Best posts made by LarsBrubaker

I created a cool Sharpie holder for our collection of pens with the latest version of MatterControl.

This was created in [MatterControl using our new parametric design tools. Specifically MatterControl now has experimental support for creating variable driven objects with sheets.

If you want to check it out you can find it on Thingiverse.

You can add a Base of type Outline to it to get the result you want. I found the image on google and created it to show you.

And here it is without inverting the image.

Glad you are liking the printer.

1. You can print from SD card
   
2. The tension know should be about 1cm from the housing (the part where the sprint is should be about 1cm). It should be enough to allow you to feed filament when you press it open. If not, you can loosen it more.
3. The hotend icon and controls can be found on the top left of the screen. You can also find the icon on the controls tab.
   
4. The nozzle is .4mm. Thanks for pointing that out. We'll get the site updated.

I also wanted to let you know that we have been working to add MatterControl Pro to all Pulse purchases, and this will be retroactive to all existing Pulse owners.

I do not have that printer but I'm sure you can find that line in the start g code. If you open up the printer's configuration tab then the g code section, you can find the start g code. I'm sure that's where that line is.

Dual Extrusion Rocks!

I have a Pulse DXE that I just love. It has been with me for more than 2 years now, printing like a champ and helping me fix all sorts of things in my house (I'll post some of those things soon). In the meantime, here are a bunch of dual extrusion prints that I made for my kids and their friends.

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How did I get that curved dice?

The other thing I do with the Pulse DXE is test new features in MatterControl.

This curved dice is an example of an easy to use feature that can add a lot to a design. Here is a quick video of how to create this effect.

 

Thanks for sharing your awesome designs!

Happy Printing!

 

About me: I am the CEO of MatterHackers and lead developer on MatterControl. Before MatterHackers I was a game developer for more than 20 years and ran Reflexive Entertainment as its CEO.

 

Deleted a ton of spam last week.

They be persistent.

There is a new Alpha version available that uses the improved subtraction solution. It should be dramatically more robust. If you have errors I would love to see them.

This was tons of fun to make and I'm going to create an episode 2 and 3 showing off:

1. How to change this into a parametric design (add variables so it is easy to resize)
2. How to make the parametric design into a DesignApp that can be easily shared with others and they don't need to understand anything about how it was made.

@tinken Thanks for adding this to the forum.

We are currently working on adding support for settings per part as well as one at a time printing / sequential printing. This change is probably two releases from now, or about 4 months. I know that doesn't help in the short term, but it is coming soon.

@Andre-B,

You are correct, when clicking 'Pause' in MatterControl, the printer will not pause immediately. The machine has a number of commands queued up and it will not pause until they are all executed.

As to @pause working - Another programmer and I were just looking into that functionality yesterday. He was having some issues with it as well. After, a quick test it seemed to be working as expected, but we will investigate more and see if there is something happening here that is unexpected. I would try to make all of these commands lower case however. That is how they are intended to be added to gcode.

• @pause
• @restore_xyz_position
• @restore_e_position

Thanks for the feedback.

MatterControl 1.7.0 is out!

Hey everyone, we're excited to be getting up the latest version. It's been lots of fun getting this together, and we hope you all enjoy it.

This forum is a great place to ask questions; and if you find a bug, please head on over to our source code on GitHub and please report it.

What's new:

• Significantly improved tool paths, much better printed parts
• Improved macro support
• Improved baby stepping
• Updated to latest avrdude for improved compatibility with some non-standard boards
• Improved support for network printing
• Touch screen mode now works on all platforms
• New printing screen in touch screen mode
• Better screen position saving and restoring

Thanks for all your support, You can find the complete release notes here.

We are actually working on two solution that would help with what you are trying to do:

1. Set the desired layer height progressively throughout the print (variable layer height)
2. Add the ability to 'Re-Slice' anytime during the print and then automatically switch to the new gcode at the next layer change.

Look for this and other features coming into the new 2.0 build over the next months (and ongoing).

In the Alpha of MatterControl 2.0 (you can download here) you can see the total print time. You can also see details about each layer including: the time on the layer, the time to the layer from the start and the time from the layer to the end of the print.

This has been fixed. Please update to the latest build.

If you are on Mac you may have to change to the Alpha channel to get the fix. It will be in release in a couple weeks.

That's so good to hear. The team has been working very hard on it!

You can. If you just type MatterSlice.exe into a command line it will show you the required parameters.

The new build that fixes this is in alpha and should be released soon.