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drllama
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Filament change on every print?

I'm puzzled. On every print, I see the following happen:

  1. Bed probing, that's fine
  2. Purge line, that's also fine
  3. Immediate filament change, huh?
  4. printing normally after reloading the same filament.

Any idea what's causing #3? Is there a setting I should have to avoid that? It seems very strange that immediately after the purge line, the head pops up and unloads the filament, prompting for a filament change?

Puzzled!

Best Answer by drllama:

I found a solution. Looking at the gcode, I saw an M600 command (filament change) early in the file.

Switching to PrusaSlicer 2.6.1-rc1, the same profiles, the gcode no longer has the M600, so it seems that this has been fixed in 2.6.1!

Cheers,
Bruce.

Posted : 30/08/2023 9:23 pm
drllama
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Filament change on every print?

Worth noting, I'm using PrusaSlicer 2.6.0 with the Mk4 profile, only thing I've changed is to use Gyroid infill.

Posted : 30/08/2023 9:30 pm
Antonio
(@antonio)
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RE: Filament change on every print?

weird!
Have you tried to re-run the fil.sensor calibration?

I'm not an expert. Ma parlo anche italiano 😉

Posted : 31/08/2023 10:34 am
drllama
(@drllama)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Filament change on every print?

I found a solution. Looking at the gcode, I saw an M600 command (filament change) early in the file.

Switching to PrusaSlicer 2.6.1-rc1, the same profiles, the gcode no longer has the M600, so it seems that this has been fixed in 2.6.1!

Cheers,
Bruce.

Posted : 31/08/2023 2:08 pm
Ckobar
(@ckobar)
Trusted Member
RE: Filament change on every print?

Hi, drllama, did you manage to change the standard infill in systems settings.  If so, how did you do that ?

thank you

Posted by: @drllama

I found a solution. Looking at the gcode, I saw an M600 command (filament change) early in the file.

Switching to PrusaSlicer 2.6.1-rc1, the same profiles, the gcode no longer has the M600, so it seems that this has been fixed in 2.6.1!

Cheers,
Bruce.

 

Posted : 14/09/2023 11:43 am
drllama
(@drllama)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Filament change on every print?

Updating to the newer version of PrusaSlicer was all I did in the end. Apparently it was a bug in the slicer...

Posted : 19/09/2023 6:36 pm
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