@michael-petitclerc Done.

@michael-petitclerc Happy to. How do I generate one of those?

@michael-petitclerc Thanks Michael. No, no weird pop-ups or anything. During the use of the setup wizard, it jsut comes back and says "Oops, printer could not be detected." in red letters. If i try to configure manually, the only two ports I have to cose from are the bluetooth one and the one called "SLAB_USBtoUART." That last one is the driver I was told to install to get the i3 to work overUSB on my windows 10 laptop with Cura. It works just fine.
When I do try to connect after manually configuration, the printer will do its startup/ connection beep like it does in Windows/ Cura but then MC returns the connection error again in red letters.

Is there some sort of trick to getting mc 2.0 to work with a mac? I have tried numerous attempts to get MC (all versions) to connect to my mac with no luck. Ive downloaded any and all drivers ever suggested to no avail. Im running macOS 10.12.6 now and cant get this to work with either my micromake D1 or my Anycubic i3 prussa clone. What gives?

Sounds like a good idea. Went back to a PC setup temporarily. Had to get something done. Back to the Mac tomorrow and trying the Linux version after that. Anything to be on the lookout for?

I really like the software and hope it performs as well as it looks in all guises.

As an aside, and generally speaking, are there any settings in firmware that you know of, that may cause a printer to not work on one system over another?

SON OF A .................. Forgot I had that turned on from a previous test print. Cant believe something that simple could cause so much angst. Thanks. Ill adjust and get back to you.

I'm well aware of not modeling infill but what do you mean by not modeling thickness? Say I have a dome shape, or upside down bowl. Its 6 inches in diameter and 1/4 inch thick, yielding effectively an inner dome that is 5 1/2 inches in diameter. I most certainly have to draw that inner dome shape in any other 3d printing application other than FDM, otherwise I have a completely solid shape with no bowl like structure inside. Am I misunderstanding you?

Attached is a drawing. Assume they are revolved into completely 3d bowls. If the wall thickness is less than 1/8" on the left piece, and there is no infill, there will be an air gap in-between the inner and outer shell. Correct? If I make it over 1/8" wall thickness, and no infill, essentially it is solid, right? Would this be the same result of having a .4mm wall thickness (nozzle diameter) and 100% infill?

For the image on the right. What would you make the settings to have it be solid? Minimal wall and 100% infill?

-Mark

Ok. Thanks. Here ya go.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70302345/cube%...

Not sure if the .slice files are what you were referring to, but they are there as well. I welcome any input.

As an addendum, after all this happened, I tried one more time with a different file, dl'd from Thingiverse, and the print head proceeded as normal for about about 5 seconds and then crashed into the bed. no warning, no nothing. Happened so fast I didn't have a chance to cancel the print. Reset everything and homed the head and then all of MC crashed. no error message, no log report, nothing. Running a mac with os X Mavericks, btw.

-Mark

Ok. New to owning my own printer here, so bare with me. Micromake Delta D1 if it matters. Have been running test prints for a few days now, and some seem to work just fine and others not so much. I think Ive got the setting dialed in pretty good so not sure what I'm doing wrong. Example. As a test, I really wanted to print something solid to see what it would look like. Cant seem to do it no matter how hard I try. Doesn't seem to matter what stl file I pick, it always wants to print the thing hollow. As a test, I drew a 1 inch cube in Sketchup and exported as STL. It didn't seem to matter how much infill I used or the thickness of the walls. The view generated by Matter Slicer would go up about 1/4 of the way and then all of a sudden its back to printing a single extrusion as the wall thickness again, and then it gets to the top, and there's no top. Just a hollow square box with a really thick bottom and really thin walls.

Next up was the same cube, but with .25" walls on all 6 sides, yielding a hollow cube of 1/2" square inside. Same basic results as before. Thick base, thin walls, and this time no hollow cube inside OR a top. What gives? I've been doing 3d stuff in Sketchup and sending it off to places like Shapeways and iMaterilaize for a few years now and things like this just never cropped up. What I drew was what I got back. Granted, the hollow cube would have had to have been modified to let the extra powder escape out, but that seem moot at this time. Is there some basic tenet of 3d printing I have just been overlooking and these other companies have just gone ahead and printed/ fixed the error? I really don't get it.

If I draw something solid, I want it printed solid. If I wanted a 2mm thick shell, thats the way I would have drawn it. How do I get around this? Can I?

I'd love to upload the two stl files for others to try, but I don't see where I can do that here. Pics or videos, yes, but not files in general.

Somebody help me wrap my head around this, please. Thanks.

-Mark