I'm not sure of the default config used here, but my guess is you were supposed to use 'velocity extrusion' in Slic3r. There is no A in velocity extrusion.
Did you get your Slic3r from thecooltool or install it from elsewhere? Velocity extrusion was never merged into the mainstream Slic3r. On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 9:27:51 AM UTC-5, Vitalije Milosevic wrote: > > I have a 3D printer model UNI-PRINT-3D from thecooltool.com which came > along with the Sandy Box Lin-EMB. > > Sandy Box has built in a machine-client application for communication with > the printer. The communication looks ok. I can move the head of the printer > by clicking on buttons on the machine-face screen. However, when I try to > move the printing head to touch the bed surface it goes up until 1mm above > and after that clicking buttons to move head down have no effect. > The other problem is that when I upload and run g-code program it > complains about 'A' command saying "Bad character 'a' is used". > Can anyone help, please? > here are the first few lines of the g-code program: > ; generated by Slic3r 1.2.9 on 2016-11-09 at 19:11:08 > ; external perimeters extrusion width = 0.40mm > ; perimeters extrusion width = 0.48mm > ; infill extrusion width = 0.48mm > ; solid infill extrusion width = 0.48mm > ; top infill extrusion width = 0.48mm > > M107 > M190 P65 ; set bed temperature > M104 P205 ; set temperature > G28 ; home all axes > G1 Z5 F5000 ; lift nozzle > > M109 P205 ; wait for temperature to be reached > G21 ; set units to millimeters > G90 ; use absolute coordinates > > G92 A0 > G1 Z0.400 F7800.000 > > Vitalije > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
