Interesting - do you have any more details. I agree that it will need some sort of slicer or firmware modifications and some careful modelling. But I was thinking it might be possible to just put the mode changes in the tool change Gcode triggered by dummy virtual extruder numbers for some initial demos. To get the full benefit of parallel printing though I agree that ideally the slicer should chunk up the models automatically.
@@dwuk99 it actually doesnt need any firmware modifikations. after all these are just copy mirror or single mode prints. onyl thing you need to do is to tell the printer when wnd where yiu want to print which area and un which mode, thats the diffiult part
@@HelgeKeck Great thanks. I think I can work the mode changes into the tool change gcode either directly with slic3r conditional gcode, or if not via a gcode post processor. I'm finding using virtual extruders is working quite well for my 'simulated' printer. It actually only takes a few minutes to segment up the duplicate or mirror parts of the models either in Fusion or the slicer itself.
i have made this on the VC3.1 IDEX, it works only with heavy slicer modifications unfortunately
Interesting - do you have any more details. I agree that it will need some sort of slicer or firmware modifications and some careful modelling. But I was thinking it might be possible to just put the mode changes in the tool change Gcode triggered by dummy virtual extruder numbers for some initial demos. To get the full benefit of parallel printing though I agree that ideally the slicer should chunk up the models automatically.
@@dwuk99 it actually doesnt need any firmware modifikations. after all these are just copy mirror or single mode prints. onyl thing you need to do is to tell the printer when wnd where yiu want to print which area and un which mode, thats the diffiult part
@@HelgeKeck Great thanks. I think I can work the mode changes into the tool change gcode either directly with slic3r conditional gcode, or if not via a gcode post processor. I'm finding using virtual extruders is working quite well for my 'simulated' printer. It actually only takes a few minutes to segment up the duplicate or mirror parts of the models either in Fusion or the slicer itself.