[How to make printers table stand in the middle of Z axis?]

2 hours ago, ahoeben said:

I think a relevant question is "why?". Why do you want the printer bed to stay at that half-way down point instead of dropping all the way down? If the answer to that question is "because then I can see the finished model in the camera view", then here's a clever alternative solution for that:

 

 

I’m not interested about cams or etc. I will be holding the plate with the gripper integrated to a robotic arm so i need a space for gripper to get inside but the screen on the middle of printer blocks it so if i can set manuel Z offset for higher coordinate, gripper can easily enter that gap.

[How to make printers table stand in the middle of Z axis?]

19 hours ago, gr5 said:

I think it cuts power and for most S5 printers, the weight of the bed is enough for it to coast down.

 

What do you want it to do if the print is almost as tall as the whole space?

 

I think the only fix for this would be to alter the firmware.  The firmware in question is in Python and is all visible, comments and all, on the S5.  If you are a programmer and know a little linux and a little python it's not so hard to figure out all the code.

It wont be tall that much ever. So i dont have any worries about it. I was hoping to see an easier way actually but if i have to do it with coding i will but im not sure how to… or will it be possible even with coding… Do you have any idea/suggestions?

[How to make printers table stand in the middle of Z axis?]

9 hours ago, Dustin said:

For which model UltiMaker?

Its S5

[How to make printers table stand in the middle of Z axis?]

Hello, 

 

My question is simple actually, i just want to stop the table/bed in the middle of printer.

 

Let's say u sent a job to the printer and it finished, bed goes downwards and stops at the bottom.

I don't want it to go all the way down. I want to set a Z coordinate manually so, when the job is done table stops there.

 

I did try few things, like trying to add custom "End G-code" and sometimes it works, table stops exactly where i want it to be but eventually it goes down again no matter what.

 

I know that, it needs to check where the table is with the switch at the bottom but it needs to do this in the beginning, not in the end.

 

So, basically i want my printer to be able to stop in the Z coordinate which i will call... and it will stand there until i send a new job.

 

I would be appriciated if you can share any idea/knowledge with me. 

 

Have a wonderful day!