changes I need to make to the CURA start/end codes to be able to print files? Any other advice or things to be aware of would be greatly educational for me. Thank you in advance. matter control Benchy Cura Gcode.gcode Benchy MaCo gcode.gcode
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