3D Printers

Printer-specific pages

• Ultimaker
• Makerbot

Using the 3d printers with Tegh and the Construct Protocol

The Ultimaker, Makerbot and Type A should all be configured to use Prontserve and Tegh. There is always the possibility that someone has disabled it (that happens a lot) but if prontserve is running here is what you need to do to use it.

Installation

See Tegh Installation Instructions. There are packages available for most common Hacklab OS's.

Usage

You can run the tegh command from your console (or open it from all programs / tegh in windows).

Tegh will automatically detect any printers that are running a print server at the lab. Select a printer from the list (or hit enter if only one shows up) and your in.

If you need further help type "help" into Tegh.

You can also get command-specific help by typing help and then the command you want to see more about, for example: "help add_job"

Quick Start Guide

set temp e:225
home
move z:5
add_job /local/file/name
print

In case of failure, the commands remain the same:

estop
pause
reset

Troubleshooting

If you are experiencing trouble with tegh or prontserve, pronsole is still installed on the raspberry pis, and they can be used the old method, or you can connect the printers directly to your laptops for local connections. (Please return the printers to the state you found them if you do this though)

Problem: The printer (prontserve) is not getting discovered by Tegh

This is probably because the print server is not running. To run the print server do the following things:

1. ssh into the printer (cupcake, ultimaker, etc.)
2. `screen -R`
3. ctrl + c
4. `~/Printrun/prontserve.py`