Park hotend for minimum layer time

Currently in Bambu Studio the only option to enforce minimum layer time is to slow printing speed to the set minimum print speed. However for prints that come to small points the minimum speed can be not slow enough to get proper cooling. So instead, if printing the layer at the minimum print speed will still be less time than the minimum layer time, briefly park the hotend to enforce the minimum layer time. A setting similar to this already exists in Cura, and maybe other slicers.

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If you enable “smooth” timelapse it will give you extra time for the layer to cool.

Smooth mode: the tool head will move to the excess chute after each layer is printed and then take a snapshot. Since the melted filament may leak from the nozzle during the process of taking the snapshot, a prime tower is required in this mode. So a prime tower will be automatically generated if there is no prime tower on the build plate. It will reuse the existing prime tower if there is already a prime tower on the plate. In this mode, the toolhead in the video always stays in a fixed position, so the timelapse video looks very smooth.

The downside of this is that it will slow down all layers, not just the top ones.

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