Purge after tool select

cdl1701yahoo.com

Making progress on my tool changer, so the next thing I need to fix is to get the purge to work. Here is what I have working so far.

Home X, Y, Z, & U. U is my tool lock actuator
T0 is picked up successfully from its dock and waits for temperatures to be reached.
Tool head moves to purge location (still in standby mode)

This is where it stops. It should then purge the extruder and start printing but it gives me the "Attempting to extrude without a tool selected" error.
I notice that at the beginning of the print in the DWC that the tool is set to Standby right off the bat instead of Active and I think that is what is causing the problem. Once I get the error though the tool goes active and pauses for about 30-60 seconds before it starts printing but it never does the purge.

Here is my Tpre0.g and start gcode in S3D

Tpre0.g
M116
G0 X58 Y278 F25000 ; Rapid to the approach position without any current tool.
G1 Y357 F2000 ; Controlled move to the pickup position with tool-0.
M400
G4 P500
M98 P"/macros/TOOL_CHANGE/Tool_Lock.g" ; Lock the tool
M400
G4 P500
G1 Y278 F6000 ; Retract the entire tool.
G1 X1 Y1 F6000 ; Move Head to front left
M400
G4 P500
G1 E20 F500 ; Purge extruder
G60 S2 ; Save this position as the reference point from which to later apply new tool offsets.

S3D start gcode
G28 ; home XY axes
M561 ; Clear any bed transform that might be in place
M375 ; Load height map
T0

Anyone spot where it is going wrong?

cdl1701yahoo.com

Sorry guys, I completely forgot about the Tpost0.g file. I moved my purge command to that location and now all works correctly.

Danal

Move the purge commands to Tpost0.g.

During pre, the tool is not actually selected; during post, it is.

Here are the 0 files for a Jubilee. The other files are exactly the same, except for the X coordinate.

tpre0.g tpost0.g tfree0.g

Danal

Ha! our comments "crossed in the night". Good that it is working.