Swapping/Loading a New Roll of Filament Mid-Job?

Zortrax M200 General Discussion
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I have a growing supply of partial Z-ABS rolls and I've resisted asking the obvious question. How are other M200 users swapping and or loading new rolls of filament mid-job successfully? My other 3D Printers (Makerbot) allow for a "pause" and load new filament and then "resume". Am I missing something or is that a detail to be worked out later? Which brings me to another obvious question…. "How is anyone pausing or canceling a job once it's started?" Cycle the power? 

Kind Regards,

-David Barwin

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Push front buton 10 secs, machine will pause allowing you to pause printjob and then resume.

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Thank you ahntlia! I was hoping I'd missed something in the details. ;-)

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Nice to know I can "pause" but I'm still curious how people are adding new filament in the middle of a large/long job.  -db

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You pause and use the change filament option for that.

Or do you mean to just load filament without pause at all?

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David.. When you pause you can select to unload filament. Then load new filament and resume printing.. You can also set pause points in Z-Suite to change colors.. The printer will automatically go to home position for filament change.

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Thank you Kyle. Did I miss this somewhere in the documentation?

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I love the pause points function…I intend to use it to embed fasteners within the model!

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If you do it Z-Suite you need to "Save as" .. otherwise it won't save the pause points..

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If you do it Z-Suite you need to "Save as" .. otherwise it won't save the pause points..

They didn't fix that yet?

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They didn't fix that yet?

We did ;)

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Thank you all for your help! Truly appreciated by this recent Zortrax convert (one M200 in house and two more on order).

I do pride myself on reading the documentation and I'd swear I haven't seen in print any directions on using the M200 front scroll-wheel interface to "Pause" and "Load" etc.  Did I miss it or does it need to be added/documented. Makes me wonder what other features I'm missing out on. ;-)

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Yes the pause works in the new Z-Suite I did it yesterday