Airwolf Axiom Dual Help Please!!

[Weprint3D 0]

I have a couple Airwolf Axiom Dual printers and the Apex software that Airwolf has created, and is trying to force their customers to use is junk and that's the only software they will support now.

 

I really want to run our printers on this new Cura software. We have Simplify3D but the new Cura 3.3.1 offers many more customization options and new features that I'm wanting to use. So I'm ready to switch to Cura now but I can't get a start up gcode to work on my printer from Cura.

 

The problem is all of the old Cura profiles I had won't work with he new Cura. And the Simplify start code won't work with Cura either. So I'm stuck.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I can't even find the variables to call out in Cura for the Temperature of the extruders, bed, or any other features. Can someone please help with this as well?

 

Thanks in advance!!

[Weprint3D 0]

Well I finally got a portion of the normal starting script to work but it's not honoring most of it.

It is not heating the first extruder as I have set. It Heat's the 2nd extruder in segments, first to it's resting temp. then to it's printing temp. Then Retracts filament and moves to Home. But then when it goes to to the auto leveling routine like it always does just fine, it crashes the nozzle into the bed and keeps pushing into it for some reason. 

The only thing I changed from my Simplify3D settings was the actual Heat Temperatures instead of their variables it was using before, and I changed T0 to T1 and T1 to T2 for the extruders because it looked like that's the numbering Cura was using. 

Please help if you can.

 

Here's what I have for now...

 

;Axiom Dual Start Code

M42 P6 S255 ;Turn lights on

G21 ;Metric values

G90 ;Absolute positioning

M83 ;Set extruder to relative mode

M140 S110 ;Preheat bed no wait

M104 T1 S230 ;Heat primary no wait

M104 T2 S225 ;Heat secondary no wait

 

M117 Homing... ; Print message on LCD

G28 X0 Y0 Z0 F300 ; Home all axes

 

M117 Heating...; Print message on LCD Display

M109 T1 S230 ;Wait for primary extruder to reach temperature

M109 T2 S225 ;Wait for secondary extruder to reach temperature

 

M117 Cleaning... ; Print message on LCD Display

T1 ;Switch to primary nozzle

G1 E-20 F150 ;Retract filament

T2; Switch to secondary nozzle

G1 E-20 F150 ; Retract filament

G0 X20 Y226 Z0 F7000 ;Rapid transit to brushes

G1 Z-2 F7000 ;Lower to brush level

G1 X138 Y226 F2000 ;First pass across brushes

G1 X40 Y230 F2000 ;Second pass back across brushes

G1 X138 Y230 F2000 ;Third pass through brushes

G1 X40 Y226 F2000 ;Fourth pass back through brushes

G1 Z0 F5000 ;Raise above bed

G28 X0 Y0 ;Home x and y

 

M117 Auto-Level Probing...; Print message on LCD

M204 S300 ;Set accel for probing

M203 Z4 ;Set z max speed for probing

G29 ;Airwolf Axiom Auto level routine

M204 S3500 ;Set accel back to normal

M203 Z20 ;Set z max back to limit

G1 Z10 ;Raise nozzle up 10mm

[nameismatt 0]

Hey Weprint3D, are you still having this issue?  Hopefully you found a solution by now.  We use both the Axiom Dual and Axiom 20 (Dual) with Cura (currently 3.3.1) and it works very well.  I've put a lot of work into custom Axiom printer 'definitions' to get the software to act nice and it was worth it.  Maybe we can help each other out with Axiom printer issues.

 

- Matt

[FORGEmfg 0]

This works

 

Startup

M42 P6 S255

G21 ; metric values

G90 ; absolute positioning

M82 ; set extruder to absolute mode

M107 ; start with the fan off

G28 F200 ; home all

;M109 T0 S240.000000 ; heat first nozzle for auto leveling

M109 T1 S240.000000 ; heat second nozzle for auto leveling

T0 ; switch to first nozzle and retract filament

G92 E0

G1 E-20 F500

;T1 ; switch to second nozzle and retract filament

;G92 E0

;G1 E-20 F1200

T0 ; switch back to first nozzle for auto leveling

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0

G1 X12 Y229 F7000 ; position nozzles before brush

G1 Z-2 F1200 ; lower nozzles to brush

G1 X148 Y229 F1000 ; clean nozzles

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 X148 Y229 F1000

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0 to avoid contact

G28 X0 Y0 ; home x and y

M204 S300 ; set accel for probing

M203 Z4 ; set z max speed for probing

G29 ; autolevel

M204 S3500 ; set accel back to normal

M203 Z20 ; set z max back to limit

G1 Z5 F200 ; raise nozzle up 5mm

;M104 T0 S0 ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S0 ; cool second nozzle after leveling

;T1 ; extrude filament back into second nozzle

;G92 E0

;G1 E20 F100

;G92 E0

T0 ; extrude filament back into first nozzle

G92 E0

G1 E20 F100

G92 E0

M400 ; clear buffer

G4 S1 ; pause

G1 X20 Y200 F6000

G1 F{travel_speed}

M117 AXIOM Printing... ;Put printing message on LCD screen

 

End:

M42 P6 S255

G21 ; metric values

G90 ; absolute positioning

M82 ; set extruder to absolute mode

M107 ; start with the fan off

G28 F200 ; home all

;M109 T0 S240.000000 ; heat first nozzle for auto leveling

M109 T1 S240.000000 ; heat second nozzle for auto leveling

T0 ; switch to first nozzle and retract filament

G92 E0

G1 E-20 F500

;T1 ; switch to second nozzle and retract filament

;G92 E0

;G1 E-20 F1200

T0 ; switch back to first nozzle for auto leveling

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0

G1 X12 Y229 F7000 ; position nozzles before brush

G1 Z-2 F1200 ; lower nozzles to brush

G1 X148 Y229 F1000 ; clean nozzles

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 X148 Y229 F1000

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0 to avoid contact

G28 X0 Y0 ; home x and y

M204 S300 ; set accel for probing

M203 Z4 ; set z max speed for probing

G29 ; autolevel

M204 S3500 ; set accel back to normal

M203 Z20 ; set z max back to limit

G1 Z5 F200 ; raise nozzle up 5mm

;M104 T0 S0 ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S0 ; cool second nozzle after leveling

;T1 ; extrude filament back into second nozzle

;G92 E0

;G1 E20 F100

;G92 E0

T0 ; extrude filament back into first nozzle

G92 E0

G1 E20 F100

G92 E0

M400 ; clear buffer

G4 S1 ; pause

G1 X20 Y200 F6000

G1 F{travel_speed}

M117 AXIOM Printing... ;Put printing message on LCD screen

 

 

[nameismatt 0]

Hey FORGEmfg, your startup code looks like it was straight out of APEX (for a primary-nozzle print) but your end code is actually just the start code over again.  You may not want to start the process over again when a print finishes.  According to the Cura definitions, the variable, "travel_speed", is no londer used.  You may need to use something else like "speed_travel" (mm/s) or use a value.

[FORGEmfg 0]

Ok cool.

 

Sorry, I messed up the control / paste.

End code

 

M400

M104 T0 S0 ; switch off first nozzle

M104 T1 S0 ; switch off second nozzle

M140 S0 ; heated bed heater off

M107 ; fans off

T0

G92 E0 ; set first extruder to 0

G1 E-3 F300 ; retract a bit to relieve pressure

T1

G92 E0 ; set second extruder to 0

G1 E-3 F300 ; retract a bit to relieve pressure

T0 ; switch back to extruder 1

G1 Z245 F1000 ; move to cooling positioning

G28 X0 Y0 F8000 ; move to cooling positioning

M84 ; steppers off

G90 ; absolute positioning

[FORGEmfg 0]

Here's the startup from the Dual.  We have both (single and Dual) but I'm pretty sure I pasted the one from the dual.  Also updated last line per Matt

 

M42 P6 S255

G21 ; metric values

G90 ; absolute positioning

M82 ; set extruder to absolute mode

M107 ; start with the fan off

G28 F200 ; home all

;M109 T0 S240.000000 ; heat first nozzle for auto leveling

M109 T1 S240.000000 ; heat second nozzle for auto leveling

T0 ; switch to first nozzle and retract filament

G92 E0

G1 E-20 F500

;T1 ; switch to second nozzle and retract filament

;G92 E0

;G1 E-20 F1200

T0 ; switch back to first nozzle for auto leveling

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0

G1 X12 Y229 F7000 ; position nozzles before brush

G1 Z-2 F1200 ; lower nozzles to brush

G1 X148 Y229 F1000 ; clean nozzles

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 X148 Y229 F1000

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0 to avoid contact

G28 X0 Y0 ; home x and y

M204 S300 ; set accel for probing

M203 Z4 ; set z max speed for probing

G29 ; autolevel

M204 S3500 ; set accel back to normal

M203 Z20 ; set z max back to limit

G1 Z5 F200 ; raise nozzle up 5mm

;M104 T0 S0 ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S0 ; cool second nozzle after leveling

;T1 ; extrude filament back into second nozzle

;G92 E0

;G1 E20 F100

;G92 E0

T0 ; extrude filament back into first nozzle

G92 E0

G1 E20 F100

G92 E0

M400 ; clear buffer

G4 S1 ; pause

G1 X20 Y200 F6000

G1 F{speed_travel}

M117 AXIOM Printing... ;Put printing message on LCD screen

Quote

 

 

[Indus 0]

Hi, Do anyone have the Axiom Dual Direct G Codes for Cura 3.6 ??

Work for Dual extruders..

[RiserStrike 0]

My company bought an Axiom 20 DD and it's been a pain to print anything. I hate APEX and I'm working with Cura 3.6.0. Things I've done so far: created an Axiom 20 Machine profile and put in the start and end gcode pulled right of APEX. It runs through the bed level calibration just fine and ends good as well. 1st print was a temperature tower that looks pretty bad.

 

Does anyone have a good profile for Cura that puts out good results. I need one for ABS and PLA.

[Weprint3D 0]

My only advice is to do as we did and sell that Airwolf Piece of junk and buy a Raise3d Pro2 printer. We did and it was the best thing ever. Amazing quality no matter what material. No more issues at all and great software! Airwolf is horrible, their customer service is horrible, their software is pathetic! 

[FORGEmfg 0]

Can't you just load the apex software and put the settings into cura?

[RiserStrike 0]

@Weprint3d I'd love to sell this thing but since my company paid an arm and a leg for the thing they are kinda hell bent on me getting it to work.

@FORGEmfg I didn't even know that was an option but I'm not even sure i trust their setup values. Everything I've printed has been sub par and I wanted to see someones settings that were giving them good results.

 

I have a Creality Ender 3 at home and I'm pumping out tons of cool stuff. The AXIOM is junk that I'm trying to salvage for my company.

[Weprint3D 0]

Best of luck my friend! The Axiom is total junk.

Is very sad that peeps have wasted so much money and time on them including myself! 

[XYZDesignPro 70]

My very first 3D printer was an AXIOM.  Paid $4K (50% up front deposit) and waited 5 weeks for it.  It died within the first 5 days.  Complete power failure.  Returned it to their facility in southern California (I also live in SoCal. Part of the reason I chose it in the first place)  They said it would be two weeks to repair it!!  I demanded my money back on the spot.  Got the refund because I charged it to my AMEX card and AMEX jumped in for me.  Purchased my first Ultimaker 2 Ext about a week later and a second UM2 Ext about a month after that.  Sold them both and now have two UM3 Ext machines.  Never regretted the purchase of my Ultimaker machines.  They are not perfect, but the combination of hardware and software supported by the same source, along with the excellent support from the folks at FBRC8, made sense to me.

 

Good luck with the task your employer has placed before you . . .

[darseygodwin 1]

Hey folks. I've got an Axiom dual, and used to have this problem, this thread is still the top search result so I figured I'd pitch in to help others out. I'm running decently well on this printer now.

 

Airwolf listed a start and end code set for alternate slicers, but it's still got a couple problems. Most critical are that the temps used for auto-leveling are fixed values at 240, and Cura adds extruder temps before the Start Code. So the start code needs to be modified with material temp variables per extruder, and I prefer them to cool to the standby temp, not to 0 after auto-leveling. I also don't have my extruder fan settings figured out yet, it isn't operating correctly with their base code. I've read that airwolf needed the fan to be at 100% or not at all, and read in another place that it'll work variably as long as it was at 100% from the start. For now, I left the M107 in, just as airwolf has in their recommended start code. Including the line M106 P0 did not turn on my extruder1 fan, so I have some figuring out to do still. I'll come back and reply if I figure it out.

 

Next, keep in mind that if you deactivate extruder 2 in cura to only print with a single extruder, that you should change the cooling lines:

M104 T0 S{material_standby_temperature, 0} ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S{material_standby_temperature, 1} ; cool second nozzle after leveling

 

to

 

;M104 T0 S{material_standby_temperature, 0} ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S0 ; cool second nozzle after leveling

 

otherwise it will try to print at the standby temp until the next temp change.

Another way to handle this is just to duplicate your printer and have a different start code for the single extruder setup. Your call.

 

Good luck!

 

START CODE:

;Print time: {print_time}

;Filament used: {filament_amount}m {filament_weight}g

;Filament cost: {filament_cost}

M42 P6 S255

G21 ; metric values

G90 ; absolute positioning

M82 ; set extruder to absolute mode

M107 ; start with the fan off

G28 F200 ; home all

M109 T0 S{material_print_temperature, 0} ; heat first nozzle for auto leveling

M109 T1 S{material_print_temperature, 1} ; heat second nozzle for auto leveling

T0 ; switch to first nozzle and retract filament

G1 F100

G92 E0

G1 E-20 F100

T1 ; switch to second nozzle and retract filament

G92 E0

G1 E-20 F100

T0 ; switch back to first nozzle for auto leveling

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0

G1 X12 Y229 F7000 ; position nozzles before brush

G1 Z-2 F1200 ; lower nozzles to brush

G1 X148 Y229 F1000 ; clean nozzles

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 X148 Y229 F1000

G1 X12 Y229 F1000

G1 Z0 F1200 ; raise bed to Z0 to avoid contact

G28 X0 Y0 ; home x and y

M204 S300 ; set accel for probing

M203 Z4 ; set z max speed for probing

G29 ; autolevel

M204 S2500 ; set accel back to normal

M203 Z20 ; set z max back to limit

G1 Z5 F200 ; raise nozzle up 5mm

M104 T0 S{material_standby_temperature, 0} ; cool first nozzle after leveling

M104 T1 S{material_standby_temperature, 1} ; cool second nozzle after leveling

T1 ; extrude filament back into second nozzle

G92 E0

G1 E20 F100

G92 E0

T0 ; extrude filament back into first nozzle

G92 E0

G1 E20 F100

G92 E0

M400 ; clear buffer

G4 S1 ; pause

G1 X20 Y200 F6000

G1 F{travel_speed}

M117 BOOM

 

END CODE:

M400

M104 T0 S0 ; switch off first nozzle

M104 T1 S0 ; switch off second nozzle

M140 S0 ; heated bed heater off

M107 ; fans off

T0

G92 E0 ; set first extruder to 0

G1 E-3 F300 ; retract a bit to relieve pressure

T1

G92 E0 ; set second extruder to 0

G1 E-3 F300 ; retract a bit to relieve pressure

T0 ; switch back to extruder 1

G28 ; home all

M84 ; steppers off

G90 ; absolute positioning

M42 P6 S0 ; lights off

[darseygodwin 1]

Can confirm that the Airwolf Axiom runs all fans on the single M106 command. Do not set separate fan values for extruders 1 and 2 (P0 and P1 not used). It is also true that this printer (possibly a limit of Rambo v1.3??) only uses fan values of on or off. Anything less than 100% and it doesn't run. So set both regular and max fan speeds to 255 (100%).

 

In my case, my extruder 1 fan was just wearing out. I found that if I flicked it, it would start up and get rolling from then on.

 

Cheers!

[AVERAGE_LIFE 0]

Hello everyone,

 

Its been a couple years since the last post but my company bought this Axiom 20 duel back in 2017 or so and has been sitting for years till last month. I'm currently working on getting this thing running good. So far i found the running at 35mm/s travel leaves no ghosting (crazy how overpriced this printer still is 7 years later).  I got rid of the brass nozzle wipe (stupid and ruins your nozzles) and took it out of the start up g-code in Cura and just added a purge line instead. but now I need the distance of the second nozzle so that way I can add/use it so I can do a purge line for the second nozzle as well. any help will be greatly appreciated. I have a good Cura profile as well