M73 commands?

[palloquin]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my head around progress and print time prediction. I've found that there is such a thing as the M73 command in gCode. It might not be supported by many printers according to http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code#M73:_Set_build_percentage but it exists.

Search the forum I find loads of posts that have gcode with the M73 command, which makes me think Simplify3D supports it in some way, is that correct?

If so, why might it not be showing up in my gcodes? do I need to enable a setting? is it enabled through the printer profile somehow?

Cheers!

[DarthRevan]

What printer do you have? It clearly lists on that page that this command is exclusively for use in Makerbot firmwares.

[arhi]

it can be actually supported by number of firmwares, for e.g. to enable M73 in marlin in Configuration_adv.h enable LCD_SET_PROGRESS_MANUALLY:

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// Add an 'M73' G-code to set the current percentage
#define LCD_SET_PROGRESS_MANUALLY