Continuing a stopped print?

[GOHO]

HI, In the middle of a long print last night , my extruder stopped extruding but the printer continued the motions. So my question is,

Can I back up and start the print where the print stopped? Would save my 8 hours of printing if I could?

[RichWebb]

Possibly. Look in the tutorial section for the topic "Different Settings for Different Regions of a Model" for more discussion but essentially you would edit the process settings in the Advanced tab to "start printing at height," where the height matches where your print left off. Could be kind of tricky to get just right but it's worth trying.

Note that you should turn off rafts and skirts in a process that starts, as this one would, up above the build plate.

[dennisjm]

You'd have to modify your start code as well I imagine. Want to make sure your start routing doesn't run the print heads through the print or something like that.

Have you tried it yet? I'm curious if this turns out for you.

[KeyboardWarrior]

You'd have to modify your start code as well I imagine. Want to make sure your start routing doesn't run the print heads through the print or something like that.

Have you tried it yet? I'm curious if this turns out for you.

Yep, you definitely would, otherwise the printer would home right away(G28) and ruin your print. You could go into the Scripts tab of your process and change the starting Gcode though.

[jimc]

i would definitely not try to continue printing onto the part itself. remove the part and figure where it stopped and either slice off the missing piece in you cad software and bring it in and print that part then glue the pieces together. you can also just drop the model in s3d down so the part thats already printed is blow the print bed. it will only print what is above the bed. if you try and continue printing where it is now you will never get that daed nuts on the money. if you are off even by one layer then your not going to have adhesion and the model will be weak and break right there.