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Tweak at Z Plugin For Cura: Installation

The TweakAtZ plugin allows users to change 3D printer settings like speed, temperature, and flow rate at specific layer heights or numbers in their Cura prints. It is open source and licensed under CC BY-SA. The document provides information on the plugin's version history, installation instructions, and how to use its various settings.

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Tweak at Z Plugin For Cura: Installation

The TweakAtZ plugin allows users to change 3D printer settings like speed, temperature, and flow rate at specific layer heights or numbers in their Cura prints. It is open source and licensed under CC BY-SA. The document provides information on the plugin's version history, installation instructions, and how to use its various settings.

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Tweak At Z plugin for Cura

License
The TweakAtZ plugin is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike (CC BY-SA)
terms

Source
See http://github.com/Dim3nsioneer/Cura-Plugins/wiki/Tweak-At-Z-plugin

Authors
Steven Morlock (Smorloc), [email protected]: V1.0
Ricardo Gomez (RicardoGA), [email protected] V2.0
Stefan Heule (Dim3nsioneer), [email protected] V3.0.1-4.0

The Tweak At Z plugin works with these GCODE flavors:

 RepRap GCODE (all versions),


e.g. used by Ultimaker Original (UMO) and Original+ (UMO+)
 UltiGCode (V3.1+, value reset V4.0+) ,
2 2
e.g. used by Ultimaker family (UM )

Installation
(for Cura version with no / different TweakAtZ version bundled)
1. Close Cura if opened
2. Copy ‘TweakAtZ.py’ to the plugin folder of the Cura installation
e.g on Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Cura_15.01\plugins
3. Start Cura

Description
General purpose: Change printer settings at certain z heights / layer numbers.

TweakAtZ documentation created by Dim3nsioneer


Screenshot of TweakAtZ 4.0

Version restrictions
V1.0 only works with Cura up to V13.04. For Cura 13.06.4+ use Tweak At Z V2.0+.
The status bar feature only works on Cura versions from 14.12.

TweakAtZ documentation created by Dim3nsioneer


Input description (V4.0)

Z height to tweak at (mm) Specifies the tweak height in millimeters


(ALT) Layer no. to tweak at Alternatively specifies the tweak layer number; if it is specified the
tweak height from the previous input will be ignored
No. of layers used for change Default value 1; specifies the number of layers used for a gradual /
linear change of the specified printer settings
Tweak behavior Tweak value and keep it for the rest changes the setting and keeps
the change until the end of print / the top of the object is reached;
Tweak value for single layer only changes the setting for only the
layer specified by layer no. or by z height and resets it on the next
layer
New TOTAL speed Alters both print speed and travel speed by applying a speed factor
during print
New PRINT speed Alters print speed only by recalculating speed settings in the gcode
(for G1 commands only)
New General Flow rate Alters the flow rate multiplicator for ALL extruders
New Flow Rate Extruder 1 Alters the flow rate multiplicator for the first extruder only
New Flow Rate Extruder 2 Alters the flow rate multiplicator for the second extruder only
New Bed Temperature Alters the print bed temperature
New Extruder 1 Temperature Alters the temperature of the first hotend / extruder
New Extruder 2 Temperature Alters the temperature of the second hotend / extruder
New Fan Speed Alters the fan speed; Full speed is 255 PWM

Remarks / additional features


Values that are not explicitly specified will remain unchanged.

Since V3.0.1 the plugin resets the original values when falling below target Z again (e.g. when starting
the next object within a single print job (Print one at a time option in Cura 14.01+) when using
RepRap flavor. Since V4.0 this does also apply to UltiGCode (full functionality requires firmware
14.12+ on the UM2)!

Since V3.0.1 it is possible to set the internal state of the plugin directly by using the following
comment inside the GCODE (e.g. in the start.gcode):
;TweakAtZ-stateX
where X stands for:
0 Plugin deactivated
1 (default) Plugin activated
2 Plugin active, but below target Z
3 Plugin active, partially executed (multilayer)
4 Plugin active, past target Z

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Feature List by version

Feature Version
1.0 2.0 3.0.1 3.1.2 3.2 4.0
Tweak speed UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO
(speed multiplicator) UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak first extruder UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO
temperature UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak second UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO
extruder temperature UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak third extruder UMO UMO UMO (UMO) (UMO)
temperature (UM2) (UM2)
Tweak bed UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO
temperature UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak general flow UMO UMO UMO UMO
rate (multiplicator) UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak fan speed UMO UMO UMO
UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak flow rate first UMO UMO
extruder UM2 UM2
Tweak flow rate UMO UMO
second extruder UM2 UM2
Tweak print speed UMO
only UM2
Tweak at z height UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO UMO
UM2 UM2 UM2
Tweak at layer UMO UMO UMO
number UM2 UM2 UM2
Reset previous values UMO UMO UMO UMO
when printing one-at- UM2
a-time
Reset speed to 100% UMO UMO
at the end of printing UM2 UM2
Gradually tweak UMO
values over multiple UM2
layers
Tweak only single UMO
layer UM2
Progress bar works Cura
with 14.12+
Bundled with Cura 14.03 14.06 14.09 15.01
since
2
UMO: supported with RepRap flavor; UM : supported with UltiGCode; () = deactivated

Please report bugs and issue feature requests to:


www.github.com/Dim3nsioneer/Cura-Plugins/issues

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