When printing with the Chimera, I use an ooze wall and special g-codes on the "tool change" script tab to move the head off the model, drop the temperature on the unused head (set and forget), and bring the temperature up on the active head (set and wait for temperature), the, rest of the g-code handles moving the carriage back to the correct next spot to print. I have done this with both a Chimera (dual filament/dual nozzle) and a Cyclops (dual filament/single nozzle). You will now see your color and model groupings. Click ", in this pop-up you must click to get both processes to print.
You can now arrange your grouped models on your build surface. Regardless of the incomprehensibility of how the processes are arranged, the proper models are now aligned and will print all at the same time. I find that strange I would have expected to have to processes ordered by "model", not by extruder used.
This is really weird, because even though both of these processes have both extruders in them, each only uses one of them. Click on that to make sure that the correct parts are assigned to their correct colors. In the bottom left corner you have button. You can customize the "Color1/Color2" into your actual color names so you don't get them confused. Not what you want.Īfter you do this, you now have a grouped set of processes. If you don't uncheck the "group and align" box, the wizard will combine ALL model parts into one piece. THEN you need to use your dual-extrusion wizard (checking OFF the group and align checkbox because you already did this manually) and sort your model pieces into the correct colors, which get grouped as Color1 and Color2 processes. You need to group and align each model manually, using the edit->group selection, and edit->align selected model groups. You do need to use it to sort model parts into their correct colors - for ALL models at the same time. You cannot use the the dual-extrusion wizard on two separate models to print at the same time. So I guess that a model group and a process group are the same thing? No, they aren't. But, although one is a model group and the other is a process group, they are not allowed the same name. When using the dual color tool however, they confuse the issue by grouping dual-color objects in the "models" window, and giving that group a name, and grouping processes in the Process window, and allowing you to assign those names. That did help to refresh my memory about processes.
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