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Documentation suggestion #240

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hazymat opened this issue Oct 20, 2023 · 0 comments
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Documentation suggestion #240

hazymat opened this issue Oct 20, 2023 · 0 comments

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hazymat commented Oct 20, 2023

Hi - forgive me if this is not the correct place to write this; I checked the (otherwise excellent) docs but couldn't see where to contribute in this respect.

My request is this: can you make it more clear in the "getting started" section how the "bed clearing" works by default? I know now having played / tested but might be good to make it clearer to others.

  1. Change "Inspect finished prints" section to make it clear that, depending on the printer profile, it will just wait for user input once the file has finished and when it's waiting for the next". i.e. don't worry, it's not going to do something nuts with your printer like use the nozzle to push the item off the print bed (which is what I initially thought - reasons below)

  2. Also add that you need to resume print from Octoprint (not from the printer itself)

I'm sure both of these seem very obvious to existing users, but for me it wasn't so obvious.

I'll explain why it wasn't clear to me: I read on the Octoprint plugin details "Use with a Gcode at the end to sweep the old print off the bed in preparation for the new" and I initially assumed this plugin wasn't for me, as I don't think my Prusa MK3S has this feature (also sounds way dangerous, at least that's what I initially thought). Then I read somewhere else - not sure where - that you could set the plugin up so that it pauses instead of attempts to clear the bed.

But I couldn't see anywhere in the docs how to enable this "pause" function. (Ok now I know, when you select the printer profile MK3S, it will automatically pause and not attempt to do something nuts to my 3D printer, but that wasn't my initial assumption.)

(p.s. if there is any way to be able to get my printer to show "resume print" e.g. in the gcode, that would very much suit my use case.)

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