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MK4duo Firmware Printers 3D for Arduino and Arduino due
http://www.marlinkimbra.it
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Support for Multiple Mixing Extruders on a Dual-X/IDEX printer #739

Open nuhwandah opened 5 years ago

nuhwandah commented 5 years ago

Issue description

I'm wondering/hoping that there are plans to introduce multiple Mixing Extruders, ie a dual x setup with mixing capability for each of the x-carriages. Sorry if this is the wrong place for such requests.

MagoKimbra commented 5 years ago

And impossible as a thing, we would need a completely configurable firmware, with settings that can fit together. Extruder mixing for now uses the tools T command because slicers don't support it. So when the T3 command arrives, for example, the firmware knows it has to use that given mixing, but how would you use the second mixing block, who decays how to change it? In dual extruder I know that T0 is the extruder 0 with its hotend and T1 is the second, in mixing T0 is a color and T1 is another color like T3 T6 T12. Furthermore the mixing color is not widely used and for me it is not worth. The flux capacitor with 12 extruder is much better.