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I've never found an elegant solution to add weight to prints. What are your favorite ways? What's the best cost/weight ratio? Weight to space? Cost/weight/space balance?

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[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's a good way to pause during prints? Is there an easy way to stop at a certain y level and move the nozzle out of the way, then resume the print when you are done? Or do you just manually do it?

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah in the slicer you can add "pause at layer". What slicing software do you use? For Bambu and prusa, you just go to the preview, roll through the layers to find the one before it closes up. And right click on the little icon dot thing on the slider that shows the layers. On the right side. And you get an option to "pause at layer".

Nice, that's handy. I use prusa but there are so many options that it's hard to know what's available.