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3D printer / slicing GUI built on top of the Uranium framework
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Control auxiliary fan in bridge mode and support fan speed override #14859

Open dalelovelace opened 1 year ago

dalelovelace commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

The Geeetech Thunder has a set of auxiliary part cooling fans to support crazy fast printing. Currently there is no way that I know of in Cura to control these fans. It should make bridges and the first layer above supports much nicer if there were a way to turn the auxillary fans on in bridge mode and support fan speed override.

Describe the solution you'd like

Additional check boxes and percentage dialogs in bridge mode and support fan speed override to control an auxiliary fan.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I am planning to write a Cura plugin to align the auxiliary fan speed with the primary fan speed, but it would be much nicer to control the fan from the Cura interface so that it only comes on when needed.

Affected users and/or printers

Geeetech Thunder users, or anyone with an auxiliary fan. I suspect that if this option were available in Cura, that many users would add auxiliary fans, and manufacturers might start adding them to more printers.

Additional information & file uploads

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doubletrouble023 commented 1 year ago

Really would like to see this feature in Cura. Orca slicer has support for Aux fans but I really don't want to switch if I can help it