How to hide/show IDEX special modes only when used

oliof

Configuring an IDEX printer with copy/mirror mode as tools 2/3 adds a lot of redundant info for single/dual extruder prints.

Hence my question: Barring rebooting woth different annoying-to-sync config files, what would be the right way to

not show copy / mirror mode unless "activated" somehow
hide the individual tool displays when copy or mirror mode are "activated"

all the while keeping tool assignments consistent, so I dont need to juggle t* macros.

T3P3Tony

@oliof i think it should work to have a macro that unmaps the unwanted tools and the creates the wanted tool/s.

So something like :

M564 P1 D-1 H-1
M564 P2 D-1 H-1
M564 P0 D0:1 H1:2 X0:3 F0:3

and then similar ones to unmap tool 0 and create tool 1 etc.

sebkritikel

@T3P3Tony said in How to hide/show IDEX special modes only when used:

@oliof i think it should work to have a macro that unmaps the unwanted tools and the creates the wanted tool/s.

So something like :

M564 P1 D-1 H-1
M564 P2 D-1 H-1
M564 P0 D0:1 H1:2 X0:3 F0:3

and then similar ones to unmap tool 0 and create tool 1 etc.

This approach makes sense to me. I’d be sure to write it in such a way that it could be called at the start of a print job, or in a stand alone fashion (if I needed to or wanted to enable a mirror or duplication mode for some manual tuning or whatnot).

oliof

@T3P3Tony thanks, I will give it a whirl and share something here.
@sebkritikel that is the plan, get "toolmode" from slicer or prompt for it in start.g using the new M291 method, and then swap things around.