Add time remaining until next pause on the "printing progress" screen

Bambu Lab Software Feature Requests
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When there is a pause on a layer in the slicer, please add a line on the “Printing Progress” screen that will tell me what time and how many hours/minutes until that pause will happen.

Use case: I added a pause on layer 127. The print has started and it’s going to be awhile before layer 127 comes along. Yes, I will get a notification on my phone when it pauses, but I want to plan the time between now and then. For example, I don’t want to be in the shower or in the middle of cooking when the pause happens. So, it would amazing if Bambu Studio could give me a reasonable estimate of how many minutes until that pause occurs (and also show the real world time that it will be when that happens, just like the print finish duration and time).

Thank you and happy printing!

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Yes, this would be very helpful.

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In Bambu Studio you can see @ what time layer x starts. When you hover over the vertical scrollbar for the layers, it shows you the time passed for that layer.

After that it is some simple math to calculate the real time this will be.

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Do we need to have a conversation about filaments needing to be dried?

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In an ideal world, we could have an option to send you a push notification as well to give you time to be there.

For example “remind me 10 minutes before I need to swap filaments” (or whatever), that you choose whenever you like.

This could be added to the PAUSE option (tick box) and its own separate entry added to any layer of your choice.

Using your specific request, they could turn the progress bar into a hybrid timeline.

With ticks (down facing triangles) above the bar roughly where actions would be performed.

Hovering over each one would give you an estimate of what real time they would occur.

Remembering, they are not always perfectly accurate.

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I made an excel sheet for this. Just fill in the blue and the green will tell you what times the pauses should be. Too bad I cant upload that excel sheet or even link to the google sheets version haha. Also cant upload an image of it even though this has the option to… weird forum

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I uploaded the excel sheet to a github comment about this topic. Its really helpful to plan my day

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