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3D printer / slicing GUI built on top of the Uranium framework
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Easy filament changes #18831

Open 4146452040 opened 5 months ago

4146452040 commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I would like to easily change from extruder 1 to extruder 2 to change colors at a specific layer number automatically to change colors. Without having to merge 2 stls together. Think Hueforge

Describe the solution you'd like

See above

Describe alternatives you've considered

Do it manually

Affected users and/or printers

All ultimaker printers

Additional information & file uploads

No response

GregValiant commented 5 months ago

You can do this by using a "Support Blocker" set to a "Cutting Mesh" and assigned to the second extruder. Here one model is set to E1 and the other is set to E2 and the cutting meshes are the opposite for each model. image

When a "Cutting Mesh" intersects the model it will create additional walls and floors (you need to watch for that) but the gcode will contain the proper switching sequence from one extruder to the other.