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G0 and G1 are identical commands and tell the printer to "go" or "go to" some location. You can specify all 4 axes or just one axes or anything in between. So
G0 X50 Y50 Z15
Moves to that location with the nozzle 15mm above the bed. I don't know how wide your bed is and I don't know where 0,0 is for you. On UM printers 0,0 is front left and they are a little over 215mm wide so:
G0 X200 Y0 Z15 is safe for a UM printer.
To extrude it's the part where it does this:
G92 E0 ;zero the extruded length
G1 F200 E3 ;extrude 3mm of feed stock
G92 E0 ;zero the extruded length again
The G92's are important - that sets current position for an axis (in this case E axis to position zero). Without that you don't know where the E axis will move to - it depends where the E axis left off which might be at the 10 meter point from a previous print.
The G1 F200 E3 moves 3mm of filament. The F200 is the feedrate which stays in effect for all subsequent G0 or G1 comnmands until F is mentioned again. It's in mm/minute so divide by 60 to get mm/sec. Or take your mm/sec value you want and multiply by 60.
Does that answer all your questions?
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G0 and G1 are identical commands and tell the printer to "go" or "go to" some location. You can specify all 4 axes or just one axes or anything in between. So
G0 X50 Y50 Z15
Moves to that location with the nozzle 15mm above the bed. I don't know how wide your bed is and I don't know where 0,0 is for you. On UM printers 0,0 is front left and they are a little over 215mm wide so:
G0 X200 Y0 Z15 is safe for a UM printer.
To extrude it's the part where it does this:
G92 E0 ;zero the extruded length
G1 F200 E3 ;extrude 3mm of feed stock
G92 E0 ;zero the extruded length again
The G92's are important - that sets current position for an axis (in this case E axis to position zero). Without that you don't know where the E axis will move to - it depends where the E axis left off which might be at the 10 meter point from a previous print.
The G1 F200 E3 moves 3mm of filament. The F200 is the feedrate which stays in effect for all subsequent G0 or G1 comnmands until F is mentioned again. It's in mm/minute so divide by 60 to get mm/sec. Or take your mm/sec value you want and multiply by 60.
Does that answer all your questions?
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