Printer Just Stopped in Mid Job...
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:49 am
I spent this evening trying to run my 2nd & 3rd print after doing the bracelet demo. I've got a new M2 built from a kit, and other than a few very minor oddities, the bracelet came out fine.
I bought Simplify3D, installed it, and downloaded a couple M2 accessories SLT files from Thingiverse. I tried to print them over USB, and it all started out OK, but about 2/3rds of the way through, the printer just stopped. It looked like the computer had gone to sleep, and when I woke it up, it picked up where it left off.
There were several not so minor oddities about the print quality, so I tried to run that same job but from an SD card (I have the LCD interface). I left the computer hooked up, but closed S3D. Some of the oddities were still there, but others went away, but I wanted to look something up on my computer, and woke it up again. At that point, the printer froze, and shut off the heat on both the extruder and the bed.
I eventually found that one of the macros in S3d would drop the bed down, and when it did, the print job was firmly stuck to the extruder nozzle.
I found this all a bit frustrating. I can understand it freezing if the computer decided to go to sleep in the middle of the first job, but I don't understand why waking up the computer would crash the printer.
Has anyone else seen this sort of behavior? Do I need to keep my computer awake the whole time a print job is running even when I'm not using the computer to run the job, or do I need to unplug the USB cable when I print form the SD card?
Thanks!
I bought Simplify3D, installed it, and downloaded a couple M2 accessories SLT files from Thingiverse. I tried to print them over USB, and it all started out OK, but about 2/3rds of the way through, the printer just stopped. It looked like the computer had gone to sleep, and when I woke it up, it picked up where it left off.
There were several not so minor oddities about the print quality, so I tried to run that same job but from an SD card (I have the LCD interface). I left the computer hooked up, but closed S3D. Some of the oddities were still there, but others went away, but I wanted to look something up on my computer, and woke it up again. At that point, the printer froze, and shut off the heat on both the extruder and the bed.
I eventually found that one of the macros in S3d would drop the bed down, and when it did, the print job was firmly stuck to the extruder nozzle.
I found this all a bit frustrating. I can understand it freezing if the computer decided to go to sleep in the middle of the first job, but I don't understand why waking up the computer would crash the printer.
Has anyone else seen this sort of behavior? Do I need to keep my computer awake the whole time a print job is running even when I'm not using the computer to run the job, or do I need to unplug the USB cable when I print form the SD card?
Thanks!