Installing Mattercontrol And Calibrating The Printer; Downloading, Installing, And Configuring Mattercontrol - SeeMeCNC Rostock MAX v2 User Manual

2 – Installing MatterControl and Calibrating the Printer
This is the fun part! The Rostock MAX v2 3D printer is very easy to calibrate, but it can take
some time and a number of iterations to get it as good as you can. You'll want to take your time here
because the better you calibrate the printer, the better it will perform.
2.1 – Downloading, Installing, and Configuring MatterControl
The "host" software of choice for the Rostock MAX is called MatterControl.
MatterControl is a full featured and multi-platform host interface for 3D printers. There are
other host interfaces out there such as Octoprint, Repeiter-Host, and Pronterface, but this guide will
only cover MatterControl. MatterControl is available for Windows and MacOS platforms. If you've
got a Linux machine, you'll want to look into either Pronterface or Repetier-Host.
MatterControl can be downloaded from http://seemecnc.com/pages/downloads. Scroll down to
the "Software" section.
After the download completes, run MatterControl and click on "Add Printer" button as shown
below. This will open a dialog box that you'll use to select your printer model and give it a name.
Click in the "Printer Name" field and enter a name
for your Rostock MAX v2 3D printer. I've named mine
"Walter". (Yes it's weird. I'm weird. Deal with it.)
Select "RostockMAX" from the "Select Model"
drop-down.
Note that since you're using the SeeMeCNC
customized version of MatterControl, the model drop-down
will only contain the models of SeeMeCNC made printers
as well as "Other" if you'd like to configure MatterControl
to use a non-SeeMeCNC printer in the future.
Click the "Save & Continue" button to continue.
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Fig. 2.1-1: Printer setup.