Yikes, My print is upside down?

AstroPrint Cloud Service Troubleshooting
#1

Okay I don’t know what has happened…

I sliced and printed a model I have used before without issue.
It looks fine on the preview image in the slicer window and file manager.
It seems fine in my modeling too and STL reader.

When I went to print it however it is upside down…no way can in print this way.
I downloaded the G-code and loaded in a g-code viewer and yep it is indeed upside down.
My guess, something has change when the model is handed off to the slicer.

I use the Astroprint cloud version of Slic3r …

I will run it through Astroprint using Cura and my local copy of Slic3r and see what happens.

Darren

#2

Checked with my local copy of Slic3r and the Astroprint Cura and my print is upside right…

Going to play around with the Astroprint version of Slic3r and see if I can figure what has happened.
Since there are no rotational or model placement features available from the interface I am not sure
how this can happen or what I can learn.

Edit: Really weird…It seems to be the model…other are coming out just fine. Maybe it was a bad upload I am going to try deleting it and trying again.

Edit2: Talking to myself here…

I can’t seem to recreate the problem so all is good…that was just plain weird however.
I think the CAD program must have done something weird when it exported the STL, or maybe it really was
a network transmission issue or a very subtle bit failure at my end…Back to happily AstroPrinting!

Sorry to bother to forum

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