Is there a way to stop a job at the current layer it is on, and then tell it to print the top layers without pre-planning a pause? Sometimes I’m printing something that has the same side structure all the way to the top , pencil holder for example, and i would like to stop the job on a layer it’s printing and then skip all the other layers and print the top layers to finish it out… thus making a shorter version of the print. In other words, if the model sliced at 200 layers, and my top and bottom layers are set to 1mm and i’m using a .20 layer height , top and bottom would both be 5 layers. So I’d like to manually stop the job as something like layer 100, and then have it print the last 5 “top” layers at 101-105 rather than 195-200. Hope that makes sense. (numbers are for illustration purposes only)
Sorry to crush your dreams but this isn’t possible.
Why do you want to do this though?
As stated, if I’m looking at the job and decide it would look OK if it was shorter, then being able to “finish it early” with a nice top layer would be nice, rather than just stopping it and being able to see the “sparse infill”
What you could do instead is go in the slicer after and just cut off the top 5 layers then set bottom shell to 0 and glue them together.
ive tried to do that in the past, but it’s messy and clunky and requires sanding the top to smooth it down a little so the 2 pieces fit together a little better… it’s not perfect but it is do-able… just was wondering if there was a cleaner way to do it… spoiled by the “restart from here” feature in Lightburn, but i completely understand the differences between lasering and 3d printing… was just hopeful.
although it’s not a pretty solution, it would work. Just have to take the glue-up slowly so that it looks ok.