Printing Issue- Does not start

[pluevano 0]

Hi There I just bought a printer for my company but I cannot get the printer to even start. I printed all the loaded parts on the sd card that came factory. When I add my gcode file it shows "no information available" versus the other ones that show completing time that came already on sd card. Then I see "This file will override machine setting with setting from the slicer" when I click on the model I made to start print. After I click print nothing happens and it just freezes up.

This is how my gcode file looks at beginning......

;FLAVOR:UltiGCode

;TIME:5143

;MATERIAL:3383

;MATERIAL2:0

;Layer count: 246

;LAYER:0

M107

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;TYPE:SKIRT

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G10

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;TYPE:WALL-INNER

G11

[gr5 2,167]

gcode looks fine. Is this the file copied from the SD card? I'm thinking maybe you pulled the SD card out of your computer before it finished copying? maybe you should backup the SD card and reformat it.

[pluevano 0]

I already reformatted it and same thing happens. I bought 2 more sd cards and I have the same issue. Sucks that customer service responds once a day :/

Kind of frustrated now with my boss forking up the budget to buy one and not being able to print my 3d models.

I've done factory reset multiple times but I think somehow something might be wrong with software? All I have done when I opened and set up was do the platform calibration and that's it. Not sure if I had to do anything else. By the way I am using windows 7 if that makes any difference?

[gr5 2,167]

Then I see "This file will override machine setting with setting from the slicer" when I click on the model I made to start print. After I click print nothing happens and it just freezes up.

Well that right there is very messed up.  The first line of code that mentions "ultigcode" is somehow not being read by the printer.  Did you say you were able to print other things on the SD card?  This is very very strange.  Yet you were able to locate your print job on the SD card, right?  did you use the SD card that came with the printer or a different type?  I don't think the arduino chip can read just any SD card.  You should stick with the one that came with the machine.

Maybe there is a loose cable.  There are 2 ribbon cables that go from the main PCB to the display PCB.  I would re-seat those.  Start by removing the bottom cover.  There are just 2 screws holding that in.  Locate the 2 ribbon cables and fiddle with them a bit.  Next remove the smaller cover underneath and then take the display out (it's tricky don't force anything - I forget how to do it but I remember it confused me for 10 minutes) and reseat those cables.  The whole thing comes apart without much force and only using 2mm hex wrenches.

Edited July 14, 2015 by Guest