skirt but no part

pmartin

Win 7 with R-Host 1.6.0 and slic3r 1.29 with quebd one up printer.
Once 'we' figured out where 0,0,0 was things got better :)
1) when sending 'g92 x0 y0 z0' to set home, why does that not show as such in the manual control settings? Need to disconnect/reconnect to reset the display settings.
2) I set up slic3r to print a skirt or trial loop around the intended part (currently just the 0.5 alignment slice).
3) On loading the part and executing slic3r, I see the initial trial loop but not the part (small box) in the view.
4) The gcode editor shows only the loop and I can execute that.

But, where/how do you get the part to print? Is it a slic3r issue or repetier? I would think that slic3r should have the complete gcode for the loop and the part.

Thanks for any help!
Pete

Repetier

1) G92 moves origin virtually, in manual control we show absolute position (or try at least).

2-4) Your model is too thin. If it is thinner then perimeter width it will result in nothing. Especially if you have auto with slic3r tends to quite wide perimeter.

pmartin

The file I used was '0.5mm-thin-wall.stl'. When I loaded the 'z_rod_coupling.STL' and slic3r'ed it then I saw both the perimeter laydown and the part. So thank you, that explained what I wasn't seeing!

Which leads to a follow-on question, how would one change the wall thickness? Looking at the 'stl' file (rather quickly) I didn't see any reference to wall thickness directly so it must be in the coordinates. Should look up the 'stl' spec, but I would presume they 'x,y,z' and, in this case only the thickness of what the nozzle can put out. With that in mind, I'd need to make one loop, then a 2nd with slightly modifed x and y coordinates. That would be the hard way!

Repetier

stl is only a collection of triangles. You need to create a new stl if you want other thickness. Lazy people might scale it which also scales wall thickness.