MakerGear Forum

Hi all!

I've had my M2 for a month, and put 72hrs on it so far. Up until this point I have been using Slic3r to slice my parts and it's been working great.

I have just switched to using Cura to slice a large part due to the fact that it is far faster. My problem is that once I have pre-heated my printer using either Octoprint or Printrun, and set the print going, the G-code file that Cura has created inexplicably turns off the heat to my extruder and bed! when I then try to re-heat them by manually setting the temperature in Printrun/Octoprint, the target temperature is shown, but neither bed or extruder start to heat up! I am using the same start and end G-code that I was using in Slic3r, and despite tinkering I can't find the fault. Other objects sliced with Slic3r still print fine without this issue.

Has anyone got any ideas for a solution? I will buy Simplify3D next week but I am looking for a short-term fix here!

Thanks!
Ed

Doesn't cura generate it's own start and end code ? I would look at that first .

Look at the first section of the g-code generated. See what it says for any lines that begin M190 and M109. Let us know what it says.

"M190 S60" should set the bed temperature to 60C, "M109 S225" sets the extruder temperature. You should have similar lines in there.

Thanks for the input guys, I've since bought S3D, and have tweaked my G-Code so that I don't have those temp issues. Now trying to replicate the results i was getting before in my previous Slic3r setup. Nearly there!!