21

Returning it is an option, but there is some good stuff there like the frame, screws, hot bed, printed plastic parts. SO you have the basis for a reasonable start, all you need to do is get the thing built.

Building a delta printer is actually quite simple and instructions from many different ones can give you a hint how to build this one. As it is based on an open source printer you will find that the the instructions on Kossel - RepRap should help considerably.

As for the auto level, well I didn’t bother at all with this printer, I have 2 of these up and running, but I had to invest considerably on replacement parts as I received zero support from our friends in China.

22

Jonathon,

Did you or anyone manage to make your HE DLT 3D work yet?

I am hoping it’s just a matter of replacing my configuration file, with someones modified one.

I am experiencing most of your issues, no motors or extruder or LCD/SD Card, or hotbed connectivity.

Any functional configuration.h files out there that I could try?

23

Hi Rick,

Could I get a copy of your configuration.h file?

pdx.motion@gmail.com

I am stumbling thru trying to get my HE DLT180 (single extruder) up and running.

Dan

24

Hi Dan,

I sent you an email with the zip file attached. Sorry everyone, I am not permitted to upload zip files to this site. If I get a chance to put it on one of my servers later on, I will and I will post the link here.

Cheers,

Rick

e: rick.ruggiero@gmail.com

25

Thanks Rick!

It’s very helpful to have a file that is known to actually work.

26

Hi Everyone,

Someone last night sent me a great suggestion and I have followed through on that. The firmware for the HE3D DLT-180 printer is now on github and the link is https://github.com/rruggiero/HE3D-DLT180-Kossel-delta-3d-printer-firmware

Cheers,

Rick

2 Likes
27

I am forever grateful! I had been struggling to find a solution and near to giving up. This sketch is amazing! The lcd menu makes more sense, it errors on compiling if you have the wrong board selected… All I know at this point is that the printer will actually home its axis… I’ll be working on leveling the bed for the evening and hopefully printing before I know it. Thank you so much!

28

Hello everyone. Those of you who don’t know how auto bed level so the hot end offsets the correct distance away from the build plate this ones for you. This should help improve your prints. Lately I’ve been looking closely at the dlt-180 and dlt-600 firmware and under auto bed levelling it has certain commands that actually save the probed values to something called Eeprom. The one I noticed was the M500 command. After months I finally figured this out. I thought the auto bed levelling was fake and was just for show to make the printer look fancy. So I thought I would go into my slic3r settings in Repetier host. Go to printer settings–> custom Gcode.

Here is an example for printing with PLA.

In the Start G-code type these gcodes on a single line (ignore the description of what the gcode its)

G28 ( Autohome)

M106 (Fan on)

M109 S200 ( Heats extruder to 200 degrees)

G29 ( Auto bed levelling)

M500 (stores probed values to eeprom) very important!!!

G1 Z5 F5000 ( Lift nozzle 5 mm away from build platform)

In the end G-code write:

M104 S0 (turns temperature off)

M107 (turn fan off)

G28 (Autohome)

M84 (diable motors)

I hope this helps to all of those who can’t seem to find any information on this printers autobed levelling. Most of my problems were with this printer were solved with logic thinking and luck. To this day I still can’t believe that I actually built a 3d printer with the crappiest instructions on the planet. Any questions I will happily help you if I can.

1 Like
29

So, which sketch file to I load when attempting to reload the firmware? The instructions say to load a file called “marlin”, but that doesn’t exist in the firmware package.

30

Can I please get a copy of your film work also n.tracy333@mail.com