Princy557

The missing one....

I have three areas 1,2,3... Bottom left Upper Middle All show the same empty. Strange

Hi GregValiant, Duh!, thanks, staring me in the face wasn't it. As for "empty" sign..... Each extruder has a 0.4 mm nozzle chosen, but still shows up on the Cura menus (previous picture) as being Empty. I now have it printing the colour that I have chosen . WINNER Thanks again Regards

Additional info: When I print the mix is always 33%,33%,34%. Even though I have set up my three PLA Green, white ,and black. I have one heater, three extruders. Is there a profile GEEETECH A20T for the Cura 5? A better question might be. Why is my GEEETECH A20T not printing the set up colours I select. When I select the white, the item changes to white, when I select black the item changes to black ditto with the green. but dont print other than mixed ????? Regards

Using Cura 5 and GEEETECH A20T. Two main questions: 1. when I look at settings by right clicking on the Nr 1 top left of snap. All my extruders show empty. Why? What can I do about it? 2. on my A20T, even though I have chosen the suggested GREEN as shown, the actual printer gives me a mix of 33%/33%/34%. Why? and h ow to get it to show the actual chosen filament? Note: for anyone who's seen me here before. I'm on my second A20T as I had so many hothead problems with them failing I bought another. (Stupid me by the looks of it). My second one has started to show in the same way with little failures,, getting worse until the heating gives up completely. Only upside is I know the A20T inside out ha ha.

Hi GregValiant, Thanks again.... At this point in time I'm rather inclined to getting a fresh start and use what little I've learnt over the last few months from this forum. There could be all sorts of errors of my own making that have caused it. and wasting your's and others time with a project might be counter productive. I think in my own head this is the right way forward for me to go. Hope it goes away with a fresh start. Regards

HI, Well I'm at a total loss. I cleared out my own custom materials, rebooted, then created 4 new PLA, all at 205C nozzle, 55C hotbed. Created a new profile so it was all new. Set up a print and printed.....hotbed went to 60C and stayed there. Nozzle went to 200C then went to 220C then 215C where it stayed for about 10 minutes. Then it started, 200-206-215-180-190-170-180-290-200-201 and on it went until it dropped to about 165C and the mother board couldn't cope, alarmed itself and came up with a message about the heating being unable to work. Nozzle started to cool fairly rapidly. But hotbed stayed at 60C. Until I pressed the reset button. I followed this by the same job. Again I rebooted everything and made a fresh start with importing an .stl file (same as befor) TI used same profile and same material with the above settings. This time it took hotbed to 60C then dropped to 55C. Then the nozzle went to 205C, it then did an autohome, paused and up the temperature went to 215C again. Where it decided to stay and print. But not at the temperature I wanted and was setup in the materials. Should I be thinking of uninstalling the lot and starting from scratch maybe.??? Sorry it takes me so long to answer, but pain dictates if I can play or not. Regards

Hi GregValiant, Thanks for the response. Yes I have Printer setting plugin, with the correct nozzles settings as per your para above. A20T is a triple filament single nozzle. I have set all mateerials I'm using to 205 matching their normal print temp. I've searched all the setting on the advanced panel to see if I can find this 215, not showing anywhere. Not sure why i would have to ChangeAtZ as I have a fixed temp throughout print. Also this ChangeAtZ is the 5.3 experimental one on my system. It's still stuck on 215C. I have this running as print via the USB, would that make a difference? Regards

I have been trying to do some testing with a temperature tower. I have an A20T and have downloaded a couple of different temperature towers From T/Verse and another site. I have gone through my profiles and looked at every temperature setting I can find. I have also looked at the materials I have added and the setting therein. However when I attempt to print the tower it always prints at 215 for every single level. Even when it's not the temp tower whatever I print seems to have to print at 215 Any suggestions where I can look to find the (probably peronal error)? I have just set up a job and the profile says to use 205 degrees with hotbed off 55. On starting hotbed went to 60 then down to 55 (as set). But nozzle went to 205 then on up to 215. It seems the gcode is not controlling the A20T and changing the temperature during printing??? Regards

hi again thanks for reply. Can't remember the source I'm afraid. I just collected about twenty things to use for learning. But it's a six piece stegasorus. I did have all pieces (two files) on the work surface and did try to merge them. All that seemed to happen was the two grey areas melded but the pieces did nothing. Just done a recheck and stone the darn crows it worked as described. I bow down to all you experts who have brains that still work. THANKS Regards

Hi Ambassador, Thanks for reply Sorry I may have asked the question incorrectly. How do I get the parts, once printed, together? probably should have been the question Regards

Hi, Well I printed it and it worked fine. However I'd made my stack a little small so there is the odd trace of either red or green in the opposies colour mix. I have it printed but have no idea what or how to get the bits to stick together. Perfectly good hole in one piece, but the other seems to have a fully connected bar across,, obviously to go in the hole, but it's connected how the heck do you get them to merge. Can't find any reference to it Regards

Hi GregValiant, Sorry slow in responding. Once again a big thanks, the two highlighted 'switches' have made a whole lot of difference to the output. I hope to do a test piece later which confirms its OK. Regards

Greetings, I'm back after a short spell of rest. Geeetech came up with a different 'Slicer' EasyPrint3D lite. This slicer is working as expected and so far not seen a problem like on Cura 4.13. I'm going to try and build a small test cube which goes through the colours. G-code it and see what it does on both Cura and on easyprint 3D lite. Unless anyone has one already built and can let me have a copy please? Might take me a day or two. Regards

Hi GregValiant, Well yest and NO. When it arrived it would only go + on the Z-axis. So it would never actually do a home. This was reported and I then had to wait a long time for a replacement motherboard. Fitted and now I can print many things in a single colour. I'm partially disabled and I'm suffering today, so tomorrow, all being well I'll try and get a file sent in. Regards