I know you can disable the prime tower at a trade off in quality, but why not poop out the priming instead of wasting build plate space?
Am I missing a setting in Orca?
I know you can disable the prime tower at a trade off in quality, but why not poop out the priming instead of wasting build plate space?
Am I missing a setting in Orca?
Poop where?
If it just makes spaghetti randomly somewhere not on the build plate, a) it’ll leave quite a mess that would need cleaned up and b) it can end up where it shouldn’t be. In a belt gear or incorporated into the print in a way that sticks out and looks bad or stuck to the hot end in a big gob that causes it to not extrude right and blob up in the print or some such.
I suppose, depending on the other print settings, it might make sense use purged plastic to make up infill. That said, I don’t have any direct experience with multiple extrusion, so maybe that is a thing. Maybe slicers already do that to some extent but infill doesn’t typically take enough filament to fully purge and the tower is still necessary.
All that said, I don’t think just making spaghetti would work out very well.
That’s why I’m thinking it’s a legacy setting in slicers. All printers made in the past 5 years have a purge chute and wiper. So purge goes out the back and the nozzle is wiped before it starts.
Well except the new FlashForge multi head printer that purges off the edge of the build plate.
Uuh…no, not even close to being true. There are still plenty of printers without purge chutes available on the market today.