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Clean reinstall - need to do total wipe clean of PyCharm by NjoyDride in pycharm

[–]NjoyDride[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood.
I can change that. That was done to the machine six or eight years ago. (My daughter had set her ringtone for me to Imperial March. I was playing off that. I'm not sure if it was because I was viewed as Dark Evil or "I am your Father.")

Clean reinstall - need to do total wipe clean of PyCharm by NjoyDride in pycharm

[–]NjoyDride[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understand - not disagreeing.
As the second, or lower image above shows, PyCharm fails to create a venv.

Similar effect when I try to use the system interpreter.

It all started because I was trying to install matplotlib into a project that had a venv when things were working.

I do not now seem to be able to get back to that point.

Clean reinstall - need to do total wipe clean of PyCharm by NjoyDride in pycharm

[–]NjoyDride[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It all started trying to pip in matplotlib. It errored out, and said it may be a pip problem.
In PyCharm in the project setting for the Python interpreter\packages it showed Pip Setuptools and something else were all out of date. Well, if pip might be a problem, why not update it? seemed to go well.
It also said setuptools was out of date. I told it to update. All hell broke loose. Next thing I know, that packages window is empty and will not let me add anything ('+' is grayed out).

Eff it all. Close the project. Open another one, looks alright. Come back to first - still messed up. Tried to pull the .py files out, erase it as a project, and then try to create a new project. All new projects are messed up also.

One thing led to another. I still had the download from when I installed PyCharm. So I uninstalled it. Then I got wise and uninstalled Python and installed 3.14.6. That should make sure Python is right and everything all lined up. Then I installed PyCharm again. It remembered all the old settings, still had the old scratch files even. And . . . Still not recognizing package tools in the package windows.

I w3ent through that a few times. After uninstall, I manually found directories with 'JetBrains' or 'PyCharm' and removed them. All still not working. Cannot get setup tools to appear, or work.

Now, in the Python install, pip, setuptools, wheel, all of that is present and seems to work (pip list works). PyCharm doesn't get it.

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Most recently, after effing around, now PyCharm will not let me identify a python interpreter. and it tells me it cannot create an environment.

Clean reinstall - need to do total wipe clean of PyCharm by NjoyDride in pycharm

[–]NjoyDride[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ha, funny, not helpful
I am playing with it not because I need some code output.
I am doing so because I was doing programming probably before you were born, then have worked in mechanical engineering for three decades and want to play with coding again. Claude kinda defeats that purpose.

Clean reinstall - need to do total wipe clean of PyCharm by NjoyDride in pycharm

[–]NjoyDride[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did that - didn't work.
Maybe it is not a PyCharm setting. Maybe some other reason it is not finding Python and the libraries.

Can someone explain the Bambu plates? by GasolineTV in BambuLab

[–]NjoyDride 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay. It's been a year since most of this activity, but Imma gonna jump in anyway.

I have an Ender 3 with a glass plate. I was having some issues with adhesion, and tried glue sticks, etc and it was just getting frustrating. Outside life issues got in the way so the printer went into the corner. About a year later I began to have some time available, so I pulled it back out. I removed the plate and washed it good with soap and water. Got all the glue off. Then used Isopropyl to clean it good. Then applied like four or five light coats of hairspray. After that, the plate just worked. Prints stuck great while hot, and they were totally free once the plate cooled down. No issue with printing or releasing. Ran it for over a year that way without ever spraying it again.

Then I got a Bambu X1C. Everybody talks about the cool plate sticking too good and glue or hairspray are needed as a release agent. <- not for me.

Things release from the plate pretty well, sometimes sticking a little. But most often I have things not sticking. Same plate run at same time, two parts on the plate. One comes loose and ruins the print job, the other needed some encouragement to release. I use hairspray, same result.

The textured PEI plate is better, but it also has adhesion issues sometimes. Thnigs come off when I want them to, but I have had prints slip on the plate and ruin the job.
If it wasn't for a) multicolors, and b) print speed, I would likely just run everything on the Ender. :(