Need working software/OS for a legacy Thing-o-matic 3D printer c. ~2012

Post date: 2021-07-28 08:48:01

After around 10 years and many hours, I finally got around to finishing assembling a legacy Thing-o-matic by Makerbot from a kit that was gifted to me long ago ! It powers up and calibrates but I am stuck going further. Can anyone help me to get the software working to actually print something? I am turning to the hive before consigning this elegant and once expensive kit (that I am invested in because I recently spent many hours assembling it) to the dustbin. Any advice, please?

I have a legacy Thing-o-matic from ~2012 assembled from a kit. Recently, after years stored in the closet, I finished assembling it and tried to use it. Technology seems to have moved on.

I downloaded and installed Replicator-G v.40 and Java 6, but it doesn't play nicely with my Macbook running Yosemite OS. When I load an .STL file from the provided examples, it doesn't present any image for slicing. I don't know if this is an install error, an error in using this program, or an OS incompatibility, but I suspect that Replicator-G was designed for an HFS file system. I think it is possible that it might run on OS Lion but don't know how to create a bootable Lion installer since Disk Utility doesn't know about HFS anymore. I have an old Macbook that I could dedicate to this project.

I don't know what I am doing. Apple no longer supports Lion, Makerbot no longer offers support for this legacy hardware/software, and I am turning to the hive before consigning this elegant and once expensive kit (that I am invested in because I spent many hours assembling it) to the dustbin. Any advice, please?

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