nitro20

Ok check this out man....ive only into 3d printing for 3 weeks. Ive printed and tested about a hundred .2mm squares to figure out how i can get this to work..............just now...i copiednpasted beginnings and ends to the spot i want, and at first i tryed to add a few more extusion lines at the start, although i could get the machine to run my new path it would not extrude the amounts paste from original start...x and y worked perfectly, ( mabye you can point me in a direction there) so then after 30 or so failures, i inserted a pause at hieght extention just after the 2nd start menu, so i could extrude the old color easily from a .2 tip. It went back to the previous z axis within .10 or so.... so now i know this...i can alter start and finishgcodes successfully. i can press the on screen pause in the middle of the 1st and 2nd gcodes, i can insert pause at hieght extention before to pull filiment back end of code and to push old color through at start of code and it works as long and the is a return to home somewhere close...so now i can put a beeper in my end of code M300, pause if i need to, but there seems to be enough time time make a safe color change between codes............ seems like alot to do but i think after 20 times it will get simpler....until a fix...

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So my ocd tells me the only way to get a color change is to split the file into to parts...how is this done? I have tryed to copynpaste the beginnings and ending were i want but it stops. Goes over to home, and then trys to extrude like 5000 at 400s... no good..i see this in the code, ive read somthing on this in reddit but i dont understand were he places that command..seems so easy..i just dont know enough..

As we speak im tryin this..setting up the pause at hieght extention and then when it beeps ill shut the machine off..mock up color change then turned on....waiting to heat up.................la la la la.. la la ok here we go. Fudgek!!!! this was the second attempt at that, and when i confirm to go back to the file inturupted goes threw the motions and then it returns to a Z location about 7 mm up on a 15mm test block...

Yes i totally agree with you.. and if someone isnt savy on knowlege of things like comupter chip production, well then...like i said, i rememeber this crap 10 years with quadcopters...took up weeks of free time just to figure out why somehing was happening as companies avertised as if they were ready to fly...fun times...so fun i hung them up 4 years ago and i might fly 3 times a year.....lol...

Is it crealities firmware or the mother board they are useing or what...if i upgraded to the marlin firm ware from the acual marlin site would this fix it.. this seems like an easy fix, but then again i just started learing gcode last night...lol..or so thought, seems i was playing with a form gcode in the 80s at school typed in a x,y, and a block appeared on the screen...

Hope its readable..i havent updated firmware because of the warning of the z axis being disabled during prints and i am new but that would the only way to get .2 to hieght with out a out leveler...ive tryed to put M1 where M0 is at but no worky...all day ive at this....ive even tryed to payse in scriped mode and it just keeps on keepin on... another question is why cant i use crealities firmware up grades..

Please help... i am new to 3d.. but kinda know whats goin on...i can get the ender v3 to stop printing and retract and extrude but cannot get it to pause for the time i set the disarm/time ...what can i do..ive even tryed to slice on Repetier @(pause).. have no idea what that is but, it did not work either...