Does smoothieware support immediate pause? So that the printer stops immediately after the command being executed, not when the buffer is emptied
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You can use the kill system ( http://smoothieware.org/killbutton ) but it requires homing as it will loose awareness of the current position.
If you want proper “pause” you can’t make it instant ( no system can ), but you can make it shorter by increasing the density of segmentation, for example by setting mm_per_line_segment to something like 0.2
Is there a pause option that will work within the tool path file? I’m looking for similar functionality to M01: similar to standard M01 “To stop a running program temporarily (but only if the optional stop switch is on), program: M1.” I’ve tried a two that were listed in the docs.
M25 Pause SD card print
M600 Suspend print in progress (use console command resume to continue)
In both cases, the board required a re-boot in order to run another program.
We don’t have M1, it’s something we really need to add.
Is there anything that is functionally similar?
As a substitute I’m using G04 with a 2 minute pause. “G4 120000” I’d like to also use an alarm or some kind of notification so I can walk away from the printer. Without notification it’s necessary to sit with the printer until the pause happens.