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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/31505/#p31505</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Hunter Green wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>My first try at using the @pause technique, very similar to above but at a smaller scale.&nbsp; Making a very gimmicky thing, a 3D-printed business card.&nbsp; Probably the reasons it came out only just sort of okay include that I haven&#039;t yet done a Y-backlash calibration (need to buy a dial indicator) and that I haven&#039;t yet learned how to set up Slic3r settings to adjust flow rate.&nbsp; This also takes forever -- the print is only about 23 minutes, but I spent that much time on switching filament back and forth before and after (takes an age to clear black out to print in white).&nbsp; Still, it looks pretty impressive.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/s720x720/968860_695105770503771_1885230120_n.jpg" alt="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/s720x720/968860_695105770503771_1885230120_n.jpg" /></span></p><p>Sliced at 1mm vertical resolution since this whole thing is about a half-millimeter thick.&nbsp; I figured out using the G-Code Editor&#039;s &quot;Show Layer Range&quot; settings where the layers switch between the solid white background and the raised lettering (just to confirm that it was where I expected based on how thick I&#039;d made the layers).&nbsp; Then by clicking on lines in the gcode I found where layer 4 started, and added &quot;@pause&quot; in just before it did.&nbsp; Printed in white until the pause, then manually controlled the head to move it up and over so I could change filament without the goop ending up on the model -- making careful notes about how much movement so I move back to exactly the same spot.&nbsp; Also changed extruder temp to 205 for black since it prints better.&nbsp; Once I&#039;d run enough black to work out the white, I moved it back to the same spot and resumed printing.&nbsp; Easy-peasy.</p><p>What I ought to be doing, once I know how to make Slic3r settings perfectly adapted to each filament, is slice it separately with each settings, then use a text editor to merge the relevant bits of the two gcodes produced with a @pause in between them.&nbsp; After I learn enough to be able to understand the articles about calibrating the extruder and flow rates, I&#039;ll have to try that.</p><p>By way of contrast, here&#039;s the one-color version.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/1000222_695093997171615_426481657_n.jpg" alt="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/1000222_695093997171615_426481657_n.jpg" /></span></p><p>(The discoloration here just shows I didn&#039;t clean off some of the green from the outside of my extruder before doing this print, but it&#039;s okay, it was just a test run.)</p></blockquote></div><p>Great print</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Looks good! Just try not to burn through them too quick at 20+ minutes each!</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Charles_Xavier)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/31424/#p31424</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, good thing to know -- I assumed it didn&#039;t, but I didn&#039;t actually test it.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Hunter Green)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>The great thing about @pause is RH remembers where you were.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to keep track of your movements, it will return automatically.&nbsp; Just don&#039;t bump an endstop along the way.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (IanJohnson)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/31418/#p31418</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>My first try at using the @pause technique, very similar to above but at a smaller scale.&nbsp; Making a very gimmicky thing, a 3D-printed business card.&nbsp; Probably the reasons it came out only just sort of okay include that I haven&#039;t yet done a Y-backlash calibration (need to buy a dial indicator) and that I haven&#039;t yet learned how to set up Slic3r settings to adjust flow rate.&nbsp; This also takes forever -- the print is only about 23 minutes, but I spent that much time on switching filament back and forth before and after (takes an age to clear black out to print in white).&nbsp; Still, it looks pretty impressive.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/s720x720/968860_695105770503771_1885230120_n.jpg" alt="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/q71/s720x720/968860_695105770503771_1885230120_n.jpg" /></span></p><p>Sliced at 1mm vertical resolution since this whole thing is about a half-millimeter thick.&nbsp; I figured out using the G-Code Editor&#039;s &quot;Show Layer Range&quot; settings where the layers switch between the solid white background and the raised lettering (just to confirm that it was where I expected based on how thick I&#039;d made the layers).&nbsp; Then by clicking on lines in the gcode I found where layer 4 started, and added &quot;@pause&quot; in just before it did.&nbsp; Printed in white until the pause, then manually controlled the head to move it up and over so I could change filament without the goop ending up on the model -- making careful notes about how much movement so I move back to exactly the same spot.&nbsp; Also changed extruder temp to 205 for black since it prints better.&nbsp; Once I&#039;d run enough black to work out the white, I moved it back to the same spot and resumed printing.&nbsp; Easy-peasy.</p><p>What I ought to be doing, once I know how to make Slic3r settings perfectly adapted to each filament, is slice it separately with each settings, then use a text editor to merge the relevant bits of the two gcodes produced with a @pause in between them.&nbsp; After I learn enough to be able to understand the articles about calibrating the extruder and flow rates, I&#039;ll have to try that.</p><p>By way of contrast, here&#039;s the one-color version.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/1000222_695093997171615_426481657_n.jpg" alt="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/1000222_695093997171615_426481657_n.jpg" /></span></p><p>(The discoloration here just shows I didn&#039;t clean off some of the green from the outside of my extruder before doing this print, but it&#039;s okay, it was just a test run.)</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Hunter Green)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23246/#p23246</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>np <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (nlancaster)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>nlancaster,now I got it&nbsp; lol , I was using upper case pause.Thanks for all your help.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (satman49)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is a sample of the code I use to print my signs like the PDXLan one above.&nbsp; The @pause, pauses the printer.&nbsp; And the Gcode editor tab on the &quot;run at pause&quot; drop down executes G1 X203 Z40. And the @pause pops up the big &quot;continue printing&quot; box at which point I change out the filament and then continue the print.&nbsp; I use kisslicer most of the time, and it inserts the comentext text &quot;; BEGIN_LAYER_OBJECT z=2.10&quot; or some such and that is what I use to find the point at which to change filaments.</p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>; BEGIN_LAYER_OBJECT z=2.10
; fan on
M106
@pause
;
; &#039;Loop&#039;, 2.5 [feed mm/s], 49.0 [head mm/s]
G1 X189.08 Y173.96 Z2.6 E0 F4800</code></pre></div>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23149/#p23149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>OK am understanding a bit more, but does the @pause command supposed to pause the print automatically when it reaches the @pause line?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (satman49)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23129/#p23129</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Like the prints on the link. Thanks for the how to as well. Been wanting to try this. Thanks!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23065/#p23065</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>@pause goes into the code at the point/layer you want to pause the print to change the filament.&nbsp; The G1 X203 Z40 was intereted into the area in the gcode editor under the drop down &quot;run on pause&quot;&nbsp; that makes it so the only thing you have to add to your gcode is @pause. Also executes teh X and Z move when you manually press the pause button.</p><p>If you were to add all the code into the gcode it would look like this.</p><p>G1 X203 Z40<br />@pause</p><p>The @pause has to come after the move you command.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23055/#p23055</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>I guess I am not quite understanding. Do you actually put&nbsp; @pause in the gcode then next line G1 X203 Z40.&nbsp; The &quot;@pause command &quot; is the issue. Where in the gcode does it go?</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23048/#p23048</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Satman I setup my repetier to do a G1 X203 Z40 after an @pause command.&nbsp; Then I just change and purge the filament and hit, Continue print.&nbsp; Been making money doing custom printing name plaques for some people that go to PDXLan you can check them out here.</p><p><a href="http://www.pdxlan.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17242">http://www.pdxlan.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17242</a></p><p>All the money generated from those sales is going to go into building/buying a even better 3d printer <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (nlancaster)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Color changing process midprint and weird happenings]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23045/#p23045</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Just add&nbsp; &quot;@pause&quot;? Any thing after pause?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (satman49)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/23032/#p23032</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>You would have to do something like that that if they were two different files, or not using Repetier.&nbsp; It is far easier to combine them into a single STL and insert the @pause command into the gcode at the layer where the color changes and then resume after you have swapped filaments and purged the old color.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (IanJohnson)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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