Thanks for reply...
Well... It turns out nothing is printing. My printer gets up to temp. Then the temps all reset to 0.
Do printers have error logs? Or any logs? Maybe my printer has an issue and shutting itself down?
And FYI.... I Tried using AutoTowers and It is where my first failure was... Which prompted my original post.
I found the problem.... I updated the firmware with the wrong firmware. :-)) I loaded firmware for a Dual Extruder. Oops.
AutoTowers is cool but very limiting... I am actually about 80% finished with a Blender/Python Dynamic Temperature Tower. I just realized tonight that I did not account for scaling. Once it is compete maybe one of the great community people here will guide me on how to integrate into Cura. It will let you do a single tier or as many tiers as you need and allows for filament name configuration. You wont have to pick a pre-built tower. It can be built exactly to your needs. It's a 1 tower fits all solution. Unfortunately, I am brand new to Blender, Python, Cura, and 3D printing so I need another couple days to adjust for scaling.
Thanks again for the quick response.
4 hours ago, miketrotta said:You wont have to pick a pre-built tower. It can be built exactly to your needs.
AutoTowers has custom towers:
You can pick minimum/maximum values, step sizes and custom text. There'd be no point making a tower which tests more than one of these at a time because it's designed so you can isolate each variable.
Reinventing the wheel can be a great way to learn skills, just don't get delusions of grandeur that you'll beat the original wheel.
Also, AutoTowers generates its custom towers using OpenSCAD, which is a parametric constructive solid geometry editor (and is easy as hell to script because it uses something akin to a programming language to define models) and much better than a mesh-based editor like Blender (because you can guarantee 100% accuracy that what you get is exactly what you asked for).
4 hours ago, miketrotta said:I need another couple days to adjust for scaling.
Remember that STL files don't actually contain model sizes. They're just a bunch of triangles defined mostly relative to each other and the unit system is arbitrary. It's fairly common practice that you make STLs so 1 unit = 1mm, but not everyone does that (sometimes it's centimetres, sometimes it's inches, etc.)
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Well... The AutoTowers wont accept my path in the settings. Says its invalid path. But you definitely pointed me to a section on the menu that I never saw.
For anybody finding this thread...
If you want to use the AutoTowers Extension to make Custom Towers you 1st need to Install OpenSCAD.
Make note of your OpenSCAD installation path.
Open the AutoTowers Menu and scroll to very bottom, where you will see the settings option.
In the Path field you add the full path to OpenSCAD.
I am using Windows and I had also had to add the executable name along with the path.
Example: D:\Program Files\OpenSCAD\openscad
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hi all
anyone know what happened to the autotowers plugin, was there yesterday but today its has disappeared. cant even find it on marketplace, says author does not exist ...
Try logging out of marketplace. Cura blocks certain plugins based on your email which may match up with some company that has a paid upgrade called "cura enterprise". For security reasons, plugins that haven't been vetted by a paid 3rd party are blocked. Even if you don't want cura enterprise
your email may match someone who has it. It could be as simple as someone on gmail signed up for it and now all gmail (or outlook.com or imac.com or whatever) users have enterprise by accident. In which case the problem will probably get fixed eventually.
The workaround is to just log out of cura so it doesn't think you have "cura enterprise".
If indeed logging out fixes it and if your company doesn't have cura enterprise, then let me know.
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It would help if you posted the whole gcode file (you can just drag the file into the reply box and it'll upload as a file).
For what it's worth, I use the AutoTowers Generator plugin (just click Marketplace at the top right of Cura and search for it) for temp towers and such. Just turn off any post-processing scripts, switch to your usual quality profile and let it do its magic.
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