Unexpected Change in Home Position when Dual Extruder Offset was Added to Firmware
When I have the printer is set up for a dual extruder, I had been setting the dual extruder offsets in Repetier Host profiles. That worked well enough, but there is a good reason to let the FW handle the extruder offset. When the FW handles the extruder offsets, all it takes is a Tool Change command inserted in the G Code of a single-color model and the color change is a hands-off affair.
I inserted the extruder X Y offset in the firmware, and it works beautifully.
What I didn't expect and DON'T WANT is that the home position was changed. Now, rather stopping at the X position where the carriage closes the MIN limit switch, it moves in the +X direction the exact amount of the X-spacing between the extruders. If I remove the extruder offset from the FW, then the home positon returns to where the MIN switch is actuated.
There may be some fields in the firmware that can be used to undo what the FW thinks needs to be done, but they are undefined, and I am getting very weary of trying to guess what undefined parameters might do.
I'm currently using FW .929
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