Try to do this while the printer just has started the infill on a new layer. That way you can prevent holes on the outer shell that might occur due to temporary underextrusion when resuming the print.
OK, just saw this and made a newbie mistake!!! Everything was as you said but when I was inserting the filament, I moved a tinny bit the printing head, and the entire project was shifted those few mm.... thank you for your video :)
@@3dPrintedSouphey, didn’t need to swap it out, it failed straight up before I needed to swap it out but the video was still useful for future problems!
TLDR; Get your new spool. Gut at 45 degree angle at a nicely curved piece of the PLA Pause Print Remove filament from extruder and tube. Load new spool. Feed thru extruder and tube all the thru to the hot end. Preheat PLA. Preheat bed. Resume Printing
What would you do if the firmament already went past the filament sensor and you got a "consumerable exhausted" message? How would you change it out in that case?
!WARNING! I have an Ender pro 3 with the latest MB. I paused the print and it just stopped where it was. So I auto homed, so I could run a little extrude and make sure the new filament was coming out ok, figuring the printer would know it had been homed and pick up the print from there. IT DID NOT! It seemed to think that it was still where it had paused and started trying to print from there, crashing my print nozzle into my bed, and causing my steppers to jump as it tried to push down through the print bed. Be really careful and don’t make the same mistake. Hope that helps others to avoid this issue. Oh, and my print was ruined 12 hrs in with 4 left to go 😢😢😢
Indeed, don’t auto home if you pause a print, the printer will forget where you were up to. Sorry to hear about your print mate, it sucks when a long session fails mid print. Cheers for watching
@@3dPrintedSoup yep! I was able to save it. I can't tell you how thankful I am. This is only the second print I've ever done and I thought it would break something or overheat if it ran out. Thank you :)
This just saved me cause my filament snapped over halfway into a 14 hour print. It snapped between the feed mechanism and the roll and I wasn't sure what to do about that.
Newbie here. I have an Ender 3, and when I choose "Pause Print" it doesn't move the nozzle to the home position but just freezes immediately in place on top of the print. What am I doing wrong?
On a FlashForge 5m Pro I was able to cut the filament about 1 inch before the extruder, and loaded the new filament while pursuing the print head without pausing the print. Not sure if I would be able to repeat the feat again 😂😂
hey, i can´t hear you so well, i think its because the sound of your video is only playing into the left ear of headpohnes and the unlucky thing for me is that iam partly deaf on left ear. Edit: i had problem with this only in the intro. Btw really nice video, iam new into 3D printing so it assured me that i did it the right way.
I was wearing headphones with the left ear off, I played your video and thought I had an audio issue, before putting the other ear on and realizing you uploaded your video with all audio on the left channel >.
@@3dPrintedSoupthen you already earned my subscription, just 5 years late. I'm just getting into 3D printing now and your videos have helped me, thank you. And thank you for the direct interaction.
Idk about all of you but I take note how much filament I've used on each roll so when I go to do a new print I can tell if I will have enough on that spool before I even start. I save spool leftovers for doing small prints that color doesn't matter
Tried to do this over USB from Simplify3D but it didn't work. Not sure if there is something different about controlling the printer from the Simplify3D Machine Control Panel. In fact, the front panel commands were ignored. I had to Pause Print form inside Simplify3D. The print got pretty gobbed up right out of the chute on the first layer when I Resumed Print. I have to practice a few more times to see if it is something I did wrong and can avoid. PS = I am running the Marlin for BLTouch and it gives you a Change Filament command from the front panel which is a little smoother than just pulling the filament out while the nozzle is still hot.
Yeah, prep is for before you hit start. You have paused a print mid action, when you unpause the print will revert to the exact temp, layer and speed that it was running at when you hit pause, as such you can’t prep for a print that’s in progress.
I did what you said and my print that was going for 11 plus hours stoped I paused print then did the Filament I started print it didn’t work so I did auto home then resume print and it knocked it off bro I’m so sad 😞
@@3dPrintedSoup no I paused it like you said and loaded the filament when I pushed it through it was extruding sinc so wanted it to not get on the print I auto homed it resend print then it knocked it it off it couldn’t have completely been my fault but to fix it and no waste filament I went to my slicer and found to part it stoped at and right now I’m printing the rest so hopefully I can glue them back together but it was a bummer seeing it fail also to mention I don’t think it was the tutorials fault it could of just been mine
@@Yourboytanner_yt yeah, I’ve had a few people say they auto homed the print before resuming, this seems to throw the printer off so I recommend loading new filament and continuing without auto homing. It’s always touch and go when you run out mid print . Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, much appreciated :)
Sorry to hear that. It seems that pause works on most versions of the ender3, but there are some firmware/hardware versions that have issues. Cheers for watching :)
My printer pauses over the print instead of going to the side, when I swap filament and guide it into nozzle it begins to connect with print and causes a defect. Any advice?
I cut the old filament square while it's still printing close to the extruder. Cut the new filament square, and then follow the previous filament end as it disappears into the extruder and follow with the new filament. You need to hold it there for a while to handle retractions, but this works for me.
Did this but it literally stopped in place. Once I got it changed it it ran the nozzle through everything already printed and screwed up the whole print
@@3dPrintedSoup lol wish i could upload SS to youtube :) my kids kitty piggy bank still doesnt have the top of its ears casuse of this. i was suppost to try modeling clay to fit it, that was a year ago
@@mauromendez1815 same problem and It doesn't look like its easy to update firmware with out extra stuff. why would they take features away from pro version??
