filament change on Ender 5 Plus

[mooret 0]

I used filament with great success on my Ender 3 Pro.

I put in plugin filament change in 5.6 Cura and tried printing.  It just continued to print.

I then added a pause plugin.  Well it paused but filament change did not work.  I manually changed filament and pressed continue on ender 5 plus screen.  It looked like it resumed printing but I learned that the hotend did not reheat so it did not print any filament.  Just chewed at my filament.

Not sure what is going on.  I have the latest firm ware loaded on my Ender 5 Plus.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

 

[Slashee_the_Cow 272]

I use the Pause at height post-processor script with the following settings:

Obviously change the layer/height it changes at with what you want, and set the Standby Temperature to whatever you're printing at. Unticking the box above the standby temperature makes it keep the hot end hot.

 

And just be aware of the disarm timeout: most Ender printers won't obey the "keep motors engaged" command so you need to make sure you change and un pause it before that timeout expires (although there it's set to two hours, I think at most Ender printers will accept 4 hours but I haven't tested it). If the motors disarm, then before it can resume printing, it will need to home them on the X and Y axes, Ender series printers tend to use cheap mechanical switches which won't activate at exactly the same spot every time, so if it needs to do that you might get some layer shift.

[mooret 0]

I did the pause at height and that worked. it paused and went to 00 corner of printer.  Press print on screen and print head hit the object I was printing.  Did not do a filament change.

I even put filament change in Gcode after pause.   did not work.

thanks for suggestion.

Still cannot get filament change to work.

 

Tom