[Fletcher]

Windell,

Ok, after way too much work (reinstalling windows, etc.) I tracked it down as follows:

1) It appears that the USB 2.0 ports do not like the eggbot – when I switched to the 3.0 ports, it worked better.

2) You were right about using the older version of inkscape .48.2 works, along with the eggbot extensions you sent me.

This is using the 32 bit version on my 64 bit windows 8.1 since I couldn’t find a 64 bit version of 48.2. So it might also be related to the 64 bit version as well.

Anyway, things seem to be working now.

Happy New Year!

Fletcher

[Fletcher]

Windell,

I tried option #1 and am not getting the error anymore. I will try to do some more testing, but I probably won’t get much chance until after Christmas now.

Ok, I went a little further and it can’t find the serial port. But device manager shows a USB Serial (UBW based) com port on Com3. So not sure what I need to do to tell it to look there. The MB has a Com port (COM1) which is also showing. I will do some more testing and look on the forums for tips on this issue. But at least the main issue is fixed.

And the problem with having to specify the body html tags still exists and edit not saving (unless I use html mode)…. But I can live with those.

Thanks again for all the help!

Happy Holidays!

Fletcher

[Fletcher]

I also noticed that if I just type text and hit “Post Comment” (at least in IE 11), it says that I am missing the “body” – so I go into html mode and add it. But someone who isn’t as conversant with html might not understand the error or know how to fix it. Just a heads up.

Fletcher

[Fletcher]

Windell,

The funny thing is that I just put in a new motherboard and this is still a fairly clean installation.

The Gear extension rendered a gear just fine.

The Eggbot extension to strip data appeared to work.

If I try “Name Poem” it too crashes. But the other extensions seem to work.

I believe to plot it out, I need to get past the Eggbot control menu (which I think has the plot option .)

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