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by stevedee
Thursday 9th December 2021 3:09pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

...Instead of doing a full program of moves, waits, repeats, etc, I'm thinking of just enabling/disabling buttons as required. I like the extra flexibility this would give the operator. Especially when doing the actual tramming. The operator could jump from one position to any other position. And t...
by stevedee
Tuesday 7th December 2021 4:41pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

...Get the hot end going, and even move to a predefined 'Cleaning' position. But I think after cleaning we may want to force another homing cycle in case the head has been bumped too hard. Thoughts? I guess the first question is 'what is this program for? Is it basically for your own use or do you ...
by stevedee
Tuesday 7th December 2021 3:34pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

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... ...Shouldn't any owner of a 3D printer realize the risks of a moving printer running at temperature?.. Like you, product safety occupied a large c...
by stevedee
Tuesday 7th December 2021 11:28am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

...I had to tinker as well. All I have done is make the Form resizeable... Charlie, you are the king of resizable layouts! As Mike said, what we now need are end-stops for minimum width and minimum height. Min width looks easy; just make sure the form cannot be made smaller than the width of 3 butt...
by stevedee
Tuesday 7th December 2021 11:14am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

...I'm going to think on the 'danger' side of tramming with the hot end on today. It may not be that bad. As this would improve Z height accuracy some but shouldn't affect the actual tram (the hot end would have expanded the same amount no matter where it is above the bed, unlike the bed which may ...
by stevedee
Monday 6th December 2021 7:29pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

cogier wrote: Monday 6th December 2021 6:13pm ...I don't see what's wrong?
OK Charlie, its just me then;
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by stevedee
Monday 6th December 2021 1:26pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

Sorry, just couldn't resist tweaking it!
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by stevedee
Monday 6th December 2021 11:21am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

To implement the required Constants, I first created a string variable in the Fsettings form:- Public strPath As String ...and replaced the string with the strPath variable:- db1.Host = User.Home &/ strPath Then declared the Constants in the main form:- Const DB_NAME As String = "config.sql...
by stevedee
Monday 6th December 2021 10:35am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)
Replies: 34
Views: 29872

Re: Bed Leveller (3D Printer Assistant)

This project is designed assist the user with manually tramming (levelling) their 3D printer's bed with it's print head... That's good for starters Mike! After scanning the code over breakfast this morning, then checking that it looked 'safe', I hooked up my printer and stepped through the code. As...
by stevedee
Tuesday 30th November 2021 8:46am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Hello fellow Gambasers
Replies: 2
Views: 7543

Re: Hello fellow Gambasers

Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Mike. I found this place by way of Stevedee... Hello Mike (again) and welcome to the friendliest forum on the internet. Your software path seems to have run in parallel with mine in many ways, and I look forward to taking a look at your 3D Printer code. Charlie ( c...