13 hours into a 19 hour print and it looks like I have maybe 2 hours of filament left on this roll. Does the k1 max do a good job for pausing and resuming prints? Or does it usually result in a noticeable layer shift?
Is this even a thing? Or was this coincidence? My print had been going on for 12 hours and I decided to shut down my computer for the night. I had fluidd open in my browser on one of the tabs and 30 seconds after I closed out the browser the printer goes dark with a system error.
Like WTF, is that even a thing? Has this happened to anyone before? Should I avoid having fluidd open during a print job and avoid closing it out if I have a print running?
I sliced a helmet in orca slicer yesterday. Something I’ve printed before. I seem to remember the print taking around 18 hrs in my prior session. This time around it was clocking in at a little above 23 hrs. Was a little confused and I re-ran the slicing a few times with a few changes to settings but it never went down by more than 45 mins or so. Decided my recollection was just incorrect. Went back to my default settings and ran the print. Seemed to go well but here and there I would hear the printer pause for a second and resume. 20 hours later the printer crashes. SX2000.
Oh well. I remove the print from the bed to inspect the print quality and nearly all of the supports are fused to the surface. Not something I’ve ever experienced with my settings. the supports usually break away almost effortlessly.
I checked the gcode file size and it’s showing 289mb which seems quite a bit larger than most of my gcodes of similar volume. I opened orca again, loaded the same model and sliced it again and now it shows 18 hrs, 164mb… strange. So now I know there must have been some overlapping or conflicting commands in the gcode which crashed the print. Just not sure how it happened or why.
It’s not something I’ve paid much attention to in the past but I guess I’ll have to keep a closer eye on the gcode file size from now as it could be an early detection of an issue.