Multiple Colors, Switching Filaments
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Everyone Wants More Colors!! We All Stare At Our Printers Waiting For That Perfect Moment To Pause For A Color Change, Only To Be Distracted And Miss That Moment!! Well Never Again!! After Lots Of Tinkering, Research, Some Guidance And Help. I Have Created A Nice Little Pause Code. And Wish To Make Things Easier For Everyone! Like Many Of You, I Print From The Sd Card. So After You Create Your G-Code, And Of Course Figure Out The Layer/Height You Wish To Switch Colors. Simply Insert This Little Section Of Code Right After A Finished Layer, And Right Before The New Layer. And As Many Times As You Want! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- G1 X0 Y200 F5000 ; Moves Print Head To Back Corner. Make Sure You Have 200Mm Y Movement!! M104 S120 ; Lowers Temp To Create A Cold Pull M109 S120 ; Printer Waits Until This Temp Is Reached M300 S0 P1000 ; Beep To Let You Know The Printer Is Now Ready Change. M117 "Change Me Daddy" ; Message M25 ; Printer Pauses And Waits Until You Click Continue Print. M104 S205 ; Temp Of Your New Filament M109 S205 ; Printer Waits Until This Temp Is Reached M300 S0 P1000 ; One More Beep To Let You Know Its Ready To Print. M117 "Ready To Go" ; Message M25 ; Printer Pauses And Waits For You To Click Continue Print. ;G28 X0 Y0 ;Move X/Y To Min Endstops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There Is A Timeout Disabling The Stepper Motors. Longer Than About 7 Minutes At Idle And The Stepper Motors Disable, And You Will Get A Shift In Prints. If You Can Easily Move The Bed With Your Finger The Motors Have Disabled. As Of Now I Have Not Found A Line Code To Keep The Steppers Enabled Longer. A Couple Ways To Bypass This Issue. Uncomment The Last Piece Of Code. This Will Home The X And Y To Reestablish The Extruder Origin. Or Do These Steps Manually. On The Lcd Screen, Go To Home X And Home Y Only! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Included Is A Short Pillar You Can Test Your Filament Changes On. Visit My Page Https://Www.Facebook.Com/Modifieddesigns3D/ For Pictures And More In Depth Instructions. I Have Also Been Working On Making My Printer Beep Out Some Cool Tunes. So When I Get Time In Between Projects. Ill Be Posting Them To My Page As Well.
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