0.9 degree motors

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  • July 20, 2014 at 7:05 pm #20381
    harani
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    Hi 

    I just bought an eibotboard and made the rest  of the eggbot myself. Turns out the motors I have are 0.9 degree steppers instead of 1.8, so everything i was plotting was coming out half height and only 180 degrees around. Got around that by doubling my drawing size to 1600 x 6400

    this works for simple stuff but some multilayer stuff is printing the layers 180 degrees out of alingment with each other.

    Is there anything I can change in the extensions code to compensate for this or am I going to have to source 1.8 degree motors ?

    Glen

    July 20, 2014 at 8:06 pm #21942
    Windell Oskay
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    Hi Glen,

    Open up the “eggbot.py” file (in your Inkscape extensions) and find the line of code that says:
    self.step_scaling_factor = 1
    Change that 1 to a 0.5, and you should be good to go.
    July 21, 2014 at 4:39 am #21943
    harani
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    Briliant, thanks for such a quick response.

    i’ll give that a go this evening

    Cheers

    Glen

     

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