Stop At (or Pause At) after printing starts

Bambu Lab Software Bambu Studio
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Sometimes I’ll start a calibration print that’s more than one layer, but I’ll notice that something is clearly off.

I know about the “Pause at Layer X” feature, but that’s only during preview.

My suggestion: a “stop at Z” button next to the Pause and Stop buttons that allows you to enter the current (stop after this layer finishes printing) or a future layer. This way, if I start a 100 layer print job, and I realize there’s an issue I want to troubleshoot at layer 1, I can say “Stop at Z” while it’s printing, and as soon as layer X is printed, it will stop.

I realize I can press stop just as layer X is just finishing, but there’s usually layer X commands that won’t finish or layer X+1 commands that will print. You have to get the timing just right. With a “Stop at Z” command, folks could say “Stop at Z: 1” and it would just complete the first layer and then stop when it’s done. Very helpful, and doesn’t require us to monitor while that first layer finishes printing.

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But you already have to be monitoring that layer, or you would not know there was a problem requiring the use of the Stop@Z button.

If I see a problem, I stop the print NOW, because the print has already failed and there is nothing I can do to change the gcode of a print in progress.