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?

  • definitemaybe@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t have one, but I expect they kept that default setting for the reasons outlined above, but because of a lack of poop chute.

    I have a Creality Hi, and a 3D-printed poop chute off the side of the printer holds plenty of poop for typically-sized 4-colour full-purge prints.

    For really huge prints, I empty once mid print, but those prints last for days anyway, so it’s no big deal.

    With no need for colour/material purging, I would expect a purge tray to be plenty for a multi-toolhead printer. I can’t imagine it purges much?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      The prime tower probably could be much smaller. Its size is mainly structural so that on a tall print it stays stable. But the poop tray on the U1 is pretty small. I could see it needing to be emptied after every large multi color print if it primed into the poop tray.