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In this first tab, you set how to connect with your printer. These can be changed in the g-code editor, which is described in a different chapter. In addition to this, for each configuration a start/end/pause/kill and five user defines scripts are stored with configuration. The new printer will start with the same settings as the last selected printer.īelow the drop down box you see four tabs with most off the data stored with the printer configuration. To create a new printer you only need to change the printer name and press “Apply”. At the start you have only the default printer.

You will see a window like this:Īt the top you see a drop down box, with the currently selected printer. Go to the menu “Config”->”Printer Settings” or klick the button. If you have uploaded the firmware to your printer, the driver is already installed. Some printer need special driver to access the device, so make sure the drivers are also installed. Make sure your printer is connected and enabled. The next step should be, to configure your printer so you can connect your computer with the host. The work directory is, where the host will put temporary stl files, sliced results and if enabled the log file. You can select any directory, where you have write privileges, but it is advised to use a separate directory for this purpose. The latest windows versions skip this step, because the installer already created a work directory for you. On Debian you can call:Īfter the first start a dialog may pop up asking you, where your work directory should be. You need to put your user into the right group.

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One problem that most linux distributions have is, that the normal users are not allowed to connect to a serial console.

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If you are in doubt, install Mono develop, which has all needed libraries as dependency. Make sure you have all required Mono libraries installed. Move it to where you want your files and unpack its contents and run the post installation script:Īfter that you have a link in /usr/bin to the installation, so you can start it with repetierHost. The linux version comes as gzipped tar file. The installer already contains Slic3r and Skeinforge for slicing and python and pypy, which are needed to run Skeinforge. After downloading run the installer and you are done. The windows version comes with a installer. Go to the download page and fetch the latest version for your os. With lower versions you may have speed issues with live preview. For a good rendering performance OpenGL 1.5 or higher is needed. The only other requirement is a graphic card with OpenGL. NET framework 4.0 or a recent Mono installation, if you are running Linux. If you have a Macintosh computer, check for the Repetier-Host Mac on this site. The Host works on Windows XP and later and on Linux. If you have an old computer running Windows XP you may have difficulties. Currently available computers should have no problems at all. Before you start with the installation, you should check if your computer meets the requirements.