Download ctc 3d printer driver

Can you give more details about the "motherboard"?

What markings are on the main microprocessor?&#;

If you are unsure, post a photo of it.

If it uses an atmel chip, chances are good its arduino compatible which opens up quite a few options.

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If you are looking to build&#; your own, or re-work an existing 3d printer, I highly recommend software called repetier host.

These guys write both the firmware and software.

For the firmware, you configure the options specific to your printer on their website (size, position of limit switches, etc) and it creates an arduino sketch that you can load onto an arduino mega.

Then you download their corresponding application for your pc or mac that handles all the slicing, and fires the g-code off down the usb cable to the arduino. They use the popular slicing engines like cura, slic3r, and skeinforge you can choose which one you want to use.

Enrico is % correct, most of the cheap Chinese sellers are not manufacturers, they are simply resellers.

I buy a lot of things from Aliexpress (think chinese ebay) and they all sell exactly the same items, with the description copy and pasted from somewhere else.

Its hard to know whats going on over there, but there is probably 1 manufacturer for every sellers.

In any case the one part that works well with the Repetier firmware I mentioned is the RAMPS shield for arduino mega.

It was developed for reprap 3d printers and since its open source, you don't need to make it yourself, just buy it from china.

Make sure you confirm with the seller if it comes with the actual stepper drivers. They are removable from the RAMPS board since people often burn them out.

Just a few thoughts

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Is there a suitable driver for the serial port on your PC?&#; I had an Arduino clone a few years back and I had to download a serial driver for it as the standard serial drivers wouldn't see it?

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Have you got replicator G working?&#; Looking at replicator G it can control a Makerbot.&#; So maybe change the G code Flavour in Cura to makerbot and see if that gets it to connect.

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If you haven't, Try Replicator G just to see if it'll spring into life ReplicatorG is a simple, open source 3D printing program - ReplicatorG

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I've included a couple of links below to CTC Printer.&#; Do these look anything like your machine?

www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar

www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar?ProId=32

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On the second link (product pages for one of the printers) it says to install Python and Replicator G

It also seems to have&#; a support section.

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I would also suggest If you slice and put GCode on an SD card will it print? But if you don't have the g-code flavour right it'll produce odd, and I suppose potentially, disastrous results if it tries to do something it can't..

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I don't have a CTC printer but this&#; is the sort of thing I'd do for any machine I was trying to get going.

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Dan.

If you look at a lot of the examples for driving 3D printers and other motion control solutions with an Arduino (ATMEL) controller, there almost always hard coded to baud or even higher. If in doubt then check the source code configuration files that is nearly always available.