Simplify3D User Forum

Hi,

For those of us who monitor prints as they are in progress, have you ever wanted to change the printhead movement speed on just the bridging, or just the infill, or just the perimeters, instead of all printhead movement globally?

It would seem that this could be accomplished by adding a new bit of g-gode that basically amounts to a "set speed flag". The slicer would add this code whereever a change occurs, such as going from perimeter, to infill, to support, to bridging etc, then send it along to the firmware accordingly.

If taken further, it would be especially useful if more advanced features with constant values, like Infill outline overlap, could be changed on the fly.

When you have large prints that use up an entire spool in one go, these new abilities become more valuable. I'd be happy to pay a premium for these more professional features

For long prints, I recommend an SD card 100%. Way too many issues that can arise from using a computer, Opening a huge file/playing a video game can lag the print, random updates, screensavers, way too many variables for my liking. You can just do multiple processes using the advanced tab for "Start Printing Height at ___" and "Stop Printing Height at ____" and therefore have different settings for different parts of the print.

Hi KW,

thanks for the suggestion, been meaning to switch to SD, but then, I lose the visual feedback I can get from the computer screen as to what specific nozzle paths are coming next. I like to monitor that whenever I'm printing a new part I haven't printed before. If look at the screen and I can see some bridging is coming up, I like to monitor that, because the same setting that worked for one model doesn't always work for another. If I then find that the bridging is failing a bit, I'd like to be able to slow down or speed just the bridging movements up, ideally for all bridging for then on, leaving all the other non-bridging speeds the same.

This is quite different than setting up multiple processes beforehand and unfortunately that alone wouldn't address my specific issue, though I do appreciate your suggestion and will add SD for prints that I already know work.