A few weeks ago I bought an Snapmaker 2.0. I have some problems. Firstly when I want to use an usb stick instead of the wi-fi connection. How do I do that and secondly I have the software Agisoft to take pictures of an item and transform it into a 3D object. and when I do this in the luban software and start te print it does print in the air. Please help me
Insert the usb stick into the usb port. Use the hand controller to find the file and open it and run it.
No idea what software you’re talking about. Can you share the stl? (since your’e a new member you might have to use an offsite host for now) You need to make sure that the stl is placed and oriented so it’s flat to the work surface and depending on the shape may need supports. It can’t print in air.
-S
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Specifically, the file you put on the USB stick needs to be a gcode file. The extension should be .gcode for 3D printing, .nc for laser, or .cnc for CNC. Luban has “Export to gcode” buttons on most tabs that you can use. You can use the USB stick that was included with your Snapmaker or any other USB stick formatted in FAT32 (most sticks advertised as “USB 2.0” will be formatted this way).
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Just want to add that you make sure the machine is OFF before you insert or take out the USB stick. It is not hot-pluggable.
Anecdotally, I’ve never shut the machine off. I hot plug and unplug regularly and never experienced the issues others have reported.
I’m just going to chalk it up to it being a Snapmaker thing. It’s USB, with no way of telling it to “Eject” from the touchscreen, so logically it should be hot-pluggable…
Usually “ejection” flushes the write buffer, and as nothing is being written to the USB drive there would be no need to flush the buffer.
I do recall people mentioning arcs getting drawn from ??? who knows what reason, that ultimately fried the controller. That would be a pretty convincing reason to shutdown.
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@brent113 I’m actually the one that ran into a bunch of people in a short period of time that were experiencing arcing issues on the USB port on power up. Saw videos, spark(s) were both very visible and audible. They really need to do more QC lol.
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Definitely were enough reports of problems on FB that I don’t hot swap.
I know according to SM you’re supposed to be able to.
But I don’t risk it. I rarely use usb anyway.
-S
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FB is where I saw all the reports as well, I have left the groups so I haven’t seen any reports of anything lately.
Sounds kinda like it’s people who use Facebook are the problem 
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@brent113 They have more problems than just not being able to run a machine. People on FB need professional mental help lol.
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