Defined Printer Limits

Chadr619

I keep getting the following message when I try and start a print.

'According to your defined printer limits, this print will not fit inside your printer. Print Anyway?'

I can choose to print anyway and it works fine. This bug started after my update to 85.2.

Repetier

Actually it is not a bug but done on purpose. We now test if all extrusions are only above the bed shape. So if you get this message always I guess this is not the case. Most likely you use some initialization that does extrusions outside the bed area and the causes the message. In that case you need to help server to ignore these moves:

@nosize

Ignore next print moves for object size calculation. This is interesting if you make a extrusion at a fixed position. Then the server will include that into the size and that may lead teh rendere to show a much too small object.

@size

Stops the @nosize command from neglecting size computation. Never forget this if you use @nosize. They should always come as a pair.

So put at the beginning
;@nosize

and after this outside extrusion add
;@nosize
so it then can start with gcode rendering. Everything inside @nosize does not get rendered.

Chadr619

Strange, if this has always been in place, then why has it not shown up until after the update. All slicers I have used do a purge just outside of the print area before moving in to do the skirt and the rest of the print.

Repetier

That feature is new. Previously we would print everything without test. But especially with large objects this can lead to expensive errors, so we now run this test. And as you just confirmed it is working! So just add the server commands to exclude your purge and it will really show correct positioning. Maybe I can remove pure extrusion on first layer from counting to position test. Will check that as an improvement.

Chadr619

Yeah, if you could remove the check on the first layer or ignore the check for the common purge locations, that would be great. With the update, the server now has all my files marked as bad. So I either have to manually update the gcode within server or process the stl file with the new coding and upload again.

ryanteck

I've also had this since upgrading and don't fancy having to go through and update all my STL files I use for each printer.

Would it be possible to add an option (Either per printer or per server) to disable this warning?

Repetier

I prefer more not marking purges outside print area as part of print area, so it does not appear any more. After all it is an important information that your print will fail. Only shortcoming was that I did not consider users extruding outside print area.

Chadr619

I don't mind the check, just need it to ignore purges on first layer. If that is done, it should be a very useful addition.

gathur

I have the same problem and I am not extruding outside the print area. If it warns users without a valid reason it means that the checking is not made correctly and it is a bug not a feature. Of course there ere way around it but the most straightforward one is to provide users with a way to disable it.

Repetier

I never saw a invalid message here. But if you have one please show me. Post printer configuration exported and the gcode not fitting also you say it fits and I check what is wrong. Put files on dropbox or similar fo download.

gathur

Here is a quick screenshot. Any Gcode does not fit. Probably something is wrong in the configuration but I can not what (screenshot of config also attached). Printer is CR10s

RAyWB

settings for X-Min and Y-Min should be 0 , not 300

tylerrouse

I'm getting the error before every print as well, regardless of the size of the object. Double checked all my settings and made sure minimums are at 0 and my max is correct. Using the most current build 90.6 on Raspberry Pi 3B+ with my Prusa i3 MK3.

gathur

I confirm that Xmin Ymin did not change anything with regard to print limits warning (and they were autodetected values)

Repetier

Did you also check the bed geometry for same error? If all is ok you can still send me the files so I can check it, but I'm quite sure it is a setting or print is really outside. YOu can also check in th emodel directory for filename.gin and should see something like

xMax: 15.10099983215332

xMin: -15.10099983215332

yMax: 15.10099983215332

yMin: -15.10099983215332

zMax: 26.700000762939453

zMin: 0

showing the computed dimension of the gcode.

gathur

I performed an update (and had also set Xmin and Ymin to 0 previously). The warning suddenly disappeared for most prints. I do not believe the update was related but maybe because the server had to restart made a change.

I also re-entered a new printer profile in Cura and then I noticed that the old profile would systematically place the prints outside the print area. The new print profile would place them correctly on the board and therefore there was no more warnings.

I conclusion, it was combination of bad settings both in the slicer and repetier's prints settings.

gathur

Just for reference I am putting here the GCode heading of the old and new profiles of the same print.

Old profile:

;FLAVOR:Marlin

;TIME:26645

;Filament used: 45.4035m

;Layer height: 0.25

;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 3.4.1

M190 S65

M104 S218

M109 S218

M82 ;absolute extrusion mode

G28 ;Home

G1 Z15.0 F6000 ;Move the platform down 15mm

;Prime the extruder

G92 E0

G1 F200 E3

G92 E0

G1 F2700 E-6

;LAYER_COUNT:464

;LAYER:0

M107

G0 F3600 X21.755 Y-41.74 Z0.3

;TYPE:SKIRT

G1 F2700 E0

G1 F1800 X26.908 Y-39.695 E0.34574

New profile:

;FLAVOR:Marlin

;TIME:25942

;Filament used: 36.3267m

;Layer height: 0.25

;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 3.4.1

M190 S65

M104 S205

M109 S205

M82 ;absolute extrusion mode

G28 ;Home

G1 Z15.0 F6000 ;Move the platform down 15mm

;Prime the extruder

G92 E0

G1 F200 E3

G92 E0

G1 F2700 E-6

;LAYER_COUNT:464

;LAYER:0

M107

M204 S5000

M205 X30 Y30

G0 F3600 X117.654 Y95.241 Z0.3

M204 S500

M205 X20 Y20

;TYPE:SKIRT

G1 F2700 E0

G1 F1800 X118.892 Y93.833 E0.09354

G1 X119.377 Y93.338 E0.12811

G1 X120.746 Y92.085 E0.2207

RAyWB

I´m shure the negative Y moves caused the error as they are out of printers limit

Quote:

G0 F3600 X21.755 Y-41.74 Z0.3

;TYPE:SKIRT

G1 F2700 E0

G1 F1800 X26.908 Y-39.695 E0.34574

gathur

probably. No idea why Cura was doing that!

gathur

I am upping this thread again because Repetier now does again exactly the same for every printer I add: Complaining about the prints being off limits Perhaps Cura hates me or I have a repetier curse ... whatever it is, it an annoyance that there is no option deactivate this useless spam warning.