[Matterhackers Pulse XE Printer - printer profile questions]

Thanks @GregValiant, that's helpful.  Do you happen to know if those positive/negative directions are sensitive to

'machine_endstop_positive_direction_x' and 'machine_endstop_positive_direction_y' settings?

[Matterhackers Pulse XE Printer - printer profile questions]

Hello,

 

I recently purchased a Matterhackers Pulse XE.  It's an upgrade from my previous Monoprice.  It was nice that there was a Monoprice definition included in Cura, but there isn't for the Pulse XE.  So I wrote one.

 

It's probably still overly complicated and I'm still working out the kinks.  I still have to do some more testing.  But I'll happily share once its tested.

 

You can get the Pulse XE with an E3D lite extruder or an E3D V6 extruder.  I wrote  (started to write) definitions for both.  The problem is that the definitions are essentially the same, I don't see a place to capture that the V6 can handle hotter temperatures than the lite.

 

Question 1: Shouldn't that temperature capability be in the extruder definition?  Where is it located?

 

Question 2: I wrote definitions for both extruders, but I don't know how to define a way to allow a selection of which extruder is attached.  It seems to mostly be how many extruders are attached.  How do I fix that?

 

This one seems less likely to be captured and something I'm not as worried about, but;  the extruders can have different nozzles on them (regular culprits) -  brass, hardened steel, ruby - which really changes the durability for some filaments.  If there is a place that should be captured, I'll add it, but I didn't see anything like that.  I did understand that I could do material exclusion lists.  (I doubt I will write 6 extruder definitions (v6 & lite vs brass, steel, and ruby) and then build exclusion lists from that.)

 

Question 3:   Is there a way to handle different nozzles other than material exclusion lists?

 

Question 4: The printhead silhouette - should I be looking at the print head from the X-axis or the Y-axis?  Those are different silhouettes.

 

Question 5: If in the printhead silhouette the nozzle is the origin, what is the positive/negative X and positive/negative Y directions?

 

While I still prefer Cura as a tool, the mattercontrol print manager does autoleveling during the print; rewriting some of the g-code commands and breaking them into different Z heights while printing.  That produces a better print than cura currently does without printing through mattercontrol.  The Pulse XE doesn't really have a way to level the bed other than with software.  I've added in the 

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into the initialization code with a valid matrix in the firmware but that doesn't work nearly as well as the mattercontrol tweaking the g-code as it prints.  I assume that cura isn't going to adopt something crazy like this?