Toolhead position/coordinates

Bambu Lab X1 Series
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Loving this new printer after years of tinkering with my somewhat bespoke machines for the last eight or so years.

One thing that seems a bit odd to me though is that there doesn’t seem to be any read-out or otherwise to determine the nozzle position during a print - or am I missing something? Working with Marlin for years I just took this information as a bit of a given - I often use the z-axis position value to know when the machine is approaching a particularly challenging part of the job and I can stick around to see how it handles it.

I’ve searched for any discussion about nozzle/toolhead position in this forum and beyond, and it seems that it’s never come up. I can’t be the only one who would like to know where the toolhead is during a print? Seems to me there’s plenty of space on the X1-C home screen to display this stuff along with the temperatures.

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Somewhere it was written that the future firmware will show the current layer/Z
PS. Another thread: https://forum.bambulab.com/t/any-way-to-see-current-layer-number-during-print/2287
PS2. I found it! Display the current print layer when printing for X1/X1C(needs future Printer firmware version).

bambu.layer
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Cool, thanks! Current layer is actually probably more useful than raw z-axis position - don’t know why I didn’t think to search for that.

Would be nice if this could be on the printer display as well but it’s a good start :slight_smile:

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Small steps forward :slight_smile:
The current Z position is an “advanced” option for specialists. We’ll get it over time. The project is young, and the basis is an amateur who clicks print and does not want to know all this magic :>

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Hi, As I am mostly printing remotely, and I see a finished print (certainly with soft tpu) I want to know where the Z (and X and Y) are exactly. then, remotely I can bring the Z up to see if it did really finish the job.
Now, there is no way to know if the print halfway or close to the end had a clogged nozzle.