Integrate external purge estimates (eg Blobifier) to the filament consumption UI

[igiannakas]

Description

With external purging solutions becoming more common, I’ve come across a limitation when assembling mine - it is impossible to estimate the amount of filament purged during slicing!

For example, when using Happy Hare together with the blobifier, it is not possible currently to estimate the volume of filament purged, because there are no G1 Ex commands issued by the slicer, but rather the purge volumes are calculated and executed by the printer/ happy hare and blobifier software and macros themselves.

This PR aims to address this limitation by tagging the purge commands as specially formatted comments and use that to calculate the projected flushed filament volume. This is particularly useful in combination with Spoolman as you can actually compare now the projected filament use vs your available filament in the spool man UI.

This should be fairly accurate as the flush/purge volume matrix is read by Happy Hare and is used by the blobifier to execute the purge. Also this approach allows the user to apply the same correction variable to the volumes (variable_purge_length_modifier), if other than 0.

This also allows the user to include the combined filament consumption between external purge (in the blobifier) and any prime tower that the user may have enabled (eg. to ensure the nozzle is primed before printing).

To set it up, set the below in your Change Filament g-code:

T[next_extruder]
; FLUSH_START
; EXTERNAL_PURGE {flush_length_1+flush_length_2+flush_length_3+flush_length_4}
; FLUSH_END 

If your variable_purge_length_modifier is not 1.0, then you can adjust the calculated purge volume like so (eg. if the value is 0.6).

T[next_extruder]
; FLUSH_START
; EXTERNAL_PURGE {0.6*(flush_length_1+flush_length_2+flush_length_3+flush_length_4)}
; FLUSH_END 

Make sure purge in the prime tower is disabled:

Tests

Tested with Bambu and Voron printers. As this is a comment in the Gcode and the code is only invoked when the external purge tag is present, there are no side effects.

[igiannakas]

Testing feedback on the above. Have been using this feature over multiple multi color prints and it's quite accurate as in within a few grams in total of the estimate

Purge:
Estimated: 95.39 grams
Actual: 96.19 grams

Tower:
Estimated: 19.98 grams
Actual: 20.39 grams

Model:
Estimated: 275.38 grams
Actual: 276 grams or so (no micro gram scale for this)

Also the total print weight matches the Klipper calculation within a gram or so:
Actual total: 392.58 grams
Klipper reported: 391.59 grams

All in all around 1.83 grams in total variance between printed and actual model and about a gram or so between klipper counted value and actual print weight.

[SoftFever]

Looks good.
Thank you :)

[igiannakas]

Welcome :)

[Anollya]

sorry Offtopic:
@igiannakas where can i download your red nose reindear stl?

thank you

[igiannakas]

sorry Offtopic: @igiannakas where can i download your red nose reindear stl?

thank you

Its from here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/christmas-multicolor-knitted-containers-not-needed-supports

There are also these ones that are free, from the same designer: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/santa-christmas-multicolor-knitted-container-not-needed-supports