Gambas ONE

When I just before starting to write this program I switched to a metal feeler gauge - 0.008" (~0.203mm). So I just program it at 0.20mm. Canada has gone metric back in the 70s as well yet at a machinist I'd say +90% the jobs I get at work as still in inches. So we actually keep everything inch...

Yes. But since the first pass on a printer is always at a non zero height, the program is expecting to have that gap as your first pass, nothing more. And this makes sense compared to traditional CNC programming/machining practices in general (Z zero is usually top or bottom of the part, generally n...

In my experience, a Splitter only wants 2 'top level' items to deal with. So I have put the 'Buttons' and the bottom panel in another VBox container so that the Splitter only has to deal with the 2. You need to use AutoResize OR Expand but not both. You can set the position of the split in Splitter...

I try to set this nozzle-to-bed gap to 75um (0.075mm). Therefore if I then print an object where the required layer thickness is (say) 0.2mm, the first layer is printed with the nozzle about 0.275mm above the bed. I was doing much the same except using a single sheet of printer paper as my shim ins...

DYK, that pressing [Ctrl] + H or [Ctrl] + J while editing a class will open a split screen. Comes in handy when you need to reference back to a different area of the class your working on which has scrolled off of your screen.

Been busy working away at this. Been incorporating many of the ideas and suggestions. I also got rid of the sqlite3 dependency (I really like that gb.settings class, its so handy). cogier - Thanks for that upload. It gave me a really good step up on getting FMain to resize. I've since tweaked it fur...

It took me a while to realise that there was often a tiny bead of plastic on the tip of the nozzle ( barely visible ) which can throw out your leveling if the nozzle is cold. See my post for a better explanation: http://captainbodgit.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-new-favourite-3d-printer-bed.html Interes...

Guess I missed the big 200. Oh well being #202 is nice too.

For minimal size I was just going to add a form resize event and programmatically resize it if it's less then a given amount. Not sure if there's a cleaner way to do it in Gambas or not. I want to see if it gives me an 'form fighting' effect or not.

I guess that's just the 'Engineer' in me concerned with that. My old job we'd have to brain storm all the safety issues of anything we were designing. No matter how big or small. Old habits die hard. ;) Like you said, when the hot end is down near the bed this isn't an issue for most printers. But i...