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I made a macro that alters your bed grid to the area the printer is actually printing on.

Inspired by https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/15302/cura-script-to-automatically-probe-only-printed-area

Features:

• makes sure the requested grid fits your probeable area (not neccesarily the same as the printable area)
• makes sure the grid is at least 3x3 points
• the grid is centered on the print and expanded to fit a whole number of constant size squares
• has two defined probe spacings - fine for small prints, coarse for large prints, so that you don't take ages to probe the entire bed

Works with prusaslicer and perhaps others

How to use:

• put the script into your /sys folder
• open it and edit the constants for your machine (read the comments)
• in PrusaSlicer, go to Printer settings / Custom G-code and replace G29 in your Start G-code with

M98 P"localised_mesh_bed.g" A[first_layer_print_min_0] B[first_layer_print_max_0] C[first_layer_print_min_1] D[first_layer_print_max_1] ; only probe the part of the bed that you're printing on

• add a command to reset the grid back to normal to your End G-code

M557 X24:228 Y6:210 S51 ; reset bed grid

• Those numbers are for my machine, please replace with your own.

localised_mesh_bed.g

@dc42 I confirm that the new binary does fix the issue for me, thank you!

• some way to display strings that are too long for the entire display width. It could be linebreaks, scrolling text...
• string slicing (some way to display a job file name without the 0:/gcodes/)
• time remaining based on slicer. It's already exposed in the object model, but the expressipn to convert [number of seconds] to HH:MM:SS seems to be too long for the menu file system.

Hello,
I've been working on a set of menu files for my printer and now that I have some time I decided to share them.
My files began as a modification of the menu created by @mudcruzr, but some of the files got so different in the end that I decided not to do a pull request (in particular, I created my own icons and removed some options from the main screen that I felt weren't used often enough to warrant beng on the main screen)

The printer this was designed for is a cartesian "bedslinger" with a single extruder, a heated bed and an inductive bed probe (modified Prusa)

Anyway, here's the link, enjoy!
https://github.com/Sidic101/Duet-Maestro-12864-Menu-Files

Here's what I use: https://github.com/gregsaun/maker_cheatsheet/blob/master/3d_printing/techniques.md

@oliof
Sliced for Duet: ringing_tower_0.4n_0.2mm_PLA_MK3.9_9m.gcode
Sliced for Klipper: ringing_tower_0.4n_0.2mm_PLA_MK3.9_7m.gcode

The "alter" feature in the 12864 display menu system, while giving very fine control over the altered value, starts to feel slow and too fine when trying to control things like long axes.
I suggest this could be solved by allowing for negative values of the D parameter. This would make the "alter" element ignore a given number of least significant digits.

For example:
alter D-1 N510 would control the X axis in steps of 10, ignoring the least significant digit
alter D-2 N510 would control the X axis in steps of 100, ignoring the two least significant digits
etc