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Retract Extruder When Done Printing

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:08 pm
by tpete61
Does anyone have a idea for a good simple macro to retract the extruder head from a riprap style printer when the print is finished. It appears simplify 3d is always stopping directly on top of my print when finished and damaging it!
I'm thinking there is a G-Code string that can tell it to retract the extruder head Z-Axis or something similar.

Re: Retract Extruder When Done Printing

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:05 am
by JoeJ
If you want to lower the print bed after the print completes, add the following line to your ending gcode script
G1 Zxxx F3000 (where xxx is your maximum Z-height)

Although a simpler method might just be to home the X-axis
G28 X0