Posts made by jackburger

Working great but,

Cooling is not starting. I disable cooling for the first layer but it will not start at 2+
Using the latest beta 10022

Thanks for the beta, awesome!

@jackburger
I found the answer on the site:

At this time, we are aware of an issue with HighSierra and are working on releasing MatterControl 2.0 for Mac. We anticipate ~4 weeks for a beta release.

— answered by chelsea.bosworth MODERATOR August 30th, 2018 at 4:39PM

Is the 2.0 version comming to MacOS too?

New version: 1.6.2.8242

Still the same problem.

Why reading the temps so often???????????

This is causing the problem. The printer controls the temperatures itself so why reading it every 0.5-1.0 seconds?

And why reading nozzle temp and bed tem at the same time? Its a simple change to alternate this.

And the single threaded moe model..... makes things so slow on a Mac.

Its a pity and there are many Mac users but MC needs some tuning.

I already did that and the stuttering (pauses) occurs when the temps of the bed and nozzle are read in between the print stream.

The temps are read just after each other and then the printing stream continues.

If the temps are read alternated, e.g. read nozzle temp, print stream (for number of seconds) , read bed temp, print stream print stream (for number of seconds) , read nozzle temp etc.,

The temp reading will influent the print stream less in that case.

The printer itself controls the temperatures so matter control does not need to read it frequently.

On the other hand other apps do not have this issue and are also reading the temps.

But I like Mattercontrol very much and want to use it without the need of other applications

I have the following problems:

Stuttering and leaving blobs during printing.

iMac Core i7 OSX, Delta with Marlin firmware (also tried latest 1.1 RC7 marling firmware). Also v1.5 had this problem. I hoped that with 1.6 the problem would be fixed. I want to use mattercontrol because of it's features but printing over USB is terrible.

Always stopping and giving blobs in the print.

The cause: Mattercontrol is (like other apps) reading the temps of the bed and nozzle during printing. Every time the temps are read the printer stops for 0.5 seconds leaving a blob on my print.

Exporting from Mattercontrol and printing the gcode using pronterface or any other 3d printing app (which also read the temps) results in a perfect print. Somehow the serial communication from Mattercontrol on a Mac is slow (MONO layer).

I dont like Cura but it does the job without blobs.

THIS IS THE ONLY 3D PRINTING APPLICATION WITH THIS PROBLEM!, i tried all others (cura, pronterface, repetier etc.) without this problem

So please Mattercontrol team fix this problem.

I have exactly those problems. iMac Core i7 OSX, Delta with Marlin firmware (also tried latest 1.1 RC7 marling firmware). Also v1.5 had this problem. I hoped that with 1.6 the problem would be fixed. I want to use mattercontrol because of it's features but printing over USB is terrible. Always stopping and giving blobs in the print.

The cause: Mattercontrol is (like other apps) reading the temps of the bed and nozzle during printing. Every time the temps are read the printer stops for 0.5 seconds leaving a blob on my print.

Exporting from Mattercontrol and printing the gcode using pronterface or any other 3d printing app (which also read the temps) results in a perfect print. Somehow the serial communication from Mattercontrol on a Mac is slow (MONO layer).

I dont like Cura but it does the job without blobs.

THIS IS THE ONLY 3D PRINTING APPLICATION WITH THIS PROBLEM!

So please Mattercontrol team fix this problem.