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Placeholders not working
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:34 pm
by Kike
Hi, I'm trying to use the script
placeholders like:
[travel_speed] and
[toolchange_retract_distance] but they are
not converted to actual values in the
G-Code, as you can see in the pictures I sent.

- Simplify3D Tab

- Simplify3D G-Code
By the way, is there any document with all the available placeholders?
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:27 am
by brian442
Check the sticky at the top of this forum
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1959
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 8:11 am
by Kike
Thanks. Read all of the 6 pages of that post but still no answer.
My only guess is that placeholders like that don't work anymore, which is very bad news, cuz it's something easy implemented and very useful.
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:42 am
by kabali16
yeah, I do not think those variables exist, if they do, they certainly have a different name.
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:04 am
by dkightley
I think the answer to the whole question of placeholders is in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2306&p=9402&hilit=placeholder#p9402
Placeholders only work in the scripts they were designed for....and there doesn't seem to be a list of placeholders and the scripts they work in available for users to reference.
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:21 am
by wirlybird
Probably already covered but I found that placeholders were specific to the printer. So, the "temp" one for one printer was different from another type of printer.
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:05 am
by kabali16
I dont think so. Most commands are generic. When you say printer, are you referring to the gcode flavor ?
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:22 am
by wirlybird
I'll have to go back and look and see if what I found is the same as what you guys are talking about.
Re: Placeholders not working
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:03 pm
by DonStauffer
Surely the layer change script has something like a [layer_number] so you can do something like:
M117 Layer [layer_number]
?