@dc42 said in Extrude without tool selection?:
You can use one additional axis, switched between the extruders.
OK in theory, but not all my tools have the same extruder motor. The titan control is based on a 0.9 degree step and the Hemera on 1.8 degree. So I would still need an axes per motor type I guess.
@dc42 said in Extrude without tool selection?:
why do you want to move an extruder with no associated tool selected?
Let's say I want to change the filament in all 4 extruders for the next job. Without the ability to extrude without tool selection I've got to send the tool head around, picking up each head, with conditional logic to not run prime.g which is setup in tpostN.g, and switch through all tools one at a time, just to change filaments.
If I can control the extruders specifically, I can heat them all to a point for a cold pull and automate the entire set of extruders to eject at the same time.
Blank in DWC, like this:
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