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I've finally implemented a solution to my woes with dual extruder temperature
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control in Cura. In any case, I'm now having much more luck with dual
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extrusion and the temperature graphs that can be seen in octoprint look much
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more sensible.
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<p>The problem, as many have suspected, was Cura and GPX disagreeing on which
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"T" (hotend "tool") numbers applied to "M104" / "M109" temperature commands.
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<p>My best understanding of the problem is this:
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<p>Cura thinks that "T#" is modal only when it is the only (first?) thing
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on a line, while GPX thinks that e.g., "M109 T1 S200" contains a modal
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"T1".
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<p>This causes dual extrusion code to send temperature commands to the wrong
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nozzle.
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<p>This script attempts to work around the problem by tracking which "T#" lines
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Cura thinks are modal, and then attaching that "T#" again to any M104/M109
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lines that would require it.
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<p>What seems incomplete about this story is, cura writes extrusions as "E#",
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which should also be moving the "T#" extruder motor. But GPX doesn't start
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extruding T0 with the sequence
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<pre>
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T1
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M104 T0 S175
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G1 F1500 E-0.6 ; retract
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</pre>
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<p>So something's still missing from the explanation.
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<p>The PostProcessingPlugin is released under the terms of the AGPLv3 or higher.
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<p>It works with Ultimaker Cura 4.0, but may not work with other software or
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versions.
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<p>On my Linux system it is installed to
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~/.local/share/cura/4.0/scripts/fixtempcommands.py but your mileage may
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vary. The installation of cura scripts seems a bit underdocumented, or
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at any rate I didn't find the documentation. The location is under one of the two folders opened when you "Help > Show Configuration Folder"
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<p>Having done so, simply enable the script to post-process your gcode in
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"Extensions > Post Processing > Modify G-Code". Just choose the script
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from the "Add a script" dropdown.
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<p><p><b>Files currently attached to this page:</b>
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<table cellpadding=5 style="width:auto!important; clear:none!important"><col><col style="text-align: right"><tr bgcolor=#eeeeee><td><a href="https://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01557352438/fixtempcommands.py">fixtempcommands.py</a></td><td>2.2kB</td></tr></table><p>
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<br><br><font size=-2>Entry first conceived on 8 May 2019, 21:53 UTC, last modified on 6 July 2019, 21:49 UTC</font>
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