Is filament chnage required?

[ICY_SNAKE]

@fcwilt yes i am using ideamaker

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@fcwilt yes i am using ideamaker

I don't use that but I have it. I will take a look at its code generation and see if it could be the source of that message.

Frederick

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake

In IdeaMaker under Filament Settings there is this place for Custom GCode. Do you have anything there?

Frederick

[Phaedrux]

This sounds like a modix macro. When and where do you see this message?

[ICY_SNAKE]

@fcwilt Good morning, no i have nothing there

[ICY_SNAKE]

@phaedrux I pretty sure there is no macro.
I see the message during printing.

[Phaedrux]

Can you zip up your full config file set and share it here?

That message is coming from somewhere. Possibly a filament sensor?

Is it coming continuously when printing?

[ICY_SNAKE]

@phaedrux yes it is coming always.

[ICY_SNAKE]

@phaedrux I cannot upload a zip or rar file??

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@fcwilt Good morning, no i have nothing there

Morning.

IdeaMaker uses what they call Templates. Templates have several places where code can be entered.

For whatever template is being used when you get the filament message check all of the possible code places shown below:

Frederick

[ICY_SNAKE]

@fcwilt said in Is filament chnage required?:

d when you get the filament message

All tabs are empty, already checked.

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@fcwilt said in Is filament chnage required?:

d when you get the filament message

All tabs are empty, already checked.

Well this is curious. I'm running out of ideas.

Do you have a start.g file?

Frederick

[Phaedrux]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@phaedrux I cannot upload a zip or rar file??

you can change the extension to .txt and upload it or use a file sharing cloud service.

[ICY_SNAKE]

@phaedrux
ok here as a txt
icy_modix60_setup .txt

Hey it worked.

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake

Check the contents of pause.g.

Frederick

[ICY_SNAKE]

@fcwilt Here is my

pause.g

<; pause.g
; called when a print from SD card is paused
M300 S1111 P222
M117"Is filament change required? Navigate to the macros tab and press on Filament Change"
M564 H1 S1 		; 
M116
M83            		; relative extruder moves
G1 E-10 F800  		; retract 10mm of filament
G91            		; relative positioning
G1 Z20 F360     	; lift Z by 20mm
G90
G1 Y0 F6000 		; go to the front
G1 X0 F6000 		; go to the left
M300 S1111 P333
M291 R"Attention !" P"It is recommended to turn off the heaters if the pause is expected to last a long time" T46>

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@fcwilt Here is my

pause.g

<; pause.g
; called when a print from SD card is paused
M300 S1111 P222
M117"Is filament change required? Navigate to the macros tab and press on Filament Change"
M564 H1 S1 		; 
M116
M83            		; relative extruder moves
G1 E-10 F800  		; retract 10mm of filament
G91            		; relative positioning
G1 Z20 F360     	; lift Z by 20mm
G90
G1 Y0 F6000 		; go to the front
G1 X0 F6000 		; go to the left
M300 S1111 P333
M291 R"Attention !" P"It is recommended to turn off the heaters if the pause is expected to last a long time" T46>

I meant you should look at it as it is the source of the filament change message you mentioned in an earlier post.

Frederick

[ICY_SNAKE]

@fcwilt said in Is filament chnage required?:

the filament change message you mentioned in an earlier po

yes we have the macro which gives the message but not sure why it comes up during printing.

As i wrote in an other post that there are problems with statics voltage, do bad design of the printer.

I added ground to all metall pieces, had to get ride of paint etc.

Now i can touch the dispaly or printer without any failures or messages on the display.

my feeling is the reason was the missing grounding.

I´m printig now a big part, total progress 540h . already 96h done.

Thx for your help
Dieter

[fcwilt]

@icy_snake said in Is filament chnage required?:

@fcwilt said in Is filament chnage required?:

the filament change message you mentioned in an earlier po

yes we have the macro which gives the message but not sure why it comes up during printing.

As i wrote in an other post that there are problems with statics voltage, do bad design of the printer.

I added ground to all metall pieces, had to get ride of paint etc.

Now i can touch the dispaly or printer without any failures or messages on the display.

my feeling is the reason was the missing grounding.

I´m printig now a big part, total progress 540h . already 96h done.

Thx for your help
Dieter

In the config.g file, down in custom settings, there are two triggers configured which, when activated, will run pause.g. The comments say they are connected to filament sensors, one for E0 and one for E1.

Something must be happening to cause the filament sensors to activate the triggers.

Frederick

[Phaedrux]

@fcwilt said in Is filament chnage required?:

Something must be happening to cause the filament sensors to activate the triggers.

I think it's as simple as filament not being loaded in the second tool.'

One way around this is to move the filament sensor activation into the tool change files so that the sensor is only checking for filament when it's the selected tool.