Issues with latest drop of MC?

[Captain Starfish]

I've just got home from a month on the road and fired up to print an adapter to go between the different threads on my water containers and camp shower pump. MatterControl popped up with an "update?" so I did.

Extruder seems to be hammering the spindle around and just chewing out the filament, it refuses to slice with Slic3r (cura only), every cancelled job requires a bounce of the connection and occasionally a reboot of the printer - it might just be me but it appears to have gone a step backwards.

Keep your old version if you are going to upgrade, just in case. (I'm using the Mac version).

[mhackney]

gcode controls ALL movement of the printer and extruder and MC does not generate gcode - it integrates with either Cura or Slic3r. Do you have an old gcode file laying around that you could test and verify? Apparently, there is also an issue with Slic3r integration, which given the issues with Slic3r lately may very well be its fault. You can always slice your STL using Cura or Slic3r standalone and then open the gcode file in mC to print.

cheers,
Michael

[Captain Starfish]

Oh, it could be a bunch of things, this is just a heads-up that maybe it's worth hanging onto a copy of the older version before you upgrade, just in case.

After a month things could have gone a bit fuzzy on the alignment of the printer (ambient temperature has dropped from mid thirties to high teens/low twenties here over that month for example) and I may have done something before I left and forgotten about it.

I switched the printer off and moved onto other jobs, next Monday I'll spend the morning getting it all ticketyboo again.

[brent]

Oh, it could be a bunch of things, this is just a heads-up that maybe it's worth hanging onto a copy of the older version before you upgrade, just in case.

After a month things could have gone a bit fuzzy on the alignment of the printer (ambient temperature has dropped from mid thirties to high teens/low twenties here over that month for example) and I may have done something before I left and forgotten about it.

I switched the printer off and moved onto other jobs, next Monday I'll spend the morning getting it all ticketyboo again.

Older versions should be in the github repository for MatterHackers

[Captain Starfish]

Colour me tard'o'lard.

Went back and had a look, somehow I'd changed the nozzle diameter. It was trying to feed a 0.7mm nozzle with 0.35mm nozzle installed.

PEBKAC.