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FormerLurker / ArcWelderPlugin

A plugin for OctoPrint used to convert G0/G1 commands to G2/G3 commands. Reduce the size of your gcode files, and reduce number of gcodes per second sent to your printer.
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Not as effective with PrusaSlicer's new "Pressure Equalization" setting #249

Open jhstatewide opened 1 year ago

jhstatewide commented 1 year ago

PrusaSlicer introduced a new beta feature: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/pressure-equalizer-_331504

When this is used in combination with ArcWelder, the total amount of arcs created is much less. I would theorize that is because ArcWelder can only weld segments that have identical speed / acceleration.

If the above is true, is there any hope for ArcWelding these files, or are the two methods entirely incompatible?

zapl commented 1 year ago

That's correct. Segments can only be welded together if the settings don't change. There needs to be a new GCODE command every time the printer needs to do something different. But I would rather use firmware pressure advance (klipper) / linear advance (marlin) which do the same thing with the advantage that the firmware has much more real time control over the pressure than the slicer.