[ENHANCEMENT] Reset Filament Type Without Additional Unload-Load-Cycle When Loading a Lower Temperature Filament (e.g. PETG -> PLA)

[KlausKraemer]

PRUSA MINI+

I am always annoyed, when I have a filament change from higher temperature filament to lower temperature filament. Such as changing from PETG to PLA.

First you have to tell the MINI you are reloading with PETG to purge PETG remnants. After that's done we have to go through an additional unload-load-cycle to tell the MINI it's really PLA I have been loading! And that's only because the firmware soes not allow to reset the filament type, coming with unnecessary bother and filament waste.

So I suggest an enhancement to allow setting a filament type via the "filament" menu.

A little bit more sophisticated would be the printer knows about the former filament (PETG) and keeps that temperature for purging only. This way you could tell you are loading PLA now and the purging process would use PETG temperature.

[Prusa-Support]

Sounds good. Thanks for your suggestion.

This issue is a duplicate of #1821 (recently duplicated by #3027 too).
Please monitor the existing issue and feel free to participate in the discussion.
This one will be closed now.

Michele Moramarco
Prusa Research