As title suggests, I had to export a couple designs to gcode today and when I went to print them they don't work. The Gmax printer takes its height measurements and begins to follow the print design, but nothing comes out of the extruder. I tried an older design as a check, and it worked perfectly. I opened the STL files in slic3r and it appears that all the settings are the exact same in both the old and new designs. It may also be worth noting that the new designs are forced into the front left corner of the plate, as opposed to being centered like all of my previous designs and I'm not exactly sure why.
Essentially, when I print an old design everything works fine. When I print a NEW design, everything works fine EXCEPT the drive gear doesn't turn and therefore no filament is used. I can switch back and forth between the old and new designs and the result is always the same, so I know it has nothing to do with the printer or filament feed itself. It has to be in the design somehow. Is it possibly because the design isn't centered? Is there some setting I have overlooked?
It should also be noted that the main person at my company who does the printing is on vacation. He took his laptop, and I was left to try and convert the file using some questionable methods. My boss gave me STEP files, which I then had to convert to STL using a webpage (I did this on two different websites just to be safe), and THEN convert to a gcode file using Slic3r.
Essentially, when I print an old design everything works fine. When I print a NEW design, everything works fine EXCEPT the drive gear doesn't turn and therefore no filament is used. I can switch back and forth between the old and new designs and the result is always the same, so I know it has nothing to do with the printer or filament feed itself. It has to be in the design somehow. Is it possibly because the design isn't centered? Is there some setting I have overlooked?
It should also be noted that the main person at my company who does the printing is on vacation. He took his laptop, and I was left to try and convert the file using some questionable methods. My boss gave me STEP files, which I then had to convert to STL using a webpage (I did this on two different websites just to be safe), and THEN convert to a gcode file using Slic3r.