Resuming A Really Long Print

If you have ever ran a 3D print that lasts a week or longer the last thing you want is to lose hundreds of dollars in material due to a power outage or some other unforeseen problem. I wrote a special feature for 3D Platform in order to be able to complete one of these extremely long prints when such an event occurs.

Here is a video demonstrating the feature in action:

The way it works is the given Z coordinate when selecting “Resume SD from Z” is used to truncate all movements, including retraction Z-hops, which are evaluated to be less than the given value. The result is a perfectly completed print with no noticable recovery artifacts.

3DP1000 Electrical Panel

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Workbench Series Android Tablet Interface

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