How to change Temperatures at certain build heights

[Geoff]

Hi guys, this might help with those rising plastic issues also..

Cura has a feature that can solve this, but sadly you can't print directly to a flashforge from it, so there is a few steps you need to do to do this, but it's pretty simple.

i have a flashforge creator x, is their a way to change bed temperature while printing? especially while printing ABS it suggested to start with higher temperature and reduce it after a couple layers.but i cant find a way to do this

Yes, you need to do the following, and in order...

1. Download Cura.
http://software.ultimaker.com/

2. Use the Replicator 2 settings.

3. Understand CURA CANNOT PRINT to your Flashforge printer - it cannot communicate with it via USB so you will need to export anything you do to Gcode.
Only Makerware and Replicator G software seems to work for me for this machine.

4. In Cura you need to tweak the settings before you export, click the plugin tab and choose what height you would like things to start happening..

(i.e see "New bed Temp" you would set that to the new temperature, which would take effect when it hits the Z height you have designated)

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5. File Menu, Save GCode

6. Go into replicator G (not makerware, it is not good at reading other programs Gcode..)

7. Load your Gcode you exported from Cura, and print!