bit of a rant and asking for help
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:09 am
Again asking for help, my printer came with its board and I have plugged everything in as best i could,
the lcd screen lit up followed all the sections on it, but when I think Iam loading a gcode file to print, the printer "hotend"
goes to one side and prints a line of melted PLA and know pattern or anyhting like the model I am wanting to print,
the printer does this whatever is on the SD card, I have read somewhere that the firmware or software is on the board ??? now how can I check this or get what ever it is I need to load on the the Board, people say on you tube "download this and that" and up load it to the board" but how !!! and is this the reason nothing is printing out properley on my printer.??
when I bought it they said build it, plug everything in , download a gcode model from thingiverse load it on to the sd slot on the board and select the model using the lcd screen and hey presto it should print, ...............yeah right mine is just printing blob after blob, so again any advice or help would really be great.
thanks
the lcd screen lit up followed all the sections on it, but when I think Iam loading a gcode file to print, the printer "hotend"
goes to one side and prints a line of melted PLA and know pattern or anyhting like the model I am wanting to print,
the printer does this whatever is on the SD card, I have read somewhere that the firmware or software is on the board ??? now how can I check this or get what ever it is I need to load on the the Board, people say on you tube "download this and that" and up load it to the board" but how !!! and is this the reason nothing is printing out properley on my printer.??
when I bought it they said build it, plug everything in , download a gcode model from thingiverse load it on to the sd slot on the board and select the model using the lcd screen and hey presto it should print, ...............yeah right mine is just printing blob after blob, so again any advice or help would really be great.
thanks