Originally Posted by
TopJimmyCooks
Very nice work on the flex material extruder - pics look great.
Couple of general dual extrusion questions for C42 and everybody:
-What is the best way to print a single material on the dual? I know you can assign one extruder to infill and I've done that successfully. But if you're really only using one head, do you heat up the other one or leave it completely off? I set up a material that has a temp of zero so that I can leave the extruders setting in slicer at 2 and not have the empty nozzle heating.
-There is a lot of potential for confusion on extruder identification - ramps is labeled 0/1 but marlin assigns 0 to the bed, 1 and 2 to extruders, the LCD has 0 on left and 1 on right but no designation on screen. Slicer is very weak with two materials slots over under which I can never remember which is which, and calls them 1 and 2 in the window where you select which extruder prints which part of a single stl print. Is everybody using:
0 on ramps, therefore left on LCD, 1 in marlin, 1 in slicer multiple extruder window and "bottom" on the two material selectors in the plater dialog, and
1 on ramps, therefore right on LCD, 2 in marlin, 2 in slicer, and "top" selector in the plater?
I can figure this out but would love if someone can recommend an organized way of thinking about this.