on both computers at home, Both have Win 7 Ultimate and 4 Gig RAM. I used to be able to do this on my computers without problem. I downloaded the latest release from the poly printer website and it hasn’t worked since. My desktop is faster, but gets the same error.
This is what it looks like (screenshot) …
I get this error on all .stl files. Thoughts, ideas?
It means the post processor isn’t able to run, usually because Lua isn’t installed on your PC and it can’t read it, or the file directory where kiss was install is no longer where it thinks it should be.
Your files will still print, they just won’t have the gcode efficiency that the post processor offers.
What is Lua? Is it something I can install separately? I am not installing the polyprinter serial interface software when I installed the KISSlicer from the poly printer package I downloaded.
I did a reinstall, and let the software look for the serial interface. Again no joy.
The serial interface doesn’t do anything for the slicing. It isn’t required unless you are trying to talk to a printer.
I’ll have more helpful info when I get home.
Just curious, what does the post processor actually do?
It takes the machine agnostic toolpaths and converts it to machine specific gcode. Kind of like a language translator for your software specific toolpaths to the model of equipment you’re using.
It tells the motor controllers the coordinates of where to go in a x,TX coordinate system. Like hey draw a line from here to here. It also tell it when to heat, extrude, how fast to run the motors, when to park it etc…
Not quite what I was asking I don’t think (although I am not familiar with the DMS tool chain)
I have been 3D printing for 10 years and understand GCode.
I was more curious what the post processing script does?
The slicer will generate machine/project specific GCode, but it looks like at DMS this GCode is then further processed to optimize it. It is this optimization I am interested in
BR,
Steve
I would still like the bed temperature GCode to experiment with.
