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Topic: Heat bed temp adjustment during print

I'm no g-code writer. But I was looking for way for to reduce my heat bead temp during printing. I'm finding that after reducing my heat bed temp from 70 to 55 (after about 3% of printing), i'm getting better results. I get no corner curl if I can dry the base layer during print. The fan works fine, but only for the current layer.


M140 S0                     ;heated bed heater off (my current setting)

anyone know how to reduce heat bed temp during print, at a certain percentage (say 3%) of completed print. Then repeat, to reduce again, say at 30% ??

Right now I can use my tuning control to reduce, but I cant leave it..like overnight.

Thanks

2 (edited by grob 2015-06-19 03:49:35)

Re: Heat bed temp adjustment during print

Not automatically, to my knowledge. I'd suggest the following for now:

In slic3r printer configuration, add this to the "before layer change gcode":

; before layer [layer_num]

This will print the layer number, as a comment, between each layer in the gcode, so you can find them clearly.
(You could search for "G1 Z2.0" or similar, but this may not be what you expect depending on layer height settings, offsets, autolevelling adjustments, etc.)

You will know from the preview (in RH, etc) what the layer count will be (I think it prints in the end of the file somewhere too...), so you can calculate approximately which layer number is about 3% or 30% through the print - e.g. 3% through a 200-layer print is about layer 6, right?

Now doing it manually is not too hard for the odd tricky long print - search through the exported gcode (in repetier host you could just do it in the viewer, and even if you don't save it to a file it should run as-written when you press print) for the layer you want to change the temp at, and insert the appropriate "M140 S55" etc. gcode as needed.

If you are handy with some kind of scripting language, you could create a post-processing script that does the above, and slic3r can be configured to run the gcode through it - I guess from your description of not being a 'g-code writer' this is probably a bit of a long shot! Maybe something fun to muck around with though. smile

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3 (edited by carl_m1968 2015-06-19 04:09:00)

Re: Heat bed temp adjustment during print

The only way I know of short of injecting the lines yourself would be to buy Simplify3d it allows you to set temps for both the head and the bed for every layer in the print if you where so inclined or at certain percentages. It will set you back 150 bucks, but so far it has been able to print things all my other slicers have failed me on.

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