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Ironing wrong color in legend

Color of Ironing in legend and preview do not match.

 

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At the segment type coloring, the movement without extrusion colored as travel even if they are part of a particular area type. Sadly the ironing consists only travels, so everything is yellow ๐Ÿ™‚

When we process the gcode, there is no way at this moment to distiguish the travels from the ironing movements.

In this case, the entry "Ironing" doesn't makes sense in the legend, since it can't be found anywhere with this color.

However, PrusaSlicer can do this, I assume they use the ;TYPE:Ironing comment for this.

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It is only partially true ๐Ÿ™‚
We also have the area type tags in the gcodeand if there is extrusion while ironing, we are displaying with the ironing color as well. However our default setting is to not extrude during ironing, so every segment categorized as a travel move as they are only movements without extrusion.

Prusa uses a default 15% extrusion while ironing and emitting more material than it was in the original model. In my experience they are not able to generate extrusionless ironings and they throwed errors. If they would succeed to do so, I'm pretty sure that they would categorize the movements as travels too, as they do with the other extrusionless moves during the ironing (and other area types).

Despite this your point is valid and we should find a way to show the ironing extrusionless movements as ironing too and distinguis from the designated travels.

 

 

Hi, you are mostly right ๐Ÿ˜‰

Prusa uses a default 15% extrusion while ironing and emitting more material than it was in the original model. In my experience they are not able to generate extrusionless ironings and they throwed errors. If they would succeed to do so, I'm pretty sure that they would categorize the movements as travels too, as they do with the other extrusionless moves during the ironing (and other area types).

You can set the flow rate to 0% (at least in 2.4.0 beta 1) without error, but like you expected, they also categorize it as travel move - so this was a bad example by me ^^

Interestingly, they have a dedicated color for Wipes. It's a negative extrusion move, visible when "Wipe while retracting" is enabled.

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Thanks. I should try the beta ๐Ÿ™‚