It's just one of the crazy annoying features on the bundle. It's just so so so slow at everything, it costs me hours a week just standing looking at the thing doing basically nothing.
For the love of god a Pro mode where we can bypass all these "features" would be a dream come true. I find myself using my ultimaker 2 more than the £10k S5, which is sad but it just works.
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gr5 2,224
It used to lower the bed more than it does now.
It waits for the cores to cool to a specific temperature and then it retracts the filament in both heads. This allows you to change filaments or cores at some future time without having to heat up the core. By cooling a bit you get a better tip to the filament when it retracts. You don't want a very thin long string as this can cause problems later.
But I agree, it's frustrating. It used do this with the bed all the way down so I could grab my print as soon as it finished (if I wanted). Know that for PLA the bed is above the softening temp so it's probably best to let the bed cool to 50C before removing your part. Otherwise you may deform the part a bit.
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Yeah... but 90% of the time my next print is with the same core, same material. And its gonna do its auto-purge thing at the beginning anyway. So its completely unnecessary.
I understand UM having modes like this that make everything likely to be perfect, but I really wish there was a button on the interface to switch to "pro user mode" that does nothing extra and lets you directly control everything. Or at least lets you selectively disable stuff.
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