At one point, I had 11 Roboxes in our lab. I noticed that the ingenious ability to control multiple printers from within Automaker doesn’t work reliably/is kind of quirky. Perhaps this feature is still WIP.
Purge or calibration blocks control of the rest
It’s currently impossible to control multiple Roboxes if one Purge or Calibration is going on. One can click on another Robox, but nothing happens and instead one gets forced to attend the calibration at all times. If one has to control or calibrate multiple printers, one is wasting a serious amount of time, waiting for all the heating up and cooling down of bed, chamber and nozzles, whereas one could initiate purges, calibration steps or send print jobs to other printers meanwhile instead.
Unfortunately its also not possible to temporarily disconnect a Robox during Purge or Calibration (in both cases the process would fail), otherwise one could separate a Robox temporarily from the rest.
I do understand that the heated filament probably should stay forever in the hot nozzle, but I'd say if the respective Robox’s icon (and perhaps also its ambient LED) would blink to grab the user’s attention if action is needed, the risk of damage is virtually non-existing.
At one point, I had 11 Roboxes in our lab. I noticed that the ingenious ability to control multiple printers from within Automaker doesn’t work reliably/is kind of quirky. Perhaps this feature is still WIP.
Purge or calibration blocks control of the rest
It’s currently impossible to control multiple Roboxes if one Purge or Calibration is going on. One can click on another Robox, but nothing happens and instead one gets forced to attend the calibration at all times. If one has to control or calibrate multiple printers, one is wasting a serious amount of time, waiting for all the heating up and cooling down of bed, chamber and nozzles, whereas one could initiate purges, calibration steps or send print jobs to other printers meanwhile instead.
Unfortunately its also not possible to temporarily disconnect a Robox during Purge or Calibration (in both cases the process would fail), otherwise one could separate a Robox temporarily from the rest.
I do understand that the heated filament probably should stay forever in the hot nozzle, but I'd say if the respective Robox’s icon (and perhaps also its ambient LED) would blink to grab the user’s attention if action is needed, the risk of damage is virtually non-existing.