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G-code generator for 3D printers (Prusa, Voron, Creality, etc.)
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How to find the line in the gcode which corresponds to the tool position (percision issue) #1544

Open laptop-laptop opened 2 years ago

laptop-laptop commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hi, I used a mouse to move the horizontal slider to the left and right to find the range of positions that I want to modify the gcode. For example, the slider shows: 412613 and 415170 as the starting and ending points where I would like to issue a stop to allow filament change and perhaps also temperature change. The tool positions are:

412613: X140.02, Y:129.05, Z:5.05 415170: X126.48, Y:114.95, Z:5.08

I tried to use the search function in Atom the text editor. However, the positions in the gcode have 3 decimal places while those shown in the tool positions in the slicer have 2 decimal places. As a result, I cannot find the matching lines in the gcode.

How do I find the corresponding lines in the gcode?

Is there any way that I can make the gcode to output numbers in 3 decimal places? Not sure if that would mess up with the printer. Alternatively, can we make the Tool position to display numbers in 3 decimal places so that I can search the corresponding lines in the gcode using the search function of the text editor?

I went to Configuration->Preferences but I don't seem to find such options in precision.

I guess the most ideal situation is to implement the color change function in the horizontal slider so that one could change the filament in different parts within the same layer. Is it possible to add such function in the near future?

ldiegos commented 2 years ago

Hi, Superslicer allow you to change both precision, movement and extrusion.

At least you can change to 2 decimas to match what you want, but i don't know how will affect the losing of the third decimal to the overall result(maybe nothing happen at the human eye perspective).

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laptop-laptop commented 2 years ago

Hi, thank you. It is nice to know such feature exits. I am concerned about how losing the third decimal could affect the overall result. Anybody knows? I do know that after upgrading to the latest version, the XY compensation for vertical holes setting I made for 2.2.53 do not work perfectly. I need to change the value at the third decimal as far as I recall. So I worry about potential side effects.

gpread commented 2 years ago

You might want to look at #1555 as I think this is perhaps what you might be looking for ultimately ?