Simplify3D User Forum

I'm new to S3d so there may be a way to do this already but if not, here's the request.

When you hit the print button, both the heat bed and hotend begin heating up. Usually the heat bed takes a lot longer to heat up so the entire time the hotend sits there cooking the filament. It would be great to be able to stagger the preheat based upon the heat bed temp.

For example, Set S3d so that it doesn't begin heating up the hotend until the heat bed reaches "X" temperature.

This setting would only apply if there is a temperature set for the heat bed. If the heat bed is set to zero, then the hotend would begin heating up immediately.

You can change the order of how it heats up by just adjusting the order of the commands in your starting script. For example, if you move the M190 line in front of the M109 line, then it will wait for the bed temperature to be reached before starting to heat the extruders so that they don't sit there and cook for too long

That's a good tip. Seems like it would be nice to have a UI where you can simply enter the bed temp to trigger the hotend heatup rather than having to go into the Gcode to make changes, IMO.

I don't like using the "wait for temperature to stabilize" bit at all. I uncheck that in my settings. I use the Machine Control Panel to heat up my bed and hotends.

Just use the Machine Control Panel to turn the bed heater on.

I do that now. I'm looking for a way to press the print button and then walk away and know that the hotend won't start heating up until the bed is within say 10 degrees of it's target.