I just finished setting up a CoPrint multi-material head and setup on my machine. I would like to change from doing a purge tower to utilizing a purge bucket. I am assuming that first of all I need a purge bucket! I am in the process of developing this in cad now. I am also thinking that I will need something for the nozzle to rub against to drop the purged filament. Also in development to attach to left side of flying gantry. So when the head is moved to the extreme back/left it will engage this and drop the filament. But I am unsure how to actually code a macro to do these steps. My plan was to:
- Move the head to the far left/back and write down the coordinates.
- start a macro to first move head to far left and far back + 20mm
- Change filament from βAβ to βBβ
- Purge ??? amount of filament
- slowly move the head back 20mm to engage the βScraperβ
- Move head forward 20mm
- Continue print
Anyone have an idea if this will work? Or am I just better off doing purge tower?