TinkerGnome's UM2 firmware - wishlist
Posted: February 29th, 2016, 11:15 pm
So, I am very happy with the TinkerGnome UM2 firmware in general, but there are a few things that I would like to change.
Thought I can as well make a tread about it, in case others have suggestions too to improve this already amazing software
I am currently using the V15.12, but there is a V16.01 available now: https://github.com/TinkerGnome/Ultimake ... tag/V16.01
This list will be fairly short, but here is what I would like to change:
- A longer (or adjustable) timeout interval for the nozzle heating in the "Move" - "Extruder" -menu. I use this menu to make atomic pulls and such and it often times out and switches of the heating in the middle of the process. I would prefer the timeout like three times longer or so.
- The heating should switch on when entering the "Move" - " Extruder" - menu independent of the current nozzle temperature. Now the nozzle will not heat up if the temperature is higher than 100 C when entering the menu, so one has to set the temperature manually.
- It would be nice if the fan speed setting when printing was permanently overriding the settings in the G-code throughout the print.
I had the same issue with the original firmware: One realizes the fan speed was set to low for a certain part of the object and then has to set it over and over again to the new setting until there are no more fan speed updates in the G-code.
- If possible (not that critical) the motor current settings should have effect immediately, not having to power cycle the printer. This is not a big deal though, one could also just write a line about it in the menu so it is obvious, just caused me some headache before I realized what was going on.
That is all I had for now, thank you again for an awesome firmware TinkerGnome!
Thought I can as well make a tread about it, in case others have suggestions too to improve this already amazing software
I am currently using the V15.12, but there is a V16.01 available now: https://github.com/TinkerGnome/Ultimake ... tag/V16.01
This list will be fairly short, but here is what I would like to change:
- A longer (or adjustable) timeout interval for the nozzle heating in the "Move" - "Extruder" -menu. I use this menu to make atomic pulls and such and it often times out and switches of the heating in the middle of the process. I would prefer the timeout like three times longer or so.
- The heating should switch on when entering the "Move" - " Extruder" - menu independent of the current nozzle temperature. Now the nozzle will not heat up if the temperature is higher than 100 C when entering the menu, so one has to set the temperature manually.
- It would be nice if the fan speed setting when printing was permanently overriding the settings in the G-code throughout the print.
I had the same issue with the original firmware: One realizes the fan speed was set to low for a certain part of the object and then has to set it over and over again to the new setting until there are no more fan speed updates in the G-code.
- If possible (not that critical) the motor current settings should have effect immediately, not having to power cycle the printer. This is not a big deal though, one could also just write a line about it in the menu so it is obvious, just caused me some headache before I realized what was going on.
That is all I had for now, thank you again for an awesome firmware TinkerGnome!