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I started writing the software, because I didn’t really like the available software that was available at the time I started. Currently I’m working more then three hours a day to support users or for further development. The value of the software already exceeds a $100.000 and is still increasing. As a result, the software is used by many people with great success. As the whole reprap community lives the spirit of free design, hardware and software, I do not want to force anyone into paying money for it. I will continue as long as I have my interrest in 3d printing and the people use my software. But I appreciate anyone, who wants to show how much they like the software by a donation. So if you want to, click on the button below and support the further development.
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Hi.
Great software, thank you for working on it. Have you considered supporting arbitrary slicers? For example, there is:
http://kisslicer.com/
And the new one from makerbot…
This way users can use whatever slicer they want… obviously you’d need to define the parameters that need to be set (cli, arguments, etc…)
Thanks
Dan
These are closed source programs who want to run stand alone, as far as I could see. What I need to implement them is a command line option to run them in the background and give me the sliced code back like Slic3r and Skeinforge do. I couldn’t find such options in the documentation, so I didn’t implement them directly. You still can use them to slice your models. You only have to load the sliced gcode manually.
Any chance we can see the option to use iCloud storage for Slic3r settings? Obviously just for OSX version, but it would be a very nice feature.
Also the ability to update firmware directly through the Host would be great, with online comparison to ensure you have latest. Along the sme lines, the ability to save the EEPROM settings to local file and vice-versa would be awesome!
Thanks for the hard work! This thing is the best. No other combo compares. Really A+ work
Nice ideas. iCloud is not an option. That would require a developer membership with apple, which I don’t have. I don’t earn money with it, so it is to expensive to become developer only for this. Slic3r is an independent software. What I possibly could make is a sync with any folder. That way you could use Dropbox or Google drive or any other cloud storage for syncing.
Storing EEPROM to/from file, yes good idea.
Firmware upgrades replacing Arduino IDE – complicated. With an installed Arduino this could be possible in the future, but I have other things to do before this. I’m already thinking about easy ways like server side compilation. Bit it is all quite difficult due to the many printer/board combinations.
Sir:
Wonderful software. I appreciate the amount of work in this and is the operating system that I will
certainly be using.
Again A+ work
Fayette Sims
Just wanted to say “Thanks!” for the awesome firmware and host!
Awesome software. Very polished and looking great. I have a request. I am one of the 5% of males who have a color vision defect and the red and green onscreen indicators just don’t work that well for me. Could you make it red/black or green/black in the next release.
Thanks.
I will check how other colors look like. If it looks to bad, I may add a visual effect to show the state or add an option.
Hi repadmin,
great software, first of all.
I have a wish, though. I think it would be nice to have a feature such that, at every new Z-level, the printer first of all made a X-Y zero axes, so to recover from encoder steps that it might have lost during Z-1 level, as it does happen sometimes. Just an idea, but I’d like to know what do you think about it.
Thanks & best regards,
Francesco LANDE
Electronic Center s.r.l.
Normally that is a bad idea. If you are loosing steps you have a problem, that shouldn’t exists e.g. wrong current, overheating, wrong max speed/max jerk/max acceleration, loose pulley, cross talk with endstop. With proper settings you can print 100 hours without loosing a single step. The second thing is that endstops are not precise enough. Some are better then others, but chances are high the homing x/y will shift the layer a few steps which can be visible.
If you need this feature none the less you can add a G28 X0 Y0 in the slicer software for each layer switch (at least in Skeinforge, not sure about Slic3r)
What can I say… Fantastic application!
Thank you so much, it is now my host of choice.
Next step is to try the firmware
Kind regards
Phil
Any Chance of having a version that will work on the Raspberry Pi newest hardware with 512M of memory? Tried the installation, it just dumps with an error about the GDB. Would be willing to send you a 512M Raspberry Pi (to keep) if you could help out. I just hate to dedicate a computer to the task at this point.
I don’t think it will work good enough on a Pi. I ordered some Pis myself to use them as a printer spooler with internet interface. The to write Repetier-Server software will then be able to accept jobs via web interface or Repetier-Host to the spooler. It will be small enough to run in the background of your pi and I hope will even allow 2 or more printer simultaneously. I hope to get my pis soon, so I can start with development.