Idexx printing two separate items

wdenker

o_lampe

@wdenker said in Idexx printing two separate items:

splitting the one object in half so that really I'm printing one thing and just doing half on each head.

You'd need to define a collison zone or have a clever slicer to avoid 'headbanging'

MaracMB

@dc42 is there a rough timeline when this parallel printing ability will become a reality or ready for testing for us mortals?

dc42

@maracmb said in Idexx printing two separate items:

@dc42 is there a rough timeline when this parallel printing ability will become a reality or ready for testing for us mortals?

Possibly in firmware 3.4 but more likely in 3.5. It won't be supported on older Duets due to lack of RAM.

wdenker

@dc42 if you need someone to test and help I can.

wdenker

@dc42 how close are we on 3.5? Anything I can do to help that along?

wdenker

@dc42 Any update on the parallel printing? 3.4 possible or still more likely 3.5?

o_lampe

@wdenker I've posted a demo video of a hashPrinter doing two different things at once, but I wrote the script myself.
I noticed, there is a huge pile of problems to solve, before we can simply choose two gcode files and print them together.

wdenker

@o_lampe how hard is it to use your script? Would you share?

o_lampe

@wdenker There is no post processing script. I simply took two short gcode files (generated with sandify) with roughly the same amount of moves and cobbled them together.
TwoTools.gcode