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Feature Request: Turn off Purging/Transition Tower #261

Open matthewatkins1 opened 1 year ago

matthewatkins1 commented 1 year ago

Adding the ability to turn off the purging/ transition Tower would be super helpful.

User Profile:

Commercial Large Format printing company.

we operate 6 medium volume delta machines and one large volume Cartesian printer with a build volume of 1m x 1m x 1.2m.

Printer Styles: Delta & Cartesian Filament Size: 1.75mm Nozzle diameter Size: 1.2-1.8mm Layer Height: 0.45mm Layer Width: 2.4-3mm

We often use the entire build volume and print with high volume flow rates.

Use Case:

We print exclusively using single extrusion to avoid travel moves and retraction. We also often use the entire build volume.

We would like to take advantage of multi color printing and the stamping and painting features in Canvas to design abstract patterns and gradients.

Design will include Marble, Smooth Color transitions and Gradients and abstract terrazzo.

We do NOT need highly calibrated sharp color changes.

Having the ability to turn off the purge tower would allow us to use our Palette S2 Pro that we have been unable to use since purchasing it.

The main issue with the transition tower is that when printing with high flow rates, it’s difficult to tune retraction to reduce stringing and blobbing.

A secondary issue is filament wastage. Our prints are often between 1.5-5kg and transition towers towers will add significant wastage and increased print times

Adding a simple check box to turn off the purging/transition tower would be so epic.