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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Salinas

Overview of this book

A systematic guide consisting of over 100 recipes which focus on helping you understand the process of 3D printing using RepRap machines. The book aims at providing professionals with a series of working recipes to help make their fuzzy notions into real, saleable projects/objects using 3D printing technology. This book is for novice designers and artists who own a RepRap-based 3D printer, have fundamental knowledge of its working, and who desire to gain better mastery of the printing process. For the more experienced user, it will provide a handy visual resource, with side-by-side comparisons of the two most popular slicers, Skeinforge and Slic3r. A basic understanding of designing and modeling principles and elementary knowledge of digital modeling would be a plus.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Troubleshooting issues with the motor system

All RepRap printers use stepper motors to drive the movement along the x, y, and z axes. These kinds of motors operate by moving in set intervals, by a way of pulses generated by a stepper driver. With this system, a precise and continuous movement can be achieved. Without this precision, we wouldn't be able to control the precise position of our extruder.

In this recipe, we'll look at solving some common issues with this system.

Getting ready

A basic toolkit consisting of a micro screwdriver set and long needle nose pliers would be helpful.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. A motor that's not moving at all is a major issue. The first step in resolving this situation is to make sure that all the connections for the motor are firmly attached. In the following image, there are two different connection points for the stepper motor on the controller:
    How to do it...
  2. A typical RepRap stepper motor will have four leads that are connected to the controller...