I installed a shutter switch in my X1C for making time lapses with an external camera. When I went to create a time lapse today, the print head would print a layer of the model, print a layer on the purge tower, and then back to the model. It never moved over to the poop chute where my switch is.
Is this a recent change? Or is something wrong with my setup maybe? I noticed there is a “time lapse g-code” box in OrcaSlicer, but it’s empty. I don’t see this box in Bambu Studio, so I assume that’s not the issue.
Appreciate any help!
Take a look at the Bambu Wiki on timelapse functionality. Scroll down to section 2 “How to enable timelapse”.
There’s setting for “traditional” or smooth” mode. Smooth mode moves the tool head to the waste chute before taking a photo. Traditional does not.
Yes. I selected smooth, as indicated by the title of my post. The smooth option also adds the purge tower, but as I said, it was just going between the purge tower and the model. Never over the chute.
Well, now I can’t recreate it. It’s working fine again. It had to have been a software bug or something. The only thing that has changed between when it was not working correctly and now, is that I power cycled the printer.
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Did you notice the Wiki explains how to disable the purge tower (a checkbox)? It’s on by default. Presumably disabling it would cause the tool head to use the waste chute.
Did you ever figure out a solution to this? I am having the same issue with my A1 where I set the timelapse to “smooth”, prime tower is enabled, and when I print it just moves between the prime tower and the actual print. It never goes off to the chute. Even tried without prime tower and power cycled. Nothing has really worked.
Wanted to make some timelapse videos with an external camera and remote shutter, but the print head never makes it over the chute to push the shutter button.
It hasn’t happened to me again and I’m still not sure what caused it in the first place. Sorry.
Weird. I’ll try messing around with it more to see if I can get a different result. Definitely sounds like a software error or something like that
Actually, it looks like it might be a WiFi situation. I’ve always exported and printing through the SD card, never through WiFi. I read somewhere that someone said they could only get the head to return to the chute when using WiFi.