Correlate Print Completion Percentage

[ShuttleSpace 0]

How can I determine, when to change the filament color part way through a print?

It seems that the printer display shows the percentage completed, but it is not evident in the Preview.

[Slashee_the_Cow 620]

You can do it with a post-processor. If you go to Extensions > Post Processing > Modify G-Code that'll bring up a window with a dropdown box on the left. I have so many scripts installed I can't remember what actually comes with Cura, but there should be one something along the lines of "Display Info on LCD". If you have that one you can either set the top option to "Filename and Layer" so if you can remember what layer your change is on then you can use that. Or I think if you set it to "Display Progress" there's an option to replace the time to completion with the time to next pause.

[ShuttleSpace 0]

18 hours ago, Slashee_the_Cow said:

You can do it with a post-processor. If you go to Extensions > Post Processing > Modify G-Code that'll bring up a window with a dropdown box on the left. I have so many scripts installed I can't remember what actually comes with Cura, but there should be one something along the lines of "Display Info on LCD". If you have that one you can either set the top option to "Filename and Layer" so if you can remember what layer your change is on then you can use that. Or I think if you set it to "Display Progress" there's an option to replace the time to completion with the time to next pause.

Yah, 'Pause at Heigh' script, then select 'Layer' will do it! Cheers.

Edited January 24, 2024 by ShuttleSpace
To add and clarify detail