When I have a long print that has a pause in the g-code I’d like to see a timer counting down in the display showing how much longer before the pause is hit. I know that I could go back to the slicer and look in the preview and do some math based on when I started the print, but it would be WAY easier if there was just an indicator on the screen showing time to next pause. If there are multiple pauses then this feature becomes even more useful.
This should be a standard display option on all printers while a print is running. If there are no pauses then no changes/indicators need to be displayed.
That’s a really interesting idea, I have to wonder how Bambu calculates total print time right now - their estimates seem to be very accurate (on my X1C and A1 mini) but not so much on my H2C.
I would think the calculation is already being done on a “per layer” basis, it would be relatively trivial to add this to the G-code and have it update once per layer, rather than a processor-intensive live timer.
That said, if Bambu took a more exotic approach, like doing a single time calc based on total volume to extrude vs total distance to travel and adds in an acceleration/deceleration factor, then this would be a lot harder to accomplish.
One other thing - if Bambu is updating the print time dynamically over the course of the print, aka using the initial estimate as only a starting point, then this request also becomes a bit more challenging as it would require corrections to be applied to TWO time values, not just one.