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Filament Loading À la Prusa (FLÀP)

A set of Klipper macros with prompts for filament loading and more

Filament-Loading.mp4

Description

This is a collection of Klipper macros for loading and unload filament and handleing filament runouts and color changes in a similar style to Prusa. What's unquie about these macros if they use Mainsail prompts as a helpful aide.

These macros where designed around the Orbiter Filament Sensor, but it will work with any filament sensor that is a switch. You just need to assign the pin in the config. The Orbiter Filament Sensor also has a button for unload, which many filament sensors do not have. So in this case you would just call the unload macro in Mailsail or the like.

Macros included:

  • Filament Load
  • FIlament Unload
  • Filament Runout
  • Color Change M600 (WIP)
  • Pause
  • Resume
  • Cancel

The main features are:

  • Lots of helpful prompts that guide you through the process
  • Material temperature profiles. Add custom material profiles for whatever you might be printing.
  • [Optional] Beep (M300) command can be played at stages of load and unload
  • Temperture Checks and temperature recovery if idle timeout is reached.
  • Filament Checks during loading to make sure there is acutally filament loaded
  • [Optional] Auto Resume after runout
  • Persistence storage of material temps; material is remembered even after reboot
  • "Retry" feature during filament loading, which unloads the filament if something is wrong.
  • [Optional] cooldown hotend to a specific temp after loading
  • [Optional] heats bed during loading
  • [Optional] homes Z before loading, to make room for purge
  • Customizable purge length, purge speed, unload distance, park postion, park lift and park retraction
  • Works 100% with Klipperscreen

A short demo because a video is worth a 1000 words

Install

See the wiki for a step by step guide.

Also check out extras

Todo

  1. Long term testing
  2. Fixing bugs that will probably appear 🙃
  3. Continuous beep alert during runout / color change
  4. High temp to low temp material transition - Explained here
  5. Prevent bed from cooling down during print pause
  6. Faster "purge more" - It's a bit slow at the moment

Changelog

  • V1.0 - Intital Release
  • V1.1 - Optimized material load and unload prompt.
  • V1.2 - Added cooldown after loading function. Optimized prompt text and layouts.
  • V1.3 - Added working color change (M600), Improved pruge dialogue, Added auto-resume after runout and color change.
  • V1.4 - Added persistent storage of temps, "Retry" during filament purge, home Z during loading, tested working with klipper screen

Contributing

Bugs? Issues? Improvements? Open an issue or make a PR.

Block Diagram

To help me understand the logic flow of what's going on at each step, I made block diagramd for each part of this project.

Loading and Unloading

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Filament Runout

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