I’m using the Octoprint (on octopi), and noticing that the default ‘test’ x3g’s print rather well on my machine.
But if I try to use Cura to slice and print, it ends up heating up both my extruders, and then starts printing in the corner of the bed.
Does anyone have a configuration profile for Cura and/or OctoPrint that works with the FFPro I can scan to see where I’ve gone wrong?
Thanks!
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use “astroprint” it works much better with FF printers then octoprint.
Since OctoPrint doesn’t have a slicer profile editor in it yet, I prefer to slice to gcode on my PC and then upload the gcode to OctoPrint for printing. I use both Slic3r and Cura on my desktop. Slic3r has a handy upload to OctoPrint (“Send to Printer”) button in it already. There’s apparently a plugin that does something similar for Cura.
However, setting up Slic3r and Cura to generate the proper start and end gcode is the tricky part. The easy road is as Nick_Winter said, you can have AstroPrint do the slicing in the cloud since they’ve already created profiles for your printer. Also easy would be to use Simplify3D on your desktop and upload the gcode from it to OctoPrint.
If you’d rather set up Slic3r and Cura though, I can share the start and end gcode I’m using, but for it to work for you, you might have to learn more about gcode than you wanted to know. It’s a little different for each of the slicers because they each use their own template substitution variables.
The 3duniverse.org guide to setting up Slic3r for the FFCP is here: http://www.3duniverse.org/2014/01/05/using-slic3r-with-a-flashforge-creator/. If you’re using OctoPrint, you can skip his GPX automation since it’s builtin to the OctoPrint-GPX plugin. Unless you want x3g’s for the SD card. But then it might be easier to set up GpxUi.
My start and end gcode for Slic3r and Cura are here: My start and end gcode for the FlashForge Creator Pro
