It shows the layer, the row with cursor belongs to. If you search the matching g-code, look at the status bar of the editor. Default is the complete code, but you can also select a single layer or multiple layers. If you select the “Visualization” tab at the bottom of the editor you can select, which part you want to see. Normally higher layers hide the content of the lower layer. When a g-code is loaded you see the filament model on the left, if not disabled. Not all commands will be displayed and some may have a different meaning on your firmware, but the most important are the same on all printers. To assist you, you can see the meaning of the current code at the bottom, if the help tab is selected. Not everyone is familiar with the g-codes for 3d printer. All other scripts are saved as part of the current printer configuration. The save button stores the g-code in a selectable file. With the new button you remove all content from the editor. In the printer menu are five commands to send these scripts to the printer. If you have some frequent task, that require some commands to be send to the printer, you can put them into these scripts. Change temperatures (these are not reset by the host).Extrude filament, reset extruder position.Switch between relative and absolute coordinates, e.g.Things you shouldn’t do during pause are: After you hit the continue button, the extruder will go back to the starting position.
You can do this, because the host remembers the position, where the pause started. One thing you could do is move the object back with a G1 command. In these cases you don’t want the extruder to stay over the object. Typical reasons for a pause are switching filament type or modifications on the printing object like adding nuts bevor enclosing it in filament. While the kill job is not so important, you might want some code for the pause case. After hitting the button, the matching script will be send to the printer. When sending a job to the printer you may want to kill the print or pause the job. So if you store or send a job, this always means these three files together. Within the host, a job is the assembled data from “Start code”+”G-Code”+”End code”. You surely have already noticed the three button in the toolbar containing the word “job”. Then you switch the printer configuration the files will change to the one stored in the this configuration! G-CODE, START CODE AND END CODE Only if the g-code is selected, a file selector appears to select the place to store the data. These codes are saved as part of your current printer configuration, when you press the save button. All other selections are smaller codes, which are executed depending on their intention. This is the code generated by the slicer. After finishing a slice, the “G-Code” is selected. Here you can select what you want to edit. The g-code editor has it’s own small toolbar, where you can select the most important functions.