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Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)

Posted by pygmy 
Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)
January 09, 2012 08:05PM
G'day!

My Huxley is roaring to go but I'm stuck because I cant get Pronterface to generate gcodes with Skeinforge, I think it is only because I'm putting the wrong lines in the Pronterface settings for slicecommand & sliceoptscommand as I'm a bit clueless with the software side of things...

Can another windows user copy & paste what their working settings are, & let me know where your Skeinforge folder is kept? I've just put my Skeinforge folder inside my pronterface folder (reprappro-Software-0b2e377) and have tried many combinations but just keep getting different errors.. Here are some lines I've tried:


slicecomand
python /reprappro-Software-0b2e377/skeinforge/skeinforge_application/skeinforge_utilities/skeinforge_craft.py $s
python skeinforge\skeinforge_application\skeinforge_utilities\skeinforge_craft.py $s

sliceoptcomand
python /reprappro-Software-0b2e377/skeinforge/skeinforge_application/skeinforge.py


Thanks, Karl
Re: Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)
January 10, 2012 02:41PM
I'm not in front of the computer I use to control the printer, but in Pronterface I just click the Load File button, choose the .STL file I want and Pronterface generates a GCode File. The window on the right shows the progress and when it is all done skeining the file it is ready to print.

Are you on Windows?
Re: Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)
January 10, 2012 08:24PM
Hey Grog, thats what I've tried to do as per following the online instructions but I've never been able to get a gcode generated- just errors ending in:

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As I'm on windows I'd like to confirm with another windows user what their command lines for slicecomand & sliceoptcomand are so I can rule that out as a problem.
I'm trying to do the same thing with skeinforge and pronterface. any luck getting it to work?
Re: Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)
May 08, 2012 12:24AM
I use Skeinforge as a standalone on windows still using SF41 because I mainly use repsnapper but I do also use pronterface on occasion, I just load up the pre coded Gcode. This is on Windows, have used on XP and Win7


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Re: Help setting up Skeinforge with Pronterface please! (Windows)
October 13, 2012 02:38AM
I have installed huxley Pronterface software for windows xp and i connected huxley through usb ,it shows "connecting" for a long time , can u tell me which version u have installed.
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