Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations
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Hi,
Normally I invoke PRINT_BEGIN.g and PRINT_END.g from within the slicer using whatever feature the slicer provides.
START.g was called before the call to PRINT_BEGIN.g. That seems to happen automatically without any action on part of Simply3D (S3D).
PRINT_BEGIN.g was called because I invoked it within S3D in the "Starting Script" option on the "Scripts" tab.
STOP.g was not called at all. It seems the slicer must insert a M0 command at the end of the print to invoke STOP.g.
PRINT_END.g was called because I invoked it within S3D in the "Ending Script" option on the "Scripts" tab.
Since I want a "end of print" macro to execute, without a way to force the slicer to include M0 at the end I will stick with the "Script" options and invoke PRINT_BEGIN.g and PRINT_END.g
If would be nice if START.g and STOP.g would execute without any action on the part of the slicer. Then I could dispense with insuring the slicer invokes PRINT_BEGIN.g and PRINT_END.g
Frederick
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@fcwilt I understand, thanks!
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there is also this overview https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Macros#Section_System_Macros
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@bearer said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
there is also this overview https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Macros#Section_System_Macros
Thanks - I had not seen that.
Frederick
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I use start.g for general print prep. Homing, preheat. Then it passes off to the slicer for setting the temps for the print. Then in the slicer start gcode section it calls a macro to print a prime line and then start the print. I do it this way so that the prime line is printed at the right temp for the material being used.
The slicer end gcode just contains M0 and then stop.g has all of the actual end of print commands.
I kind of wish there was just an end.g that could take the place of M0 -> stop.g
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@Phaedrux said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
Then it passes off to the slicer for setting the temps for the print.
As you may have noticed in my print_begin.g macro I rely on the filament feature to set bed/filament temps.
I do wait for the temps to be reached before starting to print. I don't know what a "prime line" is - I just print a 2 line skirt so I can watch to see how the first layer is going down and adjust baby-stepping or abort, as needed.
Frederick
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@fcwilt said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
"prime line"
In my case:
;M98 P"0:/sys/PrimeNozzle.g" G90 ; Absolute positioning G1 X1 Y270 F6000 ; Move to rear left corner M400 ; clear movement buffer M116 ; Wait for temps G1 Z0.3 F100 ; Move Z to prime height G91 ; Relative positioning M83 ; Relative extrusion G1 X40 E10 F300 ; Prime nozzle G10 ; Retract G1 Y-1 X1 F10000 ; Wipe nozzle M400And start.g since we're being transparent.
M106 P2 F30000 S0.5 H-1 C"Duet Fans" M140 S65 ; set heated bed to 65 and release T0 ; Select Tool 0 M291 P"Print Started. Preheating and Homing." T10 G4 S1 M98 P"0:/macros/Musical Tunes/LuckyTune.g" ; Lucky tune to start print off on the right foot G4 S1 M220 S100 ; Set speed factor back to 100% in case it was changed M221 S100 ; Set extrusion factor back to 100% in case it was changed M290 R0 S0 ; clear babystepping M106 S0 ; Turn part cooling blower off if it is on G10 P0 R0 S80 ; Set extruder to 80 and release M190 S65 ; set heated bed to 65 and wait G28 ; home XYZ G29 S1 ; load heightmap M400 G10 P0 R80 S180 ; Set extruder to 180 and release M98 P"0:/sys/ZSpeedsPrint.g" ; Load Z speeds for printing M98 P"0:/sys/CurrentsPrint.g" ; Load print motor currents ; Slicer Start Gcode begins.and stop.g for the hell of it.
; stop.g ; called when M0 (Stop) is run (e.g. when a print from SD card is cancelled) ; Also called by slicer end gcode by M0 ; M400 ; Finish move queue M104 S0 ; Extruder heater off M140 S0 ; Bed heater off M106 S255 ; Fan at 100 to cool nozzle and bed G91 ; Relative positioning M220 S100 ; Set speed factor back to 100% in case it was changed M221 S100 ; Set extrusion factor back to 100% in case it was changed G1 E-2 F9000 ; Retract filament 2mm G1 X5 Y5 F9000 ; Wipe nozzle G1 Z20 F500 ; raise nozzle 5mm from printed part G90 ; absolute positioning G1 X150 Y130 F6000 ; Move x and Y axis over to bed center so probe is on top of bed ;M104 S35 ; Set hot end low and wait G4 S60 ; Wait 5 minutes ;M116 ; wait for temp to drop G28 X Y ; Home X and Y G28 X Y ; Home it again, Sam. M290 R0 S0 ; clear babystepping M84 ; Steppers off M98 P"ZSpeedsNormal.g" ; Load normal z speed settings again. M106 S0 ; Fan off M106 P2 F30000 L0.1 X0.8 B0.5 T35:70 H100:101:102 C"Duet Fans" ;Play a little beep beep beep to show print ended. M400 ; Clear queue again before jingle G4 S1 M300 P250 S750 G4 P251 M300 P200 S1250 G4 P201 M300 P250 S750 G4 P251 M300 P200 S1250 G4 P201 M300 P250 S2500 G4 P251 M300 P150 S2000 G4 P151 M300 P150 S2500 G4 P151 M300 P350 S3700 G4 P351 -
@Phaedrux Thanks for sharing. Do you use filament/config.g or just use slicer start code?
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@Kolbi said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
@Phaedrux Thanks for sharing. Do you use filament/config.g or just use slicer start code?
I haven't used the filaments function for a long time. I use prusa slicer and cura interchangeably. I use prusa slicer for the filaments library and refer to it when I'm setting up a print in Cura.
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@Phaedrux As of thus far, me too. For some reason, it feels a bit to foreign to me to offload stuff from the slicer's start and end code spots. I do plan to slowly start migrating stuff over but only after I have everything else on point.
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@Phaedrux For prime line I made a crude random(ish) number generator to not get a 'prime line gutter' on my plates. It gives a numeric swing of 9 to -9.
floor(10*(cos(sqrt(sensors.analog[0].lastReading * state.upTime))))So for the prime line, it would be (using Y as an example / with a .1mm randomness, targeted at -2):
Before: G1 X0 Z0.6 Y-3.0 F3000.0; After: G1 X0 Z0.6 Y{-2+(0.1*(floor(10*(cos(sqrt(sensors.analog[0].lastReading * state.upTime))))))} F3000.0;So my use is to have the M98 P"0:/sys/PrimeLine.g" called after temps are set and obtained by the slicer's gcode.
;M98 P"0:/sys/PrimeLine.g" ;This sets up the prime to be initiated at a 'randomized' Y positon from -1.1 to -2.9 G1 X0 Z0.6 Y{-2+(0.1*(floor(10*(cos(sqrt(sensors.analog[0].lastReading * state.upTime))))))} F3000.0; G92 E0.0 G1 Z0.2 X100.0 E30.0 F1000.0 ; prime line G92 E0.0 -
@Kolbi said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
For some reason, it feels a bit to foreign to me to offload stuff from the slicer's start and end code spots.
My goal was to have as little filament related items (like temps) in the slicer since I hoped to avoid going back to the slicer to generate a new gcode file just to change a temp.
So far that approach is working for me.
YMMV.
Good luck.
Frederick
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@fcwilt That is my eventual goal also, but because from within the slicer - I use inner-slicer variables, that portion would get somewhat lost?
I'm slowly brain-storming different ways to skin-the-cat, but as of this moment, it feels like I happen to be dealing with skinning Schrödinger's cat. -
@Kolbi said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
@fcwilt I use inner-slicer variables, that portion would get somewhat lost?
I have not found that to be a problem - yet. What variables do you use?
I'm slowly brain-storming different ways to skin-the-cat, but as of this moment, it feels like I happen to be dealing with skinning Schrödinger's cat.
Hard to skin a cat that won't stay in one place.
Frederick
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@fcwilt said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
What variables do you use
Mostly the temps for hotend and bed.
While I do use the filament option in duet/dwc to get me to the overall-generic temp for the chosen/loaded filament type, I still use the slicer to vary the temps for each different brand/batch of the filament within the choose type range. I'll most likely use the start.g script to do most of the setup and prime line, then the slicer start-gcode could bring the temps to the exact settings, and then start printing. This would simplify switch between slicers and give a one-stop-shop to adjust the starting sequence as needed.Cheers,
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Thanks for the info.
I make an filament entry in the DWC for each filament brand/kind/color that I find needs different settings. Currently the settings that I control in the config file for each filament are the temps and the extrusion multiplier.
My goal was to allow using different slicers with as little duplication as possible by moving what I can to the Duet.
In the three slicers I use they each call two macros "print_begin.g" and "print_end.g"
I tried using start.g but it is called before the slicers set temps whereas the locations in the slicer to call "print_begin.g" happen just before the gcode that actually prints the object. So my filament config files get to override any slicer temp settings.
Frederick
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@fcwilt All makes sense. I guess it just goes back to cats, preference to work-flow, and ingrained habit.
Cheers,
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@Kolbi said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
@fcwilt All makes sense. I guess it just goes back to cats, preference to work-flow, and ingrained habit.
Cheers,
KolbiI'm a dog person myself. They don't insist on hiding their location.
Frederick
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@fcwilt Me too - that's why I only talk about skinning cats
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@fcwilt , @Phaedrux , @bearer
During the day's events, I thought of the above conversations and formulated and blend of both ways (dwc/slicer stop/stop gcodes) to handle filament specific settings. I just made the following setups - all is working very well. It is very basic/generic but will grow from here.
Let me know any thoughts./sys/start.g:
; 0:/sys/start.g ; Executed before each print - BEFORE ANY SLICER CODE IS RAN ; This also loads the heightmap from the system's set filament type directory ; (0:/filaments/XXXX/heightmap.csv), if the heightmap does not exist, it will ; create one, and then save in the filament's directory. The HotMesh macro is ; a better choice to generate the heightmap as it performs a heat stabilization ; routine for ~5 minutes. M122 ; Clear diagnostic data to cleanly capture print evolution statistics. T0 ; Ensure the tool is selected. M280 P0 S160 ; BLTouch, alarm release. G4 P100 ; BLTouch, delay for the release command. M572 D0 S0.0 ; Clear pressure advance. M220 S100 ; Set speed factor back to 100% in case it was changed. M221 S100 ; Set extrusion factor back to 100% in case it was changed. M290 R0 S0 ; Clear any baby-stepping. M106 S0 ; Turn part cooling blower off if it is on. M703 ; Execute loaded filament's config.g. G28 ; Home all. ;G1 Z5 X100 Y100 ; [PINDA] Place nozzle center of the bed, 5mm up. G1 Z160 F300 ; [BLTouch] Last chance to check nozzle cleanliness. M300 S4000 P100 G4 P200 M300 S4000 P100 ; Give a double beep. M116 ; Wait for all temperatures. M300 S4000 P100 ; Give a single beep. ; [BLTouch] Start countdown - use Z as indicator G91 ; [BLTouch] Set to Relative Positioning. while iterations <=9 ; [BLTouch] Perform 10 passes. G4 S12 ; [BLTouch] Wait 12 seconds. G1 Z-15 F300 ; [BLTouch] Move Z 15mm down. G90 ; [BLTouch] Set to Absolute Positioning. ;G4 S120 ; [PINDA] wait an additional 2 minutes for the bed to stabilize. G32 ; Level the gantry. G29 S1 [P{"0:/filaments/" ^ move.extruders[0].filament ^ "/heightmap.csv"}] ; Load bed mesh for the system's set filament type. if result > 1 ; If the file doesn't exist, perform mesh and save. G29 ; Perform mesh now. G29 S3 [P{"0:/filaments/" ^ move.extruders[0].filament ^ "/heightmap.csv"}] ; Save heightmap.csv to filament type's directory. M400 ; Finish all moves, clear the buffer. G90 ; Absolute Positioning. M83 ; Extruder relative mode. M98 P"0:/sys/current-sense-normal.g" ; Ensure that motor currents and sense are set for printing. G1 X0 Y0 F800 ; Final position before slicer's temp is reached and primeline is printed. G1 Z2 F300 ; Final position before slicer's temp is reached and primeline is printed. ; The primeline macro is executed by the slicer gcode to enable direct printing. ; of the primeline at the objects temp and to immediately print the object. ; following primeline completion. ; Slicer generated gcode takes it away from here./filaments/PETG/config.g
M300 S1000 P200 G4 P500 M300 S3000 P300 ; play some tones M140 S75 ; set bed temp M104 S150 ; set extruder warm-up temp ; active temp set from slicer gcode ; Insert additional filament specific settings hereideaMaker Start GCode:
; ideaMaker Start G-Code ; Layer height={layer_height} ; Pass layer height information to DWC ; Set nozzle and bed to the specific temperatures declared within this slicer M140 S{temperature_heatbed} ; Set bed temp M104 S{temperature_extruder1} ; Set extruder temp M116 ; Wait for all temperatures ; Run macro to print primeline at a 'randomized' Y position from -1.1 to -2.9 M98 P"0:/sys/primeLine.g" ; Primeline macro ; Set pressure advance M572 D0 S0.07 ; Set pressure advance/sys/primeline.g:
; 0:/sys/primeline.g ; Print prime-line at a 'randomized' Y position from -1.1 to -2.9 ; Charge! tune M400 ; Finish all moves, clear the buffer. G4 S1 M300 P200 S523.25 G4 P200 M300 P200 S659.25 G4 P200 M300 P200 S739.99 G4 P250 M300 P285 S880.00 G4 P450 M300 P285 S880.00 G4 P285 M300 P625 S1108.73 G4 S1 M400 G1 X0 Z0.6 Y{-2+(0.1*(floor(10*(cos(sqrt(sensors.analog[0].lastReading * state.upTime))))))} F3000.0; G92 E0.0 ; Reset the extrusion distance. G1 E8 ; Purge Bubble. G1 X60.0 E11.0 F1000.0 ; Intro line part 1. G1 X120.0 E16.0 F1000.0 ; Intro line part 2. G1 X122.0 F1000.0 ; Wipe 2mm of filament. G92 E0.0 ; Reset the extrusion distance. M400 ; Finish all moves, clear the buffer.ideaMaker/S3D/PS End GCode:
; ideaMaker End G-Code M400 ; Make sure all moves are complete M0 ; Stop everything and run sys/stop.g/sys/stop.g:
; 0:/sys/stop.g ; Called when M0 (Stop) is run (e.g. when a print from SD card is canceled) M83 ; Set extruder to relative mode. M106 S255 ; Turn the part cooling fan fully on. M572 D0 S0.0 ; Clear pressure advance. M220 S100 ; Set the speed factor back to 100% incase it was changed. M221 S100 ; Set the extrusion factor back to 100% incase it was changed. G1 E-2 ; Retract 2mm of filament. M104 S-273 ; Turn off the hotend. M140 S-273 ; Turn off the heatbed. G1 F1000.0 ; Set feed rate. M98 P"current-sense-homing.g" ; Adjust the current and sensitivity for homing routines. ; Let cool and wiggle for bit to reduce end stringing M300 S4000 P100 G4 P200 M300 S4000 P100 ; Give a double beep. G91 ; Set to Relative Positioning. G1 Z2 F400 ; Move Z axis up 3mm. ; Start countdown - use X/Y as indicators of counting while iterations <=9 ; Perform 10 passes. G4 S6 ; Wait 6 seconds. G1 X1 Y1 F1000 ; Wiggle +1mm. G4 S6 ; Wait 6 seconds. G1 Z0.5 X-1 Y-1 F1000 ; Wiggle -1mm, Z +0.5. G90 ; Set to Absolute Positioning. G1 X220 Y205 Z205 F400 ; Place nozzle to the right side, build plate to front, Z at top. M400 ; Finish all moves, clear the buffer. M107 ; Turn off the part cooling fan. M18 YXE ; Unlock the X, Y, and E axis. ; Play a triumphant tune to celebrate a successful print. G4 S1 M300 P250 S750 G4 P251 M300 P200 S1250 G4 P201 M300 P250 S750 G4 P251 M300 P200 S1250 G4 P201 M300 P250 S2500 G4 P251 M300 P150 S2000 G4 P151 M300 P150 S2500 G4 P151 M300 P350 S3700 G4 P351 M400 ; Finish all moves, clear the buffer.Simplify3D Start GCode:
; Simplify3D Start G-Code ; Set nozzle and bed to the specific temperatures declared within this slicer M140 S[bed0_temperature] ; set bed temp M104 S[extruder0_temperature] ; set extruder temp M116 ; wait for all temperatures ; Run macro to print primeline at a 'randomized' Y positon from -1.1 to -2.9 M98 P"0:/sys/primeLine.g" ; primeline macro ; Set pressure advance M572 D0 S0.07 ; set pressure advancePrusaSlicer Start GCode:
; PrusaSlicer Start G-Code: ; Set nozzle and bed to the specific temperatures declared within this slicer M140 S[first_layer_bed_temperature] ; set bed temp M104 S[first_layer_temperature] ; set extruder temp M116 ; wait for all temperatures ; Run macro to print primeline at a 'randomized' Y positon from -1.1 to -2.9 M98 P"0:/sys/primeLine.g" ; primeline macro ; Set pressure advance M572 D0 S0.07 ; set pressure advanceCheers,
Kolbi
